Another week of GW News, January 16, 2011

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January 16, 2011

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It's always nice to start with a smile:

• 2011/01/15: GreenFyre: Some much needed climate change humour
• 2011/01/15: TI:CF: (cartoon - Roberts) Police Notice
• 2011/01/14: uComics: (cartoon - Danziger) The Winter of our Discontent
• 2011/01/13: SeattlePI: (cartoon - Horsey) A child's hope shines above tragedy
• 2011/01/13: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Washington Discourse Returns To Normal
• 2011/01/13: uComics: (cartoon - Auth) Big Oil & the Regulators
• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: (cartoon - Sorenson) Stop the presses: Snow in winter!
• 2011/01/12: SMandia: (cartooon - Sorenson) Second Snowstorm Proves the Global Warming Conspiracy
• 2011/01/12: RealClimate: Overheard in the newsroom
• 2011/01/10: PSinclair: (cartoon - Sorenson) This Just In. Snow in Winter.

  Looking back at Copenhagen, Cancun, Rio:

• 2011/01/14: Linchpin: Global Peasant Movement Left Seeing REDD
• 2011/01/12: TEC: Cancun: Spending the money

  The Gillett et al. paper on the long term effects of current CO2 levels shook a few trees:

• 2011/01/09: Nature:GeoSci: (ab$) Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions by Nathan P. Gillett et al.
• 2011/01/15: CBC:Q&Q: Climate 3000
• 2011/01/13: Eureka: Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate
• 2011/01/11: DeSmogBlog: Study: Climate Change Will Continue for 1,000 Years, Even with Zero Emissions
• 2011/01/10: SciCodex: Climate change to continue to year 3000 in best case scenarios
• 2011/01/10: TreeHugger: Climate Change Effects May Continue For Next 1000 Years, Even Under Zero Emissions Scenarios
• 2011/01/10: PostMedia: Another century of emissions will fuel 1,000 years of climate change: Study [Gillett]
• 2011/01/09: CBC: Climate change on inevitable course: study
  A study predicts there will be havoc akin to a big-budget Hollywood disaster movie in the next 1,000 years -- even if people stop emitting all carbon dioxide into the atmosphere now.

In the thrall of wintery weather:

• 2011/01/15: SkeptiSci: Global Warming and Cold Winters by D.Salmons
• 2011/01/14: GreenFyre: Snowmageddon, Déjà vu all over again
• 2011/01/12: SolveClimate: 'Arctic Oscillation' Spilling Cold into North America and Europe
  But residents of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic are asking what happened to the sea ice cover this year, since little has formed there yet
• 2011/01/12: Wunderground: Major Nor'easter pounds New England; icy mess in the South; record floods in Australia
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Snow storm blankets New York region, disrupts air traffic
• 2011/01/12: CBC: Storm that hammered U.S. South heads north
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Winter storm moves from southern US to north-east
• 2011/01/11: PlanetArk: Snow And Ice Leave 4 Dead, Shut Down Deep South
• 2011/01/10: TerraDaily: Delhi shivers on coldest day in 40 years
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Weatherwatch: China gripped by big freeze
• 2011/01/10: CBC: India cold death toll nearly 100

  Flooding in Australia:

• 2011/01/16: ABC(Au): Victorian towns face unprecedented flooding
  The town of Echuca, on the Victorian-New South Wales border, is facing unprecedented flood peaks later today. Dozens of other towns will also be threatened in the coming days, after record-breaking floods across the north-west of the state. 13,000 properties have been flooded and 3,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes. Thirty-four towns have been affected by the floods, and authorities say it is the worst flooding to hit northern and north-western Victoria since records began.
• 2011/01/15: ABC(Au): Record flood peaks hit Victoria
  A record flood peak has hit the town of Rochester in Victoria's north as regions around the state prepare for widespread flooding. The Campaspe River near Rochester has reached an historic peak of 9.12 metres - exceeding 1956 levels - and has split the town in two.
• 2011/01/16: ABC(Au): Historic floodwaters swamp Victorian towns
  One of the worst floods in Victoria's history is continuing to swamp communities, with homes evacuated in the state's north and west. Floodwaters from the Campaspe River are making their way into the northern Victorian town of Echuca, inundating a number of homes and cutting off roads.
• 2011/01/16: ABC(Au): An 18th person has been confirmed dead in the Queenslands floods after the body of a middle-aged man was found in a large pile of debris in the Lockyer Valley
• 2011/01/16: TerraDaily: Wild floods hit thousands more Australians
  Australia's flood crisis shifted to the country's far south on Sunday, with more than 1,400 homes swamped by a record deluge as the toll mounted in the reeling northeast amid scenes of devastation. Dozens of towns braced for unprecedented river levels in Victoria state, where emergency officials told AFP more than 1,400 homes were waterlogged and 3,500 people had fled, just days after the flooding emergency peaked in northeastern Queensland.
• 2011/01/16: RawStory: Floods hit Australian tourism
• 2011/01/16: ABC(Au): Floodwaters killing thousands of fish
  The massive amounts of floodwater entering Moreton Bay in Queensland has caused thousands of fish to die.
• 2011/01/15: ABC(Au): Floods 'catastrophic' for wildlife
  The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) is warning the Queensland floods could have a 'catastrophic' impact on native wildlife.
• 2011/01/15: TerraDaily: Volunteer army cleans up as Australian floods spread
• 2011/01/15: EarthTimes: Brisbane's swish Drift Cafe lives up to its name
• 2011/01/15: EarthTimes: Mud, toil, tears and sweat as Brisbane cleans up
• 2011/01/15: BBerg: Floods Spread Across Australia as Brisbane Cleans Up
• 2011/01/14: CCP: NASA: Heavy Rains in Queensland
• 2011/01/14: PlanetArk: Australia Flood Clean-Up Starts; Risk Of More Floods
• 2011/01/14: TerraDaily: New Queensland town [Goondiwindi] braces for floods
• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: Receding floodwaters reveal Queensland as 'war zone'
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Brisbane floods raise health alarm -- Some of the missing may never be found, police warn
• 2011/01/14: WtD: Victorian floods; highest rainfall recorded in 40 stations; towns evacuated; 17,000 without power
• 2011/01/13: BBC: Australia: Flood-hit Brisbane begins clean-up
• 2011/01/13: CNN: Brisbane battles flood devastation as death toll rises
  Fifteen dead and 55 missing, officials say - The search for survivors continues - More than 20,000 homes have been inundated
• 2011/01/13: CNN: Australian flood teen's sacrifice to save brother
  Family trapped on roof of car as floodwaters rose in Toowoomba - Teenager pleads with rescuers to save his younger brother first - Mother and son swept to their deaths in the torrent
• 2011/01/14: ABC(Au): Authorities say widespread rain has helped reduce rabbit numbers in north-central Victoria, causing flooded burrows and mosquito-borne viruses
• 2011/01/13: ABC(Au): Rockhampton clean-up yet to begin
• 2011/01/13: NewScientist:SSS: Brisbane's history of flooding
• 2011/01/13: Grist: What happened in Brisbane could happen to us
• 2011/01/13: Grist: Deep water: The devastating flood of Brisbane [SLIDESHOW]
• 2011/01/13: Grist: How sprawl killed Brisbane: A report from inside the flood
• 2011/01/12: NYT:CW: Australia's Record Rains Squeeze World Coal Supplies as Scientists Study Climate Pattern
• 2011/01/13: CourierMail: Creeping tide set to drown our coast
  Queenslanders had a glimpse of the future this week when 23 towns and cities were swallowed by floodwaters. The water will recede and a costly clean-up will begin.
• 2011/01/13: TerraDaily: Brisbane a 'war zone' as huge flood smashes city
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: Flooded Queensland flags 'postwar' reconstruction
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: Australians salute Brisbane tugboat crew
  Sydney - Every disaster throws up a hero and the Australian floods got two Thursday when a plucky tugboat captain and his trusty engineer nudged a breakaway steel-and-concrete structure away from a bridge spanning the roiling Brisbane River. A 400-metre stretch of the Queensland state capital's Riverwalk tourist attraction had been torn away by the raging floodwaters and Doug Hislop and Peter Fenton took the initiative to guide it clear of the bridge. "We didn't get a call-out," the skipper told Brisbane's Courier Mail. "We heard it on the radio that it was coming down and I knew it would be a problem." The dynamic duo jumped aboard their tugboat Mavis to manoeuvre the massive piece of debris safety down the river despite currents five times their normal speed because the river had more water in it than at any time in the past 35 years. "There's no doubt in my mind that the tug driver saved lives," Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said. "If it had broken loose without any guidance, you can imagine the kind of damage." The 300-ton floating structure was steered safely past not only the Gateway Bridge, but Brisbane port's fuel depot, chemical complex and an oil pipeline.
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: Worst over for Brisbane as deadly flood runs out of puff
• 2011/01/13: BBC: Queensland rebuilding 'huge task'
  The Australian state of Queensland is facing a reconstruction task of "post-war proportions", as floods left swathes of it under water. State Premier Anna Bligh said the state was reeling from the worst natural disaster in its history.
• 2011/01/13: CBC: Flood-hit Brisbane faces monumental cleanup -- Queensland premier expects rebuilding task of 'postwar proportions'
• 2011/01/12: CBC: Australian floods could damage Great Barrier Reef
• 2011/01/13: Independent(UK): Floodwater threatens overwhelming damage to Great Barrier Reef
  The great deluge is pumping contaminated water into the ocean, with potentially disastrous results
• 2011/01/12: CNN: [Australian] Flood survivors: River 'flowing like mad,' roads and power out
  Chris Jeffries: Water at least a meter high, had to leave home - Jeffries: 80-90 pontoons, restaurant ripped off moorings and floating in Brisbane River - Yvonne Ward: Family moving possessions upstairs, water not likely to reach home - Suneiah Cullen: Not enough warning, family could lose possessions
• 2011/01/12: CNN: Brisbane showground becomes refuge from floods
  Hundreds in Brisbane seek shelter at evacuation center at city's showground - Local residents offer spare beds to those stranded by the floods - Locals also donating clothes, toys and foods to the evacuation center - Red Cross spokesman says offers of help have been staggering
• 2011/01/12: Reuters: Brisbane faces floods clear-up of "post-war proportions"
  Deadly floods in Australia's third-biggest city were peaking on Thursday below the levels Brisbane had feared, but the state premier said they would require a reconstruction effort of "post-war proportions." The floods have so far killed at least 17 people, left 43 missing and caused billions of dollars of damage in Queensland state. One central bank economist has warned that it could cut the GDP measure of national income by as much as 1 percent.
• 2011/01/12: HotTopic: Too many teardrops [Aus floods]
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: Deadly flash flood hits Australia after six inches of rain fell in just 30 minutes
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Flood threat recedes in Northern NSW
  The State Emergency Service (SES) says the Clarence River in northern New South Wales is falling slowly, but residents should remain vigilant.
• 2011/01/13: ABC(Au): Fresh water supply 'critical' in Lockyer Valley
  The Lockyer Valley Council, west of Brisbane, says its town water supply has failed and some towns have only hours of reserves left. Helidon ran out of supplies last night, Withcott has had no water since Monday, while supplies at Gatton and Laidley are critical. Crews are trying to repair local treatment plants but Mayor Steve Jones says they may have to reactivate disused bores or truck in bottled supplies.
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Ipswich residents wake to devastating flooding
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Towns running out of drinking water
  From one extreme to the other - after floodwaters washed through several southern Queensland towns, they now face the prospect of no drinking water.
• 2011/01/12: SkeptiSci: The Queensland floods
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: Over 90 Missing In Australia As Floods Inundate Brisbane
• 2011/01/12: Reuters: Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods
  Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia's Queensland state, scientists said on Wednesday, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come. But while scientists say a warmer world is predicted to lead to more intense droughts and floods, it wasn't yet possible to say if climate change would trigger stronger La Nina and El Nino weather patterns that can cause weather chaos across the globe.
• 2011/01/12: TerraDaily: Houses, restaurants bob through stricken Brisbane
  Houses, boats and restaurants were ripped into the roaring Brisbane River and tossed with savage force Wednesday as floods engulfed suburb after suburb and drove thousands from their homes. Surging from weeks of heavy rains which have inundated Australia's northeast, the river was a churning mess of debris, snatching all in its path, as shocked bystanders looked on.
• 2011/01/11 TerraDaily: Australia's La Nina rains 'could stay for months'
• 2011/01/12: TerraDaily: Floods cost to Australia 'higher than Katrina'
• 2011/01/12: TerraDaily: Brisbane besieged by once-in-a-century floods
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Brisbane awash as deadly flood arrives
• 2011/01/12: TEC: Queensland floods highlight the cost of climate extremes
• 2011/01/12: BBC: Flooding peak looms for Brisbane
  The Australian city of Brisbane is preparing for the worst of its devastating floods, with water levels set to peak over the next few hours.
• 2011/01/12: BBC: Australian floods 'to hit economic growth'
  Up to 1% could be cut from Australia's economic growth in 2011 as a result of the flooding in Queensland, according to a board member of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
• 2011/01/12: CBC: Brisbane braces for flood 'disaster' -- Queensland premier says floods will 'cripple' parts of the city
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Australia floods: Fears worsen for Brisbane
• 2011/01/11: Guardian(UK): Brisbane residents flee homes as floodwaters rise
  Almost 20,000 houses in Brisbane affected by rising water levels as PM voices concern for jobs and livelihoods
• 2011/01/11: Guardian(UK): Australia floods: La Niña to blame
• 2011/01/11: Guardian(UK): Brisbane braces for rising floodwaters [16 pix]
• 2011/01/11: CNN: From drought to flood, Queensland's woes go on
• 2011/01/11: CNN: Disaster declared as Australia flood death toll rises to 10
• 2011/01/12: WtD: Brisbane is going under (part 2): how the city may flood; if you can, please give
• 2011/01/11: WtD: Queensland floods are "consistent with climate change predictions"
• 2011/01/11: NYT: Many in Brisbane Told to Evacuate as River Swells
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Evacuations as NSW river exceeds predicted peak
  Evacuations are continuing in northern New South Wales, with the Clarence River rising faster than predicted.
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Town snake-infested after quarry bursts
  Hundreds of people are stranded in the southern Queensland town of Fernvale after a quarry broke overnight, flooding homes.
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Flash flooding hits Victoria -- Authorities across Victoria are on high alert, after heavy rain across the state last night.
• 2011/01/12: ABC(Au): Queensland flood crisis reaches new heights
  Brisbane and nearby Ipswich are bracing for unprecedented flooding as the death toll from southern Queensland's flash flooding reaches 10, with 90 people still missing.
• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Dozens missing from flooding in Australian [Queensland state's Lockyer] valley
  Military helicopters searched Tuesday for scores of people missing after a tsunami-like wall of water ripped through an Australian valley, tossing cars like toys in the deadliest episode of a weekslong flood crisis.
• 2011/01/11: NewScientist: 'Inland tsunami' threatens Brisbane
• 2011/01/11: Grist: That's not a flood, this is a flood -- Are Australia's floods the revenge of Gaia?
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: Australia's flood crisis rolls to its third-largest city
• 2011/01/10: BBC: Why is Queensland flooded?
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Brisbane braces for rising floodwaters -- Queensland premier [Anna Bligh] expresses 'grave concerns' for missing
• 2011/01/11: SMH: Brisbane prepares for worst flood in 118 years
• 2011/01/10: BBC: Australia floods: Parts of Brisbane evacuated by police
  Police have ordered the evacuation of parts of Australia's third largest city - Brisbane - as the biggest floods in years approach the Queensland state capital. Residents have been told to leave their homes in low-lying areas. The waters are rising fast and one local official said he saw the river level go up by 1.5m (4ft 10in) in just an hour. At least eight people have been killed and more than 70 are missing.
• 2011/01/10: CNN: 8 drown in northeast Australian flash floods
  Eight people have been confirmed dead and 11 injured, police say - Prolonged flooding in northeast Australia has affected at least 200,000 people - Toowoomba is Queensland's biggest inland city
• 2011/01/09: TerraDaily: 'Dramatic' rain warning for flood-soaked Australia
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Australia's 'wall of water' leaves death in its wake
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Australia's flood kills two as it creeps toward Brisbane
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: A 'flood of grief' set to waylay waterlogged Australians
• 2011/01/10: BBC: Flash floods hit Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia
  Flash floods have hit Queensland, killing at least four people with several more missing, as heavy rains continue to pound the Australian state.
• 2011/01/10: CBC: Flash floods kill 4 in water-weary Australia

