A Few Things Ill Considered

A layman's take on the science of Global Warming featuring a guide on How to Talk to a Climate Sceptic.

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Another week of GW news - December 17, 2006

(Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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Beginning with some almost seasonal fun:

The big story of the week has to be the projection of an ice free Arctic by 2040:

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Although the temperature is still going up:

And the European ski slope theme is popular:

Whoops, sea level rise is accelerating:

Recent GHG statistics are not encouraging:

In the hurricane wars:

Anyone with any sense is waiting to see what the IPCC report [AR4] actually says before commenting, meanwhile:

The IODP reports that methane cathrates are found at shallower depths than expected:

Stern and his Review are still being batted around:

Glaciers are melting:

While on the el Niño front:

And in near earth orbit:

The changing atmosphere is projected to affect LEO spacecraft:

More GW impacts are being seen:

Then there are the tropical rainforests:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

Speaking of floods & droughts:

Bushfires are plaguing Australia:

The troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

I expect this idea will tee off more than a few people:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

Before we get into politics, there was some science done:

On the 'everything is different' theme:

Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:

  • 2006/12/15: EBR: EU emissions trading failing in current climate
    Despite the fanfare at its launch, it seems the EU emissions trading scheme will ultimately fail to deliver in its current form. An over-allocation of emissions credits in the first phase continues to subdue the price of carbon below levels necessary to promote genuine investment in carbon abatement. Moreover, a lack of policy cohesion is undermining attempts to get phase two back on track.

And on the American political front:

The issue of political interference in science is gathering force:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While on the UK political front:

A plan for a universal carbon trading system has been floated:

Meanwhile in Europe:

And in Australia:

And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper continues his inaction:

Continuing with the theme of local action in the face of federal inaction:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The movement toward ecologically based economics is glacial:

Bruce points to big changes coming down the pike:

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

Here is an interesting contrast in headlines for the same story:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

And then there is the question of what people do, as opposed to what they say:

While automakers, lawyers and activists argue over the future of the car:

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

It looks like India is in denial:

It seems Mr. Crichton has found a unique way to deal with literary critics:

Coby Beck is continuing to post his excellent "How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic" series on GristMill:

There should be some kind of prize for Eli's consistently sharp and informed missives:

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

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

--regards--

-het

PS. You can access the previous postings of this series here

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"We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising."

-Sir Isaac Newton, Principia, 1687

Global Warming: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/globalwarming.html

GW News: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/gwnews.html

GW News Archive: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/gwna.html

H.E. Taylor http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/

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