Another Week of GW News, July 22, 2012

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July 22, 2012

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Here's a wee chuckle for ye:

• 2012/07/19: JoeMohrToons: (cartoon - Mohr) Hank D and the Bee: Beach Closings
• 2012/07/18: JoeMohrToons: (cartoon - Mohr) Informed Consumers?
• 2012/07/21: TP:JR: (cartoon - Pett) Cartoon Of The Week And Open Thread
• 2012/07/16: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Batman To The Rescue

  Looking ahead to COP18 and future international climate negotiations:

• 2012/07/17: PlanetArk: Merkel warns of global warming if no climate accord
  Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Monday that global warming will accelerate at a dramatic rate unless leaders reach a deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. After marathon talks in Durban last December, countries agreed to forge a new deal by 2015 that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Critics said at the time, however, the plan was too timid to slow global warming. "Time is of the essence," Merkel told an international conference in Berlin, where delegates from more than 30 countries are preparing for a major UN climate conference at the end of the year in Qatar.
• 2012/07/17: Guardian(UK): Global warming will accelerate without climate deal, Merkel warns
• 2012/07/17: EurActiv: Merkel: Reach climate deal or face rapid global warming

  Remember the iron hypothesis?

• 2012/07/18: Nature: (ab$) Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom by Victor Smetacek et al.
• 2012/07/21: GeoEngPol: Second Chance for OIF [Ocean Iron Fertilization]?
• 2012/07/20: KSJT: More reports on oceanic carbon sequestration in a test tube eddy. Plus, a source ID question.
• 2012/07/19: WaPo:B: Could plankton help us tackle climate change?
• 2012/07/19: EurActiv: Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows
  Dumping iron into the sea can bury carbon dioxide for centuries, potentially helping reduce the impact of climate change, according to a major new study. The work shows for the first time that much of the algae that blooms when iron filings are added dies and falls into the deep ocean.
• 2012/07/18: SciNews: Field test stashes climate-warming carbon in deep ocean -- Strategically dumping metal puts greenhouse gas away, possibly for good
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): 'Ocean fertilisation' experiment stores CO2
• 2012/07/19: CSM: Dumping iron in the seas could slow global warming, say scientists
• 2012/07/18: BBC: Fertilising the oceans with iron to combat climate change can lock carbon away for centuries, research suggests
• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Dumping iron at sea can bury carbon for centuries, study shows
• 2012/07/18: NatureN: Dumping iron at sea does sink carbon
  Geoengineering hopes revived as study of iron-fertilized algal blooms shows they deposit carbon in the deep ocean when they die.

About those penguins:

• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: Brazil's Mass Penguin Die-Off 'Natural', Say Scientists
  In the last month, more than 700 Magellan penguins have washed up dead on the beaches of south Brazil. And although this discovery has captured international headlines and left scientists puzzled, a group of local biologists are now saying that the disturbing die-off is rooted in a natural cause -- though the details of its origin has yet to be determined.

The Yes Men strike again:

• 2012/07/18: NewStatesman: Epic Shell PR fail? No, the real villains here are Greenpeace
• 2012/07/18: HuffPo: Shell Arctic Ready Hoax Website By Greenpeace Takes Internet By Storm (images)
• 2012/07/18: DisInfo: Fake Crowdsourced Ad Campaign Celebrates Shell Oil

  The Situation:

• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: Proven Fossil Fuel Reserves Contain 5x the Carbon We Can Burn Before Destroying Our Climate
• 2012/07/21: CassandrasLegacy: Five times as much oil and coal and gas as climate scientists think is safe to burn

  A notable essay and discussion:

• 2012/01/: DHilfiker: Hope in an Environmental Wasteland
• 2012/07/20: TCoE: Assumptions [Comments on David Hilfiker's blog post, Hope in an Environmental Wasteland]

  John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

• 2012/07/22: SkeptiSci: Joe Romm's Congressional Testimony by dana1981
• 2012/07/22: SkeptiSci: Yes, Virginia, There is Sea Level Rise by greenman3610
• 2012/07/21: SkeptiSci: Esper Millennial Cooling in Context by dana1981
• 2012/07/20: SkeptiSci: The Mid-Wales floods of June 2012: a taste of things to come? by John Mason
• 2012/07/19: SkeptiSci: Vision Prize Results by dana1981
• 2012/07/18: SkeptiSci: An American Heatwave: The United States Glimpses its Hot Future by Rob Painting
• 2012/07/17: SkeptiSci: New research special - methane papers 2010-2011 by Ari Jokimäki
• 2012/07/16: SkeptiSci: Extreme heat becoming more likely under climate change by John Hartz
• 2012/07/16: SkeptiSci: AGU Fall Meeting sessions on social media, misinformation and uncertainty by John Cook, Stephan Lewandowsky

  The CRU theft controversy & inquiries are done now. Right?

• 2012/07/21: AFTIC: Investigation concludes CRU emails were stolen not leaked
• 2012/07/18: UCSUSA: British Police Close Investigation into Emails Stolen From Scientists in 2009
• 2012/07/19: BBC: 'ClimateGate': Case closed?
  Will we ever know who hacked the "ClimateGate" files, and why? Probably not, judging by the insights gained by the Norfolk police force during their two-and-a-half-year investigation, which they've just closed. It's a decision that's caused a fair amount of frustration.
• 2012/07/19: C&S: Norfolk Police Q & A on the CRU Email Theft
• 2012/07/20: Guardian(UK): Climategate detective: 'I'm deeply disappointed' we didn't catch hacker
  Norfolk police's Julian Gregory explains why investigation into the University of East Anglia's hacked emails was so complex
• 2012/07/19: ERabett: Cui bono
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: ClimateGate Email Hack was "A Sophisticated and Carefully Orchestrated Attack"
• 2012/07/18: BBC: Police end 'ClimateGate' inquiry
• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Police close investigation into hacked climate science emails
• 2012/07/18: DeSmogBlog: UK Police Cease Botched Investigation into Stolen UEA Climate Scientists' Emails
• 2012/07/18: NatureNB: Police close 'Climategate' investigation
  The Norfolk Constabulary has closed its investigation into the November 2009 release of private emails between researchers at the Climatic Research Centre (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich after failing to identify those responsible. Despite not being able to prosecute any offenders, the police have confirmed that the data breach “was the result of a sophisticated and carefully orchestrated attack on the CRU's data files, carried out remotely via the internet”. The investigation has also cleared anyone working at or associated with UEA from involvement in the crime.

A note on theFukushima disaster:

It is evident that the Fukushima disaster is going to persist for some time. TEPCO says 6 to 9 months. The previous Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, said decades. Now the Japanese government is talking about 30 years. [Whoops, that has now been updated to 40 years.] We'll see. At any rate this situation is not going to be resolved any time soon and deserves its own section.
Meanwhile...
It is very difficult to know for sure what is really going on at Fukushima. Between the company [TEPCO], the Japanese government, the Japanese regulator [NISA], the international monitor [IAEA], as well as independent analysts and commentators, there is a confusing mish-mash of information. One has to evaluate both the content and the source of propagated information.
How knowledgeable are they [about nuclear power and about Japan]?
Do they have an agenda?
Are they pro-nuclear or anti-nuclear?
Do they want to write a good news story?
Do they want to write a bad news story?
Where do they rate on a scale of sensationalism?
Where do they rate on a scale of play-it-down-ness?
One fundamental question I would like to see answered:
If the reactors are in meltdown, how can they be in cold shutdown?

Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

• 2012/07/21: CNN: Report: Japan nuclear workers told to hide radiation levels
  The incident allegedly happened at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi plant - The government and plant operator investigating the report - Report: Workers were told to covers devices used to detect radiation levels
• 2012/07/20: EneNews: Fuel assemblies placed in special container after cleaning, not yet transferred into shared pool - No "major abnormality" in external appearance or radiation levels
• 2012/07/21: EneNews: Just In: Fukushima Daiichi workers ordered to cover dosimeters with lead plates (photo)
• 2012/07/21: BBC: Japan to probe TEPCO radiation cover-up claim
  The Japanese government says it will investigate a report that workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were urged to disguise their exposure to radiation. Build-Up, a subcontractor for plant operator TEPCO, admitted one of its executives told workers to put lead shields on radiation detection devices. Otherwise, they would have rapidly exceeded the legal limit for exposure.
• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): Japan probes under-reporting of Fukushima radiation
  Japan's health ministry said it would investigate reports that workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant were urged by a subcontractor to place lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay under a safety threshold for exposure.
• 2012/07/21: al Jazeera: Japan workers 'told to lie about radiation'
  Reports say subcontractor at crippled Fukushima nuclear plant urged workers to under-report exposure to radioactivity. A subcontractor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant told workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure in an apparent effort to keep its contract, media reports said. An executive at construction firm Build-Up in December told about 10 of its workers to cover their dosimeters - used to measure cumulative radiation exposure - with lead casings when working in areas with high radiation, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper and other media reported on Saturday.
• 2012/07/20: CNN: Japan's nuclear fight intensifies
  Thousands are protesting on Japan's streets against reopening nuclear power plants - Anti-nuclear protests have gained momentum following 2011 tsunami caused by plants - Two reactors were turned on again this month. Japan says it needs power
• 2012/07/19: EneNews: Lead scientist surprised by Japan data: Fukushima plant still leaking radiation into ocean?
• 2012/07/20: EneNews: Asahi: Fukushima meltdowns seen by many in Japan as nation's great debacle - Worse than atomic bombings
• 2012/07/20: EneNews: 'Unusual Move': Japan ex-Prime Minister joins ever-bigger crowds at weekly Tokyo protest - Fresh sign ruling party is fracturing
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Reply to the 'Opinion on "Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident"' by B. Richter... by John E. Ten Hoeve & Mark Z. Jacobson
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Opinion on "Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident" by J. E. Ten Hoeve and M. Z. Jacobson... by Burton Richter
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident by John E. Ten Hoeve & Mark Z. Jacobson
• 2012/07/19: ScienceInsider: Is Nuclear Power Good for You?
  In dueling studies released yesterday, scientists are debating whether a projection of 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year indicates that nuclear power is good or bad overall to the health of people.
• 2012/07/18: NatureN: Fukushima's uncertainty problem -- Science holds few definitive answers for those worried about radiation exposure, says Geoff Brumfiel
• 2012/07/19: EneNews: Fukushima "was almost Biblical" says top US nuclear official [Charles Casto] - Horrifying... "It's forever changed me"
• 2012/07/19: EneNews: TEPCO: No 'major' deformation or corrosion seen so far in removed fuel assemblies (video)
• 2012/07/19: Telegraph(UK): Nearly 36pc of Fukushima children diagnosed with abnormal thyroid growths
  Nearly 36 percent of children in Fukushima Prefecture have been disgnosed with abnormal growths on their thyroids, although doctors insist there is no link between the "cluster" of incidents and the disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in March of last year.
• 2012/07/19: Spokesman: Tribes discuss climate change -- Global warming solutions sought by scientists, natives
  [...]
  Leaders of the Quinault, Quileute, Hoh and Makah tribes joined hundreds of other Native American representatives and climate scientists this week at the National Museum of the American Indian to discuss climate change at the First Stewards symposium.
• 2012/07/18: MLynas: Why Fukushima death toll projections are based on junk science
• 2012/07/18: ABC(Au): Fukushima radiation may kill 1,300 [Hoeve & Jacobson]
• 2012/07/17: SciAm: Computer Model Predicts Fewer Than 200 Deaths from Fukushima Radiation
  Radiation exposure from the Fukushima meltdowns is unlikely to result in many fatal cancer cases Immediate and future radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster may result in hundreds of deaths and emerging cancer cases, according to a yearlong modeling project undertaken by researchers [John Hoeve & Mark Jacobson] at Stanford University.
• 2012/07/18: EneNews: Asahi: Most delicate work since 3/11 - Tepco removing nuclear fuel "to confirm whether it's damaged" (new photos)
• 2012/07/18: EneNews: Tepco requests media not film Unit 4 operation - Checking if fuel was affected by UNIT 3 explosion - 2nd assembly to be removed Thursday (photo)
• 2012/07/16: NewInt: "Goodbye to Nuclear Power Plants" Rally attracted 170,000 people
• 2012/07/17: BBC: Fukushima's disease risk: A major fallout?
• 2012/07/17: EurActiv: German researchers say Pacific will dilute Fukushima radiation
  Radioactivity in the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has peaked and will dilute rapidly, according to a study by Germany's Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research.
• 2012/07/17: DD: More than 100,000 protest nuclear power in Tokyo
• 2012/07/16: EneNews: "Extremely Strange": Prime Minister Kan believes Tepco hiding key evidence - Claims its hard drive was full (video)
• 2012/07/17: EneNews: Nuclear Expert on Unit 4: They're very concerned about what the salt water has been doing to spent fuel -- Can they actually even put it in the larger pool? (video)
• 2012/07/17: GRC: The Children of Fukushima
• 2012/07/12: Cryptome: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 3 Reactor Building Operating Floor Area Investigation
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): TEPCO [to] release post-meltdown recordings
  Fukushima nuclear plant operator TEPCO has announced it will bow to pressure and release hours of teleconference video taken in the days after last year's post-tsunami meltdown.
• 2012/07/16: EneNews: Kyodo: 170,000 people at rally in central Tokyo (aerial video & photos)
• 2012/07/16: GRC: Fukushima Panel: Information on Radiation Release Suppressed
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Nuclear operator to release secret Fukushima tapes
  Former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan, who was in office during the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, has told the ABC he believes the plant's operator has been hiding key evidence. For months TEPCO has resisted pressure to release critical recordings, arguing they are in-house material and to release them would compromise the privacy of those on the tapes. The company now says it will bow to months of pressure from Mr Kan and the government and release the many hours of teleconference video taken in the days after last year's meltdowns. But it has confirmed crucial audio of a heated exchange with Mr Kan is missing, claiming its hard drive was full. The recordings are a window into the decisions, dramas and dangers at the heart of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, and Mr Kan says the withheld information is "crucial".

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

• 2012/07/16: EurActiv: Germany 'saved by the sun' from post-nuclear blackouts
  Germany's lights were kept on by solar power last winter, after Berlin's rapid phase out of nuclear power brought the country to within a whisker of complete breakdown, senior energy industry sources say.
• 2012/07/16: DeutscheWelle: Environment minister voices doubts about energy reforms
  Germany's environment minister has admitted that the government faces an uphill climb if it is to achieve the targets it has set out for reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously stopping nuclear energy production.

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2012/07/20: CCP: Gobsmacking albedo change on Greenland Ice Sheet
• 2012/07/21: DeSmogBlog: Black Day in July for Greenland Ice Sheet
• 2012/07/19: ASI: CT SIA anomaly drops below 2 million km2
• 2012/07/22: ASI: Peeking through the clouds
• 2012/07/18: ERabett: Whem
• 2012/07/17: ITracker: Dat PIOMAS -- massive ice news roundup
• 2012/07/16: al Jazeera: US explorers embark on epic Arctic boat trip
  Four members of expedition will row more than 2,000km, from Canada to Russia, over next 30 days.
• 2012/07/15: ASI: ASI 2012 update 7: steady as she goes

  Greenland's Petermann glacier calved a chunk. Much controversy ensued:

• 2012/07/19: CSM: Monstrous iceberg breaks free of Greenland glacier. Is climate change to blame? (+video)
• 2012/07/20: BBC: Petermann glacier in Greenland: Is it serious?
• 2012/07/19: ITracker: Greenland melt expands and accelerates
• 2012/07/19: CCP: Japan's JAXA Shizuku satellite detects Greenland melting extensively
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Iceberg three times the size of Sydney Harbour breaks off glacier
• 2012/07/21: CCP: Jason Box: Latest Greenland Ice Sheet Reflectivity
• 2012/07/19: DM:BA: Huge glacier calves off Greenland
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: Iceberg Twice the Size of Manhattan Crumbles Away from Greenland
• 2012/07/19: Wunderground: Record warmth at the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet
• 2012/07/18: BBC: The Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland has calved an iceberg twice the size of Manhattan, scientists say
• 2012/07/18: CBC: Iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier
  120 square kilometre chunk splits from northerly tip of Petermann Glacier
• 2012/07/19: al Jazeera: Massive iceberg breaks off Greenland glacier
  An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan breaks free from Greenland's Petermann Glacier, scientists say.
• 2012/07/18: CSM: Disintegrating Greenland glacier photographed from space (+video)
• 2012/07/17: CSM: Huge iceberg breaks off from glacier in north Greenland, just as predicted (+video)
• 2012/07/18: IOTD: More Ice Breaks off of Petermann Glacier
• 2012/07/17: CCP: Ice island twice as big as Manhattan breaks off Greenland's Petermann Glacier, July 17, 2012
• 2012/07/17: UDel: Greenland's Petermann Glacier loses ice island twice the size of Manhattan
• 2012/07/16: PSinclair: Greenland. The Giant Stirs, ever So Slightly.
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: Glacial Change Ain't What It Used To Be: Petermann Calves Another Huge Chunk of Greenland Ice
• 2012/07/16: ASI: Petermann calves again: 2 x Manhattan
• 2012/07/16: P3: Greenland State Change and Open Science

  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

• 2012/07/20: DemNow: Subhankar Banerjee: Looming Deadline Creates Window for Protests to Stop Shell's Arctic Drilling
• 2012/07/19: LA Times: Shell's Arctic oil spill containment vessel plagued by delays
• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: Shell's Arctic Oil Spill Response Still Behind Schedule
• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: Crowd-Sourced Shell Parody Ad Now a Billboard in Houston
• 2012/07/20: Time:Ecocentric: It's Not Just Spills -- the Climate Risks of Arctic Drilling
• 2012/07/18: PlanetArk: Pace of widespread Arctic drilling still uncertain
• 2012/07/21: Guardian(UK): Arctic wilderness faces pollution threats as oil and gas giants target its riches
• 2012/07/17: HuffPo: Shell's Arctic Drilling Venture Stumbles Toward Reality
• 2012/07/17: P3: US Still Rejects Law of the Sea
• 2012/07/16: CSW: Drawing battle lines over impending Arctic Ocean oil drilling - while House Republicans advance radical offshore drilling expansion bill
• 2012/07/16: CNN: Why we should look to the Arctic
  Shell is planning to drill 70 miles north of Alaska to see whether 27 billion barrels of oil are there - Bob Reiss: For America, the stakes are huge in the Arctic - He says opening of the region could cheapen price of gas and products from Asia - Reiss: If you want the U.S. to remain strong and dominant in the world, look to the north
• 2012/07/16: EurActiv: Ship accident highlights Arctic drilling perils

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2012/07/20: FAO: The Somalia famine - one year on -- The long road to drought resilience
• 2012/07/19: FAO: FAO steps up response to serious tomato pest in Near East -- Plans call for swift, eco-friendly approach to the tomato borer
• 2012/07/17: FAO: Niger and Mali work to contain the Desert Locust threat -- Locusts multiply with good rains, pose threat to pastures and croplands
• 2012/07/21: DD: Yemen's children caught in food crisis - 'This is the worst crisis faced by Yemen in my lifetime'
• 2012/07/19: BPA: Hot 5: Midwest Drought 2012. Corn Usage Pie Charts. Vilsack Comic. CC Precipitation Maps. Faraday Porteur.
• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: Erratic Weather Is No Bowl Of Cherries: Michigan Copes With Stunted Crop
• 2012/07/19: BBerg: Weakest Monsoon Since 2009 to Shrink India Rice Harvest
• 2012/07/20: C&S: CO2 and Crops
• 2012/07/20: UN: Marking one year since Somalia famine declared, UN flags plight of needy millions
• 2012/07/19: Grist: City officials are waging a war on gardens
• 2012/07/19: Grist: A dry run from hell: Drought hits the smallest farms the hardest
• 2012/07/19: PlanetArk: Little relief forecast for drought-damaged US crops
• 2012/07/19: PlanetArk: US drought wilts crops as officials pray for rain
• 2012/07/19: CSM: US drought: how it could impact food, water needs around the world
• 2012/07/17: LA Times: Widespread drought threatens U.S. crops
  As drought grips 80% of the country, the devastation to corn and other breadbasket crops this year could surpass last year's record claims for weather-related crop losses.
• 2012/07/17: PSinclair: "Horror Story": Corn Disaster Emerging in Heartland
• 2012/07/16: AntiWar: Behind US-Backed Attacks, Humanitarian Crisis Soars in Yemen -- One Million Children Acutely Malnourished
• 2012/07/17: CBC: West Africa's past crises add to latest hunger emergency
• 2012/07/15: NYT: Heat Leaves Ranchers a Stark Option: Sell
  As a relentless drought bakes prairie soil to dust and dries up streams across the country, ranchers struggling to feed their cattle are unloading them by the thousands, a wrenching decision likely to ripple from the Plains to supermarket shelves over the next year.
• 2012/07/16: al Jazeera: Malnutrition soars in conflict-ridden Yemen
  Aid agencies say country is on brink of humanitarian disaster as one million children are acutely malnourished.
• 2012/07/15: TMoS: Canadian Farmers Hard Hit by Climate Change
• 2012/07/15: CBC: Drought in Central, Eastern Canada baking crops -- Weather a 'double whammy,' expert says

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

• 2012/07/20: TheCanadian: J'Accuse!...Fish Farmers and Our Governments
• 2012/07/20: CBC: Alaska bans king salmon fishing on prime rivers
  Fishery managers predict run will be worse than 2011
• 2012/07/20: al Jazeera: Local control revives depleted fisheries
  Small community-led no-fishing areas are protecting reefs and sustaining marine environments.
• 2012/07/18: PBS: Northwest 'Salmon People' Face Future Without Fish
  For Northwest tribes, salmon fishing is a way of life. But changes in the climate may be pushing the fish toward extinction. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the Swinomish Indian reservation to see how they are coping.
• 2012/07/18: EUO: Iceland hits back in 'mackerel war'
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: Rebuilding Global Fisheries Would Make Them 5x More Valuable While Improving Oceanic Health
• 2012/07/17: EUO: EU nations target Iceland for over-fishing
• 2012/07/02: GeoMar: A shortcut to sustainable fisheries -- Biologists from Kiel and Vancouver present a simple way to estimate Maximum Sustainable Yield
• 2012/07/15: PostMedia: Cost of saving world's fisheries? $292 billion
  It could cost up to $292 billion and take almost three decades, but University of B.C. experts have a proposal to save the world's fisheries. In a study released Friday in the online journal of the Public Library of Science, a team of American and Canadian economists and ecologists led by UBC professor Rashid Sumaila called on governments worldwide to dramatically reduce subsidies to fisheries in a bid to stop unprofitable and unsustainable fishing. Eventually, those cuts would result in more robust fish stocks and fisheries worth $54 billion, a great improvement from the $13 billion they lose each year, the study claims.

Food Prices are still problematic:

• FAO: World Food Situation - Food Price Indices
• 2012/07/20: BRitholtz: The Great Drought of 2012 Driving Food Prices Higher
• 2012/07/20: CBC: Record crop prices spur food-crisis worries
  Prices for two key crops set new records on Friday as the heat and dryness across many of the Canadian and American agricultural regions is starting to kindle fears of a food crisis. Most of Central and Eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest is experiencing extreme heat and little rain, causing drought conditions.
• 2012/07/20: Economist: Drying times -- The 2012 drought will dent farm profits and push up food prices
• 2012/07/19: BizInsider: Cowpocalypse: Prepare For The Largest-Ever Drop In Livestock Herds
  The news: We are in for a big burn on prices, as record heat and drought roasts corn and soybean crops into oblivion.
• 2012/07/18: BBC: US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has warned the worst drought in decades will result in higher crop prices
• 2012/07/18: WtD: The new normal (part 10): Kazakhstan's alarming drought, global grain prices rising
• 2012/07/18: CCurrents: Worst US Drought Since 1950s Threatens To Drive Up Global Food Prices

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2012/07/19: BBC: Nestle blames biofuels for high food prices
  The head of the world's largest food producer believes high prices are due to the growing of crops for biofuels. "The time of cheap food prices is over," says Nestle chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe. He is highly critical of the rise in the production of bio-diesel, saying this puts pressure on food supplies by using land and water that would otherwise be used to grow crops for human or animal consumption.
• 2012/07/12: AgWeb: $10 Corn and $20 Soybeans to Pit Food Against Fuel

  Regarding the genetic modification of food:

• 2012/07/18: PlanetArk: Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight
• 2012/07/14: RSN: Former Monsanto Employee Exposes Fraud
• 2012/07/15: SoberLook: Commodity markets discounting hopes for genetically engineered crops
• 2012/07/16: NatureNB: Crop researchers try to genetically engineer a symbiosis
• 2012/07/15: AlterNet: Hey Monsanto -- I Want My Tomatoes From Nature, Not Your Labs

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

• 2012/07/20: FAO: New food and nutrition security strategy for lusophone countries -- FAO chief addresses summit of Portugese-speaking countries in Maputo
• 2012/07/16: MLynas: How land-inefficient is organic agriculture?
• 2012/07/19: UN: UN food agency steps up efforts to stop tomato-eating moth threat to crops in Near East
• 2012/07/19: Eureka: Team discovers how western corn rootworm resists crop rotation
• 2012/07/16: Grist: Small-scale grains: Another piece of the locavore puzzle
• 2012/07/15: AlterNet: John Robbins: Life on the Frontlines of the Food Revolution
• 2012/07/15: EnergyBulletin: Sloppy thinking about local food

  In the Western Pacific, Khanun walked up the Korean peninsula:

• 2012/07/20: Eureka: NASA satellite sees western north Pacific Tropical Cyclone strengthening
• 2012/07/20: Eureka: NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Khanun's remnants dissipating over China
• 2012/07/19: Eureka: Tropical Depression Khanun blankets South Korea
• 2012/07/18: Eureka: NASA sees Tropical Storm Khanun weakening for South Korea landfall
• 2012/07/17: Eureka: NASA's TRMM satellite eyeing Tropical Storm Khanun's rainfall
• 2012/07/18: al Jazeera: Tropical Storm Khanun barrels northwards
  After recently being hit by devastating floods, China and Japan are both nervously watching the forecast.
• 2012/07/16: Eureka: NASA satellite sees strengthening in Tropical Cyclone Khanun

  In the Eastern Pacific, Fabio and Emilia faded:

• 2012/07/19: Eureka: TRMM sees Fabio's remnants fading in cool Pacific waters
• 2012/07/18: Eureka: NASA sees withering post-tropical storm Fabio moving toward coast
• 2012/07/17: Eureka: NASA watching Tropical Storm Fabio head to southern California
• 2012/07/16: Eureka: Satellite sees Hurricane Fabio still chasing Emilia's remnants in Pacific Ocean

  And on the Monsoon front:

• 2012/07/21: al Jazeera: India scientists try to predict the monsoon
  If successful, the impact would be life-changing in a country where 600 million depend on farming for their livelihoods.
• 2012/07/19: BBerg: Weakest Monsoon Since 2009 to Shrink India Rice Harvest

  As for GHGs:

• 2012/07/20: CSM: Global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise (+video)
• 2012/07/20: EarthGauge: Global CO2 emissions rise 3 percent in 2011: report
• 2012/07/19: TreeHugger: China's Per Capita Carbon Emissions Solidly Reach Developed Nation Levels
• 2012/07/20: al Jazeera: Air-conditioning: The cold reality
  Use of power-hungry appliances is skyrocketing in the developing world, and is a major factor of CO2 emissions.
• 2012/07/19: TP:JR: Have U.S. CO2 Emissions Peaked (As We Predicted)? Breaking Down The Good And Bad Drivers
• 2012/07/18: NatureNB: As emissions rise, China loses moral high ground
• 2012/07/19: Eureka: Global CO2 emissions continue to increase -- Per capita emissions in China reach European levels
• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Average Chinese person's carbon footprint now equals European's
• 2012/07/16: Guardian(UK): [Letter] Gibraltar's carbon emissions

  And the temperature record:

• 2012/07/22: HotTopic: Warming in Wellington
• 2012/07/18: Tamino: USA Divisions
• 2012/07/16: TreeHugger: Record Highs Outpacing Record Lows 9:1 in First Six Months of 2012

  What's up with the Jet Streams?

