Another week of GW News, February 6, 2011

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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

-het

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

"You might think of a roller coaster riding the (Milankovitch) orbital rails, with Heinrich-Bond bungee jumping off the roller coaster while playing with a Dansgaard-Oeschger yo-yo." -Richard B. Alley [describing global climate over last million years]

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Would someone please point me to a debunking of the fiction that recent weather anomalies are caused by volcanoes in Kamchatka and Iceland.

Note that this particular crank is not saying its the carbon dioxide emitted by the volcanoes.

http://www.bushwalkingholidays.com.au/pdf/Browning_Newsletter_0111.pdf

I do remember reading that EyjafjallajÃ¶kull was the first ever carbon negative volcanic eruption - because the CO2 emitted by the volcano was less than the CO2 that would have been emitted by the flights that had to be cancelled.

I'll do a bit more digging.

Note this report - **from 2006**.

"The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry warned of a threat to planes flying in the area.

The Karymsky volcano, which has been erupting for years, is currently the most active of 28 volcanoes in the region, the report said."

Just the few items I've looked at suggest that Kamchatka peninsula is a continuously active volcanic region. The stuff in the item you linked to has no report or analysis of whether, and if so how much, the volcanic activity differs from any other year.

If the weather is so sensitive to particulates, how come industrial activity isn't having a similarly major effect on the weather?

If it's so insensitive to CO2's effects, how come 55 million years ago the earth wasn't a ball of ice?

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Sipping from the Internet Firehose...

February 6, 2011

Here's a chuckle for ya:

And for those interested in exploring the nether reaches of Poe's Law:

Seasonal, I suppose:

Looking ahead to COP17 and future international climate negotiations:

It's the International Year of Forests:

The Sri Lankan floods are ongoing:

Pakistan's ordeal continues:

Every once in a while, a report catches me offguard --- 85% of the world's oyster beds are gone!

And on the Bottom Line:

Who's getting the subsidies?

Oh Oh... They're getting wise to Economic Hit Men:

Explicating the laws of thermodynamics...:

John Cook and friends continue their counterpoint articles:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the charismatic megafauna:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

Fish consumption is high and unsustainable:

It appears Arctic fish catches have been wildly underreported:

Food Prices are still rising:

So, how much is food scarcity contributing to the current wave of popular uprisings?:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Regarding the genetic modification of food:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Cat 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi smashed into Queensland, Australia:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the ENSO front:

Regarding the solar hypothesis:

Regarding Climate Sensitivity:

What's up with volcanoes this week?

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Lots of people wondering about the weird weather:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

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

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

What's new in models?:

A late obit: Willi Dansgaard:

Regarding Spencer:

Currygate, Gavingate, Lisbon etc.:

And on the carbon trading front:

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

Meanwhile on the international political front:

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

Now we get to see how the Australian judicial system handles a SLAPP suit against anti-coal activists:

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

And on the American political front:

The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

What did you expect?

Cuccinelli's crusade rattles on:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

What are the lobbyists pushing?

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia: