Another Week of GW News, June 23, 2013

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

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Mid-Summer's Day Edition

June 23, 2013

• Chuckles, Solstice, COP19+, Post-G8, UK Meeting, Indian Monsoon
• Sumatran Smog, European Flood, World Bank, Cook
• Fukushima: Note, News, Policies
• Melting Arctic, Arctic Birds, Methane, Antarctica
• Food: Crisis, Fisheries, GMOs, Production
• Hurricanes, Notable Weather, Extreme Weather, New Weather, Temperatures
• GHGs, Aerosols, Clouds, Paleoclimate, Oceans, Extinctions, Bees & CCD
• Impacts, Forests, Climate Refugees, Desertification, Tornadoes
• Wildfires, Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
• Mitigation, Cities, Biomimicry, Designed Endurance, Transportation
• Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Conservation, Adaptation
• Journals, Other Docs, Misc. Science, Models, Mees, Storch
• International Politics: UN, Carbon Trade, Bank Tax, Hormuz, South China Sea, Treaties
• Nile, Misc, Security, Law & Activism, Activism, Polls, H2O Biz, Groundwater
• National Politics: Britain, Europe, Australia, Critical Decade, Election, MDBP, China, Asia, South America
• Canada, Science, Funding, Alberta Flood, Convention, Northern Gateway
• East-West, Salmon, BC, Tar Sands, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Maritimes, North
• America, BP Disaster, Post Sandy, Keystone, Mayflower, Carbon Tax
• Birth Control, Coal Exports, Sequestration, 2016, Obama, USAdmin, Congress
• Ecological Economics, Children, IPAT, Apocalypso, Fixes, Media, Books, Video, Courts, Betting
• Energy, Transitions, Fracking, Coal, Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Independence, Peak Oil
• Biofuel, Wind, Solar, Nukes, Nuclear Waste, Hydrogen, Cars, Energy Storage
• Insurance, Joe's List, Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, A Simple Plea, .sig

Here's a wee chuckle for ye:

• 2013/06/23: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Tuesday - What he says vs What he does
• 2013/06/22: SeppoNet: (cartoon - Seppo) Have a laid-back summer solstice
• 2013/06/22: TP:JR: (cartoon - ?) Competing Models of Climate Change
• 2013/06/20: CotI: (cartoon - Roberts) Shell's pre-emptive injunction re-Greenpeace #arctic' #oil, #greenpeace
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): (cartoon - Bell) Mr. Potato Head
• 2013/06/19: uComics: (cartoon - Auth) Reconstruction
• 2013/06/17: CotI: (cartoon - Roberts) Pentagon plans for mass dissent, #pentagon, #police state, #climate change
  

  Hope you had a swingin' Solstice:

• 2013/06/21: APOD: A Solstice Sunset Self Portrait
• 2013/06/21: SciAm:LP: Why we celebrate the summer solstice
• 2013/06/21: CSM: First day of summer 2013: What is a solstice anyway?
• 2013/06/21: CSM: First day of summer 2013: where our solstice traditions come from
• 2013/06/20: CSM: Summer solstice 2013: Longest day, best Mercury-spotting
• 2013/06/13: CNN: Summer solstice: It's all about sex
  In many cultures, the longest day of the year is marked with celebrations meant to fan the flames of love and lust. - In Sweden, Midsummer is followed by a baby boom nine months later. - In Eastern Europe, the solstice is celebrated on Kupala Day, a kind of Slavic St. Valentine's. - In some villages in Northern Greece, women gather around to exchange bawdy rhymes on the morning of the solstice.
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  Looking ahead to COP19 and future international climate negotiations:

   

• 2013/06/21: RTCC: UN: business must take lead in climate adaptation
• 2013/06/20: RTCC: Solomon Islands dismiss US voluntary climate targets plan
  The slow pace of the UN climate negotiations and the possibility of voluntary emission reductions in the new global treaty leave those vulnerable to climate impacts facing an uncertain future.
• 2013/06/20: RTCC: GEF pushes climate finance support for developing nations
  The Global Environment Facility's role as an operating entity of the financial mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has involved - and will continue to involve - robust financial support for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects and programs throughout the developing world and in countries with economies in transition.
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: Trade fears blocking progress on REDD+ at UN climate talks
  

  Post G8 commentary:

• 2013/06/20: RTCC: G8 climate and security link 'significant' says expert
  A short line of text in this week's G8 communique linking climate change to global security concerns could influence the way rising emissions are dealt with at an international level. Leaders cited climate change as a "contributing factor in increased economic and security risks globally", a step former UK government advisor Tom Burke says is hugely significant. "That's the first time I can recall an explicit statement from the G8 leaders that this is not an environmental issue. It is an economic and security issue," he told RTCC.
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: G8 leaders commit to 2015 climate change treaty
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: Climate change drops off G8 summit agenda
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: Hollande urges G8 leaders to focus on climate challenge
  Francois Hollande has called on world leaders attending the G8 summit in Northern Ireland this week to consider what steps they can take to cut the growth of global carbon emissions.
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  We can expect to see a lot more of this kind of extraordinary meeting as climate change progresses:

   

• 2013/06/22: Guardian(UK): 40 consequences of 10 wet summers: what will a decade of rain do to us?
• 2013/06/21: al Jazeera: A decade of soggy summer
  The biggest brains in the UK try to determine why recent summers have been a washout
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): Met Office meeting: UK's spell of awful summers is set to continue
  Forecast that Britain could be in middle of 10-20 year 'cycle' of wet summers delivered following gathering at Met Office
• 2013/06/18: BBC: What's going on with the weather?
• 2013/06/18: BBC: Scientists say UK wet summers down to Atlantic warming
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): Weather experts to discuss unusual UK seasons
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: Climate change a factor in UK's unusual weather - Met Office
• 2013/06/17: BBC: Met Office experts meet to analyse 'unusual' weather patterns
  

  In Northern India, the monsoon has been disastrous this year:

• 2013/06/23: Xinhuanet: 1,000 people feared killed in monsoon floods in northern India
• 2013/06/23: CNN: Up to 1,000 feared dead in India floods, landslides
  The exact number of those killed will not be clear until the mess is cleaned up - Uttarakhand state is the worst-hit
• 2013/06/23: ABC(Au): India monsoon: Rescuers race against time as flood death toll nears 600 [pix]
• 2013/06/22: PLNA: Floods in Northern India, The Worst in the History of Himalaya
• 2013/06/22: BBC: India floods death toll 'could rise to 1,000'
  The death toll in flash floods and landslides in northern India could climb to 1,000, officials have warned. More than 600 people are confirmed dead with more than 40,000 still said to be stranded in the mountains of Uttarakhand state.
• 2013/06/22: BBC: India floods: Rescue efforts intensify, as death toll rises
• 2013/06/22: ABC(Au): 550 dead in Indian floods
• 2013/06/22: Wunderground: Over 500 Killed in India's Monsoon Floods
• 2013/06/22: Xinhuanet: 600 killed, hundreds missing in monsoon floods in northern India
• 2013/06/22: RT: 'Destruction all around': Hundreds dead, tens of thousands missing in India monsoon (video, photos)
• 2013/06/22: al Jazeera: India monsoon flooding kills nearly 600
  Major rescue operation under way to help thousands of people stranded in worst-hit state of Uttarakhand.
• 2013/06/22: IOTD: Severe Flooding in Northern India, Nepal
• 2013/06/21: BBC: India floods: Death toll in Uttarakhand 'passes 500'
• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): India flood and landslide death toll nears 600 as army steps up evacuations
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Paratroopers aid India flood victims as death toll soars -- More than 200 dead, at least 50,000 people stranded in northern Uttrakhand state
• 2013/06/21: Xinhuanet: 207 killed, 50,000 stranded in monsoon floods in northern India
• 2013/06/21: CDreams: 5,000 Missing in India Floods: Scientists Say Global Warming is to Blame
• 2013/06/21: CNN: 'Nothing but death in front of us' -- Survivors of India floods recount horror
  "We had to walk over dead bodies," says one survivor - Severe flooding has left more than 50,000 people stranded in northern India - Authorities put the death toll at more than 500 but say they fear it will rise - Many people are searching for people lost in the chaos
• 2013/06/20: RTCC: Climate adaptation planning 'could have prevented' Uttarakhand deaths
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: As Secretary Kerry Heads To India, Deadly Floods Demonstrate The Urgency Of Climate Change
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Indian military rescues thousands from floodwaters -- Nearly 61,000 still cut off in stricken northern region
• 2013/06/20: DD: Indian monsoon flooding 'leaves 1000 dead'...
• 2013/06/20: ABC(Au): India monsoon: soldiers search for survivors amid warnings 1,000 may have been killed
• 2013/06/20: al Jazeera: India battles to rescue flood survivors
  Floods triggered by rains in north of country have left 120 dead, besides stranding thousands of Hindu pilgrims.
• 2013/06/20: Eureka: Ups-and-downs of Indian monsoon rainfall likely to increase under warming
• 2013/06/19: BBC: Bad weather is hampering rescue operations in the flood-hit northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, where nearly 150 people have died
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Monsoon floods kill almost 120 in India
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): India monsoon death toll rises to more than 130
• 2013/06/19: al Jazeera: Flood death toll in Indian hilly states climb
  At least 130 people killed and thousands displaced after torrential rains devastate two states in northern India
• 2013/06/18: BBC: North India floods: Army leads rescue operations
  Military helicopters are leading rescue operations in India's flood-hit northern states, where 130 people are now known to have died.
• 2013/06/18: BBC: In pictures: India floods
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): India monsoon floods kill at least 64 people, leave thousands stranded
• 2013/06/17: al Jazeera: Deadly monsoon rains sweep north India
  At least 26 reported killed by early monsoon rains in Uttarakhand state as army leads rescue efforts in flooded areas.
• 2013/06/17: al Jazeera: The monsoon arrives one month early
  The rains have swept across India and into Pakistan four weeks ahead of schedule.
• 2013/06/17: BBC: The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in northern India has passed 60, state-run broadcaster Doordarshan says
• 2013/06/17: CBC: India floods wash away buildings, killing at least 23 -- Dozens of people missing in northern state of Uttarakhand
• 2013/06/17: IndiaTimes: Heavy rain in north India triggers landslides, floods; toll 22
  Heavy monsoon rain on Monday wreaked havoc in the hill states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh and flooded parts of Haryana where the water level in the Yamuna rose alarmingly, leaving 22 people dead and 1000 stranded.
• 2013/06/16: al Jazeera: Early monsoon gives hope to Indian farmers
  Monsoon begins in parts of India, bringing hope to millions of farmers who depend on the rains for their livelihood.
• 2013/06/16: BBC: Heavy rains in India's Uttarakhand 'kill 10 people'
  

  The yearly South East Asian smog alert is up:

• 2013/06/23: ABC(Au): State of emergency declared in Malaysia due to haze
  Malaysia has declared a state of emergency in two parts of the southern state of Johor as smoke from land-clearing fires in Indonesia has pushed air pollution above the level considered hazardous. The illegal burning of forests and other land on Indonesia's Sumatra island to clear space for palm oil plantations is a chronic problem during the June-September dry season.
• 2013/06/23: Xinhuanet: Haze deteriorates in Malaysia, emergency announced
  The Malaysian government declared a state of emergency in two southern districts on Sunday as the recent haze shrouding part of the country thickened throughout the weekend.
• 2013/06/23: IndiaTimes: Malaysia declares emergency as Indonesia smoke pollution thickens
• 2013/06/22: BBC: Singapore mulls legal action over smog from Indonesia fires
  Officials in Singapore say they are exploring whether to charge two Singapore-based companies in connection with severe smog triggered by forest fires in Indonesia. The companies own land on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Singapore's foreign minister said he had asked the attorney-general to consider the legal options. However, he said it was mainly up to Indonesia to take action against the companies. The firms, Asia Pacific Resources International (April) and Sinar Mas, are headquartered in Singapore but have Indonesian owners.
• 2013/06/21: Grist: Indonesia to seed clouds, try to put out huge plantation fires
• 2013/06/21: CNN: Singapore in haze over worsening smog
  Singapore's pollution index hits record high as smoke lingers over city state - Reading hits 401, while anything above 300 is considered "hazardous" - The smoke, caused by seasonal burn off in Sumatra, is straining political relations - Singapore PM says it could last for weeks, if not months
• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): Singapore air pollution hits record high
• 2013/06/21: TreeHugger: Indonesia to Singapore: Life-threatening pollution isn't a big deal, so shut up
• 2013/06/21: IOTD: Smoke Engulfs Singapore
• 2013/06/21: ABC(Au): Singapore smog hits critical level, life-threatening for the ill and elderly
  Singapore's smog index has hit the critical 400 level, making it potentially life-threatening to the ill and elderly people, according to a government monitoring site. The record level was reached after a rapid rise for the third day in a row in the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI), which measures the haze crisis caused by Indonesian forest fires.
• 2013/06/21: RTCC: Indonesian government blamed for Singapore smog
  Severe smog in Singapore is the fault of the Indonesian government's failure to enforce forest protection laws, according to Greenpeace South Asia.
• 2013/06/21: IndiaTimes: Indonesian fires worsen, Singapore smog sets record
• 2013/06/21: RT: Singapore smoke hits life-threatening levels, authorities attempting to 'seed' clouds (photos)
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Indonesian fires fuel hazardous haze -- Massive plumes of smog drift to neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia
• 2013/06/21: ABC(Au): Heavy smog over Singapore creates diplomatic friction with Indonesia
• 2013/06/21: ABC(Au): Singapore smog index exceeds critical level
• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: Singapore's record-breaking smog is so bad, birds are falling from the sky
• 2013/06/20: BBC: New pollution high as haze chokes Singapore
  Pollution levels reached a new record high for a third day in a row in Singapore, as smoky haze from fires in Indonesia shrouded the city state. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit 401 at 12:00 on Friday (04:00 GMT) - the highest in the country's history.
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Smoky haze blankets Singapore -- Air quality plunges as forest fires rage in neighbouring Indonesia
• 2013/06/20: CDreams: Palm-Oil Giants Dodge Responsibility for Toxic Smog Covering Singapore
• 2013/06/20: IndiaTimes: Singapore haze at worst yet, Malaysia schools shut
• 2013/06/20: al Jazeera: Haze casts shadow over Singapore-Jakarta ties
  Indonesia accuses Singapore of "behaving like a child", as smog from Sumatra forest fires envelopes city-state.
• 2013/06/19: BBC: Singapore smog hits hazardous levels
  Haze in Singapore soared to hazardous levels again on Thursday, prompting government health warnings. At 13:00 local time (05:00GMT) Singapore's pollution standards index (PSI) reached 371, breaking all previous records. The haze is caused by illegal forest fires in Indonesia's Sumatra island.
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): Singapore smog levels set new record soaring towards 'hazardous' level
• 2013/06/17: BBC: Singapore hit by highest haze levels in 16 years
  Singapore has been hit by severe haze from forest fires in nearby Indonesia, prompting a health alert from the government. The Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reached 155 on Monday evening, well above the healthy limit of 100, and the highest level since 1997.
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  The European floods are ongoing:

   

• 2013/06/21: DerSpiegel: Lightning, Floods, Debris: Thunderstorms Hammer Germany
  The Old Testament-like weather that has surged through Germany over the past weeks showed no signs of abating Thursday night. Lightening, thunder, heavy rain and hail pelted much of the country, as emergency crews worked through the night to minimize the damage.
• 2013/06/20: Wunderground: May 2013 Earth's 3rd Warmest May; Central European Floods Cost $22 Billion
• 2013/06/17: DerSpiegel: Battling the Floods: Ships Sunk to Plug Massive Dike Breach
  Three large barges were sunk over the weekend in a desperate effort to plug a massive breach in an Elbe River dike just east of Berlin. The operation became necessary due to continued flooding of several villages behind the break. It appears to have been successful.
• 2013/06/16: DD: Europe: Floods are here to stay
  

  What's the World Bank up to?

• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: World Bank Report: 'A Disastrously Warming Planet Threatens To… Roll Back Decades Of Development'
• 2013/06/20: CCurrents: Poorest Will Feel Brunt Of Climate Crisis, Warns World Bank
  

  John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

• 2013/06/22: SkS: Is More Global Warming Hiding in the Oceans? by dana1981
• 2013/06/22: SkS: Jim Powell's Inquisition of Climate Science now available in paperback
• 2013/06/21: SkS: 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25B by John Hartz
• 2013/06/20: SkS: The Consensus Project data visualisation - a history by Paul D
• 2013/06/19: SkS: 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25A by John Hartz
• 2013/06/19: SkS: New paper on agnotology and scientific consensus
• 2013/06/18: SkS: Citizens Climate Lobby - Pushing for a US Carbon Fee and Dividend by dana1981
• 2013/06/17: SkS: 2013 SkS Weekly Digest #24 by John Hartz
• 2013/06/17: SkS: How SkS-Material gets used - Slovenian translation of the Scientific Guide by gvert, BaerbelW
  

  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.]
  And the IAEA is now saying 40 years too.
  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?

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  Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

   

• 2013/06/21: CSM: Japan's Fukushima debate: How will the meltdown affect the health of residents?
• 2013/06/21: IndiaTimes: New radioactive water leak at Fukushima: TEPCO
• 2013/06/19: BBerg: Tepco Finds Radioactive Water as Watchdog Sets Restart Rules
  Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) found unsafe levels of radioactivity in groundwater at its crippled Fukushima station, even as Japan's nuclear regulator set the clock ticking on the restart of the nation's idled reactors. The utility, known as Tepco, detected tritium levels of 500,000 becquerels per liter and strontium levels of 1,000 becquerels per liter at a monitoring well in its turbine complex at the Dai-ichi plant, it said in a statement today. Japan's nuclear safety guidelines require tritium levels at nuclear plants to remain below 60,000 becquerels per liter and strontium levels below 30 becquerels per liter. Japan's safety limit for radioactive materials in drinking water is 10 becquerels per liter.
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): Japan finds highly toxic strontium in Fukushima groundwater
• 2013/06/19: Xinhuanet: High radioactivity levels detected in groundwater at Fukushima nuke plant
• 2013/06/19: IndiaTimes: Japan finds highly toxic substance [Sr-90] in Fukushima groundwater
• 2013/06/19: BBC: Fukushima nuclear plant: Toxic isotope found in groundwater
  High levels of a toxic radioactive isotope have been found in groundwater at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator says. Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) said tests showed strontium-90 was present at 30 times the legal rate. The radioactive isotope tritium has also been detected at elevated levels.
• 2013/06/19: EneNews: NYTimes: New concerns Fukushima storage tanks are leaking contamination into Pacific Ocean
• 2013/06/19: EneNews: TV: Groundwater shows massive spike in radioactive material at Fukushima plant - Strontium-90 up over 10,000% in past few months...
• 2013/06/19: CBC: High levels of radiation found in groundwater at Fukushima -- Strontium-90 levels near Japanese power plant are 30 times above safety limit
• 2013/06/18: TheCanadian: Good News from Fukushima: Progress on Radioactive Fuel Rod Removal
  

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

• 2013/06/19: CBC: Japan OKs new nuclear safety requirements -- All but 2 of Japan's 50 reactors have been offline since early 2011
  Japan's nuclear watchdog has formally approved new safety requirements for atomic plants, paving the way for the reopening of facilities shut down since the Fukushima disaster. The new requirements approved Wednesday by the Nuclear Regulation Authority will take effect on July 8, when operators will be able to apply for inspections. If plants pass inspection, they can reopen.
• 2013/06/19: NBF: Japan has new nuclear safety guidelines and applications will start soon for 13 nuclear reactors to restart early in 2014
  

  The Arctic melt continues to garner attention:

• 2013/06/22: ArcticNews: Open Water In Areas Around North Pole
• 2013/06/21: RScribbler: The Arctic Heatwave Hits Central Siberia Pushing Temperatures to 90 Degrees and Sparking Tundra Fires
• 2013/06/21: ASI: ASI 2013 update 3: the Arctic goes POP
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Iceberg cluster off Labrador largest in 5 years
  Coast guard says bergs drifting through transatlantic shipping routes
• 2013/06/20: TMoS: Hey, It's Not Even July, Yet Arctic Ice Levels are Nearing All-Time Record Lows.
  Arctic sea ice is currently receding at about 100,000 sq. kms. a day. Because of it, we'll not only be breaking a record for sea ice loss this year but we'll be breaking it really soon, perhaps just next week.
• 2013/06/18: ASI: On persistent cyclones
  As the persistent Arctic cyclone - or PAC-2013 - of the past couple of weeks winds down...
• 2013/06/19: ERabett: The Melting Season Arrives
• 2013/06/18: PSinclair: Richard Alley on Greenland Part 1
• 2013/06/17: USheffield: Jet stream changes cause climatically exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet melt
• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: Exceptional 2012 Greenland Ice Melt Caused By Jet Stream Changes That May Be Driven By Global Warming
• 2013/06/16: ArcticNews: Arctic Sea Ice September 2013 Projections
  

  How Arctic Birds cope with the northern sun:

• 2013/06/18: SciNow: Arctic Birds Have Wild Rhythms
• 2013/06/19: MPG: The rhythm of the Arctic summer -- Diverse activity patterns of birds during the Arctic breeding season
  

  That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

• 2013/06/19: RScribbler: The Methane Bomb, Clathrates, and Arctic Tundra. Life in a World at 1830 Parts Per Billion and Rising
• 2013/06/18: ArcticNews: Mean Methane Levels reach 1800 ppb
  

  While in Antarctica:

• 2013/06/23: IOTD: Ferrar Glacier, Antarctica
• 2013/06/17: Guardian(UK): Could the world's biggest marine sanctuary be declared in the Antarctic?
  

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2013/06/19: FAO: [links to several pdf] FAO Statistical Yearbook 2013
• 2013/06/22: Guardian(UK): Hunger drives hunt for gold in South Sudan's east
  Poor rains have caused food shortages and driven many to try to survive through the back-breaking work of mining gold
• 2013/06/21: TheConversation: Crop crisis: Why global grain demand will outstrip supply
• 2013/06/21: UN: UN relief officials sound alarm over deepening food insecurity in Palestine
• 2013/06/21: BBC: Uganda malnutrition: Cost of hungry children revealed
  Children not eating well costs Uganda more than 5% of its national income, the first large-scale survey of the economic impact of malnutrition shows.
• 2013/06/20: Grist: Rampaging pig virus may raise pork prices
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): Growth in crop yields inadequate to feed the world by 2050 - research
• 2013/06/20: SimpleC: Worse extreme temperature effects urge farming precautions
• 2013/06/20: TCoE: Do NOT look at the monster under your bed
• 2013/06/19: ProMedMail: Viruses, strawberry - North America
• 2013/06/19: FAO: FAO Statistical Yearbook paints a big, and detailed, picture of food and agriculture
• 2013/06/19: FAO: FAO Statistical Yearbooks - World food and agriculture
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: UN drought chief [UNCCD Executive Secretary, Luc Gnacadja]: 'famine dehumanizes us, but it is not a fate'
  Drought - severe water scarcity - claims more lives than any other disaster. Over 1.6 billion people have fallen victim since 1979.
• 2013/06/16: BBC: Climate change overseas likely to affect UK food supplies
• 2013/06/16: PLNA: Hunger and Abject Poverty Far from Ending, Says FAO
  

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

• 2013/06/21: Asia Times: Kiribati undercuts marine protection claims
• 2013/06/20: Salon: The end of sockeye salmon?
  A massive mine proposal [Pebble Mine] could wipe out half of the world's remaining wild population
• 2013/06/20: SciAm:Exp: Offshore Energy Acquisition in the Western Pacific: The Decline of the World's Most Abundant Fisheries
• 2013/06/20: NOAA:NEFSC: Changing Sea Surface Temperatures and Water Circulation Patterns Affecting Food Supply for Young Atlantic Cod
• 2013/06/19: CSM: Ocean's little fish are a big deal
• 2013/06/18: EurActiv: Dutch want their mussels free from micro-plastic litter, call on EU to act
  Toxic substances contained in micro-plastic waste can enter the food chain through ingestion by marine fauna like sea cucumbers, plankton and mussels, claim the Dutch, who will call on EU environment ministers to address the issue at a meeting today (18 June) in Luxembourg.
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Call to protect Pacific tuna industry
  The Pacific Island Tuna Industry Association has called on Pacific governments to protect local fishermen from subsidised Chinese competitors.
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  Regarding the genetic modification of food:

   

• 2013/06/22: RT: Monsanto points to sabotage at GMO-contaminated wheat field
• 2013/06/21: Grist: Chipotle is now the first restaurant to label GMOs in its food
• 2013/06/20: UCSUSA:B: Monsanto and the World Food Prize
• 2013/06/20: FDL: Monsanto's Rogue Wheat Still A Mystery
• 2013/06/19: ScienceInsider: World Food Prize Honors Ag Biotech Pioneers
• 2013/06/19: Xinhuanet: North American crops failing with reliance on GM biotechnologies: Study
  Farmers in the United States and Canada who use genetically modified (GM) seeds have lower crop yields and use more chemicals than Western European farmers who grow non-GM crops, according to New Zealand research. The University of Canterbury study, which analyzed data on agricultural productivity in North America and Western Europe over the last 50 years, could help avoid food poverty.
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Genetically-modified crop inventors win World Food Prize
• 2013/06/18: Skeptico: The Séralini Rule
• 2013/06/17: UDW: Photo Essay: Mexico Celebrates World Day Against Monsanto
  

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

• 2013/06/18: MoJo: Gagged by Big Ag -- Horrific abuse. Rampant contamination. And the crime is --- exposing it?
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Seed diversity crucial to Pacific food security
• 2013/06/17: TreeHugger: The Future of Food
• 2013/06/17: TreeHugger: Ag Gag laws are growing threat to free speech and food safety
• 2013/06/17: Guardian(UK): Uganda seed entrepreneur calls time on hand-held hoe as a tool for farmers
  Josephine Okot, founder of Uganda's leading seed company, says absence of advice and good seeds mean crop yields are only a third of their potential
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  In the Western Pacific Leepi headed toward Japan and faded, then Bebinca took at run at Hainan and the mainland:

   

• 2013/06/23: Xinhuanet: 8,000 passengers stranded as tropical storm Bebinca hits S China
• 2013/06/22: Xinhuanet: Tropical storm "Bebinca" makes landfall in S China [5 pix]
• 2013/06/17: Eureka: NASA satellite sees developing tropical depression [91W] near Philippines
  

  In the Caribbean, Tropical Storm Barry formed by the Yucatan and knocked itself out on the Mexican coast:

• 2013/06/20: Eureka: Barry expected to dissipate rapidly after landfall
• 2013/06/20: Reuters: Storm Barry heads for Mexico Gulf coast oil installations
• 2013/06/20: Wunderground: Tropical Storm Barry Hits Mexico With 45 mph Winds
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Tropical storm Barry forms off Mexico's coast
• 2013/06/19: Wunderground: Tropical Storm Barry Forms
• 2013/06/19: Wunderground: TD 2 Slowly Organizing, Headed Towards Veracruz, Mexico
• 2013/06/18: Wunderground: TD 2 Crossing the Yucatan, Bringing Heavy Rains
• 2013/06/17: Wunderground: Tropical Depression Two Forms Near Belize
• 2013/06/17: Wunderground: 93L drenching Belize, May Have Time to Develop
• 2013/06/17: Eureka: Second Atlantic season tropical depression [TD2] forms
  

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2013/06/21: MODIS: Tropical Storm Yagi (03W) off Japan [on June 11th]
  

  This week in notable weather:

• 2013/06/21: al Jazeera: New Zealand lashed by storms
  South Island hit by heavy snow and winds, with record waves off coast.
• 
  

  This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

   

• 2013/06/22: CCurrents: As Extreme Weather Increases, Bangladesh Braces For The Worst
• 2013/06/20: ArcticNews: Extreme weather becomes the norm - what can you do?
• 2013/06/18: al Jazeera: More severe weather for New Zealand
  After a spell of torrential rain, snow and ice are are now expected over the next few days.
• 
  

  Rossby Waves? Blocking Patterns? Arctic Oscillation? What is the Arctic melt doing to our weather?

   

• 2013/06/20: RScribbler: May 2013, 3rd Hottest On Record, Hosts 'Extreme Jet Stream,' Major Weather Disasters
  

  As for the temperature record:

• 2013/06/22: QuarkSoup: About the Pause
• 2013/06/20: QuarkSoup: We Live on Land, Not in the Oceans
• 2013/06/19: Wunderground: Baked Alaska: 98° Reading Ties All-Time State Heat Record
• 2013/06/19: TP:JR: Northern Over-Exposure: Record Heat Wave Envelops Alaska
• 2013/06/19: Moyhu: Better adjusted global temperatures for ENSO, Solar and volcanoes
• 2013/06/19: Moyhu: May GISS Temp up by 0.05°C
• 2013/06/19: GLaden: The Ocean is the Dog. Atmospheric Temperature is the Tail
• 2013/06/18: RScribbler: Heatwave Sends Temperatures in Alaska to 94 Degrees. Large Pulse of Warmth Envelopes Beaufort, Chukchi, and East Siberian Seas
• 2013/06/18: P3: Alaska North Slope Temperature of 90 F Recorded
• 2013/06/18: Moyhu: Adjusting global temperatures for ENSO, Solar and volcanoes
• 2013/06/17: UKISS: Australia's water temperature - way above average
• 2013/06/16: QuarkSoup: BEST Paper: AMO is Best Correlation with Global Temperatures
• 2013/06/16: Tamino: Bangs and Smoke
  

  Meanwhile on the GHG front:

• 2013/06/20: RtS: Playing the Emissions on Shuffle
  What do the emission reductions of industrialised nations look like when you count the imports manufactured overseas?
• 2013/06/18: P3: Global carbon emissions and sinks since 1750
• 2013/06/17: RScribbler: CO2 Levels Rose 6 Parts Per Million in Two Years. Are the Earth's Carbon Sinks Starting to Fill Up?
  

  Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2013/06/22: MODIS: Dust storm over the Red Sea
• 2013/06/19: MODIS: Saharan dust over the Mediterranean Sea
  

  Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:

• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): NASA turns to CloudSpotter app to create global 'cloud atlas'
  Information collected by smartphones will be matched with satellite data to measure the effect of clouds on climate
• 
  

  While in the paleoclimate:

   

• 2013/06/16: Eureka: Global cooling as significant as global warming
  A "cold snap" 116 million years ago triggered a similar marine ecosystem crisis to those witnessed in the past as a result of global warming...
• 
  

  What's the State of the Oceans?:

   

• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: NOAA predicts dead zone size of New Jersey in Gulf of Mexico
• 2013/06/19: Grist: Dead zone could break records in Gulf this year
• 2013/06/18: NOAANews: NOAA, partners predict possible record-setting dead zone for Gulf of Mexico
• 2013/06/18: Eureka: NOAA, partners predict possible record-setting deadzone for Gulf of Mexico
• 2013/06/18: USGS: NOAA, Partners Predict Possible Record-setting Deadzone for Gulf of Mexico
  

  And on the extinction watch:

• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): Blind, starving cheetahs: the new symbol of climate change?
  Thorny plants have begun to smother grasslands, transforming rangeland into impenetrable thicket -- bad news for the big cats
• 2013/06/21: IndiaTimes: Five tons of ivory tusks destroyed in Philippines
• 2013/06/20: SaskBoy: Species Worth Saving
• 2013/06/19: CBC: 1 in 8 bird species threatened with extinction
• 2013/06/19: SciAm:EC: Weird Frog Discovered by Charles Darwin May be Extinct
• 2013/06/19: CNN: Elephant killings surge as tusks fund terror
  Number of elephants killed for tusks is rising as demand for ivory soars, especially in Asia - Mark Quarterman: Africa's militant groups kill elephants for tusks to fund their atrocities - Quarterman: Future grim as the pace of killing outstrips ability to replace deaths with births - Human rights and conservation groups, he says, should combine efforts to stop suffering
• 2013/06/18: SciAm:EC: Philippines Cancels Planned Burn of Confiscated Elephant Tusks after Clean-Air Groups Object
• 2013/06/17: PSinclair: Birds in Crosshairs of Climate Extinction
• 2013/06/13: NewScientist: Up to half of all birds threatened by climate change
  

  The bees and Colony Collapse Disorder are a constant concern:

• 2013/06/21: Grist: Oh beehive: This pollinator porn will make you fall in love with bees [More Than Honey]
• 2013/06/20: Grist: Huge bee die-off in Oregon parking lot blamed on insecticide spraying
• 2013/06/19: Resilience: City Bees, Country Bees
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): 'Safe levels' of pesticides slash pond life
• 2013/06/17: NatureN: Pesticides spark broad biodiversity loss
  Agricultural chemicals affect invertebrates in streams and soil, even at 'safe' levels.
• 2013/06/17: CCP: Pesticides spark broad biodiversity loss: Agricultural chemicals affect invertebrates in streams and soil, even at 'safe' levels
  

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2013/06/22: CChallenge: World Bank considers the impact of our warming world
• 2013/06/22: CCurrents: Climate Change Is Like Atom Bomb, Scientists
• 2013/06/21: WtD: Global warming is winning: new evidence of Australia's shifting climate
• 2013/06/19: UKISS: Climate change to hurt the poorest - World Bank
• 2013/06/19: EurActiv: World Bank: Earth's poorest to be hit hardest by climate change
  Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank warned in a report released on Wednesday (19 June).
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): World's poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank
  

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2013/06/19: USDA:FS:NRS: Forest Service Study Finds Urban Trees Removing Fine Particulate Air Pollution, Saving Lives
• 2013/06/19: UBonn: The contribution of particulate matter to forest decline
  Bonn University scientists demonstrate that hygroscopic air pollutants decrease tree drought tolerance Air pollution is related to forest decline and also appears to attack the protecting wax on tree leaves and needles. Bonn University scientists have now discovered a responsible mechanism: particulate matter salt compounds that become deliquescent because of humidity and form a wick-like structure that removes water from leaves and promotes dehydration.
• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: What Fighting Deforestation Can And Can't Achieve
  

  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2013/06/17: EUO: New wave of migrants reaches Lampedusa
  

  Desertification looms as a threat:

• 2013/06/17: UNCCD: United Nations calls for global action on drought
• 2013/06/17: UNCCD: WMO Message on the Occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification 2013
• 2013/06/17: UNCCD: The World Day to Combat Desertification is Monday, 17 June
• 2013/06/17: UN: On World Day, UN officials urge global action to increase response to drought
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: UN drought chief [UNCCD Executive Secretary, Luc Gnacadja]: 'famine dehumanizes us, but it is not a fate'
  Drought - severe water scarcity - claims more lives than any other disaster. Over 1.6 billion people have fallen victim since 1979.
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: Ban Ki Moon calls on leaders to take drought threat seriously
  

  On the tornado front:

• 2013/06/19: Wunderground: Tornado Hits Denver International Airport
• 2013/06/17: HillHeat: The Link Between Climate Change And Tornadoes Is Atmospheric Physics
  

  As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2013/06/23: RScribbler: 'Unprecedented' West Fork Fires Explode to 60,000 Acres, Town of South Fork Evacuated
• 2013/06/22: CSM: South Fork fire forces town to evacuate
  Fire crews with tankers and hoses at the ready stood guard Friday night as a massive and fast-burning wildfire threatened a popular mountain tourist enclave in southwestern Colorado, forcing the evacuation of more than 400 people.
• 2013/06/23: MODIS: Fires in southeastern Africa
• 2013/06/21: Eureka: Wildfire smoke over Alaska
• 2013/06/20: DerSpiegel: Buckling Highways: German Autobahns Can't Stand the Heat
  High temperatures throughout much of Germany Wednesday have caused the country's highways to buckle and rip in many places. A motorcyclist died on Wednesday as a result.
• 2013/06/20: GreenGrok: Fire in the Rockies - Part 2
• 2013/06/19: GreenGrok: Fire in the Rockies
• 2013/06/20: DD: Video: California officials warn fire season could be worst in 100 years...
• 2013/06/20: DD: Wildfires rage in U.S. West as federal government cuts funding to prevent them
• 2013/06/18: NASA: Pyrocumulus Cloud Billowing From New Mexico's Silver Fire
• 2013/06/17: CNN: Federal investigators called in as Colorado firefighters make progress
  483 structures have been destroyed and two people have died - Sheriff is unsure when residents can return home - Sheriff: Black Forest Fire a crime scene - Royal Gorge fire, southwest of Colorado Springs, now 100% contained
• 2013/06/17: WSWS: Worst wildfire in Colorado history destroys hundreds of homes, kills two
• 2013/06/17: MODIS: Fires in the western United States
  

  Corals are a bellwether of the ocean's health:

• 2013/06/20: TheConversation: A reprieve, but the Great Barrier Reef remains on death row
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): World Heritage for Great Barrier Reef under review
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: Coral reefs can survive ocean acidity - [PNAS] report
  Two important habitats for marine life, coral reefs and eelgrass meadows, will survive climate change but it will make them vulnerable.
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): UNESCO postpones decision about adding Great Barrier Reef to 'in danger' list
  

  Acidification is changing the oceans:

• 2013/06/17: SciNews: Oysters may struggle to build shells as carbon dioxide rises -- Ocean acidification could hamper larvae's growth
• 2013/06/17: UN: UN General Assembly set to explore impacts of ocean acidification
• 2013/06/03: SciAm: Ocean Acidification Hurts Squid, Too
  A key prey species as well as predator in the world's oceans may find it hard to form key bones
• 
  

  Glaciers are melting:

   

• 2013/06/22: FaGP: Jaonli Glacier Thinning and Retreat, Uttarakhand India
• 2013/06/18: FaGP: Nioghalvfjerdsbræ (79) Glacier, Northeast Greenland
  

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2013/06/21: CCP: "Goodbye, Miami" from Rolling Stone Magazine
• 2013/06/20: UCSUSA:B: Today's "King Tides" Preview the Future of Sea Level Rise
• 2013/06/17: UCSUSA:B: Birthplace of American Democracy Faces Threat from Accelerating Sea Level Rise
  

  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]. See also, and:

• 2013/06/22: Guardian(UK): 40 consequences of 10 wet summers: what will a decade of rain do to us?
• 2013/06/22: ABC(Au): SES issues flash flooding warning for NSW coast
• 2013/06/21: CDreams: Megadrought in US Southwest: A Bad Omen for Forests Globally
  Scientists studying a prolonged and severe drought in the southwestern U.S. say that extensive damage done to trees in that region portends what lies in store as other forests worldwide face rising temperatures, diminished rainfall, and devastating fires.
• 2013/06/20: Xinhuanet: Flood traps 100 in NW China school
• 2013/06/20: al Jazeera: Flooding in the Philippines
  Seasonal rains set in across the northwest Pacific threatening floods for many across the region
• 2013/06/19: DD: Graph of the Day: West and Central Africa flood displacement, June-October 2012
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Hail, flash floods hit southeast Alberta -- Funnel spotted near the southwest shore of Pakowki Lake earlier in the evening
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Thousands of people displaced by floods in the southern Philippines
• 2013/06/18: Xinhuanet: Torrential rain affects over 17,000 in Xinjiang
• 2013/06/17: DD: Why dwindling snow caused by climate change might dry out Los Angeles
• 2013/06/16: DD: Europe: Floods are here to stay
  

  First, stop subsidizing fossil fuels
  Second, put a price on carbon
  Third, begin to reduce the human population
  And elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2013/06/17: KSJT: AP: As CO2 zooms higher adaptation becomes Plan A. Mitigation's for another day and another (political) climate
• 2013/06/17: OilChange: 80% of Fossil Fuels 'Should Stay in the Ground'
• 2013/06/16: SciAm: Climate Change Getting Worse by the Minute
  The world is not on track to reduce, or even restrain global warming. David Biello reports
• 
  

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

   

• 2013/06/21: RTCC: Profits rule as cities plan for climate change - CDP report
• 2013/06/19: CSW: Cities taking initiative on climate change preparedness
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: 48 US mayors commit to protecting communities from climate change
• 2013/06/18: BizGreen: US mayors commit to climate resilience plans
  Nearly 50 mayors from cities across the country sign declaration advocating moves to cut environmental impacts and mitigate climate risk
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Facing climate reality, cities look for ways to adapt
  

  What's new in biomimicry?

• 2013/06/17: TreeHugger: Best of Biomimicry
  

  After Planned Obsolescence comes Designed Endurance?

• 2013/06/19: TreeHugger: We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement
  

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2013/06/19: EurActiv: Airbus, Boeing in long-haul race to market green aircraft
• 2013/06/19: Resilience: Life in the Green Lane
  

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

• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: Why they hate LEED in Georgia
• 2013/06/19: TreeHugger: North Carolina may repeal energy efficiency standards to reduce building costs
• 2013/06/18: TreeHugger: Green Globes building certification system releases Anti-LEED Screed
• 2013/06/17: RTCC: Insulating your house could boost its value by £25,000
  Energy saving improvements are boosting house prices by 14-38% according to a study from the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
• 
  

  As for carbon sequestration:

   

• 2013/06/17: Eureka: An Innovative material for the Green Earth -- Simple and inexpensive process to make a material for CO2 adsorption
  Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a novel, simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous frameworks of nanocrystalline metal oxides such as magnesia and ceria by the thermal conversion of well-designed metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).
• 
  

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

   

• 2013/06/21: IEET: Fear of a Geo-engineered Planet
• 2013/06/16: BigThink: Plan B: Two Options for Climate Engineering
• 2013/07/: HarvardMag: Buffering the Sun - David Keith and the question of climate engineering
• 2013//: CUP: [Book Site] _Climate Change Geoengineering - Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks_ edited by Wil C. G. Burns & Andrew L. Strauss
• 2013/06/16: QuarkSoup: Is a Geoengineering Experiment Now Taking Place?
  

  What's new in conservation?

