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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

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

I notice moyhu has set up a monster index to old AWoGWN on AFTIC.

"Right now, as the limits to growth tighten around us like a noose and an economy geared to perpetual expansion shudders and cracks in the throes of decline, one of the things that's needed most is the willingness, in a time of gathering darkness, to locate what lamps can still be found, and light them." -John Greer

Another Week of GW News, January 15, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

Another Week of Climate Disruption News

Information is not Knowledge...Knowledge is notWisdom

January 15, 2012

Live and direct from the laugh, it's funny, damnit department:

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

A leak of a draft version of a Rio+20 document triggered a round of comments:

The Horn of Africa drought and famine continues to be a major disaster, with amazingly little coverage:

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists advanced the Doomsday Clock to five minutes to midnight this week:

It is rare to see such a succinct statement of our situation in a newspaper. Kudos to India Times:

Two-minute hates directed at climate scientists Emanuel and Hayhoe:

The counterintuitive result of the Cohen et al. paper triggered some chatter:

The Tzedakis et al. paper generated a lot of confusion or was it spin?

In Canada, the Harper gang kicked off the week with a direct assault on everyone concerned for the environment:

And the reason for the minister's diatribe was the Northern Gateway hearings which began this week:

And on the Bottom Line:

This week's hype:

John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

Post CRU-Two ... boredom:

A note on theFukushima disaster:

Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

Post Fukushima, nuclear policies are in flux around the world:

The Arctic melt continues to garner attention:

As for the charismatic megafauna:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

The food crisis is ongoing:

Food Prices are still problematic:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Regarding the genetic modification of food:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion?

Cat 2 Cyclone Heidi zapped the West Coast of Australia:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

As for the temperature record:

While in the paleoclimate:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Desertification looms as a threat:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

On the tornado front:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

As for miscellaneous science:

Regarding Fritz Haber:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The Robin Hood tax, aka the Tobin tax, aka the Bank tax, aka the Financial Transaction tax keeps coming up:

As the EU-ETS is applied to airlines, we will see who is serious about reducing carbon emissions:

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

The oil market -- Iran, USA, China & Israel -- the situation is getting more complex:

Climate Change is a threat multiplier exacerbating existing conflicts in food, energy, water, race, ideology ... etc.:

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

Among the world's religions:

Ethics? You want to talk about ethics?

And on the American political front:

The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

For a non-American, sometimes it is hard to believe these 'candidates' are for real:

The Keystone XL saga rolls on:

The Obama administration has proposed restructuring six executive departments:

The EPA released a map of GHG emissions which got a few people going:

Al Gore popped up with a video game:

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:

A note on the Fukushima disaster:

Who's fielding the FAQs?