Another Week of GW News - July 1, 2012

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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.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

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

"The efforts of governments are concentrated not on defending the living Earth from destruction, but on defending the machine that is destroying it. Whenever consumer capitalism becomes snarled up by its own contradictions, governments scramble to mend the machine, to ensure -- though it consumes the conditions that sustain our lives -- that it runs faster than ever before.

The thought that it might be the wrong machine, pursuing the wrong task, cannot even be voiced in mainstream politics. The machine greatly enriches the economic elite, while insulating the political elite from the mass movements it might otherwise confront. We have our bread; now we are wandering, in spellbound reverie, among the circuses," -George Monbiot

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

Let the Rio+20 post mortems begin:

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation held a mostly unreported meeting in Brazil this week:

There are a couple of major disasters ongoing in the USA. First the derecho & heat wave. See also:

The Colorado fires have warranted a federal disaster declaration. See also:

Who's getting the subsidies?

What are the global financial institutions up to?

The world inches toward creating a global legal framework for ecological crime:

John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

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 geopolitics of Arctic resources:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The state of the world's fisheries is a concern:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Regarding the genetic modification of food:

Regarding labelling GM food:

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

In the Caribbean, it looked like Debby was heading for Texas, but then it doubled back and soaked Florida:

In the Western Pacific, Doksuri spun up east of the Phillipines and headed toward China:

As for the Monsoon:

And on the GHG front:

As for the temperature record:

Aerosols are making their presence felt:

While in the paleoclimate:

In the attribution debate:

And on the ENSO front:

What's new on the extinction front?

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

First, stop subsidizing fossil fuelsSecond, put a price on carbonAnd elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Can cities take up the slack when nations shirk their responsibilities?

Consider transportation & GHG production:

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

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

What's new in conservation?

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

What's new in models?

What developments in the ongoing struggle for Open Science?

The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

While at the UN:

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:

On the international political front, tensions continue as the empire leans on Iran:

In the Rare Earths' tussle:

South China Sea tension persists:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership looks like a stealth corporate takeover:

And in miscellaneous international political jousting:

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

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

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

And on the groundwater front:

Regarding science education:

Who's making predictions this week?

And on the American political front:

So what do you want -- a corporate dweeb, or a sociopathic corporate dweeb? Your choice:

Gas Prices are strangely fading as an election issue:

The North Carolina sea level rise continues:

The DC Appeals Court rendered its judgement on the EPA vs the 'Coalition for Responsible Regulation' case this week:

The GOP War on Women grinds along:

A note on the Fukushima disaster:

First, stop subsidizing fossil fuels
Second, put a price on carbon
And elsewhere on the mitigation front: