Another Week of GW News, March 18, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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• Top Stories, UK legislation, Antarctic glaciers, Melting Arctic, Aerosols, Global undimming, WGII draft leak
• Hurricanes, GHG Stats, The Temperature Record, Glaciers, Sea Levels, el Niño, Satellites
• Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
• Mitigation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science
• Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade,
• Politics, American, British, European, Australian, Asian, Canadian
• Apocalypso, Media, Broad, Books,
• Energy, Coal, Nukes, Efficiency, Cars, Business
• Carbon Lobby, E,A&M, TGGWS, Debate
• The Usual & Useful Links
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It's always nice to start with a laugh, even if it is black humour:

• 2007/03/18: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Detroit & CAFE

  The big story of the week has to be Britain's proposed climate legislation:

• 2007/03/14: Guardian(UK): Britain could be first country to put legal limits on carbon emissions
• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: Britain Aims to Lead on Adapting to Climate Change
• 2007/03/13: NSU: Britain introduces sweeping climate-change bill - UK politicians aim to lead the world on long-term carbon cuts
• 2007/03/14: TruthOut: Britain Proposes Bold Environmental Legislation That Could Pave Way for Post-Kyoto Pact
• 2007/03/14: ITWeek: Climate change bill welcomed by UK business
• 2007/03/14: CSM: Britain unveils 'global first' bill to cut CO2 emissions
  It plans to cut greenhouse emissions by up to 32 percent by 2020, but scientists say it may not be enough
• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Climate change bill is revolutionary, says Blair
• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Scientists give cautious welcome to environmental initiatives
• 2007/03/13: ABC(Au): British Govt unveils Bill to cut CO2 emissions
• 2007/03/13: NewScientist: Draft UK climate bill sets 2050 target
• 2007/03/13: PhysOrg: Britain Proposes Bold Environmental Law [60% by 2050]
• 2007/03/13: Telegraph(UK): Carbon emissions 'will be cut 60pc by 2050'
• 2007/03/14: PlanetArk: Draft British Climate Bill to Set 2050 Target [for 60% CO2 cut]
• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Q&A: Climate change bill
• 2007/03/13: OilChange: UK Unveils Climate Bill
• 2007/03/13: Reuters: Britain proposes legal limits on carbon emissions
• 2007/03/13: BBC: 'Binding' carbon targets proposed
  Britain could become the first country to set legally binding carbon reduction targets under plans unveiled by Environment Secretary David Miliband. The draft Climate Change Bill calls for an independent panel to set ministers a "carbon budget" every five years, in a bid to cut emissions by 60% by 2050. If they miss the figure, future governments could be taken to court.

The warming ocean is affecting Antarctic glaciers:

• 2007/03/15: Eureka: Warming oceans threaten Antarctic glaciers
  Scientists have identified four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations
• 2007/03/17: SciDaily: Warming Oceans Threaten Antarctic Glaciers
• 2007/03/16: NewScientist: Ice sheet complexity leaves sea level rise uncertain
• 2007/03/16: WaPo: Antarctic Glaciers' Sloughing Of Ice Has Scientists at a Loss
• 2007/03/16: CDreams: Independent(UK): Ocean Heat Blamed for the Mysterious Disappearance of [Antarctic] Glaciers
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Warming oceans threaten Antarctic glaciers
  Scientists have identified four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations, according to a study published in the journal Science.

Oh yes, and the Arctic:

• 2007/03/16: Guardian(UK): Arctic ocean may lose all its ice by 2040, disrupting global weather
• 2007/03/16: SciDaily: Arctic Sea Ice Decline May Trigger Climate Change Cascade
• 2007/03/15: Eureka: Arctic sea ice decline may trigger climate change cascade, says University of Colorado study
• 2007/03/16: OilChange: Winter "Warmest on Record" As Arctic Reaches "Tipping Point"
• 2007/03/16: CDreams: Independent(UK): Collapse of Arctic Sea Ice 'Has Reached Tipping-Point'
• 2007/03/16: Independent(UK): Collapse of Arctic sea ice 'has reached tipping-point'
• 2007/03/16: LA Times: Arctic could have iceless summers by 2100
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Arctic Sea Ice Decline May Trigger Climate Change Cascade

  Aerosols were big this week:

• 2007/03/17: SciDaily: NASA Studies How Airborne Particles Affect Climate Change
• 2007/03/14: Scripps: Transported Black Carbon a Significant Player in Pacific Ocean Climate
• 2007/03/12: CSM: Western US's stronger storms traced to Asia pollution

  Remember global dimming?

• 2007/03/15: Eureka: Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists
• 2007/03/16: NEN: Friday Extra: There Goes the Sun?
• 2007/03/16: CBC: Earth's 'sunscreen' is thinning, NASA says
• 2007/03/15: NASA:EO: Global 'Sunscreen' Has Likely Thinned, Report NASA Scientists
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Global 'sunscreen' has likely thinned, report NASA scientists

  Some late comment on the EU energy plan:

• 2007/03/17: TreeHugger: EU's Bold Energy Plan Shames Kyoto Holdouts

  Some late comment on the leaked WGII report:

• 2007/03/15: CSM: Sneak preview of big report: Change is 'already showing up'
• 2007/03/12: TruthOut: New Climate Report: More Bad News
• 2007/03/14: PlanetArk: Regional Impacts of Climate Change - UN Draft [WGII]
• 2007/03/12: BoomanTrib: New IPCC Report: Effects of Global Warming Very Hazardous to Mankind
• 2007/03/11: DeSmogBlog: AP: Coming IPCC Report on Impacts Is Grim
• 2007/03/12: NYT: Top Scientists Warn of Water Shortages and Disease Linked to Global Warming [WGII leak]
• 2007/03/12: EnvEcon: "Net benefits" in new IPCC report

  Here's one of those Oh-Oh moments:

• 2007/03/13: SciDaily: Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Stimulates Soils To Release, Not Store, CO2

  Meanwhile temperatures are still going up:

• 2007/03/16: Guardian(UK): World breaks temperature records
• 2007/03/16: SciDaily: Global December-February Temperature Warmest On Record
• 2007/03/16: BBC: Winter warmth breaks all records
  Winter in the northern hemisphere this year has been the warmest since records began more than 125 years ago, a US government agency says. The combined land and ocean surface temperature from December to February was 0.72C (1.3F) above average.
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Winter Warmest on Record Worldwide
• 2007/03/15: Wunderground: Warmest winter on record for the globe
• 2007/03/15: DeSmogBlog: Maybe It Didn't Feel That Way Where You Live, But...
• 2007/03/15: Yahoo: Winter Warmest on Record Worldwide
• 2007/03/11: Guardian(UK): 2007, the year that spring stole a surprise March on summer

  And in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/03/16: CCM: Cyclone Indlala: Satellite Pic at Peak Intensity
• 2007/03/15: CCM: The Sad Cyclone History of Antalaha [on the northeastern coast of Madagascar]
• 2007/03/14: CCM: A Cat 4 [Cyclone Indlala] off Madagascar
• 2007/03/14: CCM: Indlala From Space
• 2007/03/12: CCM: Newsflash: Models Actually in Agreement on Something [Indlada in the South Indian Ocean]
• 2007/03/12: CCM: Cyclone George May Have Been a Category 4...or Not
• 2007/03/13: PlanetArk: Australia's West Hit by Second Cyclone [Jacob]

  About that solar hypothesis:

• 2007/03/12: DeSmogBlog: Solar Co-relation to Temperature Debunked [Damon Laut]

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/03/12: TLC: Whither Greenland Goeth
• 2007/03/12: Dawn: Glacier depletion to hit river flows after 50 years
  The Planning Commission expects glacial reservoirs feeding Pakistan’s irrigation system will be empty after about 50 years, resulting in up to 40 per cent permanent reduction in river flows owing to fast depletion of Himalayan glaciers.

Sea levels are rising:

• 2007/03/13: ABC(Au): Scientist [Dr James Hansen] predicts disastrous sea level rise
• 2007/03/12: ABC(Au): CSIRO scientist [David Griffin] calls for more accurate model to measure sea level

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/03/17: SciDaily: Studying The Amazon Rainforest Through Satellite Imagery
• 2007/03/14: SciDaily: First Ozone And Nitrogen Dioxide Measurements From The Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment
• 2007/03/14: ESA: First ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements from MetOp-A [Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2)]
• 2007/03/13: SciDaily: CryoSat-2 To Assess Thickness Of Arctic Ice
• 2007/03/12: ESA: CryoSat-2 on the road to recovery
• 2007/03/12: TerraDaily: Climate Change View Clearer With New Oceans Satellite
• 2007/03/12: TerraDaily: Space Scientists To Take The Pulse Of Planet Earth [Canberra meeting]
• 2007/03/12: SciDaily: Experiments Launched To Study Earth's Atmosphere
  Spatial Heterodyne Imager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER) & Scintillation and Tomography Receiver in Space (CITRIS)
• 2007/03/12: Eureka: Color analysis rapidly predicts carbon content of soil

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/03/17: PhysOrg: Feds Looks at Climate Impact on Animals
• 2007/03/16: ABC(Au): Report finds drought massive eel kill cause
• 2007/03/16: CDreams: IPS: Thirstier World Likely to See More Violence
• 2007/03/15: AngryBear: Stormy on a Matter of Ph
• 2007/03/15: GristMill: Save the polar bears!
• 2007/03/14: TerraDaily: Climate Change Will Heat Switzerland Swiftly
• 2007/03/14: PhysOrg: Global warming impacting European seas
• 2007/03/13: SwissInfo: Panel to calculate climate change impact
• 2007/03/14: SwissInfo: Swiss issue key climate report
• 2007/03/13: TruthOut: It's Expensive to Ignore Global Warming
• 2007/03/13: TruthOut: It's August in March for Fire Agencies
• 2007/03/13: PhysOrg: Canadian tundra is rapidly disappearing
• 2007/03/12: BBC: Peru's alarming water truth
  Oscar-winning Al Gore chose to call his film about global warming An Inconvenient Truth. But for Peru it is more like an alarming reality.
• 2007/03/11: ClimateP: The Real Roots of Darfur: Climate Change
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: The public doesn't understand that global warming is already hitting
• 2007/03/12: ABC(Au): Climate change increases risk of megafires, experts warn
• 2007/03/12: CDreams: SeattlePI: It's Expensive to Ignore Global Warming

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2007/03/14: TruthOut: Forests Still Shrinking, but Not as Fast
• 2007/03/14: Canoe: Ontario boreal forest critical in global warming fight: report
• 2007/03/14: CDreams: Independent(UK): Destruction of Forests in Developing World 'Out of Control'
• 2007/03/13: PhysOrg: UN: U.S., Europe Deforestation Reversed

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/03/14: Wunderground: A new rainfall world record [At La Réunion, 12.9 feet (3.929 meters) of rain in 72 hours!!!]

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/03/17: JFleck: Meanwhile, Closer to Home - Folks in Tucson are gearing up for drought restrictions...
• 2007/03/17: TDN: Turkey faces long-term desertification threat
• 2007/03/15: JFleck: Drought News
• 2007/03/14: PlanetArk: Drought Threatens Crops in Much of Southern Europe

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/03/12: AlterNet: Is Ethanol the Solution or the Problem?
• 2007/03/16: ZMag: Full Tanks at the Cost of Empty Stomachs: The Expansion of the Sugarcane Industry in Latin America
• 2007/03/11: Yahoo: Ethanol-driven feed costs cut U.S. meat output: USDA
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: Reality setting in [ethanol, palm-oil & grocery bills]

  And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: World May Get Greener, Then Wilt, Due Warming
• 2007/03/18: DeSmogBlog: IPCC Plants Seeds of Doubt [falling food prod]
• 2007/03/17: Axcess: Global Warming Causes Billions in Cereal Crop Damage
• 2007/03/16: GCC: Study: Warming Causing Decline in Global Crop Production
• 2007/03/16: DeSmogBlog: Well, When We're Hot, We're Less Hungry Anyway...
• 2007/03/16: IBA: Report: Crops hurt by global warming - Declining yields affect both food supply and production of biofuels
• 2007/03/15: MongaBay: Global warming reduced crop yields over past 20 years
• 2007/03/16: SciDaily: Crops Feel The Heat As The World Warms
• 2007/03/09: LLNL: Crops feeling the heat
• 2007/03/16: Eureka: Crops feel the heat as the world warms
  Over a span of two decades, warming temperatures have caused annual losses of roughly $5 billion for major food crops, according to a new study by researchers at the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From 1981-2002, warming reduced the combined production of wheat, corn, and barley -- cereal grains that form the foundation of much of the world’s diet -- by 40 million metric tons per year.
• 2007/03/09: CDreams: You Can't Eat Gasoline -- Big Food's Lie About Feeding the World

  How long do you suppose this will last?