  Flooding in Brazil:

• 2011/01/16: ABC(Au): Brazil has declared three days of national mourning for at least 610 people killed near Rio de Janeiro this week in the country's worst flood disaster on record
• 2011/01/16: TerraDaily: Brazil mourns as flood death toll climbs
• 2011/01/15: BBC: Brazil floods: Army deployed in Rio de Janeiro state
  Brazilian soldiers have arrived in Teresopolis, one of the towns worst affected by deadly mudslides in the state of Rio de Janeiro, to assist with the rescue efforts.
• 2011/01/15: CBC: Brazil mudslide death toll nears 600
• 2011/01/15: CNN: Death toll rises to 549 in Brazil flooding
  Most of the deaths occur in hard-hit cities of Teresopolis and Nova Friburgo - Officials fear more may be dead in the flooding in Rio de Janeiro state - Rain is predicted to continue for several days
• 2011/01/15: EuroNews: Brazil buries its dead after worst floods in decades
• 2011/01/14: TerraDaily: Residents abandon Brazil disaster town [Nova Friburgo]
• 2011/01/14: ENS: Mudslides Kill More Than 525 People in Brazil
• 2011/01/14: CSM: Even with Brazil flooding expected to continue, many remain in perilous areas
• 2011/01/14: WtD: 443 dead in Brazil floods
• 2011/01/14: LA Times: Brazil's flash floods and mudslides leave at least 470 dead
  Rescue crews are working to reach survivors after torrential summer rains devastated the area around Rio de Janeiro. Nearly 14,000 have been left homeless. Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff promises aid for the region.
• 2011/01/14: TerraDaily: More than 500 dead in Brazil's worst flood disaster
• 2011/01/14: Wunderground: At least 511 dead in Brazilian floods: Brazil's deadliest natural disaster in history
• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: Death toll from mudslides and flooding in Brazil has reached 506
• 2011/01/14: BBC: Brazil floods: Rain hampers rescue effort
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Brazil flood rescue efforts slowed by rain -- Death toll expected to climb
  A new and ominous rainfall began Friday in mountain towns in Brazil where mudslides and flooding killed at least 479 people, hindering efforts to reach survivors even as relatives hauled the dead down the hills to freshly dug graves.
• 2011/01/13: CCP: Brazil flood death toll jumps to 335
• 2011/01/13: BBC: Brazil floods: Rescuers hunt for survivors
  Rescuers are trying to find survivors in cut-off areas of south-eastern Brazil hit by deadly floods that have left more than 500 people dead.
• 2011/01/13: BBC: In pictures: Flood-ravaged Brazil
• 2011/01/13: Guardian(UK): Brazil landslides death toll rises
  More than 400 killed and thousands left homeless after mud devastates three towns north of Rio de Janeiro
• 2011/01/13: CNN: Thousands in peril in Brazil flooding
  More than 400 people have been killed - President Rousseff tours a hard-hit area - Officials fear many more may be dead from landslides and flooding - At least 5,000 families have evacuated, news agency says
• 2011/01/12: CCP: Brazil floods and mudslides leave thousands displaced in Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais states
• 2011/01/12: CCP: More than 250 have died in Rio de Janeiro state from flooding and landslides due to extreme precipitation events near the cities of Petropolis, Teresopolis, and Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil
• 2011/01/13: TerraDaily: Hundreds killed in Brazil floods, mudslides
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Brazil death toll rises to 237 from heavy rains
• 2011/01/13: BBC: Brazil flood and mudslide deaths rise as search goes on
  More than 370 people have now been killed by flooding and mudslides in south-eastern Brazil, say officials.
• 2011/01/13: CBC: Brazil mudslide death toll passes 380 -- Homes swept away by wall of mud, water
• 2011/01/12: CNN: Brazil flooding claims more than 170 lives
  There are 147 reported deaths in state of Rio de Janeiro - Three firefighters are among those dead - It has been raining since January 1 in Sao Paulo state - A dam in the area has given way, adding to the woes
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Heavy rains leave at least 42 dead in Rio de Janeiro
• 2011/01/12: BBC: Flooding in Rio de Janeiro state claims dozens of lives
  Dozens of people have died in towns near Rio de Janeiro as heavy rains continue to cause flooding and mudslides in south-eastern Brazil.
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Brazil's Sao Paulo hit by deadly floods and mudslides
  Floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 13 people in the city of Sao Paulo and the rest of the state, Brazilian officials say.

Flooding in Sri Lanka:

• 2011/01/16: TerraDaily: Sri Lanka [unexploded] mine fears as floods recede
• 2011/01/15: CNN: U.S., India send help to flood-battered Sri Lanka
  U.S. one of two countries helping those affected by floods in Sri Lanka - It will donate U.S. $300,000 to provide various goods and services - The funds will go to areas hardest-hit by the floods
• 2011/01/14: Time: More than 1 Million Cut Off in Sri Lanka's Deluge
• 2011/01/15: TerraDaily: Floods hit harvest festival in S. Lanka former war zone
• 2011/01/15: BBC: Sri Lanka floods: UN calls for emergency aid
• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: Death toll rises to 27 in Sri Lanka floods
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Sri Lankan floods kill 27
• 2011/01/13: CNN: 1 million affected by Sri Lanka floods
  Officials say at least 23 people have died - The government and aid agencies are beefing up efforts - Rising food prices coupled with a shortage are worrisome
• 2011/01/13: UN: UN ramping up aid to thousands of flood-affected Sri Lankans
• 2011/01/13: TerraDaily: Floods force a million Sri Lankans from homes
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: Death toll rises to 23 in Sri Lanka floods
• 2011/01/13: BBC: Battle to reach thousands of Sri Lanka flood victims
  More than 30,000 army, navy, police and air force personnel are battling to provide urgent aid to people hit by heavy flooding in Sri Lanka.
• 2011/01/12: UN: UN: Floods continue to displace thousands of people in Sri Lanka
• 2011/01/12: IRIN: Sri Lanka: Record rains increase urgency of climate change adaptation
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Death toll rises to 18 in Sri Lanka floods
• 2011/01/12: BBC: Floods ground Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa
• 2011/01/12: CBC: Sri Lankan flood death toll at 18 -- 200,000 people homeless
• 2011/01/11: UN: Thousands displaced as torrential rains and floods hit Sri Lanka - UN

  And on the Bottom Line:

• 2011/01/16: HotTopic: Stern at the frontiers of knowledge
• 2011/01/12: UNEP: Current climate information insufficient, say world's financial institutions
• 2011/01/14: Yahoo:AFP: Climate cost even greater than feared: economist
  British economist Nicholas Stern said the price of fighting climate change is now higher than he estimated in a 2006 study...
• 2011/01/13: EurActiv: Financial firms in dark about climate change risks
  A UN-backed study says that major financial firms feel too uninformed about climate change to advise their clients on risks, such as heatwaves and floods. The survey of 60 insurers, banks and asset managers - including Aviva, Banco Santander, Deutsche Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ and Citigroup - found that climate expertise was an emerging factor of competition.
• 2011/01/12: Reuters: Financial firms seek better climate information
  Major financial firms feel they lack information about climate change to help clients manage increasing risks ranging from heatwaves to rising sea levels, a U.N.-backed study showed on Wednesday.

The Ratcliffe trial went sideways when an undercover cop decided to provide evidence for the defense:

• 2011/01/15: Telegraph(UK): Pc Mark Kennedy: inquiry into police 'cover up' of climate group evidence
  A £1million trial against six climate change activists was dropped by prosecutors because police withheld key evidence that exonerated the environmentalists, it was claimed.
• 2011/01/15: BBC: Ex-undercover Pc Mark Kennedy says he is a 'scapegoat'
  Ex-undercover officer Pc Mark Kennedy has said he feels he has been made a "scapegoat" after a trial collapsed. Mr Kennedy told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that his covert work infiltrating green activist groups had "jeopardised" his life. The case against six activists accused of conspiring to shut down a power station collapsed after Mr Kennedy said he would testify for the defence.
• 2011/01/13: Guardian(UK): Activists challenge convictions in wake of police spy revelations
  Lawyers claim possible miscarriage of justice amid police inquiry into whether officer acted as agent provocateur
• 2011/01/12: PressEurop: The spy who turned green [Kennedy]
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Lawyer Mike Schwarz's statement on Mark Kennedy and the Ratcliffe trial
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Environmental activists demand inquiry into undercover officer's role
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Mark Kennedy: A journey from undercover cop to 'bona fide' activist
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Mark Kennedy knew of second undercover eco-activist
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Activists walk free as undercover officer prompts collapse of case
  Six defendants call for inquiry into activities of PC Mark Kennedy, who infiltrated environmental group
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): Activist: 'We trusted Mark --- and he betrayed us'
• 2011/01/09: Guardian(UK): Undercover officer spied on green activists
  Guardian investigation reveals details of PC Mark Kennedy's infiltration of dozens of protest groups
• 2011/01/10: BBC: Lawyer criticises police on undercover Pc Mark Kennedy
  The solicitor for six green campaigners says police need to answer "serious questions" about an undercover officer who infiltrated their group. Mike Schwarz said efforts to charge the six with conspiring to shut down the Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottingham were a "serious attack on peaceful, accountable protest". The case was suddenly dropped. It emerged that undercover Pc Mark Kennedy had offered to give evidence on the campaigners' behalf.

Earth Networks is beginning a GHG monitoring project:

• 2011/01/15: CCP: Weather Monitoring Company Turns to Greenhouse Gases
• 2011/01/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Seeing is Believing? Earth Networks to Add Greenhouse Gas Measurements to Weather Monitors
• 2011/01/12: WaPo: New global network to precisely measure emissions
  A D.C. area company and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will announce Wednesday that they are launching an ambitious project that aims to precisely gauge how human activity is affecting the climate. The $25 million, five-year commercial venture will include 50 sensors in the United States and another 50 around the world to measure atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

My old hobby horse is back:

• 2011/01/14: ScienceInsider: Quandary: Scientists Prefer Reading Over Publishing 'Open Access' Papers
• 2011/01/12: SEasterbrook: Open Questions about Open Source for Open Science
• 2011/01/10: Wunderground:RR: Open Source Communities, What Are the Problems? Open Climate Models (3)
• Free Science News
• Free Science Sources

  John Cook and friends continue their counterpoint articles:

• 2011/01/14: SkeptiSci: Northern hemisphere warming rates: More than you may have heard by muoncounter
• 2011/01/13: SkeptiSci: Slovak translation of The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism
• 2011/01/10: SkeptiSci: Seawater Equilibria by hfranzen
• 2011/01/10: SkeptiSci: Czech translation of The Scientific Guide to Global Warming Skepticism

  Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

• 2011/01/13: IJISH: E-mail exchange with Jan Zeman from O'Sullivan's mailing list; and O'Sullivan got published

  Late Comments on the bird deaths:

• 2011/01/10: USGS: Wildlife Die-Offs are Relatively Common, Recent Bird Deaths Caused by Impact Trauma
• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Bad news for us, or just for the birds?
  Roughly 5,000 dead and dying blackbirds fell from the Arkansas sky on New Year's Eve. That mysterious event was followed by the appearance of about 500 dead birds along a Louisiana highway and additional bird-falls in Kentucky, Sweden and Italy.