• 2013/06/21: TheConversation: An $80bn cry for help that will save more than just birds
  

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2013/06/20: ICN: 6 of the World's Most Extensive Climate Adaptation Plans
  New York City's ambitious $19.5 climate plan is one of many globally that seeks to adapt to higher temperatures, higher sea levels and extreme weather.
• 2013/06/19: RTCC: World Bank warns its time to focus on climate adaptation
  

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (ab$) Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality by Jae R. Pasari et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (ab$) Beginning of viniculture in France by Patrick E. McGovern et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (abs) Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century by Fridolin Krausmann et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (ab$) Laser-induced plasma cloud interaction and ice multiplication under cirrus cloud conditions by Thomas Leisner et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (ab$) Iron traps terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter at redox interfaces by Thomas Riedel et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (abs) Direct electrolytic dissolution of silicate minerals for air CO2 mitigation and carbon-negative H2 production by Greg H. Rau et al.
• 2013/06/18: PNAS: (abs) Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean ocean by Matthew A. Pasek et al.
• 2010/07/27: T&F: Agnotology as a Teaching Tool: Learning Climate Science by Studying Misinformation by Daniel Bedford
• 2013/06/07: WoL:GRL: (ab$) Anthropogenic sulfate aerosol and the southward shift of tropical precipitation in the late 20th century by Yen-Ting Hwang et al.
• 2013/06/20: ACP: Constraints on aerosol processes in climate models from vertically-resolved aircraft observations of black carbon by Z. Kipling et al.
• 2013/06/20: ACP: Volcanic SO2 fluxes derived from satellite data: a survey using OMI, GOME-2, IASI and MODIS by N. Theys et al.
• 2013/06/20: ACPD: Impacts of aerosols on the chemistry of atmospheric trace gases: a case study of peroxides and HO2 radicals by H. Liang et al.
• 2013/06/20: ACPD: The Arctic summer atmosphere: an evaluation of reanalyses using ASCOS data by C. Wesslén et al.
• 2013/06/17: ACPD: The regime of desert dust episodes in the Mediterranean based on contemporary satellite observations and ground measurements by A. Gkikas et al.
• 2013/06/20: BG: Increasing cloudiness in Arctic damps the increase in phytoplankton primary production due to sea ice receding by S. Bélanger et al.
• 2013/06/20: BGD: Partial pressure of CO2 and CO2 emission in a monsoon-driven hydroelectric reservoir (Danjiangkou Reservoir), China by S. Y. Li & Q. F. Zhang
• 2013/06/20: BGD: Different regulation of CO2 emission from streams and lakes by S. Halbedel & M. Koschorreck
• 2013/06/19: BG: Sea-air CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990-2009 by A. Lenton et al.
• 2013/06/18: BG: Photosynthate translocation increases in response to low seawater pH in a coral-dinoflagellate symbiosis by P. Tremblay et al.
• 2013/06/17: BG: Detection of large above-ground biomass variability in lowland forest ecosystems by airborne LiDAR by J. Jubanski et al.
• 2013/06/17: BG: Seasonality of CO2 in coastal oceans altered by increasing anthropogenic nutrient delivery from large rivers: evidence from the Changjiang-East China Sea system by W.-C. Chou et al.
• 2013/06/17: BG: Insights into mechanisms governing forest carbon response to nitrogen deposition: a model-data comparison using observed responses to nitrogen addition by R. Q. Thomas et al.
• 2013/06/19: BGD: Forward modeling analysis of regional scale tree-ring patterns around the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, Northwest China by X. Gou et al.
• 2013/06/17: BGD: Agricultural peat lands; towards a greenhouse gas sink - a synthesis of a Dutch landscape study by A. P. Schrier-Uijl et al.
• 2013/06/17: BGD: Isotopic composition of water-soluble nitrate in bulk atmospheric deposition at Dongsha Island: sources and implications of external N supply to the northern South China Sea by J.-Y. T. Yang et al.
• 2013/06/201: CP: Transient simulations of the carbon and nitrogen dynamics in northern peatlands: from the Last Glacial Maximum to the 21st century by R. Spahni et al.
• 2013/06/21: CPD: Statistical downscaling of a climate simulation of the last glacial cycle: temperature and precipitation over Northern Europe by N. Korhonen et al.
• 2013/06/21: CPD: Sources and transport of dust to East Antarctica: new insights from high-resolution terrestrial and marine aerosol records from the Talos Dome ice core by S. Schüpbach et al.
• 2013/06/19: CP: Synoptic climatology and recent climate trends at Lake El'gygytgyn by M. Nolan et al.
• 2013/06/19: CP: Quantitative and qualitative constraints on hind-casting the formation of multiyear lake-ice covers at Lake El'gygytgyn by M. Nolan
• 2013/06/19: CPD: Potential impact of the 74 ka Toba eruption on the Balkan region, SE Europe by B. Wagner et al.
• 2013/06/18: CPD: Assessing the impact of Laurentide Ice-Sheet topography on glacial climate by D. J. Ullman et al.
• 2013/06/18: CPD: Salinity changes in the Agulhas leakage area recorded by stable hydrogen isotopes of C37 alkenones during Termination I and II by S. Kasper et al.
• 2013/06/17: CPD: Late Pliocene lakes and soils: a data - model comparison for the analysis of climate feedbacks in a warmer world by M. J. Pound et al.
• 2013/06/22: BG: Nitrous oxide emissions from soil of an African rain forest in Ghana by S. Castaldi et al.
• 2013/06/22: BGD: Seasonal shifts in the contributions of the Changjiang River and the Kuroshio Current to nitrate dynamics at the continental shelf of the northern East China Sea based on a nitrate dual isotopic composition approach by Y. Umezawa et al.
• 2013/06/22: ACPD: Airborne lidar measurements of surface ozone depletion over Arctic sea ice by J. A. Seabrook et al.
• 2013/06/21: ACPD: Modeling the evolution of aerosol particles in a ship plume using PartMC-MOSAIC by J. Tian et al.
• 2013/06/21: ACPD: Trend and variability in ozone in the tropical lower stratosphere over 2.5 solar cycles observed by SAGE II and OSIRIS by C. E. Sioris et al.
• 2013/06/22: GMD: Impacts of using spectral nudging on regional climate model RCA4 simulations of the Arctic by P. Berg et al.
• 2013/06/21: GMD: Set-up of the PMIP3 paleoclimate experiments conducted using an Earth system model, MIROC-ESM by T. Sueyoshi et al.
• 2013/06/19: GMDD: RIMBAY - a multi-physics 3-D ice-dynamics model for comprehensive applications: model-description and examples by M. Thoma et al.
• 2013/06/20: TC: Variability of light transmission through Arctic land-fast sea ice during spring by M. Nicolaus et al.
• 2013/06/20: TC: Snow specific surface area simulation using the one-layer snow model in the Canadian LAnd Surface Scheme (CLASS) by A. Roy et al.
• 2013/06/19: TC: A combined approach of remote sensing and airborne electromagnetics to determine the volume of polynya sea ice in the Laptev Sea by L. Rabenstein et al.
• 2013/06/19: TC: Impacts of mean annual air temperature change on a regional permafrost probability model for the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada by P. P. Bonnaventure et al.
• 2013/06/17: GMDD: Scheme for calculation of multi-layer cloudiness and precipitation for climate models of intermediate complexity by A. V. Eliseev et al.
• 2013/06/18: TCD: What drives basin scale spatial variability of snow water equivalent during two extreme years? by G. A. Sexstone & S. R. Fassnacht
• 2013/06/18: TCD: 2001-2010 glacier changes in the Central Karakoram National Park: a contribution to evaluate the magnitude and rate of the "Karakoram anomaly" by U. Minora et al.
• 2013/06/17: TCD: Parameter and state estimation with a time-dependent adjoint marine ice sheet model by D. N. Goldberg & P. Heimbach
• 2013/06/17: TCD: Feedbacks and mechanisms affecting the global sensitivity of glaciers to climate change by B. Marzeion et al.
• 2013/06/14: WoL:IJoC: (ab$) Atmospheric and oceanic climate forcing of the exceptional Greenland ice sheet surface melt in summer 2012 by Edward Hanna et al.
• 2013/06/16: Nature:GeoSci: (ab$) Noble gas transport into the mantle facilitated by high solubility in amphibole by Colin R. M. Jackson et al.
• 2013/06/16: Nature:GeoSci: (ab$) Atlantic cooling associated with a marine biotic crisis during the mid-Cretaceous period by A. McAnena et al.
• 2013/06/08: Springer:CD: (ab$) Dynamics of the coupled human-climate system resulting from closed-loop control of solar geoengineering by Douglas G. MacMartin et al.
  

  And other significant documents:

• 2013/06/20: PI: [link to 621k pdf] Forecasting the impacts of oilsands expansion
• 2013/06/19: FAO: [links to several pdf] FAO Statistical Yearbook 2013
• 2010/01/: MIT: [link to 419k pdf] Report 183 - Canada's Bitumen Industry Under CO2 Constraints by G. Chan et al.
• 2013/06/10: EIA: [links to several pdfs] Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States
  

  As for miscellaneous science:

• 2013/06/21: TreeHugger: NOAA's new interactive map shows all the vegetation on the planet
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): Solar boat Türanor becomes a research vessel to study climate change
• 2013/06/20: NatureNB: New record: 66 journals banned for boosting impact factor with self-citations
• 2013/06/19: DeSmogBlog: Corporate Counterfeit Science - Both Wrong and Dangerous
• 2013/06/19: RetractionWatch: Why I retracted my Nature paper: A guest post from David Vaux about correcting the scientific record
• 2013/06/18: ERabett: A Puzzle
• 2013/06/18: UCSUSA:B: Interference in the Science of Atrazine (Again): Syngenta Tears a Page from the Tobacco Industry Playbook
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Syngenta plays dirty to shape public opinion on herbicide [atrazine]
• 2013/06/18: ScienceInsider: Transportation Studies and Climate Change Modeling Net 2013 Blue Planet Prizes
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Experts test how fish cope with climate change
  

  What's new in models?

• 2013/06/18: ClimateSight: A Simple Stochastic Climate Model: Introduction
• 2013/06/18: ERW: Predicting Rhine floods
  

  Paul Mees obituary:

• 2013/06/20: TheConversation: Vale Paul Mees, Australia's leading transport & land use researcher
  

  Regarding Storch:

• 2013/06/20: DerSpiegel: Climate Expert von Storch: Why Is Global Warming Stagnating?
  Climate experts have long predicted that temperatures would rise in parallel with greenhouse gas emissions. But, for 15 years, they haven't. In a Spiegel interview, meteorologist Hans von Storch discusses how this "puzzle" might force scientists to alter what could be "fundamentally wrong" models.
• 
  

  Meanwhile at the UN:

   

• 2013/06/17: RTCC: UN chief asks youth groups for help with climate challenge
  

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2013/06/21: RTCC: UN carbon market health depends on global ambition - JI chair
  Fixing carbon markets and mechanisms will do nothing to reduce emissions without ambitious climate policies from governments a senior climate diplomat has warned.
• 2013/06/21: RTCC: UN global carbon market needs $2.5 billion bailout
  A $2.5bn fund could be enough to keep the UN's carbon offset market alive until a potential successor is in place as part of the new 2015 climate treaty.
• 2013/06/18: Grist: China begins carbon trading
• 2013/06/18: BBerg: China Carbon Permits Trade 22% Below Europe on Market Debut
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): China launches carbon trading scheme in bid to reduce emissions in Shenzhen
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: China's first carbon market faces 'credit oversupply' dilemma
  China's first carbon market will launch on Tuesday amid warnings that it could face similar oversupply problems to the EU system.
• 2013/06/17: BBerg: China Emission Trading Experiment Unlikely to Ease Cities' Smog
• 2013/06/17: BBC: Can China achieve success with carbon trading scheme?
• 2013/06/17: BBC: China in carbon trading experiment
  China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, is to launch its first carbon trading scheme as a pilot project in Shenzhen. The test scheme, which will be rolled out to seven areas by 2014, could be spread across the country after 2015.
• 
  

  This week in the EU FTT, aka the Tobin tax struggles:

   

• 2013/06/18: EUO: MEPs back lower FTT [from 0.1% to 0.05%] on sovereign debt and pensions
  

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

• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings
  

  South [& East] China Sea tension persists:

• 2013/06/22: IndiaTimes: Three Chinese ships in disputed waters: Japan
• 2013/06/21: Xinhuanet: China, Vietnam ink agreement on fishery hotline
  China and Vietnam on Friday agreed to establish a hotline to deal with fishery incidents in South China Sea waters that have been a frequent source of tension between the two nations.
• 
  

  The trouble with TPP, CETA, TAFTA etc:

   

• 2013/06/21: CCurrents: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Is An Assault On Democracy That Will Undermine The Economy
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Shhh! Let's have an international trade meeting and not tell anyone -- Canada among the most secretive of Trans-Pacific Partnership countries
• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: Activist Committed to Making Sure Trade Agreement Doesn't Harm Environment, Public Health
• 2013/06/19: RawStory: Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it
• 2013/06/14: PublicCitizen: New Report: How the U.S.-EU Trade Deal would Grant Sweeping Corporate Privileges
• 2013/06/02: NYT: Obama's Covert Trade Deal
  The Obama administration has often stated its commitment to open government. So why is it keeping such tight wraps on the contents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the most significant international commercial agreement since the creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995?
  [...]
  Ron Kirk, until recently Mr. Obama's top trade official, was remarkably candid about why he opposed making the text public: doing so, he suggested to Reuters, would raise such opposition that it could make the deal impossible to sign.
• 
  

  Regarding the potential for conflict over the Nile water:

   

• 2013/06/20: al Jazeera: South Sudan set to sign new Nile agreement
  New treaty would replace colonial-era law that gave Egypt control of most of the Nile as power dynamics shift in region.
• 2013/06/20: al Jazeera: Egypt and Ethiopia agree to bridge dam divide
  Foreign ministers try to quell tensions over Ethiopia's plans to divert Blue Nile in controversial dam project.
• 2013/06/19: al Jazeera: Ethiopian refugees face dam backlash in Egypt
  Persecuted ethnic Oromo demand UN protection amid xenophobic attacks and government hostility over the Blue Nile dam.
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): The Nile belongs to Ethiopia too
  The increasing tensions with Egypt over the proposed dam reveal how fundamental the river is to both nations' identity
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): Egypt sees Ethiopian dam as risk to water supply
  

  And in miscellaneous international political jousting:

• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): Falkland Islanders contest Argentina sovereignty claim at United Nations
• 2013/06/18: PLNA: Argentina Goes to UN to Claim Sovereignty Over Falklands
  

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

• 2013/06/21: UKISS: Climate Wars
• 2013/06/20: RTCC: G8 climate and security link 'significant' says expert
• 2013/06/18: Grist: The feds get seriously creepy about climate change
  

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

• 2013/06/22: WSWS: London Metropolitan Police demand water cannons
• 2013/06/21: TMoS: Do You See Where This is Headed? Tennesseeans Warned Complaining May Be Terrorism.
• 2013/06/17: CDreams: The NSA's Spying Program: What's at Stake for the Climate Movement?
• 2013/06/07: GreenIsTheNewRed: How the NSA Kept Us From Knowing About a Previous, Illegal Domestic Spy Program in 2006
  

  What are the activists up to?