• 2012/07/17: BBC: Jet stream changes may give Britain 'a real summer'
  The jet stream is likely to change course soon, ending the UK's spell of miserable weather, forecasters say. The UK is expected to get drier and warmer next week but only after more rain hits an already record summer. This year has seen the wettest April, the wettest June and the wettest April-to-June period on record. The cause has been the unusually southerly location of the jet stream, a high-altitude belt of wind; but it is expected to move northwards soon.

In the attribution debate:

• 2012/07/20: KSJT: Climate Central, CJR: Pitfalls of laying blame when the outdoors gets extreme

  Regarding Climate Sensitivity:

• 2012/07/17: ERabett: Ray, Bart and Eli

  The cliff, aka tipping points, aka planetary boundaries, put in an appearance:

• 2012/07/20: NYT: Searching for Clues to Calamity
  So far 2012 is on pace to be the hottest year on record. But does this mean that we've reached a threshold -- a tipping point that signals a climate disaster?
• 2012/07/21: P3: NYT Op Ed on Climate Tipping Points

  Abrupt Climate Change put in an appearance:

• 2012/07/16: CCurrents: U.S. Abrupt Climate Change 2012

  And the State of the Oceans:

• 2012/07/19: TreeHugger: Why You Should Care About the Ocean Even If You Don't Live Anywhere Near it
• 2012/07/17: NatureN: China third country to be hit by 'brown tide' -- Scientists identify causative species of algal bloom

  What's new on the extinction front?

• 2012/07/16: PlanetArk: Forest loss makes lemurs world's most endangered primates

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2012/07/21: TP:JR: Top Ten Impacts Climate Change Is Making Worse Right Now
• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Maher: The era of cheap food and fuel may be at its end
• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Climate shifts may strand weather-dependent ecosystems
• 2012/07/19: Bundanga: Local impact of the changing climate
• 2012/07/22: TP:JR: Boiling Water: The Hidden Cost of Cheap Lobster
• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Native American town in New Mexico struggling to recover from wildfire
  A recent flood has pushed the Santa Clara pueblo to the brink of disaster, and tribe leaders say the government is short on help
• 2012/07/17: PSinclair: The Knock-on Effects of Global Warming: Too Darn Hot for Nuclear Power
• 2012/07/16: UPI: Global warming affecting world's lakes
• 2012/07/16: UZh: Global warming harms lakes
  Global warming also affects lakes. Based on the example of Lake Zurich, researchers from the University of Zurich demonstrate that there is insufficient water turnover in the lake during the winter and harmful Burgundy blood algae are increasingly thriving. The warmer temperatures are thus compromising the successful lake clean-ups of recent decades.
• 2012/07/16: NewYorker: The Big Heat
• 2012/07/14: EconBrowser: May Temperatures, Economic Implications

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2012/07/19: TreeHugger: There's No Such Thing as Sustainable & Profitable Logging in Rainforests
• 2012/07/18: NTNU: Hidden secrets in Norway's rainforests
• 2012/07/17: BBC: Thieving rodents are 'rainforest saviours'
  The thieving habits of rodents have emerged as an unlikely salvation of tropical forests, research suggests. Massive mammals known as gomphotheres once ranged the Americas, distributing big tree seeds as they roamed. But they are extinct, and it has not been clear what is spreading seeds now.
• 2012/07/16: SciNow: Robbing Rodents Save Tropical Plant
• 2012/07/16: CSM: Rodent thieves explain mystery of tree survival

  Emerging diseases accompany ecological change:

• 2012/07/14: NYT: The Ecology of Disease -- Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Freak summer storm hits New York
• 2012/07/17: CBC: Severe weather hits parts of Quebec, Ontario
• 2012/07/17: al Jazeera: Stormy weather blasts Southern Africa -- Five dead after two days of severe weather

  This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

• 2012/07/22: al Jazeera: Fire and rain reak havoc in Europe
  Summer normally brings high temperatures and afternoon showers, but extremes can be deadly.
• 2012/07/21: Tamino: Increased Variability?
• 2012/07/20: ClimateSight: A Summer of Extremes
• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: Climate Change Drives These Extreme Weather Events [chart]
• 2012/07/16: UCSUSA: Infographic: Extreme Weather and Climate Change
• 2012/07/17: WtD: The new normal (part 9): things fall apart, the glaciers will not hold
• 2012/07/16: WtD: The new normal (part 8): North and South Korea's record drought
• 2012/07/16: UCSUSA:B: Evidence Check: Which Extreme Weather Events Are More Linked with Climate Change -- Heat Waves or Hurricanes?
• 2012/07/16: WtD: Finally: news report on the connection between climate change and extreme weather
• 2012/07/15: TP:JR: Must-See: Best News Report This Year On Link Between Climate Change And Extreme Weather

  On the tornado front:

• 2012/07/19: CBC: Twisters spotted near Wadena, Rose Valley, Sask.
• 2012/07/18: CBC: 2 tornadoes touched down amid eastern Ontario storms
• 2012/07/16: al Jazeera: Polish countryside ravaged by tornadoes
  Scenes of devastation left in aftermath of freak summer twisters that flattened at least 400 hectares and 100 homes.
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Wave of tornados cut swathe across Poland
  A freak wave of tornadoes in Poland has left at least one person dead and another 10 injured. Local media said a national park was badly hit by one tornado that was between 800 and 1,000 metres wide.
• 2012/07/15: BBC: Poland: Tornadoes hit Kujawy-Pomorze and Wielkopolska
  One person has been killed and at least 10 others injured during a series of freak tornadoes in northern and western Poland.

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2012/07/19: BBC: Wildfires burn across southern Europe
• 2012/07/20: CBC: Firefighters battle blaze near Algonquin Park
• 2012/07/19: PlanetArk: Residents flee as wildfire rages in southern Greece
• 2012/07/18: PlanetArk: Midwest drought shows little sign of abating
• 2012/07/21: CCP: US forecast: Hot, dry weather to linger into fall
• 2012/07/18: BBC: Firefighters battle Tenerife forest blaze
• 2012/07/18: Guardian(UK): Greece declares state of emergency as wildfires rage near city of Patras
  Strong winds and high temperatures fuel blaze six miles from Greece's third largest city
• 2012/07/18: Wunderground: Morocco hits 121°F (49.6°C): a national all-time heat record
• 2012/07/16: PlanetArk: Ravaged by fires, Western ranchers face 'scary' summer
• 2012/07/16: Wunderground: Death Valley records a low of 107°F (41.7°C): a world record

  Corals are a bellwether of the ocean's health:

• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Floating pumice seeding Aussie reefs

  Acidification is changing the oceans:

• 2012/07/20: SciAm:GB: The Flames of Ocean Acidity
• 2012/07/17: CBC: Pacific Ocean acid levels jeopardizing marine life -- Vancouver Island researchers use artificial tide pools to study threat
  The Pacific Ocean is growing more acidic at a much faster rate than anticipated, scientists say, putting everything from corals to mussels in jeopardy. Researchers say carbon dioxide from the atmosphere forms carbonic acid in the ocean, changing the seawater enough that it can dissolve the shells of coral and shellfish. The water off the west coast of Vancouver Island is changing at an unprecedented rate, meaning vulnerable life forms in the ocean's food chain must adapt or die.
• 2012/07/16: DbP: Ocean acidification: global warming's 'evil twin'

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2012/07/15: NatureN: Tibetan glaciers shrinking rapidly -- Comprehensive survey reveals influence of prevailing winds
• 2012/07/16: TreeHugger: Snow Leopards May Lose 30% of Himalayan Habitat Due to Climate Change
• 2012/07/16: DeSmogBlog: After All That, The Himalayan Glaciers are Indeed Shrinking

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2012/07/21: TP:JR: Sea Level Rise: It Could Be Worse Than We Think
• 2012/07/21: Grist: Rising waters: Close encounters with climate change on the Hudson

  These global warming deluges, aka 100 year storms, are becoming all too frequent:

• 2012/07/22: ABC(Au): Ten dead as record rain pounds Beijing
  The heaviest rain to hit Beijing in 61 years left at least 10 people dead over the weekend. Torrential rain pounded the capital all day on Saturday, flooding roads and forcing the cancellation of more than 200 flights. More than 30,000 people were forced to evacuate amid the heavy rain, mostly from Beijing's outlying mountainous districts.
  [...]
  Up to 46 centimetres of rain fell in Fangshan district, the most rain to hit the city in a 14-hour period since records began in 1951, Xinhua said.
• 2012/07/22: BBC: Beijing chaos after record floods in Chinese capital
• 2012/07/22: al Jazeera: China hit by heavy rainfall
  Heaviest rainfall in 60 years leaves 10 dead in Beijing and 10 dead elsewhere as more than 500 flights are cancelled.

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2012/07/20: BPA: 2012 Drought Photos from U.S. Midwest
• 2012/07/20: TMoS: U.S. Drought to Last All Summer
• 2012/07/20: CAbyss: Texas Drought Update, July 2012
• 2012/07/20: PSinclair: Hot, Dry Weather Will Linger: NOAA
• 2012/07/20: Wunderground: Historic 2012 U.S. drought continues to expand and intensify
• 2012/07/19: TreeHugger: It's Shaping Up To Be A Long Hot Summer
• 2012/07/19: CSM: Worst drought in 50 years could last through October
• 2012/07/19: CapClimate: Drought Update: 42% of U.S. Severe to Exceptional
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Driest July on record for South West Land Division
• 2012/07/21: JFleck: Excellent drought context
• 2012/07/17: WaPo:B: How droughts will reshape the United States
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Heidi Cullen On Flash Drought: 'This Summer Is A Story Of Moving From Heaven To Hell'
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: 'The Dust Bowl of 2012?: Drought Covers Majority Of U.S. And 'Might Be A $50 Billion Event For The Economy'
• 2012/07/16: DD: Drought in Central, Eastern Canada baking crops -- 'It's almost as if the atmosphere has forgotten how to rain'
• 2012/07/16: WaPo: Drought in U.S. reaching levels not seen in 50 years, pushing up crop prices
• 2012/07/17: PlanetArk: Forecasts show U.S. drought getting worse
• 2012/07/17: Wunderground: Historic 2012 U.S. drought: 6th greatest on record
• 2012/07/16: TreeHugger: 56% of US Now in Drought - Worst Since 1950s
• 2012/07/17: IOTD: Drought Grips the United States
• 2012/07/16: BBC: Worst US drought since 1956 hits residents and crops
  The US is currently suffering its widest drought since 1956, according to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). On Monday, NOAA reported that by the end of June 55% of the continental US was in a moderate to extreme drought.
• 2012/07/16: CNN: Torrential rain kills at least 28 in southern Japan
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: Low Water Levels On The Mississippi River A Major Threat To Commerce: 'This Is Absolutely Not Normal'
• 2012/07/16: EarlyWarning: June Corn-Belt PDSI [Palmer Drought Severity Index]
• 2012/07/16: PSinclair: Drought in US could have Global Impact
• 2012/07/16: CBC: Japan rain eases as flood death toll rises to 27
  Downpour 'was like a waterfall,' Yamaguchi prefecture resident says

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

• 2012/07/18: Eureka: Green plants reduce city street pollution up to 8 times more than previously believed
• 2012/07/19: BBC: Green streets can cut pollution, says study
  The creation of "green walls" in urban areas could cut pollution by up to 30%, scientists have suggested.
• 2012/07/18: NSF: Scientists Develop New Carbon Accounting Method to Reduce Farmers' Use of Nitrogen Fertilizer
  Large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer lead to nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere

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

• 2012/07/18: SBO: Report highlights clean energy might of small cities

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2012/07/17: OilDrum: Electric Freight Transport

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

• 2012/07/16: CleanBreak: Are green office towers becoming the norm, not the niche?
• 2012/07/19: TreeHugger: What Are The Plastic People So Afraid Of That They Want To Kill LEED?
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: Plastic People Set Up "American High-Performance Buildings Coalition" To Fight Restrictions on Plastics in Green Building

  And on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au):TDU: Without CCS, we don't have a clean energy future

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2012/07/21: OvercomingBias: The geoengineering double catastrophe
• 2012/07/19: WiredSci: Artificial Volcanoes Aren't the Solution to Warming
• 2012/07/20: GeoEngPol: All Clear at Weyburn
• 2012/07/19: GeoEngPol: Update on EU-Funded Research
• 2012/07/19: GeoEngPol: More Questionable Reporting from the Guardian
  [...]
  The Guardian is entitled to its opinion about geoengineering. But it is not entitled to make up facts. This story falls far short of any reasonable set of journalistic standards, and ought to be corrected in full. The geoengineering debate, including its critics, deserves better than this.
• 2012/07/19: NewScientist: We can't afford to neglect ways to halt global warming
  If we must research climate engineering, sucking carbon dioxide out of the air ought to be higher up our list of priorities Climate engineering experiments have an unfortunate habit of going wrong before they get going. Earlier this year, a project to test the feasibility of pumping sun-blocking particles into the stratosphere was cancelled after a mix-up over intellectual-property rights. Another high-profile test - of dumping iron particles into the ocean to stimulate plankton growth - failed miserably after being disrupted by protesters. Such failures may be a source of satisfaction for those who find the idea of engineering the climate abhorrent. But the unpalatable truth is that we need to find out what works. There now appears to be little chance of avoiding at least 2 °C of warming over pre-industrial levels. At some point we may have to try to engineer our way out of trouble.
• 2012/07/19: TheCrimson: Scientist Disputes Report That He Plans To Spray Chemicals To Change the Climate
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: A Tale of Two Geoengineering Experiments: Ocean Iron Fertilization & Injecting the Atmosphere
• 2012/07/15: SciAm: Could Geoengineering Stop Heat Waves?
• 2012/07/17: WaPo: Could we block heat waves with artificial volcanoes?
• 2012/07/17: Guardian(UK): Geoengineering projects around the world - map
• 2012/07/16: Wired: Climate models question the potential of geoengineering

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2012/07/20: CBC: Winemaking adapts in face of changing climate

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2012/07/19: WOL:GE&B: (ab$) Probing for the influence of atmospheric CO2 and climate change on forest ecosystems across biomes by Lucas C. R. Silva & Anand Madhur
• 2012/07/16: NERC:NORA: Documentation and verification of the world extreme wind gust record: 113.3 m/s on Barrow Island, Australia, during passage of tropical cyclone Olivia by J. Courtney et al.
• 2012/07/17: NERC:NORA: Estimation of dew yield from radiative condensers by means of an energy balance model by J.F. Maestre-Valero et al.
• 2012/07/17: NERC:NORA: Impact of possible climate and land use changes in the semi arid regions: a case study from north eastern Brazil by Suzana Montenegro et al.
• 2012/07/18: NERC:NORA: Rapid subglacial erosion beneath Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica by A. M. Smith et al.
• 2012/07/20: ACPD: Impact of 2000-2050 climate change on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air quality inferred from a multi-model analysis of meteorological modes by A. P. K. Tai et al.
• 2012/07/20: ACPD: Climate versus emission drivers of methane lifetime from 1860-2100 by J. G. John et al.
• 2012/07/20: OSD: Optimal adjustment of the atmospheric forcing parameters of ocean models using sea surface temperature data assimilation by M. Meinvielle et al.
• 2012/07/20: OSD: Surface signature of Mediterranean water eddies in the North-East Atlantic: effect of the upper ocean stratification by I. Bashmachnikov & X. Carton
• 2012/07/20: TCD: Manufactured solutions and the numerical verification of isothermal, nonlinear, three-dimensional Stokes ice-sheet models by W. Leng et al.
• 2012/07/18: GMD: Pliocene Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project (PLISMIP) - experimental design by A. M. Dolan et al.
• 2012/07/19: OS: Propagation and dissipation of internal tides in the Oslofjord by A. Staalstrøm et al.
• 2012/07/19: OS: Atlantic transport variability at 25° N in six hydrographic sections by C. P. Atkinson et al.
• 2012/07/19: OSD: Assimilation of sea-ice concentration in a global climate model - physical and statistical aspects by S. Tietsche et al.
• 2012/07/19: OSD: Sea level variability in the Arctic Ocean observed by satellite altimetry by P. Prandi et al.
• 2012/07/18: TCD: Mechanisms causing reduced Arctic sea ice loss in a coupled climate model by A. E. West et al.
• 2012/07/18: TCD: A recent bifurcation in Arctic sea-ice cover by V. N. Livina & T. M. Lenton
• 2012/07/18: TCD: The stability of grounding lines on retrograde slopes by G. H. Gudmundsson et al.
• 2012/07/18: TCD: Borehole temperatures reveal a changed energy budget at Mill Island, East Antarctica over recent decades by J. L. Roberts et al.
• 2012/07/13: Science: (ab$) Ice Volume and Sea Level During the Last Interglacial by A. Dutton & K. Lambeck
• 2012/07/20: Nature:CC: Orbital forcing of tree-ring data by Jan Esper et al.
• 2012/07/20: ESDD: Detecting hotspots of atmosphere-vegetation interaction via slowing down - Part 2: Application to a global climate model by S. Bathiany et al.
• 2012/07/20: ESDD: Detecting hotspots of atmosphere-vegetation interaction via slowing down - Part 1: A stochastic approach by S. Bathiany et al.
• 2012/07/17: ESDD: Effects of land cover change on temperature and rainfall extremes in multi-model ensemble simulations by A. J. Pitman et al.
• 2012/07/16: ESDD: Polynomial cointegration tests of anthropogenic impact on global warming by M. Beenstock et al.
• 2012/07/20: CP: Increasing cloud cover in the 20th century: review and new findings in Spain by A. Sanchez-Lorenzo et al.
• 2012/07/19: CP: Enrichment in C13 of atmospheric CH4 during the Younger Dryas termination by J. R. Melton et al.
• 2012/07/19: CP: Changes in the strength and width of the Hadley Circulation since 1871 by J. Liu et al.
• 2012/07/20: CPD: Quantification of the Greenland ice sheet contribution to Last Interglacial sea-level rise by E. J. Stone et al.
• 2012/07/20: CPD: An underestimated record breaking event: why summer 1540 was very likely warmer than 2003 by O. Wetter & C. Pfister
• 2012/07/18: CPD: Does Antarctic glaciation cool the world? by A. Goldner et al.
• 2012/07/16: CPD: Past climate changes and permafrost depth at the Lake El'gygytgyn site: implications from data and thermal modelling by D. Mottaghy et al.
• 2012/07/16: CPD: Duration of Greenland Stadial 22 and ice-gas ?age from counting of annual layers in Greenland NGRIP ice core by P. Vallelonga et al.
• 2012/07/19: Science: (ab$) A Reversible and Higher-Rate Li-O2 Battery by Zhangquan Peng et al.
• 2012/07/18: ACP: The carbon emissions of Chinese cities by H. Wang et al.
• 2012/07/18: ACP: Tropospheric distribution of sulphate aerosols mass and number concentration during INDOEX-IFP and its transport over the Indian Ocean: a GCM study by S. Verma et al.
• 2012/07/17: ACP: Aerosol observations and growth rates downwind of the anvil of a deep tropical thunderstorm by D. A. Waddicor et al.
• 2012/07/16: ACP: Stratosphere-troposphere ozone exchange from high resolution MLS ozone analyses by J. Barré et al.
• 2012/07/19: ACPD: Analysis of global methane changes after the 1991 Pinatubo volcanic eruption by N. Bândae et al.
• 2012/07/19: ACPD: Contrasting trends of mass and optical properties of aerosols over the Northern Hemisphere from 1992 to 2011 by K. Wang et al.
• 2012/07/19: ACPD: Dust emission size distribution impact on aerosol budget and radiative forcing over the Mediterranean region: a regional climate model approach by P. Nabat et al.
• 2012/07/19: ACPD: Ship and satellite observations over the ocean for verification of the shortwave cloud radiative effect in climate models by T. Hanschmann et al.
• 2012/07/18: ACPD: Numerical evidence for cloud droplet nucleation at the cloud-environment interface by J. Sun et al.
• 2012/07/18: ACPD: The importance of low-deformation vorticity in tropical cyclone formation by K. J. Tory et al.
• 2012/07/17: ACPD: Identification of key aerosol populations through their size and composition resolved spectral scattering and absorption by F. Costabile et al.
• 2012/07/17: ACPD: Modeling South America regional smoke plume: aerosol optical depth variability and shortwave surface forcing by N. E. Rosário et al.
• 2012/07/16: ACPD: A new El Niño-Southern Oscillation forecasting tool based on Southern Oscillation Index by C. A. Varotsos & C. Tzanis
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Reply to the 'Opinion on "Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident"' by B. Richter... by John E. Ten Hoeve & Mark Z. Jacobson
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Opinion on "Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident" by J. E. Ten Hoeve and M. Z. Jacobson... by Burton Richter
• 2012/07/17: RSC:E&ES: (ab$) Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident by John E. Ten Hoeve & Mark Z. Jacobson
• 2012/07/18: PLoS One: Were Multiple Stressors a 'Perfect Storm' for Northern Gulf of Mexico Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in 2011? by Ruth H. Carmichael et al.
• 2012/07/18: Nature: (ab$) Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom by Victor Smetacek et al.
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (ab$) The genome of melon (Cucumis melo L.) by Jordi Garcia-Mas et al.
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (ab$) Reshaping of the maize transcriptome by domestication by Ruth Swanson-Wagner et al.
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (ab$) Marine protected areas and the value of spatially optimized fishery management by Andrew Rassweiler et al.
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (abs) Economic impacts and impact dynamics of Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton in India by Jonas Kathage & Matin Qaim
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (ab$) Observationally constrained estimates of carbonaceous aerosol radiative forcing by Chul E. Chung et al.
• 2012/07/17: PNAS: (ab$) 1,500 year quantitative reconstruction of winter precipitation in the Pacific Northwest by Byron A. Steinman et al.
• 2012/07/17: GMD: Modelling sub-grid wetland in the ORCHIDEE global land surface model: evaluation against river discharges and remotely sensed data by B. Ringeval et al.
• 2012/07/16: GMDD: Activation of the operational ecohydrodynamic model (3-D CEMBS) - the hydrodynamic part by L. Dzierzbicka-Gleowacka et al.
• 2012/07/16: GMDD: Sensitivity analysis and calibration of a soil carbon model (SoilGen2) in two contrasting loess forest soils by Y. Y. Yu et al.
• 2012/07/16: GMDD: Downscale cascades in tracer transport test cases: an intercomparison of the dynamical cores in the Community Atmosphere Model CAM5 by J. Kent et al.
• 2012/07/17: OS: Impact of SLA assimilation in the Sicily Channel Regional Model: model skills and mesoscale features by A. Olita et al.
• 2012/07/16: OS: Operational SAR-based sea ice drift monitoring over the Baltic Sea by J. Karvonen
• 2012/07/17: TC: Sensitivity of basal conditions in an inverse model: Vestfonna ice cap, Nordaustlandet/Svalbard by M. Schäfer et al.
• 2012/07/17: TCD: The influence of climate and hydrological variables on opposite anomaly in active layer thickness between Eurasian and North American watersheds by H. Park et al.
• 2012/07/16: TCD: Review article of the current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change by A. Rabatel et al.
• 2012/07/16: TCD: Snow cover thickness estimation by using radial basis function networks by A. Guidali et al.
• 2012/07/16: TCD: The first complete glacier inventory for the whole of Greenland by P. Rastner et al.
• 2012/07/06: T&FOnline:CFPJ: (ab$) More maple leaf, less CO2: Canada and a global geo-engineering regime by Elizabeth L. Chalecki & Lisa L. Ferrari
• 2012/07/16: Nature:CC: (abs) Different glacier status with atmospheric circulations in Tibetan Plateau and surroundings by Tandong Yao et al.
• 2012/07/13: PLoS One: Benefits of Rebuilding Global Marine Fisheries Outweigh Costs by Ussif Rashid Sumaila et al.

  And other significant documents:

• 2012/07/17: UCSUSA: [links to several pdfs] The Clean Energy Race: How Do California's Public Utilities Measure Up?

  As for miscellaneous science:

• 2012/07/16: USGS: From Pikas to Plague, Climate Change and Wind Energy -- USGS Science at the Society for Conservation Biology
• 2012/07/19: CAbyss: Twenty Times More Likely (Not): The Science
  If you're reading this, you probably pay enough attention to climate news to know that there was major news from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week that last year's Texas heat wave was made twenty times more likely by global warming, or something like that. In this blog post, I'll show that this was a pure model result, and that the real study ultimately came to quite a different conclusion. The blame lies in NOAA's press release, and who ever approved it that should have known better.
• 2012/07/17: ScienceInsider: European Researchers Strive for a New ERA [European Research Area]

  What's new in models?

• 2012/07/15: Wunderground:RR: Introduction - Models are not All Wet: Models, Water and Temperature (2)

  What developments in the ongoing struggle for Open Science?

• 2012/07/17: viXra: UK to make all publicly funded research open access
  A few months ago the UK government announced that it wanted all UK research that is funded from public money to be available through open access. Now they have told us how they plan to do it. They will pay the journals a fee for each paper they publish.
• 2012/07/17: RWER: Time to short Reed Elsevier and Wiley as Academic Spring promises an early summer
• 2012/07/17: NatureNB: European Commission embraces open access
• 2012/07/16: ScienceInsider: U.K. Says It Will Move to Open Access for Publicly Funded Research
• 2012/07/17: NatureN: Europe joins UK open-access bid -- Britain plans to dip in to research funding to pay for results to be freely available
• 2012/07/16: BBC: UK science to be freely available
  The government is to develop plans to make publicly funded research results freely available to all.
• 2012/07/16: JEB: The writing on the (open access) wall
• 2012/07/16: NatureNB: UK research funders announce liberated open-access policy

  Regarding Mann:

• 2012/07/21: QuarkSoup: Lame
• 2012/07/20: CCP: Mann and corporate person at UVA
• 2012/07/20: P3: Standing up against bullies
• 2012/07/20: BCLSB: Noted Climate Scientist Michael Mann Threatens Legal Action Against Far Right Scuzzbag With Fake English Accent Mark Steyn
• 2012/07/21: CCP: Letter from Dr. Michael Mann's lawyer to Scott Bud, Publisher of the National Review, demanding retraction of false allegation of academic fraud

  Regarding Abraham:

• 2012/07/21: CCP: FutureDude talks with climatologist John Abraham
• 2012/07/19: PSinclair: John Abraham on Climate, Science, and Evapotransporation.

  Regarding Wegman:

• 2012/07/18: AFTIC: Of Geese and Ganders

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2012/07/20: EurActiv: Carbon prices slump on EU ETS fix hiccup
• 2012/07/19: PlanetArk: EU rescue plan setback drives down carbon prices
  A delay until September of keenly awaited details of the European Commission's plans to remove emissions permits from Europe's carbon market sent carbon prices sharply lower on Wednesday.
• 2012/07/21: EconView: "An Important Property of Cap-and-Trade"

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2012/07/15: QuarkSoup: A Carbon Tax for Coal Workers

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

• 2012/07/21: PanArmenian: Over half of Iran parliament backs Hormuz blockade bill
• 2012/07/18: Trend(Az): State Department Rep.: US sorry for damaging Iran oil reserves, but no other choice
• 2012/07/16: al Jazeera: China talks deals, not sanctions
  Beijing invests billions in Iran while trying to reach consensus with its South China Sea neighbours.
• 2012/07/16: RT: UAE and Saudi Arabia open pipelines bypassing Hormuz
• 2012/07/15: BBC: UAE opens pipeline bypassing Strait of Hormuz oil route
• 2012/07/15: BBerg: Abu Dhabi Exports First Pipeline Oil Bypassing Hormuz Strait

  South China Sea tension persists:

• 2012/07/20: SMH: Rudd warns of tensions in S China Sea
• 2012/07/20: Yahoo:Reuters: ASEAN urges South China Sea pact but consensus elusive

  The solar panel trade war is spreading:

• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: Germany, Too, Considers Tariffs on Chinese Solar Panels
• 2012/07/20: BBC: China to probe solar panel products from US and S Korea
  China's trade ministry will launch an investigation into what is says are unfair import prices of US and South Korean polysilicon, used in solar panels.
• 2012/07/18: Reuters: Analysis: U.S. solar tariffs not slowing slide in panel prices
  New U.S. import tariffs have prompted China's solar panel makers to buy more expensive supplies elsewhere and avoid the new duties, but prices for the renewable energy equipment continue to decline.

Regarding the EU FQD: Fuel Quality Directive:

• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Bureaucrats found flaws in oilsands study for European Parliament: Memos
  Energy policy advisers at Natural Resources Canada who worked closely with an oil and gas lobby group advised the federal government that there were "numerous flaws" in a scientific study used by the European Union to justify climate change policies that would single out fossil fuels from Alberta's oilpatch, internal government memos obtained by Postmedia News have revealed.

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

• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: When National Climate Disasters Go Global: On Drought, Food, And Global Insecurity
• 2012/07/21: Asia Times: Oil, politics and resource wars

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

• 2012/07/19: BBC: Ian Tomlinson death: PC cleared
  A police officer who hit Ian Tomlinson with a baton and pushed him to the ground at the G20 protests has been found not guilty of manslaughter.
• 2012/07/18: BBC: Shell petrol station protesters appear at Edinburgh Sheriff Court
  Eight Greenpeace supporters, arrested after demonstrations at Shell petrol stations in Edinburgh, have appeared in court. They appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court charged with malicious mischief. Monday's protest was over plans by the oil giant to drill in the Arctic.
• 2012/07/16: Guardian(UK): How did Mark Kennedy spy on Drax activists?
  The convictions of campaigners in Drax case are now in doubt, but what was Mark Kennedy doing during the protest?

What are the activists up to?

• 2012/07/20: P3: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
• 2012/07/20: QuarkSoup: Bill McKibben Makes a Bad Mistake
• 2012/07/20: PSinclair: Bill McKibben: The Terrifying New Math of Climate Change
• 2012/07/19: RStone: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math by Bill McKibben
  Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is
• 2012/07/19: WtD: The maths: the must read article by McKibben, the implications we must consider
• 2012/07/16: OilChange: Greenpeace Shuts Shell Gas Stations [in London & Edinburgh]
• 2012/07/16: BBC: Greenpeace targets Shell pumps
  Environmental campaigners are threatening to shut down every Shell petrol station in Edinburgh in a protest against the company's plans to drill in the Arctic region.
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Activists break through gate at uranium mine
• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): Opposing forest protests grab pollies attention
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Duelling protests in chilly Tassie forest

  Polls! We have polls!

• 2012/07/20: CSM: True to stereotype, Generation X apathetic about climate change
• 2012/07/18: ScienceInsider: Extreme Weather Affecting Public Views on Climate in U.S.
• 2012/07/19: Eureka: Generation X is surprisingly unconcerned about climate change
• 2012/07/18: QuarkSoup: Heat Waves = Belief in Global Warming
• 2012/07/17: DD: Poll: Generation X dismissive about climate change -- Significant decrease in concern since 2009
• 2012/07/17: Grist: Climate reality bites: Gen-Xers don't care much about global warming

  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2012/07/19: CSM: America's big drought: Time to rethink water conservation
• 2012/07/14: UTSanDiego: Water supplies pass tipping point
• 2012/07/15: JFleck: About those levees
• 2012/07/15: JFleck: On sharing shortage
• 2012/07/16: IOTD: Toshka Lakes, Southern Egypt

  And on the groundwater front:

• 2012/07/20: BBC: Vast aquifer found in Namibia could last for centuries
  A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact on development in the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
• 2012/07/18: KSJT: Baltimore Sun: Hot Summer? Thirsty? Wait'll we use up our ancient, coastal aquifers
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: Protecting Groundwater: A Guide To Fracking Risks And Best Practices

  And on the American political front:

• 2012/07/21: DM:80B: What's the Temperature Today? Your Answer Depends on Your Political Beliefs
• 2012/07/20: UCSUSA: Michigan Energy Experts Letter Supporting 25 Percent RES -- More than 140 academics, scientists support 25 percent renewable energy for Michigan
• 2012/07/20: CCurrents: Blackouts Increasing In The U.S.
• 2012/07/18: LA Times: Manipulation of California energy market gives consumers a jolt
• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: Top New York Regulator [Bradley J. Field] Promoting Shale Gas Signed A Climate Denial Petition Stating That Increases In CO2 Are 'Beneficial'
• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: House GOP Pushing 'Oil Above All Else' Agenda Harder Than Ever
• 2012/07/19: UCSUSA:B: Michigan Open Letter on Clean Energy and Green Jobs
• 2012/07/19: AutoBG: George Shultz is an electric-car-driving, solar-panel-rockin' Reagan Republican
• 2012/07/19: DailyAstorian: Military spending fight hits foreign oil, biofuel
• 2012/07/19: DeSmogBlog: Texas Refineries And Chemical Plants Releasing Tens Of Thousands Of Tons Of Pollution
• 2012/07/19: Wonkette: 'Weather' On List Of Things GOP Will Not Talk About
• 2012/07/19: Ph&Ph: Oh, So You Believe In Global Warming NOW?
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Poll: Overwhelming Majority Of Michigan Small Businesses Support Increase In State's Clean Energy Target
• 2012/07/18: PlanetArk: Stand-off looms over US plans to cut GMO crop oversight
• 2012/07/21: AlterNet: Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits
• 2012/07/18: Grist: New San Francisco legislation will jump-start urban farming
• 2012/07/18: S&R: Polar Blues
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: Report Finds 25,000 Jobs In Ohio's Clean Energy Economy
• 2012/07/18: Grist: New report: The [American] Farm Bureau [Federation] not a true friend to farmers
• 2012/07/17: AutoBG: Bloomberg [News editorial] says buyers, not automakers, should get more federal funding for plug-in vehicles
• 2012/07/17: Grist: U.S. leads the world in cutting CO2 emissions --- so why aren't we talking about it?
• 2012/07/17: P3: US Still Rejects Law of the Sea
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: Far Right Outraged That Some Conservatives Are Considering A Price On Carbon Pollution
• 2012/07/17: PlanetArk: Nebraska farms ordered to halt irrigation amid drought
  More than 1,100 farmers in Nebraska have been ordered by the state's Department of Natural Resources to halt irrigation of their crops because the rivers from which they draw water have dropped due to a worsening drought.
• 2012/07/19: STimes: Climate change affecting native communities
  Native American and Alaska Native leaders told of their villages being under water because of coastal erosion, droughts and more on Thursday during a Senate hearing intended to draw attention to how climate change is affecting tribal communities.
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: CNN's Soledad O'Brien Smacks Down False Charges Of 'Crony Capitalism' In Clean Energy
• 2012/07/17: UCSUSA: [links to several pdfs] The Clean Energy Race: How Do California's Public Utilities Measure Up?
• 2012/07/16: UCSUSA:B: California Gives a Boost to Electric Vehicles, Approves $27 Million in Consumer Rebates
• 2012/07/17: UCSUSA: Clean Energy Investments by California Public Utilities Not Created Equal
• 2012/07/16: GLaden: Bobby Jindal has a Creationist Voucher Program!

  The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

• 2012/07/22: TreeHugger: Dolphin Deaths in Gulf of Mexico due to BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and the 'Perfect Storm'
• 2012/07/20: DD: Study finds multiple stressors killed Northern Gulf of Mexico bottlenose dolphins in 2011
• 2012/07/19: NatureN: Perfect storm hit Gulf of Mexico dolphins
  Cold weather, Deepwater Horizon and an influx of cold fresh water combined to cause record cetacean mortality.
• 2012/07/18: Eureka: Study points to causes of high dolphin deaths in Gulf of Mexico -- Post BP oil spill
  The largest oil spill on open water to date and other environmental factors led to the historically high number of dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico, concludes a two-year scientific study released today.
• 2012/07/18: QuarkSoup: Gas Prices Peaked Four Years Ago

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

• 2012/07/19: SciAm:Obs: What Do Obama and Romney Know About Science? And Why It Matters
• 2012/07/: ScienceDebate: The Top American Science Questions in 2012 - Presidential Edition
• 2012/07/19: CSW: Key science and environmental questions to ask Obama, Romney
• 2012/07/17: EnergyBulletin: Gar Alperovitz's Green Party Keynote: We Are Laying Groundwork for the "Next Great Revolution"
• 2012/07/17: NorRe: People, Not Policy
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: Mitt Romney Supports An End To Wind Tax Credit, Which Could 'Mean The Loss Of Several Thousand Jobs'
• 2012/07/16: Grist: Green Party's presidential candidate [Jill Stein] says it's time to 'take our country back'
• 2012/07/14: RawStory: Photos of Romney and Cheney together forbidden at Wyoming fundraiser
• 2012/07/15: DeSmogBlog: Romney, Obama Surrogates Spar Over Energy Policy

  The Keystone XL saga bumps along:

• 2012/07/17: GLaden: Hillary Clinton, please consider global warming with KXLP
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: Nation's Top Climate Scientists: Omitting Climate Change From Keystone XL Pipeline Review Is 'Neither Wise Nor Credible'
• 2012/07/17: 350 Org: Press Release: Scientist Letter on Keystone XL
  Nation's Top Scientists Urge State Department to Consider Climate Change in New Review for Keystone XL Pipeline
• 2012/07/17: CSW: Scientists urge State Dept to consider climate change in new Keystone XL pipeline review
• 2012/07/17: OilChange: Scientists Warn About KXL Climate Impacts
• 2012/07/17: DeSmogBlog: Scientists Tell US State Department Excluding Climate Impacts in Keystone XL Review 'Neither Wise nor Credible'

  The GOP War on Women continues:

• 2012/07/19: Wonkette: Old-Hat Wars On Women, Voting, Given Snazzy Update With New GOP War On Math
• 2012/07/17: AlterNet: Woman Accused of Murder for Attempting Suicide While Pregnant Refuses Plea Deal
• 2012/07/16: Grist: Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too
• 2012/07/17: CSM: Planned Parenthood sues Arizona for cut funding

  The question of coal exports remains a contentious issue:

• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: New Report: Coal Exports Overseas Are Increasing From Appalachian Mines
• 2012/07/18: GreenGrok: Jobs and Coal in West Virginia: Up and Down
• 2012/07/20: OPB: Doctors Call For A Health Review Of Coal Exports
  Several groups have teamed up to ask Gov. Kitzhaber to wait on permitting coal export terminals in Oregon until a comprehensive health review has been completed. A group of 130 Oregon doctors wants the state of Oregon to stop the permitting process for coal exports until the health risks have been reviewed. Today the Physicians for Social Responsibility outlined numerous health risks from coal dust, coal train diesel emissions and air pollution from coal-fired power plants in Asia. The group teamed up with Gov. John Kitzhaber's Environmental Justice Task Force and the Yakama Nation to ask the for a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment of coal exports. The request was echoed by 11 neighborhood associations in North Portland that have passed resolutions opposing coal exports.

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2012/07/20: DeSmogBlog: White House Wants Industry Help To Choose Which Regulations To Kill
• 2012/07/20: AFTIC: "A job well done for President Obama"
• 2012/07/17: WaPo: White House weakened EPA soot proposal, documents show
• 2012/07/18: UCSUSA:B: White House Messes with Air Pollution Science AGAIN

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2012/07/20: Grist: Why is the U.S. government so bullish on coal predictions?
• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: Thousands of Lives Would Have Been Saved If Obama Had Backed Stronger Smog Standards
• 2012/07/20: Grist: Mapping the government's local food work as a way to keep it alive
• 2012/07/18: SixthEstate: Religion is Incompatible With the Survival of Humanity
• 2012/07/18: BBC: US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has warned the worst drought in decades will result in higher crop prices
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: How The EPA Can Save Lives In California's Central Valley
• 2012/07/17: NOAANews: NOAA, partners meet to explore climate change and coastal tribes

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2012/07/21: PSinclair: The Weekend Wonk: Joe Romm in Testimony to Congress
• 2012/07/19: HuffPo: [Senator] Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) Takes On The Koch Brothers
• 2012/07/19: WaPo: Navy uses biofuels on major training as foreign oil becomes topic in defense spending debate
• 2012/07/19: DeSmogBlog: House Republicans Attempt To Block Black Lung Protection Funding
• 2012/07/19: TP:JR: Warning: Congress Is Hazardous To Your Health
• 2012/07/19: TP:JR: Nextera Energy CEO Calls For Five-Year Extension Of Wind Tax Credit: 'Hitting A Cliff Isn't Smart'
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Coal Union: GOP Blockage Of Coal Dust Reforms Is 'A Potential Death Sentence For Thousands Of American Miners'
• 2012/07/17: TPMDC: GOP Stonewalls Climate Hearing Amid Extreme Weather
• 2012/07/16: CSM: Push in Congress to ban biofuels in military has big long-term costs

  While in the UK:

• 2012/07/20: Guardian(UK): China in talks to build UK nuclear power plants
  British officials talking to Chinese about plan that could see up to five reactors being built at cost of £35bn, sources say
• 2012/07/20: BBC: Report on high-level nuclear waste storage for Cumbria
• 2012/07/19: Guardian(UK): London 2012 falls short of 'greenest ever' targets, report shows
• 2012/07/19: Guardian(UK): Energy department shaken by resignation of top civil servant [Moira Wallace]
  Departure of permanent secretary raises questions about ministry plagued by policy U-turns and row with Treasury
• 2012/07/18: BBC: Cold weather stops Scottish greenhouse gas emissions target being met
  The Scottish government failed to meet its own climate change targets in 2010, according the latest official figures. They showed greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1.9% on 2009 figures, after taking emissions trading into account. Climate Change Minister Stewart Stevenson said exceptionally cold weather conditions in Scotland in 2010 was to blame. The government is attempting to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2020.
• 2012/07/16: Monbiot: This is the fate of young people today: excluded, but forbidden to opt out
• 2012/07/17: BizGreen: [UK] Government policies 'will fail' to deliver bulk of energy-efficiency potential
  McKinsey & Co report commissioned by DECC calls for stronger energy-efficiency policies for industry and building sectors

And in Europe:

• 2012/07/20: ScienceInsider: European Commission Proposes Protections for Deep Sea Habitat
• 2012/07/20: EurActiv: Carbon prices slump on EU ETS fix hiccup
  Indications that keenly-awaited details of the European Commission's plans to fix Europe's depressed carbon market may be delayed until September sent carbon prices spiralling on 18 July. Declines of up to 7% in already deflated carbon prices were reported, after several EU sources said that the unveiling of plans to fix a supply glut in the Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) had been delayed until after the Commission's August recess.
• 2012/07/20: UpstreamOnline: France not budging on [fracking] ban
• 2012/07/19: EurActiv: EU energy chief warms to offshore oil and shale gas
  Europe is at a competitive disadvantage because of a reluctance to take risks on offshore oil drilling and tar sands, and a failure to fully explore its shale gas options, EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger says.
• 2012/07/18: EurActiv: Touch and go: EU wants 'intelligent' transport systems
  Travelling across Europe by rail, coach or other services would become easier if EU national governments would do a better job of sharing information and using technology to improve trip planning, said EU officials trying to spur transport efficiency.
• 2012/07/18: EurActiv: Lobbyists brace for new battle over EU energy efficiency
  The lobbying battle on the Energy Efficiency Directive between member states, power utilities, consumers and green groups will intensify in the coming months, as countries will try to fashion ways of transposing new rules into their national legislation. The European Parliament's energy committee endorsed on 12 July the deal struck by member states on the EU's Energy Efficiency Directive, leaving just two more steps for the bill to go through - an energy Council and a plenary parliament vote in the autumn - before it becomes law. The proposed directive has been seen as a game-changer mainly because it imposes an annual 1.5% energy-savings obligation on energy utilities -- considerably more than the existing legislation -- and it is expected to trigger a major energy-efficient revamp of the EU's existing building stock.
• 2012/07/18: AutoBG: EC proposes 30% stricter emissions standards for 2020
• 2012/07/17: DerSpiegel: The World from Berlin -- Doubts Rising over German Switch to Renewables
  Germany's revolutionary switch to renewable energies is stalling and the country's new environment minister has now admitted as much by casting doubt on the ambitious goals set last year. Media commentators say that he and the rest of Chancellor Merkel's government must do more.
• 2012/07/17: Guardian(UK): Global warming will accelerate without climate deal, Merkel warns
• 2012/07/17: EurActiv: New renovation rule set to boost inner-city industry
  Newly adopted EU rules requiring governments to revamp old buildings will generate industrial renovation in cities, say commentators who welcome the energy efficiency directive approved by the European Parliament's energy committee last week (12 July).
• 2012/07/17: EurActiv: Merkel: Reach climate deal or face rapid global warming
• 2012/07/17: PlanetArk: Merkel warns of global warming if no climate accord
  
• 2012/07/16: EurActiv: Ciolose joins environmentalists in defending greener CAP
  Environmental organisations that fear the European Parliament and national governments are weakening agricultural reforms have found unwavering support from the EU's farm chief Dacian Ciolose
• 2012/07/16: EurActiv: Industrial revival hinges on new soil rules
  A soil framework directive necessary to boost industrial regeneration is creeping back onto the European agenda after years of being shelved by reluctant EU member countries.
• 2012/07/16: DeutscheWelle: Environment minister voices doubts about energy reforms
  Germany's environment minister has admitted that the government faces an uphill climb if it is to achieve the targets it has set out for reducing carbon emissions while simultaneously stopping nuclear energy production.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2012/07/22: ABC(Au): Labor claims victory in Melbourne by-election
• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): The Greens and Labor are neck-and-neck as counting continues in the Melbourne by-election
• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): Greens tipped to win Melbourne [in Victoria] by-election
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Report finds cancer risk for coal workers
  A six-year probe into cancer rates at one of Australia's largest coal loading terminals has found workers are getting cancer at nearly three times higher than average.
• 2012/07/20: BNC: Is the Olympic Dam mine a special case?
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Activists break through gate at uranium mine
  Anti-uranium activists have smashed through the perimeter gate of the Olympic Dam mine near Roxby Downs, 560 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. The protesters are opposed to the planned expansion of the mine which sits on top of the largest known uranium deposit in the world. Security guards and police waited inside the mine gate as the group of about 350 people broke a lock to smash through an exterior fence.
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): The Victorian Government has released an updated bushfire management plan for the first time in six years, with recommendations from the 2009 Bushfire Royal Commission
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Solar thermal plan for coal-fired power station
  Energy company Alinta says it is considering a solar thermal pilot program for one of its power stations at Port Augusta in South Australia. CEO Jeff Dimery has told a meeting of business leaders in the city the program would be an addition to the coal-fired plant.
• 2012/07/19: PlanetJ: Politics isn't bad; it's the reporting
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Marine park to have smaller financial impact than expected
  The Federal Government has released a social and economic assessment of its proposed new marine park network, showing a much smaller financial hit for Port Stephens and Newcastle. The report by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences looked at the impact of the new reserves on coastal communities and businesses.
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Council to save on power bills with solar panels
  Newcastle Council expects the installation of solar panels at its Waratah works depot will shave more than 20 per cent off the site's annual power bills. The $200,000 project will be funded through the Council's waste and sustainability program. It is part of Council's strategy to have 30 per cent of its electricity consumption come from renewable sources by 2020.
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Energy efficiency vital for businesses
  A new survey of the manufacturing sector has found a doubling of businesses focusing on energy efficiency over two years as costs continue to climb.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Coastal communities tackle climate change
• 2012/07/18: DeSmogBlog: Australians Beware: Soon The Climate Science Deniers Will Be In Charge
• 2012/07/18: WtD: Coalition of the Rational: if the deniers will soon occupy all levels of government, how should we respond?
• 2012/07/18: ABC(Au): Pokies revenue rises as carbon compo arrives
  The first round of carbon tax compensation is coming under scrutiny as new data shows a spike in poker machine revenue. In May and June, millions of people received hundreds of dollars from the Federal Government to help offset the cost of the carbon tax.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Environmental nod for Kimberley gas hub has Greens seeing red
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Concerns about lead levels in groundwater supply
  The effects of the 1999 Newcastle Disease outbreak are still being felt with Central Coast health officials concerned about high lead levels in Mangrove Mountain's groundwater supply. More than 100 freight containers of dead birds and chemicals were buried in massive pits during the outbreak. The latest groundwater monitoring results reveal the presence of copper, zinc, iron, ammonia, nitrate, cadmium as well as lead.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): New name for SA's power provider
  Electricity distributor ETSA Utilities is changing its name to SA Power Networks.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): New paper proposes future food supply options
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Plan looks to secure national food security
  The Federal Government has launched Australia's first national food plan, aimed at shaping the nation's direction on food production and exports. Producers, farmers, buyers and chefs are in Sydney today for a forum to discuss the green paper which calls on the public to make submissions on the plan. At the moment, Australia produces much more food than it needs - enough to feed 60 million people a year. Farm and fisheries production totals more than $40 billion a year. Out of that, food worth $27 billion is exported. The Government says the first national food plan will help Australia achieve its goal of becoming the "food bowl for Asia".
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Green groups flag challenge to Woodside approval
  Woodside has welcomed environmental approval for a massive gas hub in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The state's Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has decided the $40 billion dollar gas hub north of Broome can go ahead.
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): EPA green lights controversial LNG project
  The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has approved a $30 billion LNG project on Western Australia's Kimberley coast, subject to what it calls a rigorous set of conditions. The decision to recommend the Browse project go-ahead at James Price Point, 60 kilometres north of Broome, was made by the EPA chairman Paul Vogel. Dr Vogel was given the go-ahead to make the decision alone after four out of five of the authority's board members were found to have potential conflicts of interest. The approval is subject to 29 conditions...
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Town quiet as demonstrators protest
  Protesters are camped outside the Olympic Dam Mine in Roxby Downs, voicing their opposition to uranium mining and the possible expansion of the site.
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): Brumby's half-baked carbon case resolved
• 2012/07/16: ABC(Au): 'Hoodwinked' on power price rises: Gillard
  The Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused the State Government of hoodwinking the public over the impact of the carbon tax on electricity prices. She says power prices in WA have gone up by 57 per cent under the Barnett Government, adding up to $520 to the average annual household power bill. Ms Gillard has called for WA power bills to clearly identify the impact of the carbon tax on electricity pricing, as well as detailing the assistance available from the Federal Government. She says the Premier, Colin Barnett, is trying to avoid responsibility for power price increases by blaming them on federal policies.
• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): Opposing forest protests grab pollies attention
  Tasmania's political leaders say duelling protests in Tasmania's southern forests highlight divisions within the state. Pro-logger Michael Hirst has set up a protest camp at the tree-sit protest of anti-logging activist Miranda Gibson in the Tyenna Valley.
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Duelling protests in chilly Tassie forest
  Tasmania is no stranger to forest protests but the state has never seen a protest quite like the one unfolding at the moment. It's a protest about a protest. In near freezing conditions a forestry supporter is camping at the base of a tree while an anti-logging environmentalist is perched 60 metres above in the foliage and has been up there for seven months.

The Labor Party leadership of Julia Gillard is fragile:

• 2012/07/21: ABC(Au): Union bosses play down Rudd comeback talk
  Powerful union bosses say former prime minister Kevin Rudd does not have enough support inside and outside the party room to launch a successful challenge for the Labor leadership. After a week of intensified leadership speculation, Prime Minister Julia Gillard last night called a number of union bosses to the Lodge for talks. Both the Prime Minister's office and union leaders say the meetings were not called to deal with leadership speculation. After the meeting a number of union heads publically supported Ms Gillard's leadership.
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Oakeshott issues Labor with election warning
  Key independent MP Rob Oakeshott has issued a stern warning to Labor that he will do what he can to bring on an election if there is any substance to recent leadership speculation. There has been a renewed focus on internal leadership tensions this week following comments by Chief Government Whip Joel Fitzgibbon that Julia Gillard's job would be under threat if Labor's poll numbers do not improve. It has prompted another round of introspection within the labour movement about the Prime Minister's hold on the top job. Mr Oakeshott, who signed an agreement to support Labor after the 2010 election, says he is "utterly sick" of leadership speculation and is warning Labor it could face an early election if Ms Gillard is dumped.
• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Texts can be used in Slipper harassment case
  A Sydney judge has ruled that text messages sent and received by the staffer accusing Speaker Peter Slipper of sexual harassment can be used as evidence in court. Justice Steven Rares made the decision ahead of the case returning to the Federal Court next week.
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): AFP finish probe into Slipper cab voucher use
  Australian Federal Police have forwarded parts of their criminal investigation into Speaker Peter Slipper to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Time not running out for Gillard: Plibersek
  A senior Federal Government frontbencher has dismissed reports that union leaders believe Prime Minister Julia Gillard may be replaced. Fairfax is reporting that union heavyweights discussed the Labor leadership at a recent meeting, and came to an "acceptance" that time was running out for Ms Gillard. Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has told Channel 9 that she believes Ms Gillard still has strong backing. "The leadership issue has been resolved," she said.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Gillard leadership questions resurface
  Julia Gillard is facing leadership questions again after chief Government whip Joel Fitzgibbon refused to back down from comments that suggested her position is not guaranteed.

The Murray-Darling Basin Plan controversy continues:

• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Unprecedented flood needed to change levee backflow
  The Wagga Wagga Council admits raising the main city and North Wagga levee banks will affect water flow elsewhere but only happen in an unprecedented flood. Councillor Donna Argus, who lives at Gumly is concerned the proposed upgrades will mean water will be pushed back into communities at Gumly, East Wagga and Oura. Infrastructure Director Heinz Kausche says water flow would only change in a one in 100 year flood.
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Goulburn-Murray Water wants to change its pricing policy
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Water authority seeks tariff plan feedback
  Goulburn Murray Water (GMW) is seeking customer feedback on its draft tariff strategy. Among the changes recommended is a substantial increase in the connection fee to make it more cost reflective.
• 2012/07/18: ABC(Au): Interstate Murray water allocations rise
• 2012/07/18: ABC(Au): Model unlocks big waves' flooding potential
  Storm surge More precise predictions of the depth of flooding due to storm surges and tsunamis are on their way, thanks to the work of some Australian researchers. Civil engineer Associate Professor Tom Baldock, of the University of Queensland, and colleagues, report their findings today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society A.
• 2012/07/17: ABC(Au): Lake Eildon overflow could reach the ocean
  Millions of litres of water are being released from one of the Murray-Darling Basin's biggest water storages to avoid flooding. About 80,000 megalitres of water has been released from Lake Eildon in northern Victoria, with more expected. Mark Bailey, from Goulburn-Murray Water, says the released water is likely to flow through to South Australia.

And in China:

• 2012/07/18: NatureNB: As emissions rise, China loses moral high ground
• 2012/07/15: USAToday: China builds most ecologically friendly cities

  While in Japan:

• 2012/07/18: ERabett:JF: Where is Japan going? No nukes?

  And elsewhere in Asia:

• 2012/07/17: USGS: Afghanistan the First Country Mapped using Broad Scale Hyperspectral Data
• 2012/07/20: Eureka: Research warns Asia unlikely to achieve climate, poverty goals unless women's rights are recognized

  In Canada, neocon PM Harper pushes petroleum while ignoring climate change:

• 2012/07/19: HillTimes: Doctors, scientists vow to continue protests against Prime Minister Harper government's agenda
  Medical doctors, who promise to continue the practice, have been showing up at Cabinet ministers' press conferences to protest changes to healthcare coverage for refugees and scientists recently held a rally on Hill to protest federal government muzzling of its scientists and cuts to research program funding, but the jury's out on whether these public protests will influence public opinion or the government.
• 2012/07/19: ABC(Au): Calls for Canada to ban asbestos exports to India
• 2012/07/18: iPolitics: Taliban Steve and the Robot Nation
• 2012/07/17: PostMedia: Cuts to Statistics Canada a costly error
• 2012/07/16: PaiD: Exposing More Harper Lies
• 2012/07/16: CBC: Canada scores 2nd last on energy efficiency study -- 12 industrialized countries examined

  Even the mainstream media clued into the Harper gang's wind-farm study schtick:

• 2012/07/16: G&M: Ottawa's wind-farm study a case of suspiciously political science
  The Harper government is not known for fostering a strong relationship between science and public policy. Last week, scientists and researchers held a protest in Ottawa against cuts to hundreds of jobs and the closure of facilities like an Arctic atmospheric research laboratory that helps monitor the ozone layer and a facility to study the effects of water pollution. So it is peculiar, then, that the government has now commissioned a study on the health effects of living close to wind turbines – a decision that seems to have more to do with politics than with policy.
• 2012/07/19: CBC: Top Ontario official to testify about wind power health risks
  Opponents of industrial wind turbine developments in Ontario are celebrating a court ruling that will force the province's chief medical officer of health to testify about the known noise and health risks of wind power developments.