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Researchers brave icy waters to study Arctic food web
• 2011/01/07: Politiken(Dk): Greenland close to unavoidable meltdown

  That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

• 2011/01/15: PSinclair: Hunting for Methane with Katey Walter Anthony
• 2011/01/14: TCoE: Doc alert: Siberian methane
• 2011/01/12: CCP: From The Oil Drum: comments on permafrost and methane...
• 2011/01/10: QuarkSoup: Methane Update

  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: Russia's Rosneft, BP seal huge deal on Arctic push
• 2011/01/14: BBC: BP and Russia in Arctic oil deal
  BP has signed a joint venture with Russian energy firm Rosneft to exploit potentially huge deposits of oil and gas in Russia's Arctic shelf.
• 2011/01/14: CBC: BP, Rosneft in $8B US share swap
• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): Russian oil giant Rosneft buys 5% of BP in Arctic drilling deal
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Baffinland's rival bidders [ArcelorMittal & Nunavut Iron Ore Acquisition] make joint offer
• 2011/01/13: OilChange: Free at Last?
• 2011/01/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Spill Commission's Warnings about America's Arctic
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Baffinland bid deadlines extended
  Two companies in a bidding war for Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. and its massive iron ore property in Nunavut have extended their offer deadlines.
• 2011/01/10: WaPo: As Arctic melts, U.S. ill-positioned to tap resources

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2011/01/11: BizInsider: Photos: Surging Food Prices Are Sparking Riots All Around The World
• 2011/01/14: TerraDaily: 2.5 million face starvation in Somalia, PM tells UN
• 2011/01/14: BizInsider: First Goes Tunisia, Next Goes...
• 2011/01/14: ZeroHedge: Latest Inflation Riot Tally: Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Yemen And Jordan
• 2011/01/14: AllAfrica: ZimIndependent: The Spectre of World Food Riots [Gwynne Dyer]
• 2011/01/14: AllAfrica: ZimIndependent: Two Million Need Food Aid in Nation - Fewsnet
  An estimated 2,2 million Zimbabweans are in need of food aid, the Famine Early Warning System Network (Fewsnet), an early warning system that monitors food security around the world, said in its latest report. However, government has dismissed the report, with Agriculture minister Joseph Made suggesting that the Fewsnet projections do not portray the "correct" situation on the ground.
• 2011/01/13: Guardian(UK): Food prices can't just be swept under the table
  Soaring food prices threaten more unrest and must prompt a global rethink about agriculture and investment
• 2011/01/12: Grist: The 'food bubble' is bursting, says Lester Brown, and biotech won't save us
• 2011/01/12: Grist: The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos by Lester Brown
• 2011/01/13: NatureTGB: Efforts to end hunger have not worked
• 2011/01/12: SeedDaily: World agriculture threatened by water gluttony: [WWI] report
• 2011/01/12: SeedDaily: Argentina uneasy over La Nina hit on crops
• 2011/01/07: TreeHugger: Telegraph(UK): 'One poor harvest away from chaos'
  Millions of the world's poorest people and the state of the global economy are threatened by the food price rises, writes Geoffrey Lean.
• 2011/01/13: TreeHugger: When Will the Food Bubble Burst? by Lester Brown
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: 40% of food produced worldwide is wasted
• 2011/01/05: USDA: SNAP: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [food stamps stats]
• 2011/01/12: CSM: Food stamps: More Americans keep signing up -- 289,737 new recipients were added in October
• 2011/01/11: WiC: The great food crisis of 2011
• 2011/01/10: FP: The Great Food Crisis of 2011 -- It's real, and it's not going away anytime soon. by Lester Brown
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: Arctic Blast Raises Winterkill Risk For Plains Wheat
• 2011/01/10: IPSNews: Latest Food Crisis Brewing for Months
  The United Nations, which is trying to reach out to nearly a billion undernourished people, some living in perpetual hunger, is anticipating another food crisis later this year.
• 2011/01/10: CDreams: The Future of Food Riots

  Food prices are surging:

• FAO: World Food Situation - Food Price Indices
• 2011/01/14: EurActiv: EU seeks clarity over soaring food prices
  Before rushing into finding solutions to halt a new hike in global food prices, leaders of the world's rich economies gathering for a G20 meeting at end of the month need to first ascertain what exactly is driving prices to soar, European Commission officials said yesterday (13 January).
• 2011/01/12: BWeek: Lower corn and soybean output sends prices surging
  A surprising drop in the U.S. corn and soybean crop sent grain prices surging to their highest levels in 2 1/2 years Wednesday. The price increases stoked concerns about higher food prices and tighter supplies of feedstock for food and biofuels. Wet weather and abnormally high temperatures contributed to lower U.S. corn production in 2010, according to a report from the U.S. Agriculture Department. The report also showed declines in soybean, wheat and grain sorghum production.
• 2011/01/16: NakedCapitalism: La Niña as Black Swan -- Energy, Food Prices, and Chinese Economy Among Likely Casualites
• 2011/01/13: NYT: Why a Flooded Australia Will Probably Boost Soaring Energy and Food Prices
• 2011/01/13: BBC: US wholesale prices pushed up by higher energy costs
  US wholesale prices saw their biggest increase in 11 months in December, led by higher energy and food costs, official figures have shown.
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: Australian Floods Could Send Food Prices Soaring
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Australia floods: Food prices 'to rise 30%'
  Food prices in Australia could rise by as much as 30% in the coming months as a result of the Queensland floods, it has been warned. The investment bank JP Morgan says it expects food prices to spike, which will also push up headline inflation. The bank's chief economist in Australia said 50% of crops had been affected by the floods, with 20% wiped out. Stephen Walters also told the BBC that rises in Australia could have a knock-on impact on prices in Asia.
• 2011/01/11: BBC: India cabinet meet to tackle food inflation
  Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has held a cabinet meeting to tackle spiralling food prices. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Home Minister P Chidambaram and Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar were among those at the talks in Delhi. The soaring price of vegetables, milk and other eatables in the past month have taken food inflation to 18.32% - the highest in more than a year. The agriculture minister has said the crisis is likely to continue for now.
• 2011/01/10: EurActiv: Soaring food prices raise new crisis fears
• 2011/01/10: EUO:NJ: Why are food prices soaring again?

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2011/01/12: ACS:ES&T: Land Availability for Biofuel Production by Ximing Cai et al.
• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: Biofuels Can At Most Supply Half of Global Fuel Demand Before Cutting Into Food Production
• 2011/01/10: PlanetArk: Analysis: High food Prices Cloud UK Grass-For-Energy Plans

  Regarding the genetic modification of food:

• 2011/01/04: BBC: GM pigs: Green ham with your eggs?
• 2011/01/11: NatureN: Drought-tolerant maize gets US debut -- Seed companies race to tap multibillion-dollar market

  And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2011/01/14: IRRI: Green Super Rice is coming
  Rice bred to perform well in the toughest conditions where the poorest farmers grow rice is a step away from reaching farmers thanks to a major project led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
• 2011/01/15: NBF: Green Super Rice and reducing world hunger
• 2011/01/13: SeedDaily: India to try growing salt-tolerant crops
• 2011/01/14: BBC: Indian PM unveils steps to curb food price inflation
• 2011/01/13: EnergyBulletin: Innovation of the week: Healing hunger
• 2011/01/13: Guardian(UK): World hunger best cured by small-scale agriculture: [WWI] report
• 2011/01/13: UN: UN helping Kenya respond to drought-related food and water crisis
• 2011/01/13: MongaBay: Agricultural innovation will reduce poverty, help stabilize climate change according to new report
• 2011/01/12: WWI: Worldwatch Institute's State of the World 2011 Shows Agricultural Innovation Is Key to Reducing Poverty, Stabilizing Climate
• 2011/01/13: Grist: Worldwatch report highlights how lopsided discussion is about Africa, food, and biotechnology
• 2011/01/13: MUNews: MU Scientists Find New Farming Method [strip tillage] to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Increase Farm Yields
• 2011/01/12: NBF: Realistic Agricultural yield increases can sustainably feed everyone in 2050 and another study shows we can house them too
• 2011/01/12: NewScientist: We can feed 9 billion people in 2050
• 2011/01/12: NatureN: Future of food could be bright -- French agencies' study punctures assumptions about the state of global agriculture
• 2011/01/11: Eureka: Technique allows researchers to identify key maize genes for increased yield
  Scientists have identified the genes related to leaf angle in corn (maize) -- a key trait for planting crops closer together, which has led to an eight-fold increase in yield since the early 1900s. (Nature Genetics, Jan. 9, 2011.)
• 2011/01/11: BBC: India unveils coastal saline crop initiative
  A pilot project to see if cash crops can be grown in the salty ground of India's coastal areas has been launched. The area in Tamil Nadu state will house dozens of species of halophytes - or salt-loving plants - that can be used for producing cash crops.
• 2011/01/10: EnergyBulletin: Local grains

  Vania & Zelia stirred the Western Pacific. while Vince circled in the Eastern Indian Ocean:

• 2011/01/14: TerraDaily: Tropical cyclone [Vania] causes damage in New Caledonia
• 2011/01/13: NASA: NASA's Aqua Satellite Sees Tropical Potential in System 94P Between Australia, Papau New Guinea
• 2011/01/14: Eureka: NASA's TRMM Satellite sees Zelia born of System 94P
• 2011/01/14: Eureka: NASA satellite: Tropical Storm Vania brought heavy rains to southeastern New Caledonia
• 2011/01/14: Eureka: NASA's Aqua sees Tropical Storm Vince about to U-turn away from Australia
• 2011/01/13: Eureka: NASA satellites dissect Tropical Storm Vania's clouds and rainfall

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2011/01/12: Eureka: How children cope with the aftermath of a hurricane
• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Under pressure: Stormy weather sensor for hurricane forecasting
  It's hard to believe that, in this day and age, we don't have a way to measure sea-level air pressure during hurricanes. NASA researchers, however, are working on a system that will improve forecasting of severe ocean weather by doing just that. The device measures sea-level air pressure, a critical component of hurricane formation - and one that has been extremely difficult to capture. The Differential Absorption Barometric Radar (DIABAR) prototype is scheduled to make its second flight early this year. DIABAR remotely senses barometric pressure at sea level, which is important in the prediction and forecasting of severe weather, especially hurricanes, over oceans.

As for GHGs:

• 2011/01/11: Reuters: U.S. carbon emissions to rise in 2012: EIA
  U.S. emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide from fossil fuels are expected to fall in 2011 but rise in 2012 as the economy recovers, the government's energy forecaster said on Tuesday.
• 2011/01/10: SolveClimate: Nitrous Oxide [N2O], a Greenhouse Gas, Three Times Higher in Rivers than IPCC Estimates
• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: CO2 Levels Could Rise to Concentrations Unseen in 30 Million Years by 2100
• 2011/01/13: NSF: Earth's Hot Past: Prologue to Future Climate? Study of Earth's deep past leads to look into the future
• 2011/01/13: UCAR: Earth's hot past could be prologue to future climate
  The magnitude of climate change during Earth's deep past suggests that future temperatures may eventually rise far more than projected if society continues its pace of emitting greenhouse gases, a new analysis concludes.
  [...]
  ...if carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current rate through the end of this century, atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas will reach levels that last existed about 30 million to 100 million years ago, when global temperatures averaged about 29 degrees Fahrenheit (16 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels.
• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: Science stunner: On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29°F (16°C) hotter

  As for the temperature record:

• 2011/01/13: UNDispatch: 2010: Hottest. Year. Ever.
• 2011/01/15: CCP: NPR: 2010: The Warmest On Record (Again)
• 2011/01/13: CCurrents: 2010 Tied For Earth's Warmest Year On Record
• 2011/01/15: HotTopic: Everyone agrees: 2010 ties for top temperature
• 2011/01/14: Yahoo:AFP: 2010 hottest year on Indian records
• 2011/01/14: MongaBay: 2010 ties for the warmest year on record
• 2011/01/14: PhysOrg: Global temperature records in close agreement, despite subtle differences
  Groups of scientists from several major institutions -- NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the Met Office Hadley Centre in the United Kingdom -- tally data collected by temperature monitoring stations spread around the world and make an announcement about whether the previous year was a comparatively warm or cool year.
• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: 2010 hottest year on record, greenhouse gasses must be curtailed say NASA
• 2011/01/12: Guardian(UK): Last year was joint warmest on record, say climatologists
• 2011/01/13: ClassM: Fit to be tied
• 2011/01/13: moyhu: GISS shows 2010 as record hot for land/ocean - NOAA declares tie with 2005.
• 2011/01/13: QuarkSoup: More on 2010
• 2011/01/12: APSmith: GISS: 2010 hottest year in history - as I predicted 3 years ago!
• 2011/01/13: KSJT: Lots of ink: 2010 data out; NOAA & NASA agree global warming didn't stop
• 2011/01/13: ABC(Au): 2010 ties for warmest year, emissions to blame: US
  Last year tied for the warmest since data started in 1880, capping a decade of record high temperatures that shows mankind's greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet, a US agency said. Global surface temperatures in 2010 were 0.62 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average, tying the record set in 2005, the National Climatic Data Centre at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Wednesday.
• 2011/01/12: NatureTGB: NOAA: 2010 tied for hottest year on record
• 2011/01/13: SciNews: 2010 ties record for warmest year yet -- El Niño heated things up even as global temperatures continue to rise
• 2011/01/12: CCentral: It's Official: 2010 in a Statistical Tie for Warmest Year On Record
• 2011/01/12: NASA: NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied for Warmest Year on Record
• 2011/01/12: CSM: Global warming waning? Hardly. 2010 was tied as warmest year on record.
• 2011/01/12: PSinclair: NOAA: 2010 Tied for Warmest Year in Record
• 2011/01/12: CBC: 2010 tied for world's hottest year
  Last year was Canada's warmest year on record and tied 2005 for the hottest worldwide. The average global land surface temperatures in 2010 were 1 C above the average for the 20th century -- the warmest since record-keeping began in 1880, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported Wednesday. Global ocean surface temperatures were tied with 2005 for the third-warmest on record. The year was also the wettest on record, in terms of average global precipitation. In Canada, the national average temperature for the year 2010 was 3.0 C above normal, based on preliminary data, Environment Canada reported in its annual climate trends and variations bulletin, released earlier this week.
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: NOAA: 2010 tied with 2005 for hottest year on record -- 2010 was also the wettest year on record
• 2011/01/12: PhysOrg: 2010 ties 2005 as warmest year on record worldwide [says NCDC]
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: 2010 Hottest Year On Record For Canada: Report
• 2011/01/12: NOAANews: NOAA: 2010 Tied For Warmest Year on Record
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: 2010 Ties For Hottest Year on Record: NOAA
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: The Top 10 Hottest Years on Record
• 2011/01/11: Reuters: 2010 hottest year on record for Canada: report
  Canada had its warmest year on record in 2010, according to the country's environmental agency, with the biggest impact seen in the Arctic region.

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: Earth Is Twice As Naturally Dusty As A Century Ago - Yes, There's Climate Connection
• 2011/01/10: PhysOrg: Desert dust puzzle solved

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2011/01/14: KSJT: Not much, but some, media reaction to scary news about ancient sediments and the superhot climates of yore
• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: Tree Rings Show Swift Shifts in Europe's Climate Linked to Rise & Fall of Roman Empire
• 2011/01/14: SciDaily: New Evidence for Climate Impacts on Ancient Societies
  Annual-resolved European summer climate has, for the first time ever, been reconstructed over the past 2,500 years. Tree rings reveal possible links between past climate variability and changes in human history. Climate change coincided with periods of socioeconomic, cultural and political turmoil associated with the Barbarian Migrations, the Black Death and Thirty Years' War.
• 2011/01/14: BBC: Roman rise and fall 'recorded in trees'
  An extensive study of tree growth rings says there could be a link between the rise and fall of past civilisations and sudden shifts in Europe's climate.
• 2011/01/13: NewScientist: Fall of Roman Empire linked to wild shifts in climate
• 2011/01/13: SciNow: Fall of Rome Recorded in Trees
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Arctic explorers' logs shed light on climate change -- U.K. historians to examine logbooks of whaling, navy, Hudson Bay Co. ships

  While on the ENSO front:

• 2011/01/16: Independent(UK): Drowning: Death tolls climb and more floods are on the way
  No halt to the misery as La Niña brings disaster to the southern hemisphere
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Deadly floods fed by intense La Nina
• 2011/01/14: PlanetArk: El Nino Seen Triggering Next World Warmth Record
  Last year tied with 2005 as the warmest on record, according to U.S. agencies, but is likely to be overtaken soon by the next year with a strong El Nino weather event, experts said on Thursday.
• 2011/01/13: NASA: NASA Satellites Capture a Stronger La Nina
  New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Niña event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010.
• 2011/01/13: CBC: El Nino, La Nina and weather woes
• 2011/01/10: PhysOrg: La Nina-caused woes down under
  The current La Niña in the Pacific Ocean, one of the strongest in the past 50 years, continues to exert a powerful influence on weather around the world, affecting rainfall and temperatures in varying ways in different locations.

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

• 2011/01/14: PhysOrg: Improved measurements of sun to advance understanding of climate change

  Intimations of Overshoot:

• 2011/01/13: EnergyBulletin: A world in breakdown by Paul Rogers
• 2011/01/10: BrownU: Species loss tied to ecosystem collapse and recovery
  Geologists at Brown University and the University of Washington have a cautionary tale: Lose enough species in the oceans, and the entire ecosystem could collapse. Looking at two of the greatest mass extinctions in Earth's history, the scientists attribute the ecosystems' collapse to a loss in the variety of species sharing the same space. It took up to 10 million years after the mass extinctions for the ecosystem to stabilize. The findings appear in Geology.

As for ocean currents:

• 2011/01/14: SciDaily: Dramatic Ocean Circulation Changes Caused a Colder Europe in the Past

  And the State of the Oceans:

• 2011/01/13: Yale360: Massive Outbreak of Jellyfish Could Spell Trouble for Fisheries
  The world's oceans have been experiencing enormous blooms of jellyfish, apparently caused by overfishing, declining water quality, and rising sea temperatures. Now, scientists are trying to determine if these outbreaks could represent a "new normal" in which jellyfish increasingly supplant fish.

What's new in proxies?

• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Growth rings in deep sea corals reveal climate data

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2011/01/17: TerraDaily: Radiometer Finds Sources Of Fire
• 2011/01/04: MillerMcCune: The History and Frightening Future of Forests
• 2011/01/13: Sierra: BC Coastal Forests a Big Source of Uncounted Carbon Emissions -- Sierra Club BC report urges immediate changes to make forests carbon sinks, protect species
• 2011/01/13: Sierra: [link to 929k pdf] Restoring the Balance
• 2011/01/13: Tyee: Wade Davis's Crusade to Preserve the Wild Stikine -- Famous anthropologist is gathering images and facts to defend a land he loves
• 2011/01/15: TreeHugger: Conservationists Want Biodiversity, Poor Want Biomass: How Best To Protect Forests?
• 2011/01/15: EarthTimes: Taiwan paper company to make paper from rice, wheat stalks
• 2011/01/14: CBC: B.C. pine beetle kill has peaked: forester -- End to infestation in sight
• 2011/01/13: PostMedia: Poor B.C. logging practices 'add to gas emissions'
  Massive emissions of greenhouse gases are coming from B.C.'s coastal forests because of poor logging practices and inadequate management, according to a new report by environmentalists. The carbon from coastal rainforests, much of which comes from Vancouver Island, is not counted in B.C.'s official emissions tally as, at the international level, Canada and the provinces decided against including forests. If they were included, emissions numbers for B.C. would increase by 24 per cent, said Jens Wieting, coastal forests campaigner for Sierra Club B.C. and author of the group's report, "Restoring the Balance for Climate and Species."
• 2011/01/10: TerraDaily: Indonesia president [Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono] talks tough on forest destroyers
• 2011/01/10: CBC: China bans logging in largest forest reserve
  China has banned logging in its largest forest reserve area for 10 years in a bid to combat climate change. The official Xinhua News agency reported Monday that logging will be prohibited until 2020 in the Great and Lesser Hinggan Mountains in the northeast.

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2011/01/14: HotTopic: Casualties of Climate Change

  This week in extreme weather:

• 2011/01/16: WAToday: Hotter, colder, wetter: it's a new world of extremes
• 2011/01/14: H&H: Flashman: La Niña, the black swan
• 2011/01/16: NakedCapitalism: La Niña as Black Swan -- Energy, Food Prices, and Chinese Economy Among Likely Casualites
• 2011/01/15: Independent(UK): This isn't about climate change -- but it may be the face of the future
  Rain in Brazil, rain in Australia and rain in Sri Lanka. Rain is the factor that links all three large-scale disasters unfolding before our eyes in these very different regions of the world.
• 2011/01/13: Wunderground: Record snows hit New England; Brazilian floods kill 350; Brisbane underwater
• 2011/01/11: CSW: Northern Update - Canada's own year of extreme weather

  Changes in natural cycles are showing up:

• Wiki: Phenology
• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): 'Early' Scottish deer rut linked to warmer climate
• 2011/01/14: Eureka: Warming climate means red deer rutting season arrives early
• 2011/01/11: Eureka: Winter temperatures play complex role in triggering spring budburst
  Study yields new model that can help managers calculate when plants will burst bud under different climate scenarios

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2011/01/11: WtD: And now Western Australia burns... when is the mainstream media going to make the connection?

  Corals are dying:

• 2011/01/13: SkeptiSci: Coral: life's a bleach... and then you die
• 2011/01/11: BBC: New scheme launched for 'bleached and dying' coral life
• 2011/01/11: MongaBay: Scientists race to protect world's most endangered corals
• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: World's most important corals unveiled
• 2011/01/10: ABC(Au): Great Barrier Reef 'should recover' from flood damage
  A central Queensland academic says it is difficult to work out the impact of flooding on the Great Barrier Reef. Dr Alison Jones from CQ University says the discharge of fresh water and sediment from the Fitzroy River is likely to kill a lot of coral off the Capricorn Coast. But she says the extent of damage will depend on tides and currents.
• 2011/01/09: ClimateP: Globe's coral reefs suffer second worst bleaching on record during 2010

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2011/01/15: NYT: Melting in Andes Reveals Remains and Wreckage
• 2011/01/10: BBC:RB: Ice-cold reality of warming projections
• 2011/01/12: IPSNews: 'Water Towers of Asia' Show Cracks
  A concerted effort to formally document the magnitude and directions of climate trends in the Eastern Himalayas and thereby decide regional adaptation strategies is critical to ensure the region's water security, according to water experts. In Nepal, the Imja glacier is retreating almost 70 metres per year. In Bhutan, where glacial melt is the least perceptible currently, 25 of 677 glaciers are categorised potentially dangerous, with an 'alarming' glacial retreat rate of 20-30 metres per year, says G. Karma Chhopel of Bhutan's National Environment Commission. It is more important to gather statistics on the effects of climate change than to get preoccupied with China building dams in the region, says Professor Jayanta Bandyopadhyay of the Centre for Development and Environment Policy at the Kolkata branch of the Indian Institute of Management.
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Smaller glaciers, not giant ice caps, tipped to push sea levels up
• 2011/01/09: Yahoo:AFP: Warming to devastate glaciers, Antarctic icesheet - studies
• 2011/01/10: ABC(Au): Warming to devastate glaciers, icesheet: report
  Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four metres by 3000 through melting the West Antarctic icesheet, two studies published at the weekend said. The research places the spotlight on two of the least understood aspects of climate change: how, when and where warming will affect glaciers on which many millions depend for their water and the problems faced by generations in the far distant future.
• 2011/01/09: NatureN: The end for small glaciers -- IPCC estimates of sea level rise corroborated, but large ice sheets might endure
• 2011/01/10: SciCodex: Mountain glacier melt to contribute 12 centimeters to world sea-level increases by 2100
• 2011/01/10: TreeHugger: Half of Worlds Small Glaciers Will Be Entirely Melted by 2100 - But There's Good News For The Himalayas
• 2011/01/09: UBC: Mountain Glacier Melt to Contribute 12 Centimetres to World Sea-Level Increases by 2100
• 2011/01/09: Guardian(UK): Glacier shrinkage will hit European Alps hardest, study claims
  Global warming research warns of rising sea levels and threat to water supplies

Sea levels are rising:

• 2011/01/16: LA Times: In Ventura, a retreat in the face of a rising sea
  Higher ocean levels force Ventura officials to move facilities inland, an action that is expected to recur along the coast as the ocean rises over the next century.
• 2011/01/16: CharlotteObserver: Rising waters threaten the coast of North Carolina
  Climate change is carving its name into the state's retreating shorelines. Planners are taking official notice as they prepare for a wetter world.
• 2011/01/14: CCP: Susan Hanson et al., "A global ranking of port cities with high exposure to climate extremes," Climatic Change, 104(1) (2010)
• 2011/01/11: SciNow: Rising Seas Look Inevitable

  These 100, 200, 500 year storms are becoming all too frequent:

• 2011/01/14: PSinclair: Meanwhile in Brazil: One month's rain in 24 hours
• 2011/01/14: ACP: Mesoscale processes for super heavy rainfall of Typhoon Morakot (2009) over Southern Taiwan by C.-Y. Lin et al.
  Abstract. Within 100 h, a record-breaking rainfall, 2855 mm, was brought to Taiwan by typhoon Morakot in August 2009 resulting in devastating landslides and casualties...
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: Deadly flash flood hits Australia after six inches of rain fell in just 30 minutes

  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2011/01/15: BBC: Heavy rain prompts flood alerts in Scotland
• 2011/01/15: BBC: The Environment Agency is urging households across Wales to remain vigilant against flooding as heavy rain falls again over the weekend
• 2011/01/15: BBC: South Africa to declare flood disaster
  The government of South Africa is set to declare parts of the country disaster areas, after 40 people died in floods in a month.
• 2011/01/13: Nation(Ke): Sh236bn needed to tackle Kenya drought crisis
• 2011/01/14: EarthTimes: Authorities warn of possible flooding in Mozambique
• 2011/01/13: BBC: England's uplands 'get more frequent heavy rainfall'
  The frequency of heavy rainfall during the autumn and winter over the uplands of North England has "significantly" increased, a study has shown.
• 2011/01/16: CNN: 47 dead from flooding in the Philippines; 1.5 million affected
  Dozens die from drowning, landslides or electrocution - Disaster agency: 25 provinces are affected - Thousands of homes are damaged or destroyed
• 2011/01/12: EarthTimes: Death toll in Philippine floods, landslides rises to 43
• 2011/01/12: NOAANews: NOAA's National Weather Service Releases Report on May 2010 Nashville Flood
• 2011/01/10: DerSpiegel: Flooding in Germany -- Water Levels Stabilize along Rhine, Mosel Rivers
  Mild weather in Germany over the weekend and the ensuing snow melt led to flooding near a number of rivers, including the Rhine and Mosel in wine-growing regions popular with tourists. On Monday, however, the worst appeared to be over.
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: Flooding eases in Germany after snows melt
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Snow-swelled European rivers flood German cities
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Thousands evacuated because of Malaysian floods; three dead
• 2011/01/09 EarthTimes:Two die as snow melts in Germany, swelling rivers
• 2011/01/09: CBC: Floods in Malaysia displace 3,300

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Replace cattle? Edible insects produce smaller quantities of greenhouse gases
• 2011/01/10: ClimateP: The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm
• 2011/01/10: EarthTimes: Lunch with a crunch -- eco-friendly edible insects
• 2011/01/10: SlashDot: Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2011/01/16: AutoBG: Sauter Carbon Offset Design introduces carbon neutral Ocean Empire LSV
• 2011/01/14: CBC: New vehicle sales rise 0.3%
  Rising truck sales helped push the number of new vehicles sold in Canada in November up 0.3 per cent to 135,823. Sales of passenger cars declined 0.8 per cent to 59,907 after two straight months of increases, Statistics Canada said Friday. Sales of trucks, which include minivans, sport-utility vehicles, light and heavy trucks, vans and buses, increased 1.2 per cent to 75,916 in November, partially offsetting October's decline.
• 2011/01/11: CalcRisk: AAR: Rail Traffic increases in December

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

• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: Should Coal Ash Be Getting LEED Credits?
• 2011/01/13: TreeHugger: More on Why I Hate Martha Stewart's Builder Concept Home
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Bored with winter energy-saving tips? We've got some tips for you
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: The Builder Concept Home 2011: Time To Redefine What We Mean By Green
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: The Wall Street Journal On Green Building: Nobody Wants It
• 2011/01/11: Re:PlaceMag: Five Myths About Green Building
• 2011/01/11: Tyee: How Do They Decide a Building Is 'Green'? The Tyee Guide to green building certification systems in Canada. Third in a series.
• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: A Picture Worth TEN Thousand Words: A Passivhaus in New York [thermogram]

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2011/01/14: USGS: ARkStorm: California's other "Big One"
  For emergency planning purposes, scientists unveiled a hypothetical California scenario that describes a storm that could produce up to 10 feet of rain, cause extensive flooding (in many cases overwhelming the state's flood-protection system) and result in more than $300 billion in damage. The "ARkStorm Scenario," prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and released at the ARkStorm Summit in Sacramento on Jan. 13 - 14, combines prehistoric geologic flood history in California with modern flood mapping and climate-change projections to produce a hypothetical, but plausible, scenario aimed at preparing the emergency response community for this type of hazard.

Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2011/01/12: NERC:NORA: CO2-driven ocean circulation changes as an amplifier of Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum hydrate destabilization by Daniel J. Lunt et al.
• 2011/01/12: NERC:NORA: Coarse-grained terrigenous sediment deposition on continental rise drifts: a record of Plio-Pleistocene glaciation on the Antarctic Peninsula by Ellen A. Cowan et al.
• 2011/01/12: NERC:NORA: First airborne gravity results over the Thwaites Glacier catchment, West Antarctica by Theresa M. Diehl et al.
• 2011/01/12: NERC:NORA: Near-future level of CO2-driven ocean acidification radically affects larval survival and development in the brittlestar Ophiothrix fragilis by Sam Dupont et al.
• 2011/01/13: NERC:NORA: Evaluation of the global water cycle's response to current and future drivers of climate change by Tanya Warnaars
• 2011/01/14: NERC:NORA: Environmental issues and the geological storage of CO2 : a discussion document by Julia M. West et al.
• 2011/01/14: NERC:NORA: The present and past bottom-current flow regime around the sediment drifts on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula by Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand et al.
• 2011/01/14: ACP: Solar radiation trend across China in recent decades: a revisit with quality-controlled data by W.-J. Tang et al.
• 2011/01/14: ACP: Assessing observed and modelled spatial distributions of ice water path using satellite data by S. Eliasson et al.
• 2011/01/14: ACP: Mesoscale processes for super heavy rainfall of Typhoon Morakot (2009) over Southern Taiwan by C.-Y. Lin et al.
  Abstract. Within 100 h, a record-breaking rainfall, 2855 mm, was brought to Taiwan by typhoon Morakot in August 2009 resulting in devastating landslides and casualties...
• 2011/01/14: ACP: Modeling natural emissions in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model -- Part 2: Modifications for simulating natural emissions by S. F. Mueller et al.
• 2011/01/14: ACPD: Planetary boundary influence at the Jungfraujoch analyzed by aerosol cycles and synoptic weather types by M. Collaud Coen et al.
• 2011/01/14: ACPD: The study of emission inventory on anthropogenic air pollutants and VOC species in the Yangtze River Delta region, China by C. Huang et al.
• 2011/01/12: TCD: Variability and changes of Arctic sea ice thickness distribution under different AO/DA states by A. Oikkonen & J. Haapala
• 2011/01/14: GMDD: A two-layer flow model to represent ice-ocean interactions beneath Antarctic ice shelves by V. Lee et al.
• 2011/01/12: CP: Early last glacial maximum in the southern Central Andes reveals northward shift of the westerlies at ~39 ka by R. Zech et al.
• 2011/01/11: CP: Oceanic tracer and proxy time scales revisited by C. Siberlin & C. Wunsch
• 2011/01/10: CP: Model-dependence of the CO2 threshold for melting the hard Snowball Earth by Y. Hu et al.
• 2011/01/10: CP: TALDICE-1 age scale of the Talos Dome deep ice core, East Antarctica by D. Buiron et al.
• 2011/01/13: CPD: Drastic shrinking of the Hadley circulation during the mid-Cretaceous supergreenhouse by H. Hasegawa et al.
• 2011/01/11: CPD: A coupled climate model simulation of Marine Isotope Stage 3 stadial climate by J. Brandefelt et al.
• 2011/01/14: NatureCF: Our pick of the recent literature
• 2011/01/14: Science: (pers$) Northern Meltwater Pulses, CO2, and Changes in Atlantic Convection by Michael Sarnthein
• 2011/01/13: Science: (ab$) 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility by Ulf Büntgen et al.
• 2011/01/14: Science: (ab$) The Deglacial Evolution of North Atlantic Deep Convection by David J. R. Thornalley et al.
• 2011/01/14: Science: (ab$) Genomic Signatures Predict Migration and Spawning Failure in Wild Canadian Salmon by Kristina M. Miller et al.
• 2011/01/11: ACP: Impact of deep convection in the tropical tropopause layer in West Africa: in-situ observations and mesoscale modelling by F. Fierli et al.
• 2011/01/11: ACP: Global analysis of cloud field coverage and radiative properties, using morphological methods and MODIS observations by R. Z. Bar-Or et al.
• 2011/01/11: ACP: Seasonal variability of aerosol optical properties observed by means of a Raman lidar at an EARLINET site over Northeastern Spain by M. Sicard et al.
• 2011/01/10: ACP: An Arctic CCN-limited cloud-aerosol regime by T. Mauritsen et al.
• 2011/01/10: ACP: The vorticity budget of developing typhoon Nuri (2008) by D. J. Raymond & C. López Carrillo
• 2011/01/13: ACPD: Influences on the fraction of hydrophobic and hydrophilic black carbon in the atmosphere by G. R. McMeeking et al.
• 2011/01/13: ACPD: Manipulating marine stratocumulus cloud amount and albedo: a process-modelling study of aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions in response to injection of cloud condensation nuclei by H. Wang et al.
• 2011/01/11: ACPD: Ancient versus modern mineral dust transported to high-altitude alpine glaciers evidences saharan sources and atmospheric circulation changes by F. Thevenon et al.
• 2011/01/11: ACPD: Large-scale European source and flow patterns retrieved from back-trajectory interpretations of CO2 at the high alpine research station Jungfraujoch by C. Uglietti et al.
• 2011/01/10: ACPD: In-situ measurements of tropical cloud properties in the West African monsoon: upper tropospheric ice clouds, mesoscale convective system outflow, and subvisual cirrus by W. Frey et al.
• 2011/01/10: ACPD: Influence of galactic cosmic rays on atmospheric composition and temperature by M. Calisto et al.
• 2011/01/04: WOL:IJC: (ab$) Changing patterns of heavy rainfall in upland areas: a case study from northern England by T. P. Burt & E. J. S. Ferranti
• 2011/01/11: PNAS: (abs) Adapting North American wheat production to climatic challenges, 1839-2009 by Alan L. Olmstead & Paul W. Rhode
• 2011/01/11: PNAS: (ab$) Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert by Nick A. Drake et al.
• 2011/01/12: AGWObserver: Papers on rainfall, flooding and droughts in Australia
• 2011/01/12: ACS:ES&T: Land Availability for Biofuel Production by Ximing Cai et al.
• 2011/01/11: OSD: Modelling the variability of the Antarctic Slope Current by P. Mathiot et al.
• 2010/10/28: AIP:JRSE: (abs) A framework and methodology for reporting geographically and temporally resolved solar data: A case study of Texas by David M. Wogan et al.
• 2011/01/10: AGWObserver: New research from last week 1/2011
• 2011/01/09: Nature:GeoSci: (ab$) Ongoing climate change following a complete cessation of carbon dioxide emissions by Nathan P. Gillett et al.

  And other significant documents:

• 2011/01/15: EconBrowser: [link to 272k pdf] Oil shocks and economic recessions
• 2011/01/13: Sierra: [link to 929k pdf] Restoring the Balance
• 2011/01/13: TCoE: Doc alert: World on the Edge
• 2011/01/11: CEC: [link to 6.8 meg pdf] North America's Environmental Outlook: Nine Topics to Watch for 2011 and Beyond

  As for miscellaneous science:

• 2011/01/13: ERabett: Clearing More Things Up
• 2011/01/12: ERabett: Wattsa Matta Wid Youse Guys
• 2011/01/11: ERabett: Eli Writes
• 2011/01/11: TerraDaily: Time For Climate Change
  The Geological Society of London put out a position statement on climate change...
• 2011/01/11: NSF: Inside a Snowstorm: Scientists Obtain Close-Up Look at Old Man Winter -- Doppler-on-Wheels Gives New View of Lake-Effect Snows

  More DIY science:

• 2011/01/16: SkeptiSci: A Quick and Dirty Analysis of GHCN Surface Temperature Data by caerbannog
• 2011/01/09: CC&G: LearnR Toolkit To Help Excel Users Move Up To R

  Regarding Don Easterbrook:

• 2011/01/14: SMandia: Don Easterbrook's Academic Dishonesty
• 2011/01/15: HotTopic: Don Easterbrook's Academic Dishonesty
• 2011/01/14: CCP: Don Easterbrook's Academic Dishonesty

  While at the UN:

• 2011/01/13: EurActiv: Rio+20: UN hears fresh ideas to 'green' economy
• 2011/01/13: UN: UN relief wing allocates $84 million for 15 neglected emergencies worldwide
• 2011/01/13: ScienceInsider: New Schedule Seen to Improve/Strengthen Impacts Portion of IPCC Report
• 2011/01/11: UN: Record donation enables UN agency to provide food aid in 20 countries

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2011/01/11: BBerg: South Korea Carbon Trading Bill Faces Opposition From Business Groups
• 2011/01/13: BBerg: Firms in Japan, Korea Oppose Start of Carbon Trading
• 2011/01/12: Reuters: China regions to have binding CO2 targets: official
  The Chinese government will impose binding emission targets on its regions as part of its efforts to meet 2020 national carbon intensity goals, a senior Chinese climate official said on Wednesday.
• 2011/01/10: NYT:CW: China Moves Toward Carbon Emissions Trading to Improve Energy Efficiency and Competitiveness

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

• 2011/01/11: Belfer: Renewable Energy Standards: Less Effective, More Costly, but Politically Preferred to Cap-and-Trade?
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Renewable energy standards: less effective, more costly, but politically preferred to cap-and-trade? by Richard Schmalensee & Robert Stavins
• 2011/01/10: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Correcting 10 Common Misconceptions about California's Cap-and-Trade Program
• 2011/01/10: TEC: Economists Moving Beyond Carbon Pricing

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: Russia, US begin civilian nuclear cooperation deal

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

• 2011/01/14: TEC: Hey, These Guys Are Serious
• 2011/01/13: Reuters: China has highest wind power capacity: report
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: China Now the World Leader in Wind Power
• 2011/01/11: TEC: Kerry Warns of "New Sputnik Moment," Calls for Bipartisan Investment Strategy
• 2011/01/11: SolveClimate: Military v. Climate Security: U.S. and China Worlds Apart
  The Chinese are spending 1/6th as much as the U.S. on their military and investing twice as much on clean energy technology

As for GW, energy & water security:

• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: General Anderson: Save Energy, Save Our Troops
• 2011/01/11: PhysOrg: Security establishment not well-equipped to deal with environmental issues: team
  In a three-month investigation, a team of Northwestern University student reporters has found that the nation's security establishment is not adequately prepared for many of the environmental changes that are coming faster than predicted and that threaten to reshape demands made on the military and intelligence community. This is despite the fact that the U.S. Department of Defense has called climate change a potential "ccelerant of instability."/LI>
• 2011/01/15: TreeHugger: Wyoming Senator [John Barrasso (R-Wyo)] Looks To End CIA's Climate Program
• 2011/01/10: McClatchyDC: Climate change reveals disease as national security threat
• 2011/01/10: McClatchyDC: Why the CIA is spying on a changing climate

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

• 2011/01/11: OpenDem: The dangers of kettling: a retired London policeman speaks out

  What are the activists up to?

• 2011/01/14: Rabble: Protesters invade British government office over tar sands trade deal

  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2011/01/12: AlterNet: California Can't Have it All: There's Not Enough Water to Support Farmers, Cities and the Environment
• 2011/01/10: JFleck: Climate Change on the Colorado: The Devil In the Details
• 2011/01/11: TerraDaily: Study Establishes Methods To Assess Recycled Aquifer Water
• 2011/01/07: AlterNet: An Inside Look at the Daily Struggle for Water in One of the World's Largest Cities [Mumbai]

  And on the American political front:

• 2011/01/10: BizInsider: The Hidden Pitfalls of Increasing U.S. Dependence On Canadian Oil Sands
• 2011/01/14: KC: Appeal filed to halt [Sunflower] power plant in western Kansas
• 2011/01/15: JSOnline: Walker bill puts $500 million in wind turbine investment at risk -- 1,800-foot setback requirement would halt most projects [Wisconsin] [US pol]
• 2011/01/14: NYT: Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China
  Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States. But now the company is closing its main American factory, laying off the 800 workers by the end of March and shifting production to a joint venture with a Chinese company in central China. Evergreen cited the much higher government support available in China. The factory closing in Devens, Mass., which Evergreen announced earlier this week, has set off political recriminations and finger-pointing in Massachusetts.
• 2011/01/13: ProPublica: Pennsylvania's Governor-Elect Nominates Insiders for Top Environmental Posts
• 2011/01/14: CCP: The Hill: Major bank HSBC calls US 'significant outlier' on greenhouse-gas action
• 2011/01/14: SolveClimate: Documentary Chronicles Toxic Air of Texas, Petrochemical Malpractice
  Petrochemical plants were routinely releasing millions of tons of toxic pollutants into the air each year; the casualties are the people living nearby
• 2011/01/12: WVGazette:CT: Acting Gov. Tomblin vows to fight for coal; will aggressively pursue state's suit against Obama EPA
• 2011/01/13: TWM: A car only a conservative couldn't love...
• 2011/01/13: AlterNet: Why Is a Corruption Watchdog [CREW] Doing Corporations' Dirty Work Going After an Obscure USDA Official?
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: Stavins on Renewable Energy Standards
• 2011/01/10: KUOW: Wash. To End Food Stamps For Legal Immigrants
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: New Mexico governor [Susana Martinez (R)] picks climate denier Harrison Schmitt to run energy department
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Industrial ag once again demanding free pass to crap in your backyard
• 2011/01/10: NRDC:SwitchBoard: West Virginia official tells it like it is--we need new oil and gas regulations
• 2011/01/09: CCentral: US Not On Track To Meet Renewable Fuel Targets, Study Says
• 2011/01/11: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Killing Jobs or Growing Jobs?
• 2011/01/10: BRitholtz: Checklist for Pundits
• 2011/01/09: EnergyBulletin: The extremely leisurely pace of American democracy and the urgency of our predicament
• 2011/01/10: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Correcting 10 Common Misconceptions about California's Cap-and-Trade Program
• 2011/01/08: AlterNet: Who's To Blame for Our Polluted Tap Water?

  The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

• 2011/01/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Questions the Press Needs to Ask About the Gulf Oil Disaster
• 2011/01/14: CCurrents: Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials For Help
• 2011/01/14: Rabble: After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
• 2011/01/13: AlterNet: Naomi Klein: Hunting the Ocean for BP's Missing Millions of Barrels of Oil
• 2011/01/12: GreenGrok: BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!!
• 2011/01/13: TP:WR: Spill Commission: American Petroleum Institute Is 'Compromised'
• 2011/01/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: FL Keys & Gulf Oil Disaster: Dan Kimball, Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks Superintendent, tells his story
• 2011/01/14: NatureN: Gulf-oil studies stalled by scarce samples -- Frustration of independent researchers spills out over suspended distribution by BP and US government
• 2011/01/14: DeSmogBlog: What Was Missing From the Oil Spill Commission's Report
• 2011/01/13: TEC: Deepwater Horizon: The Commission Finds...
• 2011/01/13: AlterNet: Investigation into BP Spill Reveals Incompetence, Greed, Complacency and Cynicism -- It's Time for a New Energy Policy
• 2011/01/13: GreenFyre: What If There Had Been No Oil Spill?
• 2011/01/12: HuffPo: Missed Opportunity: Spill Commission Rejected by Drillers
• 2011/01/11: HuffPo: National Oil Spill Commission Finds Right Problems, Issues Wrong Solutions
• 2011/01/11: FT:ESB: Oil spill report: Initial analysis
• 2011/01/13: Grist: Did we learn anything from the BP oil spill?
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: Panel Calls For Tough Regulation After BP Spill
• 2011/01/12: Grist: The butler, in the parlor, with a blow-out preventer -- The regular person's guide to who's to blame for the BP oil spill
• 2011/01/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Spill Commission's Warnings about America's Arctic
• 2011/01/11: ENS: Oil Spill Commission: 'Complacency' Led to Deepwater Horizon Disaster
• 2011/01/12: OilChange: API is "Compromised" Says Deepwater Report
• 2011/01/09: CCurrents: Illnesses Linked To BP Oil Disaster
• 2011/01/11: CNN: Panel calls for drastic steps to stop future deepwater oil spills
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: BP disaster Commission co-chair [Bob] Graham: "Drill baby drill" is a selfish and self-defeating energy strategy
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Same oil song -- Big Oil pushes expanded offshore drilling without new safeguards
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Gulf oil spill panel urges overhaul of oil industry and safety practices
• 2011/01/11: NRDC:SwitchBoard: The Evaluation of Deepwater Horizon's Environmental Toll (Challenges of a Novel Oil Spill)
• 2011/01/11: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Gulf Commission Says Systemic Changes Needed in Offshore Drilling
• 2011/01/11: NatureTGB: Oil spill commission calls for stronger science role
• 2011/01/11: ScienceInsider: Oil Spill Commission Calls for Larger Role for Science
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: US panel: Reforms needed to prevent offshore oil spills
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: 'Significant errors and misjudgement' led to BP oil spill
• 2011/01/11: OilChange: Preventing Another "National Scandal"
• 2011/01/11: ProPublica: Gulf Claims Czar Makes Mixed Progress on Transparency Pledges
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Gulf of Mexico oil spill: Panel urges major reforms
  A major US report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has called for wide-ranging reforms of the oil industry to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Gulf oil spill panel calls for reforms -- 'Probability of another failure will be dramatically greater,' without change
• 2011/01/10: EurActiv: Deepwater drilling safety doubts multiply
• 2011/01/10: TreeHugger: Just the Greed... Alabama Surfers Tell More Stories From The Gulf Oil Spill (Video)
• 2011/01/10: OilChange: A New Year: A New Spill

  The EPA vs fossil fuel industry played out in a Texas court this week:

• 2011/01/15: DallasNews: EPA gets citizen backing in Texas greenhouse-gas dispute at Dallas hearing
• 2011/01/14: HoustonChronicle: Texas agency a no-show at EPA hearing -- Emission opponents praise feds; state says effort futile
• 2011/01/13: Reuters: Court denies Texas attempt to delay CO2 rules
• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: A 'Tex-extremist' approach to the Clean Air Act -- Court signs off on EPA takeover of Texas permitting
• 2011/01/13: PlanetArk: U.S. Court Denies Texas Attempt To Delay CO2 Rules
• 2011/01/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Texas Strikes Out - Court Rejects State's Third Swing at Carbon Controls
  The federal Court of Appeals in Washington today rejected Texas latest attempt to block the first carbon pollution control requirements under the Clean Air Act, which took effect last week. The court rejected Texas' third try for a "stay" of the steps EPA is taking to assure that big new or expanded power plants and industrial facilities will install available and affordable pollution controls to reduce their carbon pollution. Texas is the only state in the nation that refused to let anyone -- the state or the feds -- issue permits for carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.
• 2011/01/11: DallasNews: Texas leads states' attack on EPA's climate-change rules

  While in Congress, the EPA vs fossil fuel tussle has another demeanour:

• 2011/01/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Dangerous Delaying Tactics
• 2011/01/11: ENS: House Republicans Try to Undo EPA Air Pollution Rules
• 2011/01/11: Grist: The danger of a two-year delay in EPA climate rules
• 2011/01/10: CSW: House Republicans prepare to attack EPA greenhouse gas rules
• 2011/01/10: Grist: The Republicans' hollow threat: EPA and the Congressional Review Act

  Some headlines deserve mention -- a law to declare pollutants aren't pollutants:

• 2011/01/09: CCP: Mary Blackburn and 46 other congressmen have proposed a law to declare pollutants aren't pollutants
• 2011/01/07: SF Gate:MB: Attacking the EPA: Scary Myths and Scarier Realities
  Only a couple of days into the new Congress, Representative Mary Blackburn and at least 46 colleagues have proposed an air-pollution solution that's both simple and ingenious: Pass a law declaring that pollutants aren't pollutants.

The EPA delayed applying Clean Air Act regulations to biomass power plants for 2 years:

• 2011/01/14: BSD: Steps toward burning biomass in coal plants
• 2011/01/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA delays GHG regs for biomass, leaves states to lead again
• 2011/01/13: SolveClimate: Is Biomass Clean or Dirty Energy? We Won't Know for 3 Years
  Should turning tree parts into electricity qualify as renewable power or is the practice dirtier than burning coal? The Obama administration put off for another three years a decision on whether to regulate planet-warming gases from biomass power. The surprise delay dealt a blow to green groups' hopes for pollution controls on wood-burning incinerators anytime soon, while industry breathed sighs of relief.
• 2011/01/13: PlanetArk: EPA To Delay CO2 Permit Requirements For Biomass
• 2011/01/12: Politico: Court lets EPA mess with Texas
• 2011/01/12: SBO: EPA backs off on biomass regulation
• 2011/01/10: STimes: EPA decision could put Washington [biomass energy] jobs at risk

  The EPA vetoed Spruce Mountain top removal mining:

• 2011/01/13: WVGazette:CT: EPA vetoes Spruce Mine permit
• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): Major environmental ruling on coal
• 2011/01/13: WaPo: Obama administration cracks down on mountaintop mining
• 2011/01/14: DM:80B: Landmark EPA Ruling Revokes a Mountaintop Removal Mine's Permit
• 2011/01/14: OilChange: EPA 1: Big Coal 0
• 2011/01/13: Grist: EPA blows up industry's plan to blow up a mountaintop
• 2011/01/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA vetoes mega mountaintop-to-moonscape project
• 2011/01/13: NatureTGB: EPA nixes mountain mining plans
• 2011/01/13: TreeHugger: EPA Halts [Spruce No. 1] Largest Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine in West Virginia

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2011/01/14: SolveClimate: Obama Can Cut Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Save $39 Billion, But Will Congress Go Along?
  The cuts were included in the last two budgets submitted to Congress, but were never implemented. Will GOP budget hawks now get on board?

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2011/01/14: Reuters: Justice Dept makes defense of CO2 rules top priority
  Defending new regulations on the emission of greenhouse gases will be a top priority for the Obama administration this year as challenges emerge, a senior U.S. Justice Department official said on Thursday.
• 2011/01/14: TEC: Obama Administration Makes Defense of CO2 Regulations Top Court Priority
• 2011/01/13: PhysOrg: US orders more testing of chromium-6 in tap water
  The Environmental Protection Agency has asked local US communities to test more carefully for hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen.
• 2011/01/12: CSW: On the White House Scientific Integrity guidelines -- Part 2: Can Federal Scientists Speak Freely With Journalists?
• 2011/01/12: CSW: On the White House Scientific Integrity guidelines -- Part 1: OMB's Secret 'Openness' Policy
• 2011/01/12: DeSmogBlog: State Department Refuses to Release [FOI] Information on Tar Sands [Keystone XL] Oil Pipeline
• 2011/01/12: PlanetArk: USDA's Vilsack Seeks Compromise On Biotech Crops
• 2011/01/12: NOAANews: NOAA's National Weather Service Releases Report on May 2010 Nashville Flood

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2011/01/15: TreeHugger: Wyoming Senator [John Barrasso (R-Wyo)] Looks To End CIA's Climate Program
• 2011/01/14: ProPublica: Opponents to Fracking Disclosure Take Big Money From Industry
• 2011/01/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Members of Congress support disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals used on public land
• 2011/01/13: TEC: Key Democrats Say its Time for New Energy Policy After 2010 Reported the Warmest in History
• 2011/01/13: ProPublica: Auto Makers and Oil Industry Trade Groups Write Back With Regulations to Target
• 2011/01/13: SolveClimate: 2010 Ties 2005 as Warmest Year, But Congress Remains Cold to Action
  It's unlikely the new climate data will have an impact on Congress, which failed to pass climate legislation in 2010 and is now looking to derail EPA
• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: [Senator Mark] Begich (D-Ak): As the Arctic melts, let's Drill, Baby, Drill
• 2011/01/13: DeSmogBlog: Job for the New Congress: Read the Latest Review of Wasteful Welfare for Dirty Energy
• 2011/01/12: DeSmogBlog: The House Anti-Science Committee?
• 2011/01/11: NYT:GW: Rep. [Don] Young (R-Alaska) Vows to Fight Enviro Laws He Says Hurt Tribal Energy Development
  Rep. Don Young, chairman of a new House subcommittee on American Indian and Alaska Native affairs, says he will battle federal laws such as the Endangered Species Act that have derailed energy and economic development on tribal lands. The Alaska Republican, who last week took the gavel of the Natural Resources Committee's new Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Subcommittee, said he would ensure federal environmental laws do not obstruct energy development for the nation's 565 federally recognized Indian tribes and that federal agencies live up to their trust obligations with native communities.
• 2011/01/11: PlanetArk: Senators Doubt WTO Would Uphold U.S Ethanol Tariff
• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: Congress Bars Pentagon From Buying Foreign Solar Panels
• 2011/01/09: NYT: Pentagon Must 'Buy American,' Barring Chinese Solar Panels

  Remember the climate bill?

• 2011/01/14: CCP: The Hill: Frustration on global warming deepens for supporters of climate change bill

  What are the lobbyists pushing?

• 2011/01/13: PlanetArk: U.S. Farm Group [AFBF]: Install [blender] Pumps, End Ethanol Credit
• 2011/01/13: TreeHugger: US Chamber of Commerce Says We Shouldn't Fund Renewable Energy, But Fossil Fuels Are A-OK
• 2011/01/11: TheHill:e2W: U.S. Chamber chief [Donohue] pushes Congress to block EPA climate regulations
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: The Chamber of Commerce is so extreme they oppose research and development into renewable energy!
• 2011/01/10: PlanetArk: EPA "Pollution Diet" Starves Agriculture: Farm Group
  The head of the largest U.S. farm group called on Congress to stop ruinous EPA "over-regulation" of agriculture and announced on Sunday a lawsuit against EPA rules to reduce Chesapeake Bay pollution. Bob Stallman, president of the 6 million-member American Farm Bureau Federation, announced the lawsuit during a speech that opened the group's annual meeting.

While in the UK:

• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): How the government could raise its Green-o-meter rating
• 2011/01/12: Guardian(UK): Climate change exhibit Atmosphere may be pretty but it lacks punch
  Atmosphere at the Science Museum in London promises 'calm and considered discussion' of climate change but fails to deliver
• 2011/01/13: PlanetArk: UK To Review North Sea Drilling Rules After U.S. Spill
• 2011/01/09: BBC: David Cameron 'must act to green Whitehall', say MPs
  David Cameron must take the environment to the heart of Whitehall if he wants to make the coalition the greenest government ever, say MPs.

And in Europe:

• 2011/01/14: EurActiv: EU eyes climate 'paradigm shift' on tax, growth and China
  EU climate leaders have been setting out their environmental agendas for tax, resource efficiency and competition from China in the year ahead, one month after the Cancún climate change summit.
• 2011/01/13: EurActiv: EU Kyoto doubts go public
  Officials are striking increasingly dissonant notes on the question of whether the EU should continue to support the Kyoto Protocol as a framework for UN agreements after 2012 if countries such as Japan, Russia and Canada maintain their opposition.
• 2011/01/13: EUO: Chinese five-year plan will be wake-up call on climate, EU says
  Europe's top climate official has said China's imminent five-year plan, expected to be brimming with environmental and energy initiatives, will serve as a stark reminder of Europe's diminishing frontrunner status in the area. Climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard made the comments in Brussels on Thursday (13 January), preparing the ground for a return to the debate on whether the EU should increase its CO2-cutting pledge for the coming decade from 20 to 30 percent, based on 1990 levels.
• 2011/01/13: PlanetArk: Italy Court Approves Nuclear Energy Referendum
  Italy's constitutional court ruled on Wednesday a national referendum could be held against the construction of nuclear power plants, dealing a potential blow to government plans to relaunch the sector.

In Australia, the issues of water conservation, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, etc. remain lively during the floods:

• 2011/01/14: ABC(Au): Water systems struggling to cope in central Vic
  Coliban Water is reporting problems with sewer and water treatment systems across central Victoria.
• 2011/01/14: ABC(Au): Water authority urges conservation amid flood recovery
  The South East Queensland Water Grid is urging people to conserve water if they are not in flood-affected areas.
• 2011/01/14: ABC(Au): Heavy rains fill thirsty reservoirs
  A number of reservoirs across the Wimmera are full and spilling into nearby rivers after years of sitting almost empty.
• 2011/01/15: JQuiggin: Water policy after the flood
• 2011/01/11: ABC(Au): More water released from Wivenhoe, Somerset dams
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: Australian dam has fans, detractors during epic flood
  Wivenhoe Dam, 80 kilometres west of Brisbane, was hailed as the great protector of Australia's third-largest city when it was built in the wake of the catastrophic floods of 1974. The promise was that the big new lake behind it would regulate floodwaters racing towards the Queensland state capital and prevent a reprise of 1974 and the inundation of thousands of houses. Its fans say it has done just that. Without Wivenhoe, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said last week, 1974 would be revisited at a time like this when the Brisbane River is swollen and bent on destruction. "Wivenhoe has protected Brisbane over the last few weeks from flooding," Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell Newman chimed in. "Unfortunately, the big shock absorber that is that dam, is now full."
• 2011/01/10: ABC(Au): Water storages in Toowoomba, on the Darling Downs in southern Queensland, are almost full for the first time in 12 years

  And in New Zealand:

• 2011/01/12: MongaBay: New Zealand: Can you sink a rainbow?