• 2013/06/21: Grist: "Fearless Summer" movement launches months of intense climate protest
• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: Activist Committed to Making Sure Trade Agreement Doesn't Harm Environment, Public Health
• 2013/06/19: TMoS: Buycott - A Smartphone App Whose Time Has Definitely Come
• 2013/06/19: CDreams: Navajos Launch Direct Action Against Big Coal
• 2013/06/19: CCurrents: Laughing Matters: US Government v. Voices Of Conscience
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: The Great March for Climate Action [activists]
• 2013/06/17: NakedCapitalism: Michael Hoexter: Summer Heat - The Movement Against Ripping the Face off the Earth for a Brief Fossil-Fueled "Party"
• 2013/06/17: UKISS: How Australian Coal is Causing Global Damage - False Profits by Bill McKibben
  

  Polls! We have polls!

• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: New Poll: Voters Favor Protecting Public Lands Over Drilling Them
  

  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2013/06/21: JFleck: In Colorado River water, sharing the shortages versus suing the bastards
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Low Great Lakes water levels costing shippers millions
• 2013/06/20: JFleck: Stuff I wrote elsewhere: is Albuquerque water conservation losing ground to population growth?
• 2013/06/19: NACLA: From Water Wars to Water Scarcity: Bolivia's Cautionary Tale
• 2013/06/16: DD: Hydraulic fracturing fuels water fights in U.S. dry spots...
  

  And on the groundwater front:

• 2013/06/18: IOTD: Water Storage Maps Show Improvement
  

  While in the UK:

• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): The GM slow motion train wreck
  If you want to get the pro-science, technically sophisticated UK public to change its mind on GM, don't imply they're stupid
• 2013/06/20: BBC: GM even safer than conventional food, says environment secretary [Owen Paterson]
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): Hydropower must win hearts and minds in local communities
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Cooling the Arctic is imperative
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): Supreme court quashes Iran bank sanctions and criticises secret hearings
• 2013/06/19: RTCC: Davey: climate deniers are crackpots and conspiracy theorists
  UK climate and energy chief Ed Davey has launched his strongest attack yet on hardline climate change sceptics, branding them "crackpots" and "conspiracy theorists".
• 2013/06/18: al Jazeera: Stop climate deniers from winning the information war
  The media too often gives a voice to global warming 'sceptics', harming the fight against dangerous climate change.
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): The [UK] energy bill debate is distorted by climate contrarians
  Ministers give license to those threatening to derail Europe's efforts to tackle the world's most difficult environmental problem
• 2013/06/17: NatureNB: Funding freeze is hitting hard, say UK researchers
• 2013/06/17: LoE: Stop climate chaos within the UK government
  

  And in Europe:

• 2013/06/20: EurActiv: MEPs back phase-out of F-gas coolants blamed for global warming
  The European Parliament's Environment Committee has backed a sweeping ban on the use in refrigerators and air conditioners of fluorinated gases - greenhouse gases that are many thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide in warming up the earth's atmosphere.
• 2013/06/20: EurActiv: Parliament committee votes to prop up EU's ailing carbon market
  The European Parliament's Environment Committee has given its support to a compromise plan to boost the price of allowances on the EU's carbon market.
• 2013/06/20: RTCC: EU leaders urged to adopt 100% renewable energy target
  A new lobby group has called for regional, national and European-wide legislators to achieve a 100% renewable energy target within the next four decades. The Global Alliance for 100% Renewable Energy, founded by World Future Council (WFC) and research institute Fraunhofer ISE among others, has criticised European governments of being the main hurdle in successfully combating climate change.
• 2013/06/19: RTCC: Revised EU carbon market fix passes first hurdle
• 2013/06/19: EUO: EP committee greenlights emissions trading fix (again)
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): Germany leans on EU states to weaken car emissions law
  Germany has stepped up the pressure on governments to water down limits on vehicle emissions
• 
  

  Meanwhile in Australia:

   

• 2013/06/22: ABC(Au): Carbon tax blamed for jump in Illawarra unemployment [by NSW Acting Minister for the Illawarra Andrew Constance]
• 2013/06/21: ABC(Au): 'Clean coal' money used to promote coal use
  A billion dollar coal industry fund, which was supposed to drive development of 'clean coal' technology, has changed its purpose allowing it instead to promote coal use here and overseas.
• 2013/06/20: NewAnthropocene: The Honest Truth of Australia: we need a different economy
• 2013/06/20: ABC(Au): [SA] Greens seek CSG ban [on farmland, residential land and conservation areas]
• 2013/06/20: WCEL: Canada v. Australia on Climate Science
• 2013/06/19: TheConversation: Why would the ALP vote against stronger environmental protection?
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): Federal Minister gets greater say over new CSG and coal mines
  The Senate has agreed to give the Commonwealth Environment Minister broader approval powers over coal seam gas projects and large coal mines. The 'Water Trigger' amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act allows the Federal Environment Minister to consider the impact of CSG projects and large coal mines on water resources, in deciding whether or not to they should be approved. It passed the Senate with the support of all parties, despite unsuccessful Opposition and Greens attempts to further amend the legislation.
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): New tool makes carbon credit calculations much easier
  Charles Darwin University's Centre of Bushfire Research has today launched a tool to make calculating carbon credits much easier. It's good news for Indigenous land owners and pastoralists, who up until now have had trouble with the complex systems to work out the carbon credit value of their fire management efforts. Research Fellow, Dr Andrew Edwards, says the Savanna Burning Abatement Tool, or SavBAT, is going to completely change the way carbon calculations are done.
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): Potential for bioenergy from Tasmanian forests
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): 7.30 revisits Walker family six months after their dramatic escape from the Dunalley bushfires [old pix]
• 2013/06/19: UKISS: The wind rally in Canberra
• 2013/06/19: ABC(Au): Greens fear a forest handouts fiasco
  The Greens want more detail about how the Federal Government is handing out $100 million in regional development funding for Tasmania.
• 2013/06/17: P3: Member of Soon-To-Be-Axed Australian Commission Calls Climate Debate "Infantile"
• 2013/06/17: Guardian(UK): What lies behind the power price increases in Australia?
• 2013/06/18: TheConversation: Australian media failures promote climate policy inaction
• 2013/06/18: TheConversation: Bad bushfire planning burns money
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Canberra protests for and against wind farms
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): NSW power prices to increase but less than expected
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Green light for Waterloo wind farm expansion
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Tasmanian forestry contractors using loophole to continue work after being paid to leave industry
• 2013/06/17: UKISS: How Australian Coal is Causing Global Damage - False Profits by Bill McKibben
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): We should not play Russian roulette with Australia's national parks
  Recent laws allowing hunting and logging in our parks are misguided. Our reserves protect biological diversity and shouldn't be used otherwise
• 
  

  The Climate Commission updated their Critical Decade report:

   

• Australian Climate Commission: The Critical Decade 2013
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Farmers warned of climate change challenges
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): Miners knock back Climate Commission advice
  The Minerals Council of Australia says there's no environmental dividend to support a move away from coal, after the Climate Commission called for a slowdown in mining of fossil fuels. Yesterday, the commission released a report titled The Critical Decade 2013, suggesting fossil fuel extraction should be limited to slow consumption.
• 2013/06/17: Xinhuanet: Climate change to cause more deaths: report
• 2013/06/17: UCSUSA:B: Critical Decade for Climate Action -- New Report Echoes Many Others: We Must Decarbonize to Stabilize Climate
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Climate Commission critical decade graphic
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Climate Commission report says 80 per cent of fossil fuel reserves must stay in the ground
• 2013/06/17: PeakEnergy: Leave coal in ground, scientists urge government [ACC-CD]
• 2013/06/16: SMH: Leave coal in ground, scientists urge government [ACC-CD]
• 2013/06/17: CDreams: Australian Scientists Sound Warning on Climate Change: Fossil Fuels Must Stay in the Earth [ACC -CD]
• 2013/06/17: TheConversation: Updating the state of Australia's climate
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Report warns of permanent drought for Wheatbelt
  A report by the Climate Commission has warned the Wheatbelt is at risk of permanent drought. The Commission's annual update on climate change indicates the south west of Western Australia will continue to dry rapidly unless green house gas emissions are cut.
• 2013/06/17: WtD: 440 months: that's how long we have to avoid a climate crisis and achieve zero emissions
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Government says coal industry vital despite Climate Commission's warnings against fossil fuels
  The Federal Government has rejected calls to wind down the coal industry, after a Climate Commission report suggested the majority of the world's coal must be left unburned. The report says global carbon dioxide emissions cannot exceed 600 billion tonnes between now and 2050 if the climate is to stay within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial levels.
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Extreme climate warning for the ACT
  The latest Climate Commission report paints a bleak outlook for the ACT if climate change is allowed to progress unchecked.
• 2013/06/17: Guardian(UK): Climate science debate has cost precious time, expert warns
  [Australian Climate] Commission report says evidence of rapidly changed climate has strengthened
• 
  

  The September election is getting closer...:

   

• 2013/06/23: NewAnthropocene: The Ord River: the unlucky horse shoe in the Coalition's northern development
• 2013/06/22: UKISS: 5 ways Abbott could kill renewables in Australia
• 2013/06/22: ABC(Au): The Age newspaper uses editorial to urge Prime Minister Julia Gillard to quit
  The Age newspaper has taken the unusual step of calling for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to stand aside "for the good of the nation". The editorial says the leadership debate is preventing Labor's message about its future policies and vision for Australia getting through to the public.
• 2013/06/22: UKISS: Abbott is out of touch on carbon tax
• 2013/06/22: WtD: 2/3 Australian don't want carbon price scrapped, or why debate on the carbon price is set to intensify
• 2013/06/21: NewAnthropocene: The Great Northern Development: the Coalition's dead horse
• 2013/06/22: WtD: The sacrifices one must make (part 2): should Gillard resign for the good of the nation? Yes.
• 2013/06/19: WtD: The sacrifices one must make: Gillard has to go to save the existing climate policy framework
• 2013/06/19: WSWS: Australian government wracked by further leadership infighting
• 2013/06/18: UKISS: What will AGW policy look like under Abbott?
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Senior ministers rally behind PM Julia Gillard as Rudd returns to Canberra
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): What is the Gillard v Rudd civil war actually about?
  

  After years of wrangling, the Murray Darling Basin Plan is in place, but the water management fights are far from finished:

• 2013/06/23: ABC(Au): Scrivener Dam repairs on time, under budget
  Initial safety repairs to Canberra's Scrivener Dam are expected to come in on time and millions of dollars under budget.
• 2013/06/20: ABC(Au): New legislation triggers strong support from landholders
  Landholder group, the Basin Sustainability Alliance, has welcomed the Senate's decision to give the Commonwealth Environment Minister broader approval powers over coal seam gas projects and large coal mines. The 'water trigger' amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act means any new coal seam gas or large coal projects that involve water reservoirs would need the assessment of an independent expert scientific committee before being approved.
• 2013/06/20: ABC(Au): EPBC Act amendment gets through and "science the winner": Windsor
  The Senate has passed the bill known as the "water trigger amendment". Passage of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act amendment occurred on Wednesday.
• 2013/06/18: ABC(Au): MDBA keeping tabs on Basin Plan impacts
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Opposition raises concerns over Hunter wastewater plants
  The State Opposition says Hunter Water has put its treatment plants on bypass almost 300 times in the past two years allowing millions of litres of untreated wastewater onto local beaches.
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): ACF urges states to 'get on with it' on Basin Plan
  The Australian Conservation Foundation says Australians are sick of states squabbling over the Murray-Darling, and it's urging South Australia, NSW and Queensland to sign up to implement the Basin Plan. While the Plan was signed into law by Federal Water Minister Tony Burke in November, only Victoria and the ACT have so far signed the intergovernmental agreement on how to implement the Plan.
• 2013/06/17: ABC(Au): Senate to vote on "water trigger" amendment
  An amendment to federal environment laws, aimed at protecting water systems impacted by mining and gas projects, was introduced into the Senate on Monday. Known as the "water trigger", the bill prevents the Commonwealth devolving powers back to the States to rubber stamp projects with inadequate scientific or environmental analysis.
• 
  

  While in China:

   

• 2013/06/20: RT: Polluting to death: China introduces execution for environmental offenders
  

  And elsewhere in Asia:

• 2013/06/17: BBC: Indonesia set to cut fuel subsidy
  

  And South America:

• 2013/06/23: CBC: 250,000 Brazilians hit streets in fresh protests -- 'Nobody can take the corruption of this country anymore'
• 2013/06/20: Guardian(UK): Brazil: 300,000 protest in Rio
  Hundreds of thousands demonstrate across the country despite U-turn over transport fare increases which sparked the unrest
• 2013/06/20: BBC: Brazil unrest: 'Million' join anti-government protests
  More than a million people are reported to have taken part in protests in about 100 cities across Brazil, the latest in a wave of anti-government rallies.
• 2013/06/19: RTCC: Costa Rica sacks climate advisor for criticising China oil loan
  Costa Rica's image as a low carbon pioneer has taken a heavy blow after news the government forced out an advisor after she questioned a $1bn loan from China to upgrade an oil refinery.
• 2013/06/19: al Jazeera: Huge protests sweep Brazil for second night
  President acknowledges demonstrators' grievances as thousands hold rallies over poor governance, high prices and graft.
• 2013/06/19: WSWS: Hundreds of thousands protest throughout Brazil
• 2013/06/19: BBC: Brazil deploys troops to quell protests
  Brazil's government says it will deploy troops to five major cities to control a wave of protests which has seen almost a quarter of a million people demand better public services.
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): Brazil protests catch authorities on the back foot
• 2013/06/17: WSWS: Nicaragua approves China-backed Atlantic-to-Pacific canal
  

  In Canada, neocon PM Harper, aka The Blight, pushes petroleum while ignoring the climate and ecology:

• 2013/06/22: Macleans: How the control freak lost control
  As a five-alarm gong show threatens to swallow Harper's Conservatives, party faithful wonder if he'll ever regain his grip
• 2013/06/22: SaskBoy: Committing Sociology or Climatology
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Shhh! Let's have an international trade meeting and not tell anyone -- Canada among the most secretive of Trans-Pacific Partnership countries
• 2013/06/20: WCEL: Canada v. Australia on Climate Science
• 2013/06/17: P3: Rogue State Canada
• 2013/06/17: PaiD: David Suzuki On Harper's Contempt For Democracy
• 2013/06/17: Grist: A Franke discussion: How one artist fought back when the feds tried to shut her up
• 2013/06/16: CPW: First Nations slam Harper Gvt's legal case for Canada-China FIPA deal
  