The Federal Court has backed the Harper gang's killing Kyoto:

• 2012/07/17: CBC: Federal Court backs government over Kyoto pullout
  Government not obliged to consult Parliament before applying 'royal prerogative'

The Senate came up with a predictably purblind energy policy report this week:

• 2012/07/19: CoC: Senate energy report ignores climate change and the Fukushima disaster
  The Canadian Senate's Conservative-led energy committee report Now or Never: Canada Must Act Urgently to Seize its Place in the New Energy World Order is a plan to exploit resources, not provide energy, says the Council of Canadians.
• 2012/07/19: PostMedia: Redford pleased with Senate report on national energy strategy
  Premier Alison Redford is heralding a new report from a Senate committee that backs her call for a national energy strategy. The new study from the Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources lays out a number of steps to allow Canada to take better advantage of its natural resource riches and significantly broaden its energy exports.
• 2012/07/19: CBC: Senators see urgent need for national energy policy -- Committee report calls for improved environmental performance in oilsands
  Canada is on the cusp of global energy greatness but can only reap the benefits of its vast resources if it acts immediately, according to a report released today by the Senate's energy, environment and natural resources committee. The report, three years in the making, outlines 13 "priorities for action," including a call to improve the environmental performance of the oilsands and the need for leadership to guide a coherent energy policy.
• 2012/07/20: Guardian(UK): Canada energy industry told to improve its green reputation
  A Canadian Senate report has warned the industry it must improve its environmental performance

Late comment on the _Death of Evidence_ protest:

• 2012/07/16: Tyee: 'The Death of Evidence' in Canada: Scientists' Own Words
  Data distorted for 'propaganda' and other complaints against the Harper government made at last week's Ottawa rally.
• 2012/07/18: PostMedia: [Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent] says scathing U.S. report won't change mind on Northern Gateway pipeline
  The federal environment minister says a scathing report out of the United States about Enbridge's response to a pipeline spill in Michigan won't change his government's position on the Northern Gateway project. A report by U.S. investigators released last week criticized Enbridge for a spill along Michigan's Kalamazoo River, comparing the company's response to the "Keystone Kops" and identifying a long list of failings.

The battle over the Northern Gateway pipeline rages on:

• 2012/07/20: CBC: Enbridge pitches safety upgrades to Northern Gateway
• 2012/07/20: NI: The way a 3-year old cleans spilled milk
• 2012/07/19: DClimenhaga: It's semi-official... the Enbridge Northern Gateway project is kaput!
• 2012/07/18: WpgFP: [Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent] says scathing U.S. report won't change mind on Northern Gateway
• 2012/07/16: PostMedia: Keystone Kops report about present danger, not future threat
  The scalding report from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board last week was gleefully received in British Columbia by opponents of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline. Enbridge's bungling of a breach in its 6B oil pipeline in Michigan provided persuasive evidence to bolster the case that the Canadian energy giant shouldn't be trusted with the preservation of B.C.'s northern wilderness and our relatively pristine coast.
• 2012/07/13: TStar: Enbridge, TransCanada pipeline safety is a pipedream: David Olive

  And the Kinder Morgan expansion:

• 2012/07/18: TheCanadian: 'Some Risks Are Not Worth Taking' - New Video Campaign Launched to Take on Kinder Morgan
• 2012/07/17: PostMedia: Pipeline safety records under scrutiny as B.C. set to get more
  Kinder Morgan says Trans Mountain project has seen only small leaks in the last decade Kinder Morgan's 1,150-kilometre Trans Mountain pipeline that transports oil from Alberta to southwestern B.C. has averaged about one leak a year in the past decade, but has not experienced the kind of major spill seen more recently in Alberta and Michigan from other pipelines.

The ISA/PRV/IHN/Alpha virus in Canadian waters is potentially disastrous:

• 2012/07/20: TheCanadian: J'Accuse!...Fish Farmers and Our Governments
• 2012/07/19: TheCanadian: Heavy Metals, Acid Mine Drainage a Threat to Pacific Salmon Watersheds
• 2012/07/19: CBC: Controversial [PRV] virus found in fresh water fish in B.C.
• 2012/07/18: PBS: Northwest 'Salmon People' Face Future Without Fish
  For Northwest tribes, salmon fishing is a way of life. But changes in the climate may be pushing the fish toward extinction. Together with KCTS9 and EarthFix, NewsHour visited the Swinomish Indian reservation to see how they are coping.

In BC, the stage is set. Now what will Clark and Dix do?

• 2012/07/21: CBC: Flash flooding fears prompt state of emergency in B.C.
• 2012/07/20: Tyee: Six Steps to a Healthier Timber Future for BC
  What to do about beetle wood, the Burns Lake mill, climate change and the bioeconomy. MLA Simpson weighs in.
• 2012/07/21: TMoS: Crispy Clark Turns Bitumen Basher - Too Little, Too Late
  BC's unelected and unelectable premier, Christie Clark, is throwing "free enterprise" caution to the wind in a desperate bid to reverse her political fortunes. After dummying-up for months about the provincial government's position on the Northern Gateway pipeline, Clark seems to have figured out that Enbridge is a very real millstone round her and her party's neck with an already tough election just a year away. But Clark also showed she's not really onside with the majority of BC'ers who want the pipeline initiative scrapped. What she's really after is a better deal from Ottawa and Alberta. She wants them to sweeten the package, "in order for it to work for us."
• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Christy Clark toughens pipeline stance as Enbridge announces safety upgrades
  Premier Christy Clark toughened her stance Friday on the Northern Gateway oil pipeline, saying the controversial proposal poses too much environmental risk for British Columbia while not offering enough economic benefits.
• 2012/07/18: WCEL: Don't do the environmental crime if you can't pay the fine
• 2012/07/19: PostMedia: Court-ordered environmental fines going unpaid in B.C.
  About 40 per cent of court-ordered environmental fines in B.C. are going unpaid, West Coast Environmental Law revealed Thursday. The organization used freedom-of-information legislation to obtain a copy of Closing the Gap, a 19-page Ministry of Environment report prepared in April 2010 on the payment of environmental fines. The report shows that the average payment rate for fines on violation tickets between 2003 and 2008 was 80 per cent, compared with an average payment rate of 59 per cent for fines imposed through court convictions. Lower value court fines have a tendency to be paid, but higher fines, most often given to corporations, remain unpaid - 83 violators collectively owed more than $700,000 in outstanding court conviction fines, most of that owed by a few [unnamed] violators.
• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Climate shifts may strand weather-dependent ecosystems -- Global warming trend creates new challenges, opportunities, researchers say
  Climate change is pushing British Columbia's ecosystems - and its productive forests - farther and farther out of sync with the weather conditions they need in order to thrive, new research suggests. B.C.'s 16 major ecosystems - everything from coastal rainforest to alpine peaks - are getting left behind as precipitation and temperature patterns shift in response to global warming. The trend is expected to create challenges for commercial species such as lodgepole pine, which will have less moisture to sustain them through hotter, drier summers, and opportunities for frost-averse species, such as Douglas fir, to extend their range. The 'climate envelopes' that sustain those ecosystems have migrated - often to the north, sometimes to the east, and even up barren mountainsides - by 23 per cent from their boundaries in 1970, according to projections.
• 2012/07/19: PostMedia: Thomson: Why the secrecy around Redford-Clark meeting?
  British Columbia Premier Christy Clark paid a secretive visit to Alberta Premier Alison Redford in Edmonton on Thursday - an unannounced stop that had Clark ducking in and out of a side door of the legislature to avoid reporters. But it was a visit that didn't seem to accomplish much and left some Alberta officials scratching their heads as to why Clark bothered to come at all. And it left Redford politely fuming over Clark's refusal to take a position for or against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline that would ship Alberta bitumen from Edmonton to Kitimat, B.C.
• 2012/07/21: TheCanadian: Rafe Responds to Liberals' Shifting Position on Enbridge: Clark Still Missing the Mark
• 2012/07/18: Rabble:BP: 'Burning a little gas' to fire up the natural gas industry in B.C.
• 2012/07/16: TheCanadian: Dix Can Reclaim Control Over Fish, Pipelines and Tankers from Harper
• 2012/07/16: CBC: B.C. premier continues tough talk on Enbridge pipeline

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2012/07/20: PI:B: First Nation proposal to protect caribou shows a balanced approach to oilsands development is possible
• 2012/07/16: PI: Pembina reacts to oilsands monitoring update
• 2012/07/19: G&M: Oil sands monitoring must be credible
• 2012/07/16: CBC: Federal, Alberta ministers tour new oilsands monitoring sites
  Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his Alberta counterpart, Diana McQueen, spent Monday touring several new oilsands monitoring stations which are now under development in northern Alberta. The sites are part of the new joint Canada-Alberta environmental monitoring plan announced in February by Kent and McQueen, Alberta's minister of the environment and sustainable resource development. The two ministers viewed several sites around Fort McMurray where monitoring is now underway. Scientists are currently taking samples at 30 different sites.
• 2012/07/20: PostMedia: Bureaucrats found flaws in oilsands study for European Parliament: Memos
  Energy policy advisers at Natural Resources Canada who worked closely with an oil and gas lobby group advised the federal government that there were "numerous flaws" in a scientific study used by the European Union to justify climate change policies that would single out fossil fuels from Alberta's oilpatch, internal government memos obtained by Postmedia News have revealed.

Also in Alberta:

• 2012/07/20: CBC: Alberta pipeline review to assure Canadians, [Alberta Energy Minister Ken Hughes] says -- Review follows recent pipeline spills
• 2012/07/20: CBC: Alberta pledges pipeline safety review
  3-pronged review to be carried out by independent third party, energy minister says
• 2012/07/17: CPW: In Alberta, A Public Oil Pipeline Spill Tip Line Is Launched
• 2012/07/16: DeSmogBlog: Albertans Seek Pipeline Safety Investigation, Launch Spill Tipline

  While in Saskatchewan:

• 2012/07/17: PEF: Mosaic Profit Argues for Higher Royalties [on potash]
• 2012/07/15: NewsWire: Viterra Update
• 2012/07/16: Impolitical:Just your average Sunday in July
• 2012/07/15: CBC: Glencore gets federal approval for Viterra takeover
  The federal government signed off Sunday on Glencore International PLC's bid to acquire Canadian agribusiness giant Viterra Inc, bringing the Swiss commodities supplier's multi-billion dollar transaction one step closer to completion. The $6.1 billion bid was approved by Industry Minister Christian Paradis under the Investment Canada Act.

As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

• 2012/07/19: SudburySteve: Greens Doing Politics Differently: A Smart Play by Elizabeth May in Etobicoke Centre

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

• 2012/07/18: TheBullet: Cuba's Coming Co-operative Economy? Reflections From Two Recent Field Trips
• 2012/07/19: EnergyBulletin: The roots of cooperative capitalism run deep in Japan
• 2012/07/19: EnergyBulletin: Diggers 2012 set up camp at Runnymede
• 2012/07/16: CCurrents: "Steady State Economy" - A Positive Vision In International Affairs
• 2012/07/16: EnergyBulletin: "Steady state economy" -- a positive vision in international affairs
• 2012/07/15: EnergyBulletin: Resilience through simplification: revisiting Tainter's theory of collapse (part 2)

  What do we tell the children?

• 2012/07/20: DemNow: Climate Parents: For Kids' Future, Mark Hertsgaard Urges Families to Take On Global Warming

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

• 2012/07/16: Grist: Third-World problems in the First World: We need family planning to fight poverty in the U.S. too
• 2012/07/16: NBF: Population change and CO2 Emissions are not Correlated
• 2012/07/14: RawStory: Oxford computing prof claims overpopulation is at the root of all the planet's troubles

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2012/07/13: AlterNet: What's Up With America's Apocalypse Obsession?

  How do the media measure up?

• 2012/07/21: CJR: Flames, causes and context
  As Western wildfires rage, reporters grapple with stories beyond acreage burned and homes destroyed
• 2012/07/20: FAIR: Action Alert: CBS's Climate Change Denying Weather Expert?
• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: The Calving Glacier Heard 'Round the World (Video)
• 2012/07/19: PlanetJ: Politics isn't bad; it's the reporting
• 2012/07/19: KSJT: Guardian, DailyMail Online: From different newspaper traditions, two good stories (ocean sequestration and UK climate)
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Fox's Neil Cavuto: Epic Heat Wave Means We Should Drill For More Oil
• 2012/07/17: Wonkette: Let Us Pause to Honor the 47th Most Courageous Press Corps in the World
• 2012/07/15: AlterNet: How A Koch-Affiliated Group Is Infiltrating State News Coverage in Mainstream Papers

  A particularly egregious example of misreporting:

• 2012/07/19: GeoEngPol: More Questionable Reporting from the Guardian
  [...]
  The Guardian is entitled to its opinion about geoengineering. But it is not entitled to make up facts. This story falls far short of any reasonable set of journalistic standards, and ought to be corrected in full. The geoengineering debate, including its critics, deserves better than this.
• 2012/07/18: GoogleGroups:GeoEng: David Keith - New Mexico experiment, press reaction [media]
  Despite the quotes Martin Lukacs the reporter for the Guardian did not talk to either Jim Anderson or me in reporting this story. The story is incorrect in several crucial ways. First and most important no experiment is definitely planed or funded.
  [...]
  While this story appears in a reputable paper has the appearance of primary reporting, it seems to have been assembled from fragments found on the web without even the most basic fact-checking.
• 2012/07/17: Guardian(UK): US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon
  Experiment in New Mexico will try to establish the possibility of cooling the planet by dispersing sulphate aerosols
• 2012/07/17: RawStory: Geoengineers to release planet-cooling gas into New Mexico atmosphere

  Here is something for your library:

• 2012/07/19: Guardian(UK): Ignorance by Stuart Firestein; It's Not Rocket Science by Ben Miller - review
  Two lively books offer contrasting views of what science is really about
• 2012/07/21: CSW: Jon Koomey on climate change mitigation, corporate power, social responsibility, and the role of the market
  [Author Interview] _Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs_ by Jonathan Koomey
• 2012/07/22: Guardian(UK): Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll - review
  A Pulitzer prize-winning journalist explores the financial and political muscle of America's biggest oil company
• 2012/07/18: HotTopic: Waking the Giant
  [Book Review] _Waking the Giant: How a Changing Climate Triggers Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes_ by Bill McGuire
• 2012/07/18: WestCorkTimes: Peak Oil author launches new book on "one of the greatest problems ever to face mankind"
  [Book Plug] _Peak Oil Personalities_ compiled by Colin Campbell

And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2012/07/20: CCurrents: The Story Of Change by Annie Leonard
• 2012/07/19: PSinclair: John Abraham on Climate, Science, and Evapotransporation.
• 2012/07/18: 350orBust: Change Is Coming: This Dinosaur Economy Is Going Extinct

  As for podcasts:

• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: Podcast: The Consequences Of Offshore Oil Drilling In Arctic Waters

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2012/07/20: S&R: Appeals court finds arguments against EPA's greenhouse gas Tailoring Rule illogical
• 2012/07/18: PlanetArk: Appeals court upholds EPA air quality rule
• 2012/07/19: S&R: DC appeals court says EPA's interpretation of Clean Air Act "unambiguously correct"
• 2012/07/19: ERabett: EINAL
• 2012/07/18: S&R: DC appeals court rejects attacks on EPA's greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding
• 2012/07/17: BWeek: Industry Group Loses Challenge to Nitrogen Dioxide Rules
  The first new U.S. standard for nitrogen dioxide in at least 35 years was upheld by a federal appeals court, which said the Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to attempt to improve air quality around the nation's busiest roadways. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today threw out a challenge by the American Petroleum Institute to regulations restricting the peak amount of nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, from tailpipes and smokestacks that can be present in the air during a one-hour period.
• 2012/07/18: OilChange: Nigeria: Shell to Pay $5 Billion Fine?
• 2012/07/17: al Jazeera: Shell could face huge fine for Nigeria spill
  Nigerian agency tells parliament oil giant should pay $5bn for environmental damage caused by offshore leak last year.
• 2012/07/17: S&R: Historical context behind the court ruling that the EPA may regulate greenhouse gases
• 2012/07/16: HotTopic: When asses go to court

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2012/07/20: CCurrents: Blackouts Increasing In The U.S.
• 2012/07/18: LA Times: Manipulation of California energy market gives consumers a jolt
  The next time your electricity bill prompts you to curse your local utility, here's another target where you should direct your anger: JPMorgan Chase & Co., which has manipulated the California energy market for its own profit and at a cost to residents and businesses in the state that could be $100 million, $200 million or much more. That's the accusation leveled by the California Independent System Operator, which has jurisdiction over 80% of the state's electrical transmission. The ISO, a nonprofit corporation controlled by the state government, estimates that JPMorgan may have gamed the state's power market for $57 million in improper payments over six months in 2010 and 2011.
• 2012/07/19: Grist: Why do 'experts' always lowball clean-energy projections?
• 2012/07/17: EnergyBulletin: World Energy Consumption Facts, Figures, and Shockers
• 2012/07/17: PlanetArk: Con Edison reduces power voltage [brown-out] in parts of Manhattan

  What's changing in energy sources?

• 2012/07/16: Platts: Ukraine, China sign $3.7 bil loan deal to move power plants from gas to coal
• 2012/07/15: SciAm:PI: Fossil Fuels Compete for Generation
• 2012/07/15: NPR: From Coal To Gas: The Potential Risks And Rewards

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

• 2012/07/17: GreenGrok: Fracking: Underground Connections Could Spell Drinking Water Troubles
• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: Top New York Regulator [Bradley J. Field] Promoting Shale Gas Signed A Climate Denial Petition Stating That Increases In CO2 Are 'Beneficial'
• 2012/07/20: UpstreamOnline: France not budging on [fracking] ban
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: 75% of New York's Active Oil & Gas Wells Go Uninspected Every Year
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: Protecting Groundwater: A Guide To Fracking Risks And Best Practices
• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: Rupert Murdoch Needs Some Schooling on Shale Gas & Climate Change

  On the coal front:

• 2012/07/20: Grist: A tragicomic tale of coal industry incompetence and disregard
• 2012/07/17: TruthDig: The Battle of Blair Mountain by Chris Hedges

  On the gas and oil front:

• 2012/07/20: BBerg: Closing oil prices Friday
  OIL (US$/bbl)
  Nymex Crude Future...91.83
  Dated Brent Spot....107.33
  WTI Cushing Spot.....91.44
• 2012/07/19: EnergyBulletin: On the Far Side of Denial
• 2012/07/22: OilDrum: Tech Talk - Saudi Arabia then and now
• 2012/07/18: EarlyWarning: Tight Oil could not Render OPEC Irrelevant
• 2012/07/16: BBC: A report commissioned by the G20 group of the world's biggest economies has warned oil prices could be vulnerable to a Libor-style rigging scandal

  Regarding oil and the economy:

• 2012/07/20: EnergyBulletin: Evidence that oil limits are leading to limits to GDP growth
• 2012/07/19: OilDrum: Evidence that Oil Limits are Leading to Limits to GDP Growth

  And in pipeline news:

• 2012/07/17: EurActiv: Final decision on South Stream pipeline in sight
  A consortium backing the Gazprom-led South Stream pipeline expects to make a final investment decision within months, says the head of one of its second largest shareholder, Italy's Eni energy.
• 2012/07/17: BCLSB: Enbridge Cleans Up [Kalamazoo]

  Yes we have peak everything:

• 2012/07/21: DD: 'Peak oil' a certainty, just as was 'peak cod'
• 2012/07/18: EconBrowser: Maugeri on peak oil
• 2012/07/19: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: Technology races depletion
• 2012/07/19: EnergyBulletin: Maugeri on peak oil by James Hamilton
• 2012/07/22: PeakEnergy: Peak oil debunked? The mechanisms of denial at work
• 2012/07/09: LeMonde:Petrole: "Denying the imminence of Peak Oil is a Tragic Error", says ex- IEA petroleum expert
• 2012/07/18: WestCorkTimes: Peak Oil author launches new book on "one of the greatest problems ever to face mankind"
  [Book Plug] _Peak Oil Personalities_ compiled by Colin Campbell
• 2012/07/18: WalesOnline: What will we do when all the oil is gone?
• 2012/07/16: CassandrasLegacy: Peak oil debunked? The mechanisms of denial at work

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2012/07/17: AutoBG: New biofuel process dramatically improves energy recovery

  The answer my friend...:

• 2012/07/20: TreeHugger: New Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Prototype Takes Aim at Urban Wind Power
• 2012/07/20: EurActiv: Europe's offshore wind power capacity up 50% in a year
  Europe's offshore wind capacity soared by 50% in the first half of 2012, compared to a year before, figures from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) show. The association's 'key trends and statistics' report says that 132 new offshore wind turbines, providing 523 megawatts (MW) of power were fully connected to the grid in the first six months of 2012, compared to 348.1 MW in the same period in 2011.
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Mixed Signals In Europe's Offshore Wind Market: Industry On Track For 'Best Year Ever,' But Orders For New Turbines Slow
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: Denmark Ups Its Wind Power Ambition to 50% by 2020
• 2012/07/16: BBerg: Offshore Wind Slump Means No Firm Orders for GE, Siemens
  [...]
  Banks have curbed lending to developers as Europe's financial crisis spread, and utilities held off on new projects because of delays in connecting existing ones to high-voltage transmission grids.

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2012/07/20: Eureka: UCLA researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity
• 2012/07/19: NBF: Another Solar Company Shuts Down -- Amonix in North Las Vegas
• 2012/07/18: EnergyBulletin: High Noon for solar: a twist on the spaghetti western
  You know what fries my bacon? In 2011, Germany installed more solar power in one year than Americans have in fifty
• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: World's First Solar-Geothermal Hybrid Plant Opens in the Nevada Desert

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2012/07/19: APR: SoCal Ed receives NRC Inspection report on San Onofre
• 2012/07/19: NBF: Background Radiation Levels
• 2012/07/19: CSM: Feds: California nuclear plant didn't mislead regulators
  Federal regulators Thursday concluded that the operator of the San Onofre nuclear power plant in California did not mislead the government about modifications to its troubled steam generators, where unusual damage has been found on scores of tubes that carry radioactive water.
• 2012/07/17: APR: Ohi No. 4 startup and modifications
• 2012/07/18: APR: Babcock & Wilcox SMR [small modular reactor] test facility now operational
• 2012/07/16: NBF: China will start to build the ACP100 Pressure Water Nuclear Reactor in 2013
• 2012/07/16: BBC: Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear plant delayed again
  The launch of a flagship nuclear power station in Finland has been delayed for a third time, officials say. Finnish electricity company TVO says the Olkiluoto 3 plant will not be ready by the latest deadline of 2014 and a new timetable has not yet been set. The plant will be powered by a new generation of nuclear technology called the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR).
• 2012/07/16: PlanetArk: UAE nuclear plant gets environmental OK
  Abu Dhabi's environment agency has approved plans for the United Arab Emirates' first nuclear power plant, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said on Sunday, adding that it is still awaiting a construction license. The no objection certificate from the environmental regulator is one of several approvals needed for construction to begin on the two reactors at the Barakah nuclear power plant.

Nuclear waste storage requires _very_ long term thinking:

• 2012/07/20: BBC: Report on high-level nuclear waste storage for Cumbria

  Like a mirage, the dream of a Hydrogen Economy shimmers on the horizon:

• 2012/07/17: Eureka: Calculations reveal fine line for hydrogen release from storage materials
  UC Santa Barbara scientists calculate microscopic reaction mechanisms in promising energy storage material aluminum hydride -- and challenge outdated reaction curve interpretations Hydrogen, the simplest and most abundant element on Earth, is a promising energy carrier for emerging clean energy technology.

More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2012/07/16: NBF: EU Super Coated Conductor Cable

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2012/07/16: CBC: Canada scores 2nd last on energy efficiency study -- 12 industrialized countries examined

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

• 2012/07/20: NBF: Elon Musk, Tesla Electric Cars, Predicts Half of New Cars will be Electric around 2024-2032
• 2012/07/20: SciNow: An Electric Car That Actually Goes Far?
• 2012/07/17: NBF: Successful prototype of 10kW high efficiency rectenna for wireless power for electric trucks

  As for Energy Storage:

• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): 'Air' batteries could energize EVs
  UK researchers have made a key step in development of a lithium-air battery, a device that promises three to five times as much energy per unit mass as the existing lithium-ion.
• 2012/07/19: Eureka: New ultracapacitor delivers a jolt of energy at a constant voltage

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2012/07/17: DeSmogBlog: Does Red Leaf's "EcoShale" Technology Greenwash Oil Shale Extraction?

  Who's fielding theFAQs?

• 2012/07/16: Guardian(UK): What is a carbon price and why do we need one?

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

• 2012/07/20: TP:JR: July 20 News...
• 2012/07/19: TP:JR: July 19 News...
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: July 18 News...
• 2012/07/17: TP:JR: July 17 News...
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: July 16 News...

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2012/07/20: EnergyBulletin: ODAC Newsletter
• 2012/07/16: BPA: Agriculture News

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2012/07/21: C&S: Tony's WUWT Non-Science
• 2012/07/20: 350orBust: Global Warming: Most Of Us Say Catastrophe, Big Oil Says Opportunity
• 2012/07/19: ISS: Climate science attack group turns sights on Texas professors
• 2012/07/08: ClimSciFOI: ATI/Horner targetting Texas scientists with media contacts
• 2012/07/19: CCP: Climate science attack group ATI turns sights on Texas professors Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Dessler
• 2012/07/19: WottsUWT: New paper blames about half of global warming on weather station data homogenization
• 2012/07/19: C&S: The "skeptic's" Warped World View -- A real defamation from that oh-so-pure Climate Audit
• 2012/07/17: VV: Investigation of methods for hydroclimatic data homogenization
• 2012/07/18: Stoat: Where's the skepticism?
• 2012/07/18: Tamino: Where's the Skepticism?
• 2012/07/17: PlanetJ: The sabotaging of climate policy
• 2012/07/17: WottsUWT: Friday Funny: Dr. Michael Mann keeps interesting company

  This week in intimidation:

• 2012/07/15: CChallenge: Why must AGW-skeptics resort to attacking the messenger?

  Meanwhile in the 'clean coal' saga:

• 2012/07/20: ABC(Au): Report finds cancer risk for coal workers
  A six-year probe into cancer rates at one of Australia's largest coal loading terminals has found workers are getting cancer at nearly three times higher than average.
• 2012/07/19: TP:JR: Ten Reasons 'Clean Coal' Is Offensive
• 2012/07/18: TP:JR: Coal Union: GOP Blockage Of Coal Dust Reforms Is 'A Potential Death Sentence For Thousands Of American Miners'

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2012/07/16: CER:RRapier: Environmentalism is a Profitable Business
• 2012/07/20: Tamino: Craps
• 2012/07/21: EconView: "A Couple of Points about Climate Change"
• 2012/07/18: Grist: Slow Ride Stories: Kick-starting conversations about climate change
• 2012/07/18: TreeHugger: Tree Ring Study Heats Up Battle of Climate Change Skeptics Against Scientists
• 2012/07/17: CCurrents: Global Madness
• 2012/07/22: ERabett:BSD: The pros are using sports to explain climate science
• 2012/07/16: TP:JR: Interview: Author William deBuys On Climate Change In The Southwest
• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: Big Oil Hacked by Anonymous Over Arctic Drilling
• 2012/07/17: TreeHugger: The DIY Ethic and Creating Technology Independence
• 2012/07/16: MGS: Reality Based Decision Making
• 2012/07/16: OPB: EarthFix Conversations: High-Speed Research On Climate Change

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

• ClimSciFOI: Climate Science FOI report
• Stanford:GCEP: Global Exergy Resource Chart
• IASS: European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering
• UNCCD: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
• NOAA:NCDC: CEI - U.S. Climate Extremes Index
• Forest Europe
• The Conversation
• IPSO: International Programme on the State of the Ocean
• F&WW: Food & Water Watch
• Climate Hot Map
• Carbon Engineering
• ESA: CryoSat-2

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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