  While in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2011/01/14: BBC: Indian PM unveils steps to curb food price inflation
• 2011/01/11: BBC: India cabinet meet to tackle food inflation

  And in China:

• 2011/01/12: Reuters: China regions to have binding CO2 targets: official
  The Chinese government will impose binding emission targets on its regions as part of its efforts to meet 2020 national carbon intensity goals, a senior Chinese climate official said on Wednesday.
• 2011/01/10: PlanetArk: China To Control Rare Earth Extraction, Pollution
• 2011/01/10: TreeHugger: China's Energy Efficiency Increases 20% in 5 Years

  While elsewhere in Asia:

• 2011/01/16: SolveClimate: Borneo's Logging Barons Turn Profits into Overseas Assets -- Much of the ill-gotten gains from massive logging are hidden in plain sight as real estate holdings
• 2011/01/11: BBerg: South Korea Carbon Trading Bill Faces Opposition From Business Groups
• 2011/01/13: BBerg: Firms in Japan, Korea Oppose Start of Carbon Trading
• 2011/01/10: McClatchyDC: Climate-induced mayhem likely to start in Bangladesh

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

• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: Canada Mothballs High-Tech Oil Spill Detecting, Arctic Ice Monitoring Planes
• 2011/01/14: G&M: Meet Harper's oil-sands muse [Levant]
• 2011/01/10: PI:B: A "harmonization of outcomes" far off as U.S. prepares to regulate more sources of climate pollution
• 2011/01/12: HillTimes: Environment Minister Kent 'won't get far' in the U.S. if he accuses groups against oil sands expansion of being slanderers, say environmentalists
  'He seems more interested in smearing Americans as slanderers than addressing the concerns that we have with the environmental impacts of tar sands oil,' says Friends of the Earth. U.S. environmental groups Environment Minister Peter Kent accused of slander and "outright lies" about petroleum extraction from Alberta's oil sands are reacting angrily to his allegations, as well as his plan to try to convince Americans the oil is "ethical" compared to petroleum imports from Saudi Arabia and other countries.
• 2011/01/13: ChronicleHerald: Ottawa mothballs 'best' anti-pollution equipment -- Two airplanes with state-of-art instruments put out of service by Environment Canada
  Environment Canada has mothballed some of the world's most advanced equipment for dealing with oil spills, tracking submarines and monitoring Arctic sea ice. Even as the auditor general's office chides the government for taking an antiquated, piecemeal approach to dealing with oil spills, officials have let their state-of-the-art technology languish in a hangar on the outskirts of Ottawa, former staffers say. At issue are two airplanes equipped with lasers, radar technology and other remote-sensing tools that have been developed by Canadian researchers over three decades.
They haven't flown for a year, and in September last year Environment Canada quietly shut down the program that oversaw the planes.
• 2011/01/10: ScottsDiatribe: Our new Environment Minister -- worse then his predecessors?

  The G20 controversy lingers:

• 2011/01/13: MediaCoop: G20 Public Inquiry Protest News & Interviews 2011
• 2011/01/14: TStar: SIU reopens G20 case after photos surface
• 2011/01/14: PaiD: Thanks to Toronto Star, the Inept SIU Re-opens G20 Investigation
• 2011/01/13: OrwellsBastard: The Blue Tribe spins up its PR machine
• 2011/01/10: MediaCoop: G20 Police Accused of Assault...Again! -- 'Strikingly Similar' Pattern Alleged in Non-G20 Related Incident
• 2011/01/12: Rabble:KK: Toronto rally reminds police and politicians that activists won't forget the G20

  It looks like the proposed sale of AECL is kaput:

• 2011/01/14: CBC: AECL bidder backs out
  The Conservative government's efforts to sell off Canada's nuclear power agency secretly collapsed this week after the most likely buyer walked away from the negotiating table. The government has spent almost two years trying to sell the commercial divisions of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL) that build and maintain nuclear power reactors. But the agency hasn't made a reactor sale in more than a decade and the breakdown of talks to sell off AECL leaves taxpayers on the hook for the Crown corporation that last year ran up more than $800 million in red ink. The government's failure to reach a deal not only puts the future of AECL in doubt, but also leaves the Canadian nuclear industry and up to 30,000 jobs in limbo.

The Weyburn carbon storage site is reportedly fizzing:

• 2011/01/13: G&M: Alleged leaks from carbon storage project questioned
• 2011/01/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Dispelling controversy at the Weyburn geologic carbon dioxide storage project
• 2011/01/12: PostMedia: Alberta stands by its $2B Âcarbon capture despite concerns
  Alberta Energy Minister Ron Liepert is standing by the province's $2-billion commitment to develop technology to store carbon emissions, despite allegations of carbon dioxide contamination at a Saskatchewan farm. Cameron and Jane Kerr went public Tuesday with concerns that a nearby carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in southern Saskatchewan's Weyburn area is leaking, harming their animals and pond water. The Wildrose Alliance and NDP, which have long called on the Alberta government to back away from CCS, contend the Saskatchewan case underscores why Alberta should scrap its multibillion-dollar pledge to help several energy companies develop the technology on a large scale.
• 2011/01/11: G&M: Carbon capture project leaking into their land, couple says
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: CO2 Levels at Leaking Canadian Carbon Storage Project Could Asphyxiate You In One Place
• 2011/01/12: Tyee: Pfffft Goes Promise of Pumping C02 Underground -- Farmers say high profile carbon sequestration experiment is a bubbling, dangerous failure.
• 2011/01/11: WpgFP: Land fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is leaking
• 2011/01/11: CBC: CO2 leaks worry Sask. farmers
• 2011/01/11: RustyIdols: New Blow to Carbon Capture Boondoggle
• 2011/01/11: CTV: Carbon injected underground is leaking: Sask. farmers
• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: Canadian Carbon Sequestration Project Leaking, Killing Farm Animals & Causing Algae Blooms
• 2011/01/11: DeSmogBlog: Weyburn Carbon Capture Project Springs a Leak

  The battle over the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines rages on:

• 2011/01/12: DeSmogBlog: State Department Refuses to Release [FOI] Information on Tar Sands [Keystone XL] Oil Pipeline
• 2011/01/11: SolveClimate: TransCanada Takes Oil Sands Heat In Stride
  TransCanada's first big advertising program drums up support for planned Keystone XL oil sands pipeline

The Tories put up a trial balloon to see how allowing the Mackenzie gas pipeline would go over:

• 2011/01/12: CBC: Mackenzie pipeline needs federal cash: insiders -- Ottawa not selling $16.2B project to taxpayers, analyst says
• 2011/01/12: PostMedia: No MacKenzie Valley deal in the pipeline yet, Imperial Oil says
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Mackenzie gas pipeline to get cabinet OK

  A new theory of what happened to the West Coast salmon:

• 2011/01/14: Science: (ab$) Genomic Signatures Predict Migration and Spawning Failure in Wild Canadian Salmon by Kristina M. Miller et al.
• 2011/01/13: CBC: B.C. salmon deaths may be linked to virus

  Regarding the Tories ethical oil campaign:

• 2011/01/14: Tyee: Tar Sands Oil Some of World's Dirtiest: Report
  Findings counter studies that put bitumen's carbon footprint slightly higher than regular crude.
  A report by a major global research group representing the world's 10 largest car buying markets has concluded that Canada's bitumen is one of the world's dirtiest oils due to its poor quality, low gravity and the vast amount of natural gas needed to enrich it. The study for the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), which looked at the carbon intensity of oil from 3,000 fields now supplying European gasoline markets, also concluded that increasing reliance on dirty fuels will raise greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent above that of conventional oils.
• 2011/01/12: DeepClimate: Ethical Oil
• 2011/01/11: HillTimes: PM 'repackaging' tar sands issue, critics slam Tories' efforts to 'self-designate morality' of debate by dubbing oil sands as 'ethical'
  Environment Minister Peter Kent came under further attack Tuesday for what opposition MPs call his 'over the top' call for the U.S. to buy Canadian oil sands petroleum rather than oil from countries where the proceeds go to support 'terrorism, injustice or tyranny.'
• 2011/01/10: HillTimes: Environment could be 'sleeper' issue in next election given new Minister Kent's 'ethical oil' argument

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2011/01/10: BizInsider: The Hidden Pitfalls of Increasing U.S. Dependence On Canadian Oil Sands
• 2011/01/13: PI:B: Water monitoring 101: what to make of the 2010 flood of oilsands reports
• 2011/01/14: Rabble: Protesters invade British government office over tar sands trade deal
• 2011/01/14: Tyee: Tar Sands Oil Some of World's Dirtiest: Report
  Findings counter studies that put bitumen's carbon footprint slightly higher than regular crude.
  A report by a major global research group representing the world's 10 largest car buying markets has concluded that Canada's bitumen is one of the world's dirtiest oils due to its poor quality, low gravity and the vast amount of natural gas needed to enrich it. The study for the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), which looked at the carbon intensity of oil from 3,000 fields now supplying European gasoline markets, also concluded that increasing reliance on dirty fuels will raise greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent above that of conventional oils.
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Talisman to boost oil, gas production -- Calgary-based company announces $4B capital spending in 2011
• 2011/01/10: BBC: Fire-damaged Horizon Oil Sands plant 'could resume'
  The Horizon Oil Sands facility could resume limited operations after a fire damaged key equipment last week, owner Canadian Natural Resources has said. In a statement, the company said two of four coke drums used to extract petroleum from bitumen at the Alberta site suffered only minimal damage. Five workers were injured in the 6 January blaze. The company did not specify when production would restart. Canadian authorities have yet to determine the cause of the fire.
• 2011/01/11: HotTopic: Moving the earth for oil

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

• 2011/01/15: TStar: How McGuinty's windmill dreams became a nightmare [health effects]
• 2011/01/14: CBC: Ont. town to turn tornado-damaged trees into art
  The town of Leamington, Ont., is looking to turn trees damaged by a tornado last June into art in one of its municipal parks. The municipality, the South Essex Arts Association and the Windsor Woodcarving Museum are holding a joint contest to create 3D woodcarvings on three large tree trunks in Seacliff Park.
• 2011/01/11: TEC: Wind Production in Ontario 2010
  The numbers are in for wind production in Ontario last year. The IESO had a news release that included the data. Wind output increased from 2.3 TWh to 2.9 TWh, an increase of 26%. According to the IESO, this was 1.9% of Ontario's demand, up from 1.6%. Demand increased from 139 to 142 TWh, as the economy recovered from the recession, and mother nature delivered a hotter than normal summer. That is a fairly modest increase of 2.1% - quite low considering the economic recovery. Natural gas provided 20.5 TWh, up from 15.4 TWh. Coal provided 12.6 TWh up from 9.8 TWh, but down from 23.2 TWh in 2008. Nuclear was roughly even. We had a very dry year, so hydroelectricity provided 30.7 TWh, down from 38.1 TWh the year before. But these numbers don't tell the whole story. The IESO reports only the numbers from IESO controlled markets. And that means they report only on large facilities that a larger than 10 MW.
• 2011/01/11: CBC: Wind-farm appeal could set precedent: lawyer [Ont pol]
  A lawyer says the outcome of an appeal against a wind farm under construction in the Thamesville, Ont., area could be precedent-setting.

In the Maritimes:

• 2011/01/10: CBC: Cooke, Irving plan subdivision for flood victims -- 21 homes in St. George are unlivable after December's flood

  In the North:

• 2011/01/10: CBC: De Beers' mine plans raise caribou concerns
  A new diamond mine being proposed in the Northwest Territories could drive caribou herds farther away from their usual migration routes, according to some in the area. De Beers' proposed Gahcho Kue mine, located about 280 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife, is on the traditional migration routes of the Bathurst, Akiak and Beverly caribou herds, according to an environmental impact statement that the company has recently filed with regulators.

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

• 2011/01/13: CCurrents: The End Of Growth, "The Sound Of Air Escaping" [Heinberg]
• 2011/01/14: OilDrum: Lucky Economists, Unlucky Scientists?
• 2011/01/12: CCurrents: Humanity's Dilemma: Reconciling Two Paradigms
• 2011/01/10: CCurrents: Who's Kidding Whom? Is Sustainable Development Compatible With Western Civilization?
• 2011/01/09: CCurrents: Subsistence Farming
• 2011/01/11: EnergyBulletin: Ecological civilization
• 2011/01/10: AlterNet: Vision: How Switching to a Sustainable Lifestyle Can Make Financial Sense

  And in the Transition movement:

• 2011/01/14: EnergyBulletin: Environmentalism != Socialism

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

• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): The population explosion
  This year, there will be 7 billion people on Earth. But how will the planet will cope with the expanding population -- and is there anything we can, or should, do to stop it?
• 2011/01/12: TCoE: Doc alert: Population: One Planet, too Many People?
• 2011/01/09: CCurrents: Billions Of Humans Will Die Horribly
• 2011/01/11: TWTB: An upper limit to growth? Population vs. consumption

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2011/01/15: ERabett: The Las Vegas Review Journal will never win a Pulitzer Prize
• 2011/01/10: CJR: Climate Conundrums -- Slack coverage, quality issues stir debate
• 2011/01/14: DeSmogBlog: Media Loses Interest In Climate Change
• 2011/01/13: HuffPo: 2010 Hottest Year on Record: The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper by Peter H. Gleick
• 2011/01/13: CCP: Peter Gleick: 2010 Hottest Year on Record: The Graph That Should Be on the Front Page of Every Newspaper
• 2011/01/11: WtD: And now Western Australia burns... when is the mainstream media going to make the connection?
• 2011/01/13: Guardian(UK): Why have UK media ignored climate change announcements?
  Yesterday's announcement that 2010 tied for the warmest year ever recorded on Earth was ignored by nearly all UK media outlets. How can this be?
• 2011/01/13: TreeHugger: Mainstream Media Has Accurately Portrayed Sea Level Rise Projections For Past 20 Years
• 2011/01/11: MTobis: Everybody's an expert
• 2011/01/10: BRitholtz: Checklist for Pundits

  When bored headline writers get too cute, confusion results:

• 2011/01/12: NatureN: US science academy report calls for 'bipolar' research

  Here is something for your library:

• 2011/01/14: DVoice: Ecology and Islam
  [Book Review] _Green Deen_ by Ibrahim Abdul-Matin
• 2011/01/13: EPI: [Book Site] _World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse_ by Lester R. Brown
• 2011/01/09: ClimateSight: [Book Review] _Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming_ by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway
• 2011/01/10: HotTopic: [Book Review] _Fraser's Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica_ by Fen Montaigne

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2011/01/16: WtD: ABC (USA) reports on flooding and climate change: must watch segment
• 2011/01/15: PSinclair: The Last Mountain: Movie Trailer
• 2011/01/15: GreenFyre: Some much needed climate change humour
• 2011/01/15: MTobis: Snow "Thing of the Past" Prediction?
• 2011/01/14: PSinclair: ABC News: Wild Weather and Climate Change
• 2011/01/14: ClimateP: Terrific ABC(US) News story: "Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product of Global Warming"
  "Scientists: Climate Change No Longer a Theory, It's Happening"
• 2011/01/14: PSinclair: Meanwhile in Brazil: One month's rain in 24 hours
• 2011/01/13: PSinclair: Snow - Cold. Record Snow in Eastern US. Heat Wave Continues over Hudson Bay
• 2011/01/11: JKB: Skewed views of science
• 2011/01/11: HotTopic: Skewed views of science
• 2011/01/10: CD: The ingenious ways we avoid believing in climate change- a video presentation
• 2011/01/10: ClimateP: NOAA: Time history of atmospheric CO2