  The Harper gang is pushing some fundamentally destructive science policies:

• 2013/06/18: TheCanadian: We Ignore Scientists at our Peril - Climate Change Deniers out in Full Force [Suzuki]
  

  The Harper gang is up to their typical funding tricks:

• 2013/06/19: TheCanadian: Heritage Minister excludes Watershed Sentinel from funding
  

  A major flood event is occuring in Alberta:

• 2013/06/23: CBC: Alberta flood zone development was a mistake, former MLA says
  2006 flood report called for the end of land sales in known flood risk areas
• 2013/06/23: CBC: Medicine Hat braces for flood threat -- Premier pleads with residents to comply with evacuation orders
• 2013/06/23: CNN: Another Canadian city at risk of river burst as floods ravage area
  Flooding has killed at least three people, police say - Officials deliver evacuation notices in Medicine Hat city - They shut down bridges and roads, and turn off gas in homes and businesses - Much of Calgary is still submerged
• 2013/06/23: ABC(Au): Downtown Calgary off limits after major flooding in Canadian city
• 2013/06/23: BBC: Canada floods: More Alberta cities placed on alert
• 2013/06/22: CBC: Why Alberta's floods hit so hard and fast
  Record rainfall, saturated ground and unforgiving landscape lead to devastation
• 2013/06/22: TP:JR: Massive Flooding In Alberta Canada Forces 75,000 To Flee
• 2013/06/22: ABC(Au): Thousands displaced as floods hit Calgary in Canada
• 2013/06/22: al Jazeera: Thousands flee flooding in western Canada
  At least four feared dead and nearly 100,000 flee their homes after days of flooding in Canadian city of Calgary.
• 2013/06/22: BuckDog: Extreme Weather Event Causes Massive Flooding In Calgary Alberta ... [vid & flood]
• 2013/06/22: RT: Canada floods: Troops deployed to help with evacuation of 100,000 people (photos)
• 2013/06/21: CTV: Three confirmed dead in Alberta flooding as evacuations continue
• 2013/06/21: 350orBust: Mother Nature, Pumped Up By Warmer Atmosphere, Swamps Alberta
• 2013/06/21: CSM: Canmore flood threatens towns in west Canada
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Alberta flood: 'I watched a refrigerator go by. It's insane' -- Witnesses share their first-hand experiences with massive floods
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Alberta floods prompt evacuations in downtown Calgary -- Water flowing over Glenmore Dam at almost 4 times normal volume
• 2013/06/21: BBC: West Canada flooding forces 100,000 to flee homes
• 2013/06/21: CBC: Alberta awakes to more rain as flood crests near -- Greatest amounts expected west of Calgary and just north of Canmore
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Albertans in awe at power of 'insane' flooding -- As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes in Calgary alone
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Calgary flooding evacuation orders expanded -- Alberta communities, including Canmore, High River, Bragg Creek, in state of emergency
  Calgary officials expanded evacuation orders and opened more emergency shelters Thursday night amid concerns about rising water levels. The evacuation orders have grown to cover parts of at least 25 neighbourhoods, and as many as 100,000 people could be affected.
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Rain-deluged Canmore in state of emergency -- Emergencies declared in several southern Alberta towns
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Hail, flash floods hit southeast Alberta -- Funnel spotted near the southwest shore of Pakowki Lake earlier in the evening
  

  Just a touch of irony here:

• 2013/06/22: CBC: Calgary floods delay Conservative Party convention
• 2013/06/23: MSimon: Stephen Harper's Desperate Makeover Plan
  

  The battle over the Northern Gateway pipeline rages on:

• 2013/06/18: G&M: Enbridge proposes spill fund to ease pipeline fears
  Enbridge Inc. has rejected the national energy regulator's demand to have almost $1-billion in liability coverage set aside for the Northern Gateway project, and is calling for the creation of an industry-bankrolled fund that would help pay for cleanup in the case of "a catastrophic oil release" from a Canadian pipeline.
• 2013/06/18: TheCanadian: Enbridge Won't Take 'No' for an Answer, Despite 96% Opposition
• 2013/06/17: CBC: Northern Gateway in Canadians' interest, Enbridge tells review board -- Report to the federal government is due by the end of the year
  Canada will be vulnerable to economic disaster should the Northern Gateway pipeline be rejected, the proponent told a federal review panel Monday as the final phase of public hearings got underway. Richard Neufeld, the lawyer for Calgary-based Enbridge, said there are billions of dollars at stake in the pipeline that would link the Alberta oil sands with a tanker port on the coast of British Columbia, and the lucrative oil markets of Asia beyond.
• 2013/06/16: CBC: Federal panel to hear final pitch for, against Northern Gateway -- Opponents made their case at a public rally Sunday in Terrace, B.C.
  The proponent and opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline will make their final pitches to a federal review panel starting Monday, at the last stage of public hearings before the panel issues its decision later this year.
• 
  

  As for the fabled West-East line:

   

• 2013/06/21: Rabble:MC: Action against Enbridge Line 9 near Hamilton
• 2013/06/20: TheCanadian: Planning for TransCanada West-East Pipeline Well Underway, Despite Lack of Approval
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Enbridge protesters hope to be in 'for the long haul' at Hamilton site
  Group plans to stay until Line 9 expansion project is cancelled
• 
  

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

   

• 2013/06/19: AlexandraMorton: Canadian Wildlife Federation weighs in
• 2013/06/17: AlexandraMorton: The mother country turns on salmon farming
  

  Now that Christy Clark has a mandate, what will she do?

• 2013/06/22: G&M: Anatomy of a comeback: How Christy Clark beat the odds
• 2013/06/22: PCat: Brilliant Analysis of the BC Election by Gary Mason
• 2013/06/21: Rabble:II: Is the Fraser Surrey Docks coal port proposal in the best interest of B.C. and Canada?
• 2013/06/21: TheCanadian: Kool, Topp & Guy: Did Lobbyists, Back Room Operators Kill BC NDP Campaign from Within?
• 2013/06/18: TheCanadian: Private River Power Projects Get Failing Grade for Habitat Monitoring in DFO Report
• 2013/06/17: WCEL: Back to the drawing board for the Raven Coal Mine
• 2013/06/16: TheCanadian: Mainstream Media Ignoring Real Story on BC Hydro Debt, Skyrocketing Power Bills
  

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2013/06/20: PI: [link to 621k pdf] Forecasting the impacts of oilsands expansion
• 2010/01/: MIT: [link to 419k pdf] Report 183 - Canada's Bitumen Industry Under CO2 Constraints by G. Chan et al.
• 2013/06/21: 350orBust: Alberta Oil Sands Not Economically Viable, MIT Report States
• 2013/06/19: DD: Flaring emissions rise in Alberta's oil sands as rules lag...
• 2013/06/18: BBerg: Keystone Seen Failing to Sop Up Canada Oil Glut
• 2013/06/17: CBC: Pipeline uncertainty threatens oil and gas firms [says Conference Board of Canada]
• 2013/06/17: DeSmogBlog: Tar Sands Giant Suncor Announces Fewer Safety Checks To Avoid "Foregone Revenue"
  

  Also in Alberta:

• 2013/06/23: WpgFP: Synthetic oil leak shuts down Enbridge pipeline in northern Alta.
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Sour gas leak in Turner Valley, Alta., now contained
  Pipeline ruptured when it was hit by river debris from rising flood waters in the area
• 2013/06/20: TheCanadian: Extreme Flooding Blocks Efforts to Shut Down Alberta Sour Gas Leak
• 2013/06/20: TMoS: Why Won't Alberta Do the Right Thing, Refine Their Bitumen There?
• 2013/06/19: CDreams: Largest Toxic Wastewater Spill Goes Unreported for 11 Days [in Alta]
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: 'Every Plant And Tree Died': Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms
• 2013/06/18: BBerg: Alberta's Oil Sands Raise Flaring Emissions as Rules Lag
• 2013/06/17: Tyee: Its Top Regulator a Petro Insider, Alberta Faces New Major Spill
  Plains Midstream is a repeat offender in two countries.
• 2013/06/17: PI:B: Launch of Alberta's new single regulator leaves room for improvement
• 2013/06/16: BCLSB: We're #1 (In Oil Spills((Especially Alberta)))
  

  In Manitoba, the Western Premiers had a gabfest in Winnipeg. All I heard in the local media was about bullying:

• 2013/06/17: CBC: Western Canada's premiers and territorial leaders are in Winnipeg for their annual meeting.
  Bullying on agenda - Disaster management also among topics for discussion
• 
  

  Wynne is struggling to establish herself. Energy still looms large:

   

• 2013/06/20: CBC: Ontario cuts $3.7B from Samsung green energy deal -- Province renegotiates $9.7B contract after Samsung misses deadlines
  The value of the Ontario government's signature green energy deal with Samsung has been slashed by $3.7 billion as the province reduces the amount of electricity it will buy from the South Korean company. Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli says the province will spend $6 billion to buy electricity produced by Samsung's wind and solar projects, down from $9.7 billion in the original 2010 agreement. Chiarelli says Samsung missed some deadlines so the province was able to re-open negotiations and reduce the amount of electricity it will buy from 2,500 megawatts to 1,369 MW. Samsung's original commitment to invest $7 billion in new manufacturing plants for green energy components as well as wind and solar power projects has been reduced to $5 billion under the renegotiated deal.
• 2013/06/18: CBC: Transport Canada orders 8 Ontario wind turbines removed -- Structures too close to Chatham-Kent airport and pose risk to pilots
• 2013/06/20: CleanBreak: In major policy shift, government lets Ontario Power Generation bid for large renewable projects
  

  In the Maritimes:

• 2013/06/19: CBC: Statoil makes 2nd find in new frontier off Newfoundland -- Oil found at Harpoon prospect in Flemish Pass, 10 km from previous Mizzen discovery
  

  In the North:

• 2013/06/20: Tyee: Making History on the Northwest Passage
  Team aims to row legendary Arctic route, document climate change along the way.
• 2013/06/18: CBC: 4 Vancouver men aim to row the Northwest Passage -- The crew begins the journey on July 1 from Inuvik
• 2013/06/17: CBC: Arctic research station design incorporates Inuit knowledge -- Design for station unveiled in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut
  

  And on the American political front:

• 2013/06/21: TMoS: Do You See Where This is Headed? Tennesseeans Warned Complaining May Be Terrorism.
• 2013/06/21: SciAm:GB: Questions of Environmental Health and Justice Growing with the Petcoke Piles in Detroit
• 2013/06/21: Grist: Maine guv freaks out after local media report on his corrupt environment chief
• 2013/06/21: DeSmogBlog: A Gamble on Shale Job Growth Fails to Pay Off for Governor Corbett, as Fracking Worries Grow Nationwide
• 2013/06/20: ICN: Is NYC's Climate Plan Enough to Win the Race Against Rising Seas?
  The city's climate adaptation projects should be devised to handle conditions far worse than even the most severe sea level rise estimates, scientists say.
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): Take it from a composting veteran, it is easier than you think
  New York is the latest to join the composting trend that doesn't take much time and has great benefits for the environment
• 2013/06/19: TP:JR: Illinois Adopts Nation's Strictest Fracking Regulations
• 2013/06/19: CCurrents: Laughing Matters: US Government v. Voices Of Conscience
• 2013/06/19: UCSUSA:B: Ohio Experts Endorse State's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Standards
• 2013/06/19: CCentral: Campaign for Climate Resilience Spreads Across U.S.
• 2013/06/19: TP:JR: Maine Governor Blacklists Newspapers After They Expose Administration's Anti-Environment Commissioner
  Following a critical series of articles in three Maine newspapers this week, Maine Gov. Paul LePage's (R) office has cut off those papers' access to administration officials. The same week the Portland Press Herald, the Kennebec Journal, and the Morning Sentinel published an in-depth analysis of the administration's work to undermine environmental protections, a spokeswoman told them they would no longer respond to requests, even for public documents...
• 2013/06/18: Nation:GK: What Congress and the Media Are Missing in the Food Stamp Debate
• 2013/06/18: CCurrents: Green Shadow Cabinet Joins Critical Struggle To Defeat The Trans-Pacific Partnership [US pol & treaties]
• 2013/06/18: MoJo: Gagged by Big Ag -- Horrific abuse. Rampant contamination. And the crime is --- exposing it?
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: Seattle Adopts Bold Climate Action Plan, Aims To Be Carbon Neutral By 2050
• 2013/06/18: ICN: What Sickens People in Oil Spills, and How Badly, Is Anybody's Guess
  There are no clear federal guidelines for chemical exposure at oil spills, and no health studies to understand the long term dangers to human health.
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Syngenta plays dirty to shape public opinion on herbicide [atrazine]
• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: New York's 'Food Recycling' Program Could Be The Future Of Waste And Energy
• 2013/06/17: TreeHugger: Ag Gag laws are growing threat to free speech and food safety
• 2013/06/17: CDreams: The NSA's Spying Program: What's at Stake for the Climate Movement?
• 2013/06/07: GreenIsTheNewRed: How the NSA Kept Us From Knowing About a Previous, Illegal Domestic Spy Program in 2006
• 2013/06/17: CCP: Illinois governor Quinn signs fracking regulatory bill over protest of citizens affected
• 2013/06/17: CCP: NRDC and Sierra Club sell out southern Illinois residents, cozy up to fracking-fueled politicians
• 2013/06/17: ICN: Fracking Bill Triggers Rift Among Illinois Green Groups
  Grassroots activists say they feel 'betrayed' by mainstream environmental organizations that helped write the state's new fracking regulations.
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): 'PetroKoch': an art project for the Metropolitan Museum
  As David Koch gets his name on the Met's new plaza, why not add Detroit's pile of his tar-sands sludge as an installation?
• 
  

  The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:

   

• 2013/06/21: BBerg: BP Acted With Gross Negligence in Spill, Plaintiffs Say
• 2013/06/21: CSM: Misconduct in BP case? New report alleges corruption
• 2013/06/21: CBC: BP calls for probe of Gulf oil spill claims lawyer
• 2013/06/21: TP:JR: Canada Boosts Offshore Oil Spill Liability, But The U.S. Still Caps Deepwater Horizon Costs At 0.2 Percent
• 2013/06/18: CSM: BP ends cleanup of oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
  

  Post-Sandy commentary and news:

• 2013/06/18: Grist: Occupy Sandy: Once welcomed, now questioned
• 2013/06/17: CSM: Scott Zabelski found T-shirts were a perfect fit for hurricane Sandy relief
  

  The Keystone XL wheel grinds slowly. And it grinds woe:

• 2013/06/20: DeSmogBlog: [Infographic] Debunking the Economic and National Security Myths Around Keystone XL Pipeline
• 2013/06/20: GLaden: Former Obama Campaign Staff's Letter on Keystone XL
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: 145 Former Obama Campaign Staffers Urge Him To Reject Keystone XL
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Talking Keystone, Redford says Canada and U.S. share energy values -- Premier Alison Redford is in NYC to lobby for Keystone XL pipeline
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Keystone XL won't use state-of-the-art spill technology
• 2013/06/18: BBerg: Billionaire Tom Steyer lays into the CEO of TransCanada Russ Girling about the Keystone XL
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: 22 Former Obama Campaign Staff And Donors Arrested Protesting Keystone XL
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: 'Every Plant And Tree Died': Huge Alberta Pipeline Spill Raises Safety Questions As Keystone Decision Looms
• 2013/06/18: OilChange: KXL's Outdated Oil Spill Technology
• 2013/06/17: BBerg: Keystone XL Pipeline Shuns High-Tech Oil Spill Detectors
• 2013/06/17: EcoWatch: Opposition Escalates Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline
• 2013/06/17: Grist: Al Gore, raising the heat on Obama, calls Keystone an "atrocity"
• 2013/06/17: CDreams: "I Voted For Change": Over 20 Arrested as KXL Protests Target Obama
• 2013/06/17: CCP: 22 arrested in Chicago urging President Obama to reject Keystone XL
• 2013/06/16: DeSmogBlog: How Much Did Seven House Votes Pushing Keystone XL Cost Taxpayers?
  

  The Mayflower oil spill continues to weigh heavily on the Keystone decision:

• 2013/06/19: ICN: With Unusual Speed Officials Slap Exxon with Oil Spill Lawsuit. Why?
  

  With the deficit hawks panicking about things financial, there has been talk of a carbon tax solution:

• 2013/06/17: Guardian(UK): Citizens Climate Lobby pushes for a carbon tax and dividend [in US]
  Citizens Climate Lobby aims to organize the public to create pressure behind a carbon fee and dividend system
• 
  

  The GOP War on Women continues. See also:

   

• 2013/06/19: ACLU: Texas Senate Passes Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill
• 2013/06/19: al Jazeera: US House passes measure restricting abortion
  Republican-sponsored symbolic legislation limiting abortion to first 20 weeks after conception faces presidential veto.
• 2013/06/18: ACLU: House Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban
• 2013/06/18: CSM: House GOP passes major antiabortion bill. Why Democrats are pleased.
• 2013/06/18: BBC: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would introduce strict abortion limits.
• 2013/06/17: Wonkette: Republicans Have New Plan To War On Your Ladyparts With Humor
  

  The NorthWest coal export debate remains heated:

• 2013/06/21: DD: Record U.S. coal exports fuel climate change debate
• 2013/06/21: Grist: Massive Montana mine has tribes fighting over coal exports
• 2013/06/20: CSM: Record US coal exports fuel climate change debate
• 2013/06/19: Grist: Coal foes suffer setback in fight against exports - The Army Corps of Engineers says it won't consider climate change...
• 2013/06/18: QuarkSoup: Army Corps Opts-Out of Its Mission Statement
  

  The impacts of budgetary sequestration are beginning to add up:

• 2013/06/22: WSWS: US fire marshals battle more wildfires as budgets are cut
• 2013/06/20: SF Gate: As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): Climate change measuring instruments are on life support
  Programs to measure climate changes may be heading for declines due to budget cuts
• 2013/06/17: CAbyss: National Weather Service: Safer Now, or Safer Later?
  

  Looking forward to the 2016 election:

• 2013/06/22: IndiaTimes: Female president would send right signal: Hillary Clinton
  

  At what point do you stop listening to the pretty lies and realize you've been had?

• 2013/06/22: SciAm:PI: President Obama to unveil climate plan Tuesday
• 2013/06/23: TreeHugger: President Obama to make major climate change address [on Tuesday, June 25]
• 2013/06/20: Reuters: Pipeline foes say Obama's [forthcoming] climate plan [not an adequate] tradeoff for Keystone
• 2013/06/21: TP:JR: Top Ten Things The President Should Announce In His Highly-Anticipated Climate Speech
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: Is Obama So Feckless On Climate Change That He's Influenced By Meaningless Dial Testing?
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Obama says a climate plan is coming next month, so climate hawks delay lawsuit
• 2013/06/16: Reuters: Obama leaves [NEPA] climate change-fighting tool on shelf for now
  President Barack Obama has vowed to tackle climate change in his second term, but so far has not acted to strengthen a tool that does not require backing from Congress - the National Environmental Policy Act.
• 
  

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

   

• 2013/06/21: Grist: EPA abandons investigation into fracking pollution
• 2013/06/21: RT: EPA refuses to finalize study blaming fracking for water pollution
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: Obama's Risk Wizards and Their New Climate Crystal Ball
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: Federal Government Charges Lower Royalties Than Many States For Oil And Gas Drilling, Taxpayers Lose Out
• 2013/06/20: SciAm:PI: Current U.S. tax code has minimal effect on GHG emissions, National Research Council study finds
• 2013/06/20: BBerg: Fracking Pollution Probe in Wyoming Cast in Doubt by EPA
• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: EPA helping small businesses develop green tech innovations
• 2013/06/19: UCSUSA: Union of Concerned Scientists President Kevin Knobloch to Take New Post at Department of Energy
• 2013/06/19: Grist: We work on climate change every day by John Kerry
• 2013/06/18: Ohio: EPA study on fracking threat to water will take years
  Cleveland: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is analyzing the threat that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, poses to drinking water, but that study won't be completed until 2016. That assessment came Tuesday from Jeanne Briskin, coordinator of hydraulic fracturing research at the EPA's Office of Research and Development.
• 2013/06/17: SciAm:PI: "My judgment is based on numbers, on data, and not on consensus"
• 2013/06/17: UCSUSA:B: We Need a Clear Signal that the Obama Administration Will Issue Power Plant Carbon Standards Soon
  

  As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): House Farm Bill fail gives Congress a chance to redeem itself
• 2013/06/21: Wonkette: Legislative Badass: Rep. Jim McGovern Stands Up For Poor, Hungry; GOP Says STFU
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: Obama Says We Must Respond Now To 'The Global Threat Of Our Time,' Boehner Says That's 'Absolutely Crazy'
• 2013/06/20: CSM: Stunning farm bill defeat lays bare House dysfunction
• 2013/06/20: CSM: House defeats farm bill because of food stamp cuts
• 2013/06/20: EnvEcon: Horse before cart [social-cost-of-carbon]
• 2013/06/20: Grist: Republicans "apoplectic" as farm bill fails in the House
• 2013/06/19: RawStory: Warren on Trans-Pacific Partnership: If people knew what was going on, they would stop it
• 2013/06/19: Resilience: The Farm Bill's "Government Handouts": Who Really Benefits?
• 2013/06/19: NatureNB: US lawmakers seek deep cuts to NASA climate research
• 2013/06/19: ScienceInsider: House Spending Panel Votes to Gut Clean-Energy Research
• 2013/06/19: TheHill:e2W: GOP senators slam 'significant change' to 'social cost' of carbon
• 2013/06/17: BWeek: Sushi Aid in $1 Trillion Farm Bill Angers Watchdogs
• 2013/06/17: TheHill:e2W: GOP bill would cut renewable energy spending in half
  

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

• 2013/06/18: TreeHugger: The Farmery is a radical vision of what farms and grocery stores can be
• 2013/06/17: P3: Beyond Sustainability -- A Manifesto
  

  What do we tell the children?

• 2013/06/16: TP:JR: Daddy, Could We Have Our Planet Back Now?
  A Father's Day essay on the world we're leaving our children
• 
  

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

   

• 2013/06/16: Grist: No, we're not running out of people
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): [Book Review] _Population 10 Billion_ by Danny Dorling
  A myth-busting analysis of population growth is refreshingly free of doomsday rhetoric
• 
  

  Apocalypso anyone?

   

• 2013/06/16: CCurrents: The Fascist State Of America
  [...]
  President Barack Obama is a profound epic failure, in many ways worse than Über-fascist Bush, just a new black face on the American oil oligarchy's long history of tyranny and warmongering. What a feeble, sellout, murdering, cynical disappointment Barack Obama has turned out to be. After killing a million Arabs and Muslims, Bush policies continued with vigor under Obama, has the U.S. avenged 9/11 yet? Or does America need to spy, torture, falsely imprison, and wage perma-war for years longer? Perhaps forever?
  America is poised upon the precipice of becoming a totalitarian police state overseeing final global environmental collapse. As America is at risk of becoming a third-rate police state, all lovers of liberty - from the Tea Party to progressives - must come together to resist oppression, remain free, embrace justice and equity for all, and sustain our shared global environment. One can feel a libertarian-progressive alliance building to stop big nanny government from enslaving us while destroying our environment. A commitment to Green Liberty is the human family's only path to sustained well-being.
• 
  

  How are we going to deal with this mess?

   

• 2013/06/20: Resilience: The answer to climate change
• 2013/06/19: ERabett: The Five Fold Path
  

  How do the media measure up?

• 2013/06/21: KSJT: Does the U.S. need a Science Media Center?
• 2013/06/21: CJR: Science media centers & the press, part 3 -- Can a SMC work in the US?
• 2013/06/19: CJR: Science media centers & the press, part 2 -- How did the SMCs perform during the Fukushima nuclear crisis?
• 2013/06/18: TheConversation: Australian media failures promote climate policy inaction
• 2013/06/17: CJR: Science media centers & the press, part 1 -- Does the UK model help journalists?
• 2013/06/16: TheCanadian: Mainstream Media Ignoring Real Story on BC Hydro Debt, Skyrocketing Power Bills
  

  Here is something for your library:

• 2013//: CUP: [Book Site] _Climate Change Geoengineering - Philosophical Perspectives, Legal Issues, and Governance Frameworks_ edited by Wil C. G. Burns & Andrew L. Strauss
• 2013/06/16: JFleck: [Book Review] _City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago_ by Carl Smith
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): [Book Review] _Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River_ by Robert Twigger
  Robert Twigger offers a deeply entertaining, if Egypt-centric, history of the Nile
• 
  

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

   

• 2013/06/22: TP:JR: The Alarming Science Behind Climate Change's Increasingly Wild Weather: Ostro And Francis On Video
• 2013/06/21: Grist: Oh beehive: This pollinator porn will make you fall in love with bees [More Than Honey]
• 2013/06/19: Guardian(UK): If you want to change the world, you have to get your hands dirty
  New documentary Grasp The Nettle shows how state inaction on climate change fosters direct action on society's margins
• 2013/06/19: PSinclair: Kevin Trenberth and Jennifer Francis on Climate, Ice, and Weather Whiplash
• 2013/06/19: P3: The Lesterland Rant [Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim]
• 2013/06/19: SciAm:B: More Than Honey: A New Documentary Offers Spectacular Close-ups of Bees Mid-Flight and Perspective on the Worldwide Honey Bee Crisis
• 2013/06/18: APOD: A Supercell Thunderstorm Over Texas
• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: Pandora's Promise: Nuclear Power's Trek From Too Cheap To Meter To Too Costly To Matter Much
• 2013/06/17: P3: Some Models Are More True than Others
• 2013/06/17: Grist: Awesome animated GIF of a supercell thunderstorm makes severe weather look mesmerizing
• 2013/06/17: SciAm:PsiVid: More Than Honey: A Stunning Documentary on the Worldwide Demise of Bees
  

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2013/06/19: TreeHugger: DOJ & Arkansas sue, as emails show Exxon misled public about [Mayflower] oil spill contamination
• 2013/06/19: TheHill:RW: Environmental, health groups sue over delayed smog rule
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): African migrants 'left to die' in dinghy sue Spanish and French military
• 2013/06/14: CourthouseNews: Chevron Nails Ecuador on Arbitration Award
  Chevron says it has a new tool to dismantle a $19 billion judgment it faces in Ecuador after a federal judge confirmed an international arbitration award against the country in an unrelated case.
• 
  

  Among the non-members of Gamblers Anonymous:

   

• 2013/06/21: Monbiot: Pistols at Dawn - A three-year, £100 bet on solar power has matured. Who won?
• 2013/06/16: Stoat: How's my seaiceing?
  

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2013/06/21: CSM: Developing nations: First, find your 'green' energy, then develop it
• 2013/06/21: SciAm:GB: Questions of Environmental Health and Justice Growing with the Petcoke Piles in Detroit
• 2013/06/20: Resilience: Mixing renewables and back-up gas power is going to be wasteful
• 2013/06/19: JQuiggin: The failure of electricity market reform
• 2013/06/19: C&S: Energy costs [in UK, Germany & France]
• 2013/06/19: CSM: Is the world consuming less oil?
• 2013/06/19: EurActiv: Energy switching picking up in Belgium as clients desert Electrabel
  Belgian green energy retailer Lampiris doubled its market share last year as customers deserted market leader Electrabel, highlighting the impact of government encouragement for switching.
• 2013/06/18: CSM: Chile: LED light bulb heist highlights high cost of energy
• 2013/06/18: NakedCapitalism: Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare
• 2013/06/18: OilDrum: Energy Export Databrowser Updated to BP 2013 data
• 2013/06/17: CSM: The kaleidoscope of fossil fuel abundance
• 2013/06/17: PSinclair: Developing World Leapfrogging to Green Energy
  

  What do you have in energy comparisons and transitions?