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2011/01/11: ADN: Judge allows lawsuit involving Seward coal-dust emissions -- Environmental groups sue over debris that ends up in bay
• 2011/01/11: CCP: National security threat, global-warming denier, Koch Industries, files frivolous lawsuit against pranksters
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: Pollutocrat Kochs sue: Claim that Koch Industries believes in global warming damaged our reputation
• 2011/01/13: Reuters: Court denies Texas attempt to delay CO2 rules
• 2011/01/11: NatureN: Peruvian biologist's defamation conviction overturned -- Case over question of genetic modification in Peru's maize still entangled in judicial system.
• 2011/01/10: ABC(US): Judge: Lawsuit Against Mont. Coal Lease Can Go On -- Judge rules lawsuit can move forward challenging half-billion-ton Mont. coal lease
  A state judge on Monday gave environmentalists a green light to press forward with their challenge of Montana's lease of 587 million tons of state-owned coal to a St. Louis company. District Judge Joe Hegel rejected an attempt by the state and Arch Coal Inc. to dismiss the case and questioned whether the lease should have been awarded without an environmental review.
• 2011/01/11: TreeHugger: Koch Industries Sues Prankster For Saying It Cares About Environment

  Among the non-members of Gamblers Anonymous:

• 2011/01/14: SlashDot: Bastardi's Wager

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

• 2011/01/16: OilDrum: Tech Talk - Past, Present and Future Venezuelan oil production
• 2011/01/10: RRapier: When Economic Recovery Collides with Flat Oil Production
• 2011/01/13: NBF: How the world will decarbonize energy
• 2011/01/14: PlanetArk: Analysis: Roaring Fossil Fuels Outpace Green Energy
  Fossil fuel investments will continue to outstrip low-carbon alternatives this year, darkening a sector struggling to shake off the financial crisis and sagging political momentum on climate change. Soaring fossil fuel prices, where the European oil benchmark is pushing $100 a barrel, favor oil and coal producers, while falling gas prices have undermined wind power generation especially in the United States. And the financial crisis has hit capital-intensive renewable energy projects, trimming demand for wind turbines, while the near-term solar future is clouded by cuts in European subsidies. In all, that contributed to a dire 2010 in green equity markets, where the climate change theme under-performed global stocks by 10-20 percentage points, and new momentum is expected to be slow in 2011.
• 2011/01/14: REA: Demand for Geothermal Heat Pumps To Grow 14% by 2015
• 2011/01/13: EarthTimes: Iraq prepares to open bidding of oil licenses to up to 45 companies
• 2011/01/13: NBF: Large molten carbonate fuel cells for ships and clean power
• 2011/01/12: BBerg: OPEC Doesn't Need Emergency Meeting as Oil Advances Above $90, Iran Says
• 2011/01/13: CBC: Alaska pipeline being restarted
• 2011/01/12: PhysOrg: Molten carbonate fuel cells: An alternative and cleaner power supply for ships
• 2011/01/12: OilDrum: Secrecy By Complexity: Obfuscation in Energy Data, and The Primacy of Crude Oil
• 2011/01/12: REA: What does a global climate deal signal for renewables?
• 2011/01/11: BBC: Oil price rises as Alaskan pipeline remains closed
  Oil prices have continued to rise as a main Alaskan pipeline remained all but closed for a fourth day, and Norway's Statoil was forced to shut two fields in the North Sea. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline has now been closed since Saturday, after a spillage at one of its pump stations. It is expected to reopen later this week.
• 2011/01/11: EconBrowser: The first oil shock
• 2011/01/11: Reuters: Renewable energy group IRENA seeks big budget rise
  The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is seeking a more than ten-fold increase in its annual budget to promote sustainable energy, its interim director-general said on Tuesday.
• 2011/01/11: ScienceInsider: Meet Jordan's New Greenhouse-Power Plant Hybrid
• 2011/01/10: ProPublica: Oil Leak Is Latest Mishap for Alaska's Troubled Pipelines
• 2011/01/10: PlanetArk: No Estimate For Reopening Of Alaska Oil Pipeline

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

• 2011/01/13: ProPublica: Pennsylvania's Governor-Elect Nominates Insiders for Top Environmental Posts
• 2011/01/14: ProPublica: Opponents to Fracking Disclosure Take Big Money From Industry
• 2011/01/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Members of Congress support disclosure of hydraulic fracturing chemicals used on public land
• 2011/01/09: CCurrents: India And World Threatened By US-led Shale Gas Fracking
• 2011/01/11: HuffPo: If Shale Gas Is a Game-Changer, Why Are All the Major Producers Looking for Oil?

  The answer my friend...:

• 2011/01/14: SkeptiSci: What is the Potential of Wind Power?
• 2011/01/13: Reuters: China has highest wind power capacity: report
  China has the world's highest wind power capacity after adding 62 percent or 16 gigawatts (GW) in new capacity last year, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. The country's total installed wind power capacity reached 41.8 GW at the end of last year, the report said, citing Li Junfeng, secretary general of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association. Installed wind capacity in the United States increased by about 5 GW to 40.2 GW at the end of 2010, the report said, citing data from the Global Wind Energy Council.
• 2011/01/12: TreeHugger: China Now the World Leader in Wind Power

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2011/01/14: NYT: Solar Panel Maker Moves Work to China
• 2011/01/12: REA: Concentrating Solar Thermal Power, Distributed
• 2011/01/10: LA Times:GS: California utility adds to its renewable portfolio [800+ solar megawatts]
• 2011/01/11: CSE-ECE-UCSD: UCSD Engineers Give Solar Power a Boost
• 2011/01/11: Eureka: New method for reporting solar data
• 2011/01/10: Grist: California utility signs 831-megawatt photovoltaic farms deal

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

• 2011/01/11: TEC: Hawaii's New Feed-In-Tariff For Solar PV Not Having Big Impact

  On the coal front:

• 2011/01/14: Guardian(UK): Major environmental ruling on coal
• 2011/01/14: PhysOrg: Coal industry fumes as US revokes mining permit
  The withdrawal of a permit for a controversial "mountaintop removal" coal mining operation has sparked outrage in the US industry, but was hailed as a victory for environmental protection and the health of nearby communities.
• 2011/01/11: TEC: High Coal Prices Bode Well for Renewables

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2011/01/10: OFW: What are the problems with using corn ethanol for fuel?
• 2011/01/12: RRapier: Range Fuels Out of Money?
• 2011/01/13: TEC: Mascoma and Valero Sign Deal to Develop Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2011/01/13: UCSUSA: China and Reprocessing: Separating Fact from Fiction
• 2011/01/13: TEC: Reactors rising globally outside of Asia -- New builds advance in UAE, Brazil, and Switzerland
• 2011/01/11: EarthTimes: Russia, US begin civilian nuclear cooperation deal

  Yes we have peak everything:

• 2011/01/14: MoJo: No More Oil
• 2011/01/13: CCurrents: The Peak Oil Crisis: Civil Unrest
• 2011/01/14: EnergyBulletin: Peak oil and our finite world; or, in praise of waste
• 2011/01/12: OFW: Oil Limits Overview and Links to Some Posts
• 2011/01/12: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: civil unrest
• 2011/01/10: CCurrents: Peak Civilization
• 2011/01/10: OilDrum: Peak Coal: the Olduvai perspective

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: China Takes Smart Grid Lead With Projected $61.4 Billion Market
• 2011/01/14: REA: European Supergrid Slowly Coming into Focus
• 2011/01/12: SF Gate: Report finds no health threat from PG&E SmartMeter

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2011/01/14: TEC: Energy Efficient Appliances To Become Lighting Market Standard
• 2011/01/10: Grist: Rebounds and Jevons: Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded
• 2011/01/10: TreeHugger: China's Energy Efficiency Increases 20% in 5 Years

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

• 2011/01/11: FuturePundit: Car Companies Announce Electric Vehicle Plans
• 2011/01/14: PlanetArk: China Readies 10 Million EV Parking Spots By 2020: Executive
• 2011/01/14: PhysOrg: Japanese carmakers in push for hydrogen vehicles
• 2011/01/14: TreeHugger: The i-MiEV Electric Car Goes on Sale in 15 European Countries
• 2011/01/14: TEC: Hey, These Guys Are Serious
• 2011/01/13: Purdue: Electricity pricing policies may make or break plug-in hybrid buys
• 2011/01/11: Grist: Green cars on the rise, but still a niche market
• 2011/01/11: AutoBG: Is China's electric vehicle focus driven by lack of technological know-how?
• 2011/01/10: REA: Why Electric Vehicles Will Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  This week in the Gee Whiz File:

• 2011/01/13: NBF: There will be 10 kilowatt nickel hydrogen cold fusion demonstration on January 15 in Italy and peer reviewed papers
• 2011/01/14: NBF: Focardi and Rossi LENR (Cold Fusion) Picture before the demo
• 2011/01/15: NBF: Focardi and Rossi Energy Catalyzer first jan 14 demo videos and summary of an online Question and Answer session from Jan 15

  As for Energy Storage:

• 2011/01/10: PhysOrg: Lithium-ion ultracapacitor could recharge power tools in minutes

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2011/01/11: SciAm: Have Insurers Begun to Detect Climate Change in Storm Damage?
  It's likely that the number of strong storms involving rain, snow and hail is also rising because of warming temperatures, not just urban sprawl and expanding development

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

• 2011/01/15: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 15...
• 2011/01/14: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 14...
• 2011/01/13: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 13...
• 2011/01/12: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 12...
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 11...
• 2011/01/10: ClimateP: Energy and global warming news for January 10...

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2011/01/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: India Climate Change and Energy News - January 1 to January 8, 2011
• 2011/01/13: Grist: A walk through the week's climate news -- The Climate Post: Amidst a giant snowstorm, 2010 declared hottest year ever
• 2011/01/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Climate, Energy and Environment News from Latin America: 1.10 - 1.14.2011

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2011/01/15: D-HW: Deja vu all over again
• 2011/01/15: QuarkSoup: Vitriol of the Climosaurs
• 2011/01/15: TPL: Travesties, Train Wrecks and Climate Denial Chum
• 2011/01/15: MTobis: rust reveals
• 2011/01/15: MTobis: The Pillars of Climate Denialism
• 2011/01/15: IJISH: (Digression) Two random images
• 2011/01/15: JKB: EIKE = CFACT
• 2011/01/15: CCP: George Monbiot: Sorry -- he's not the new Howard Hughes -- Another One Bites The Dust
• 2011/01/14: ABC(Au): Lies, damn lies, and statistics
• 2011/01/14: TCoE: Lies, damn lies, and statistics: The chore of avoiding the rotten cherries
• 2011/01/14: Tamino: Monckton Skewers Truth
• 2011/01/14: SolveClimate: Documentary Chronicles Toxic Air of Texas, Petrochemical Malpractice
  Petrochemical plants were routinely releasing millions of tons of toxic pollutants into the air each year; the casualties are the people living nearby
• 2011/01/14: GreenGrok: OK, Climate Refudiaters, Fess Up
• 2011/01/14: SkeptiSci: Monckton Myth #1: Cooling oceans
• 2011/01/13: AngryBear: Opinions on Arithmetic Differ: Both Sides Have a Number
• 2011/01/13: WottsUWT: Demented thinking: Copenhagen didn't work -- but taxes will
• 2011/01/13: TPL: Denier Canard of the Day: Untold Trillions
• 2011/01/13: AFTIC: The other Beck
• 2011/01/13: Deltoid: Do you think Bolt will mention this?
• 2011/01/13: MTobis: Dogs and Deniers
• 2011/01/11: DeSmogBlog: David Koch Denies Climate Change, Appears Bewildered When Asked About Citizens United by ThinkProgress
• 2011/01/11: WottsUWT: The Met Office Bullhockey
• 2011/01/11: IJISH: Mindless Link Propagation
• 2011/01/11: CCP: Are the Koch brothers funding a smear campaign against journalist Jane Mayer? The Desperate Campaign to Discredit Jane Mayer [d]
• 2011/01/11: Deltoid: Monckton's "selective quotation and misrepresentation"
• 2011/01/10: GreenFyre: Climate change Deniers: dark minds lost in their own shadows
• 2011/01/10: TPL: "Deniers" vs "Skeptics"
• 2011/01/09: ClimateP: Tea party pollutocrat David Koch denies climate change, shrugs off his carbon pollution
• 2011/01/09: Deltoid: Andrew Bolt vs percentages

  After Tucson, still...:

• 2011/01/12: BCLSB: Marc Morano Still Endorses The Public Flogging Of Scientists
• 2011/01/11: PSinclair: In the Wake of the Arizona Shootings, Will Climate Deniers Stop their Calls for Violence Against Scientists?
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: Even now, ClimateDepot's Marc Morano reiterates his call for a "hostile reaction" to climate scientists
• 2011/01/11: ClimateP: "CIA Vet" Kent Clizbe stalks hockey stick's Mike Mann
• 2011/01/11: TCoE: The hockey stick bizarreness continues [Clizbe]
• 2011/01/11: DeSmogBlog: "CIA Vet" Kent Clizbe Stalking Hockey Stick-Author Mike Mann
• 2011/01/10: Guardian(UK): 'Climate nazis': Violent rhetoric infects many US debates
  When death threats are made even to scientists researching esoteric aspects of global warming, it's clear there's a toxic strand to political debate. But is it dangerous?

As for climate miscellanea:

• 2011/01/15: CCP: Arctic Oscillation Index
• 2011/01/14: CCurrents: Climate Change Could Happen Much Faster Than Previously Thought
• 2011/01/14: KSJT: Boston Globe: A visit with the opposite of the climate wars: New Meteorologists
• 2011/01/14: BBC:RB: Real world of climate: How scary?
• 2011/01/13: WtD: Happy 200 Moth Incarnate... and why we fight
• 2011/01/12: NatureN: Conservation biology: The end of the wild
  Climate change means that national parks of the future won't look like the parks of the past. So what should they look like?
• 2011/01/11: Baylor: Climate Disasters: New Baylor Study Explores How People Respond
  Study looks into the interaction of knowledge, risk perceptions and action as it relates to climate events
• 2011/01/11: TEC: New Study Says Climate Change Inevitable, Severity Depends on Current Decision-Making
• 2011/01/12: CCurrents: Restraint And Hope: Lessons From Lake Baikal And The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
• 2011/01/09: CCurrents: Small Steps Offer No Respite From Climate Effects
• 2011/01/11: ClimateSight: Snowstorms and Sea Ice
• 2011/01/11: SkeptiSci: Could global warming be caused by natural cycles? by climatesight
• 2011/01/10: TMoS: There's Still Time to Make a Huge Difference on Climate Change
• 2011/01/10: Stoat: Focus lies are selling poorly

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

• BOM: Australian climate variability & change - Time series graphs
• Wiki: Polymerase chain reaction
• Wiki: Phenology
• Wiki: Monsoon
• Moth Incarnate
• RSTB: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
• RSTA: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
• NSIDC: Glacier Photograph Collection
• Tamino's Climate Data Links
• Encyclopedia Of Earth
• Earthbeat Radio
• Earth Observatory: News
• David Suzuki Foundation
• Global Warming 101

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

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