• Wiki: Cost of electricity by source
• 2013/06/18: ERabett:BSD: How's this deal: everyone, including other fossil fuel interests, gangs up against coal
• 2013/06/16: WottsUWT: The true cost of wind power
  

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

• 2013/06/21: SciAm: Are Fracking Wastewater Wells Poisoning the Ground beneath Our Feet?
  Leaking injection wells may pose a risk--and the science has not kept pace with the growing glut of wastewater
• 2013/06/21: Grist: EPA abandons investigation into fracking pollution
• 2013/06/21: DeSmogBlog: A Gamble on Shale Job Growth Fails to Pay Off for Governor Corbett, as Fracking Worries Grow Nationwide
• 2013/06/20: TheCanadian: Water Contamination from Fracking: Jessica Ernst Releases Groundbreaking Report
• 2013/06/20: LoE: My final word on Fracking?
• 2013/06/20: BBerg: Fracking Pollution Probe in Wyoming Cast in Doubt by EPA
• 2013/06/19: TP:JR: Illinois Adopts Nation's Strictest Fracking Regulations
• 2013/06/19: OilChange: The Oil Industry's Acid [Fracking] Test
• 2013/06/19: ICN: Anti-Fracking Groups Rally in Albany, Urge Ban
• 2013/06/19: EcoWatch: Influence of Grassroots Anti-Fracking Movement Spreads Like Wildfire
• 2013/06/18: Ohio: EPA study on fracking threat to water will take years
• 2013/06/18: BBerg: A Protest in U.S. Oil Country Spells Trouble for Fracking Abroad
• 2013/06/17: CDreams: Fracking Puts Squeeze on Drought-Striken Farmers
• 2013/06/17: CCP: Illinois governor Quinn signs fracking regulatory bill over protest of citizens affected
• 2013/06/17: CCP: NRDC and Sierra Club sell out southern Illinois residents, cozy up to fracking-fueled politicians
• 2013/06/17: DeSmogBlog: Who Is Fracking With California?
• 2013/06/16: DD: Hydraulic fracturing fuels water fights in U.S. dry spots...
  

  On the coal front:

• 2013/06/19: DOE:TiE: U.S. coal exports set monthly record
  

  On the gas and oil front:

• 2013/06/21: BBerg: Closing oil prices Friday
  OIL (US$/bbl)
  Dated Brent Spot....100.91
  WTI Cushing Spot.....93.69
• 2013/06/22: PLNA: Russian Oil Company Rosneft Will Sell Oil to China and Czech Republic
• 2013/06/21: BBC: Rosneft in $270bn China oil supply deal
  Russian state oil company Rosneft has agreed to double its oil supplies to China, in a deal worth $270bn (£175bn) over 25 years.
• 2013/06/21: IndiaTimes: Russia, China sign 'unprecedented' $270 billion oil deal
• 2013/06/20: RT: Russia and China oil cooperation estimated at the unprecedented $270bn - Putin
• 2013/06/20: BBerg: BP Defends Renewable-Fuel Rule Other Oil Companies Oppose
• 2013/06/20: TCoE: IEA and natural gas projections
• 2013/06/19: CBC: Statoil makes 2nd find in new frontier off Newfoundland -- Oil found at Harpoon prospect in Flemish Pass, 10 km from previous Mizzen discovery
• 2013/06/18: Resilience: Former Soviet Union crude oil exports declined by 5.5 % in last 2 years
• 2013/06/16: Resilience: Results may vary: Beware of kaleidoscopic vision in the oil and gas industry
• 2013/06/14: RT: LNG trade falls for first time in 30 years
  In 2012 the global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) has suffered its first annual drop after three consecutive decades of expansion. The data published in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2013 shows the LNG trade dropped 0.9 percent in 2012. The decline came for the first time since 1980 despite more countries entering the LNG market in recent years.
• 2013/06/16: TheCanadian: LNG Markets Tanking? Sector Posts Declining Revenues for First Time
  

  And in pipeline news:

• 2013/06/18: TheCanadian: TransCanada Whistleblower Likens Shoddy Pipeline Industry to 'Organized Crime'
• 2013/06/18: OilChange: KXL's Outdated Oil Spill Technology
  

  A rush of American triumphalism pervades the energy independence PR campaign. Think it will last?

• 2013/06/21: Guardian(UK): Shale gas won't stop peak oil, but could create an economic crisis
  Overinflated industry claims could pull the rug out from optimistic growth forecasts within just five years
• 2013/06/13: Forbes: Why America's Shale Oil Boom Could End Sooner Than You Think
• 2013/06/10: EIA: [links to several pdfs] Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States
• 2013/06/17: SciAm:PI: Technically speaking -- 10% of world crude, 32% of natural gas are sitting in shale
  

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2013/06/21: DD: Graph of the Day: World remaining oil reserve estimates by political and technical sources, 1920-2012
  

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2013/06/21: AutoBG: Ethanol group says motorcyclists protesting E15 is 'absurd' [w/video]
• 2013/06/19: AutoBG: 25-million-gallion cellulosic ethanol plant opening in early 2014
• 2013/06/18: Guardian(UK): Is the future of clean energy a pond of algae in every backyard?
• 2013/06/18: Grist: 16-year-old turns algae into biofuel, makes rest of us feel unaccomplished
  

  The answer my friend...:

• 2013/06/21: Grist: Wind industry and enviros team up to study bird deaths
• 2013/06/17: TreeHugger: The Seychelles islands get their first wind farm (6MW) to replace dirty diesel generators
• 2013/06/14: Reuters: World's wind turbines to cross the 300 gigawatt mark - data
  The world will have enough wind turbines to generate more than 300 gigawatts of power - the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants - by the end of the year, industry figures show.
• 
  

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

   

• 2013/06/19: CSM: Why squirrels are nuts about solar panels
• 2013/06/19: TreeHugger: U.S. states ranked by how solar-friendly their policies are in 2013
• 2013/06/19: Grist: New York City gets public solar-powered cellphone chargers
• 2013/06/18: Berkeley:B: The California Solar Initiative is ending. What has it left behind?
• 2013/06/18: TreeHugger: New Yorkers get juiced with solar charging stations
  

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2013/06/20: NRC: [Grand Gulf, Mississippi] Unusual Event declared due to CO2 release in the auxiliary building
• 2013/06/18: EneNews: Reporter: Higher death rate for people around U.S. nuclear plant? ...
• 2013/06/18: CSM: Fighting climate change with nuclear energy
• 2013/06/17: BBerg: Nuclear Decommissioning Surge Is Investor Guessing Game
  Nuclear utilities thrust into the spotlight after the Fukushima meltdowns have ordered 20 reactors shut, the most in a three-year span since Chernobyl's aftermath, saddling the industry with a possible $26 billion in costs. EON SE and RWE AG are leading the biggest decommissioning project by European utilities ever, an effort to tear down 12 reactors in Germany over two decades. Edison International said June 7 it will never restart its idled two-unit San Onofre Generating Station outside Los Angeles, bringing the number of U.S. reactors permanently closed in a year to a record four. The global utility industry faces its biggest test to prove enough money was saved for shutdowns, having undergone numerous cost-overruns building atomic plants.
• 
  

  Nuclear waste storage requires _very_ long term thinking:

   

• 2013/06/22: RT: Possible new leak at Hanford ... , higher radioactivity levels detected
• 2013/06/22: EneNews: "U.S. state on alert after nuclear waste leak" - Governor: "This is most disturbing news"... [Hanford]
• 2013/06/21: KREM: Worst Hanford tank may be leaking into soil
  The first ever double-shell tank to have leaked at Hanford may be in far worse condition than anyone imagined. Hanford workers conducting routine maintenance on the tank Thursday were shocked to find readings of radioactivity from material outside the tank.
• 2013/06/20: EneNews: CBS News: Worry about explosion of unstable radioactive material at [Hanford] U.S. nuclear site...
  

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

• 2013/06/17: Eureka: Efficient and inexpensive: Researchers develop catalyst material for fuel cells -- Platinum-nickel nano-octahedra save 90 percent platinum
  

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

• 2013/06/23: AutoBG: NY dealers try to make it illegal to register a Tesla EV
• 2013/06/21: CSM: Tesla 90-second battery swap to cost $60 to $80
• 2013/06/21: TreeHugger: Auto dealers try to sneak in a bill that would put "Tesla out of business in New York"
• 2013/06/20: CBC: Gas-powered cars to dominate for decades, expert says
  'It all boils down to the battery,' says researcher, who believes the electric cars won't take over until 2035
• 2013/06/20: CSM: The future of natural gas is the car?
• 2013/06/20: AutoBG: Ricardo says only 'minor electrification' needed to reach 2025 CAFE standards
• 2013/06/20: TreeHugger: Cummunauto launches new electric car-sharing service in Montreal
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Indianapolis to get nation's largest EV sharing program
• 2013/06/18: TCoE: EVs and cleaning up the power supply
• 2013/06/18: Time: All of a Sudden, There Aren't Enough Electric Cars to Keep Up with Demand
• 2013/06/18: RTCC: Gothenburg [Sweden] reveals plans for silent electric bus system by 2015
  Silent, zero-emission electric buses are set to sweep onto the streets of Gothenburg by 2015.
• 2013/06/18: AutoBG: U of M researcher says plug-ins, hydrogen cars are 'no carbon cure-all'
• 2013/06/17: TCoE: Some EV thoughts
• 2013/06/17: AutoBG: GM still talking about 300-mile EVs with high energy density batteries
  

  As for Energy Storage:

• 2013/06/20: NatureN: Pin-sized battery printed in 3D packs a powerful punch -- Miniature lithium-ion device could power medical devices or miniature robots
  

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2013/06/21: CBC: Alberta flood victims mostly out of luck with insurance -- Not all flooding covered under insurance policies
  

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

• 2013/06/21: TP:JR: June 21 News...
• 2013/06/20: TP:JR: June 20 News...
• 2013/06/19: TP:JR: June 19 News...
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: June 18 News...
• 2013/06/17: TP:JR: June 17 News...
  

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2013/06/21: SkS: 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25B by John Hartz
• 2013/06/19: SkS: 2013 SkS Weekly News Roundup #25A by John Hartz
  

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2013/06/19: LoE: My final word on Oakwood?
• 2013/06/19: TheConversation: Disciplined and on-message, wind farm opponents are a force to be reckoned with
• 2013/06/19: HotWhopper: Will WUWT's David Archibald be right and severe cold hit Central England?
• 2013/06/18: CAbyss: What I Didn't Say to Fred Singer
• 2013/06/18: DeSmogBlog: Heartland Institute - the Keystone Cops Of Climate Science Denial - Strike Again
• 2013/06/18: Grist: Chinese science academy slaps down climate-denying Heartland Institute
• 2013/06/19: CCP: Greg Laden: Why you sound so stupid when you say global warming has stopped
• 2013/06/20: HotWhopper: It's another conspiracy! Is Anthony Watts going to be incarcerated and forced to have psychiatric treatment?
• 2013/06/19: Maribo: Some of Rolling Stone's "10 Dumbest Things Ever Said About Global Warming" are not so dumb
• 2013/06/19: WottsUWT: Willis and the ocean forcing
• 2013/06/19: QuarkSoup: Killing the "Cooling Since 2002" Meme
• 2013/06/21: HotWhopper: Confirmation bias and anomalous anomalies at WUWT
• 2013/06/20: QuarkSoup: WUWT: Ocean Misunderstanding and Confusion
• 2013/06/21: TreeHugger: The 10 dumbest quotes about climate change
• 2013/06/20: Tamino: Shooting from the Hip
• 2013/06/22: CDL: Willie Soon
• 2013/06/17: P3: Heartland Institute's Contemptible Weaseling
• 2013/06/18: CWars: Lying Andrew Bolt admits he is stupid and dishonest
• 2013/06/22: Stoat: It speaks clearly to truth
• 2013/06/17: ScienceInsider: Chinese Academy in Climate Change Uproar
• 2013/06/17: ERabett: Bad Day For Hair
• 2013/06/17: WottsUWT: Kevin and his tricks!
• 2013/06/18: WottsUWT: ERL rejects Richard Tol's comment on Cook et al 2013, but won't say who rejected it
• 2013/06/17: HotWhopper: Be worried..."logarithmic" does not mean what some people think it means
• 2013/06/17: HotWhopper: A very predictable pattern...
• 2013/06/17: HotWhopper: Curry on Ice - or How a Denialist Tries to Go Down the Up Escalator
• 2013/06/16: QuarkSoup: A Record for the Pause?
• 2013/06/16: DebunkingDenialism: Scientific Skepticism and Internet Trolls
• 2013/06/16: Guardian(UK): 'PetroKoch': an art project for the Metropolitan Museum
  As David Koch gets his name on the Met's new plaza, why not add Detroit's pile of his tar-sands sludge as an installation?
• 2013/06/23: IngeniousPursuits: Denying deniers history lesson
  

  Meanwhile in the 'clean coal' saga:

• 2013/06/21: ABC(Au): 'Clean coal' money used to promote coal use
  A billion dollar coal industry fund, which was supposed to drive development of 'clean coal' technology, has changed its purpose allowing it instead to promote coal use here and overseas.
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  As for climate miscellanea:

   

• 2013/06/18: P3: Isn't it Sad [Asimov quote]
• 2013/06/18: TP:JR: Climate Science Deniers Aren't The Only Ones Using The Tobacco Industry Playbook [Syngenta - atrazine]
• 2013/06/19: TFTJO: Climate change: why people choose ignorance
• 2013/06/19: TreeHugger: NRG Energy unveils disaster relief vehicle with solar array, Wi-Fi, and satellite service
• 2013/06/19: P3: The Hiatus - Cohn's Overview and Held's Observation
• 2013/06/19: QuarkSoup: "The tragic consequences of 'the American way of life'" [Hamilton quotes]
• 2013/06/20: CSW: EnvironmentalScienceDegree.com: "101 Top Web Resources on Climate Change"
• 2013/06/18: CSW: June 18 is a National Day of Action to Ban Dispersants
• 2013/06/20: QuarkSoup: Speaking of Surprises....
• 2013/06/18: TFTJO: Jay Forrester on the nature of the problems we face
• 2013/06/18: Ensia: Pregnant Pause -- A deluge of prenatal advice offers unexpected insights into climate denial
  

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

• [Film Site] More Than Honey
• Wiki: Air Quality Index
• Wiki: Pollutant Standards Index
• NOAA:ESRL: Carbon Cycle Gases - Mauna Loa, Hawaii, United States - Time Series
• NOAA:NNVL: Green Vegetation
• Ernst v. EnCana Corporation
  Multi-Million Dollar Landmark North American Lawsuit on Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Impact on Groundwater
• GreenIsTheNewRed
• Summer Heat - As the temperature rises, so do we
• Australian Climate Commission: The Critical Decade 2013
• Wiki: Cost of electricity by source
• Ensia: Environmental Solutions in Action
• All Models Are Wrong
  ...but some are useful. A grown-up discussion about how to quantify uncertainties in modelling climate change and its impacts, past and future.
• CFTE: Center for Transportation Excellence

Low Key Plug

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

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

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

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