• 2007/03/16: Scotsman: Third of UK food going to waste

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/03/16: BBC: Labels reveal goods' carbon cost - A labelling scheme that will show customers the size of a product's "carbon footprint" has been unveiled
• 2007/03/16: DeSmogBlog: Carbon-footprint label introduced to guide consumers
• 2007/03/15: BBC: Carbon labelling scheme launched
  A labelling scheme designed to help shoppers identify firms committed to environmentally-friendly policies is set to be launched.
• 2007/03/15: DeSmogBlog: International coalition takes aim at popular air-conditioner refrigerant in battle against climate change
• 2007/03/13: DeSmogBlog: Harness prairie wetlands in climate-change battle

  While on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/03/17: TEB: B&W Aquires Rights to CO2 Emissions Control Technology [bioreactor with an enzyme, extracted from genetically engineered E. coli]
• 2007/03/17: NEN: MIT: Bury your CO2
• 2007/03/17: NEN: Experiment with Capturing Carbon
• 2007/03/16: TEB: AEP Signs Two MOUs for Technologies to Reduce CO2 Emissions
• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: AEP [American Electric Power Co.] Sets Largest Carbon-Capture Test at Coal Plant
  AEP, the largest US producer of coal-fired power, signed a memorandum of understanding to use French engineering company Alstom's chilled ammonia process at two of its plants. The company will then store the carbon dioxide underground. "We need to go forward and prove out -- not only for ourselves, but also for the industry -- that this technology will, in fact, work," AEP Chief Executive Michael Morris told reporters.
• 2007/03/15: CSM: Report: Burying greenhouses gases will be key. To halt catastrophic climate change, the US has less than a decade [to] learn how to capture and store carbon dioxide.
• 2007/03/15: DeSmogBlog: Utility tries "sequestration" to block carbon emissions from atmosphere
• 2007/03/14: NEN: Capturing Carbon in Canada

  Next thing you know they'll be recycling CO2:

• 2007/03/15: NewScientist: Catalyst could help turn CO2 into fuel

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/03/16: DeSmogBlog: Welcome to Planet Edsel!
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Could Crazy Technology Save the Planet?

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/03/15: CPD: Spatial distribution of Pleistocene/Holocene warming amplitudes in Northern Eurasia inferred from geothermal data by D. Yu. Demezhko et al.
• 2007/03/12: CPD: The EDC3 chronology for the EPICA Dome C ice core by F. Parrenin et al.
• 2007/03/12: CPD: "EDML1": A chronology for the EPICA deep ice core from Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, over the last 150,000 years by U. Ruth et al.
• 2007/03/13: PNAS: The changing carbon cycle at Mauna Loa Observatory by Wolfgang Buermann et al.

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

• 2007/03/14: PhysOrg: 500,000 years of climate history stored year by year
• 2007/03/14: TerraDaily: Smithsonian Scientists Report New Carbon Dioxide Study
• 2007/03/14: Eureka: 500,000 years of climate history stored year by year - Turkey's Lake Van provides a uniquely precise insight into Eurasia's climate history

  Tim guest-posted a writeup of an Oxford Climate Conference:

• 2007/03/18: Deltoid: Oxford Climate Conference

  And Chris did a profile of James Hansen:

• 2007/03/11: Seed: The New Scientist - James Hansen is the world's leading-- and most politically outspoken--climate researcher.

  While from a conference in Canberra:

• 2007/03/12: ABC(Au): NASA official 'surprised' climate change still debated
• 2007/03/12: RadioAus: Climate change is happening: NASA official
• 2007/03/13: PlanetArk: Scientist [Eric Lindstrom, NASA's head of oceanography] Says Sea Level Rise Could Accelerate

  On the Kyoto front:

• 2007/03/12: Australian: 'Kyoto snub a tool for China'
  China is using Australia's refusal to ratify the Kyoto agreement as diplomatic leverage as it faces increasing pressure to step up efforts to tackle climate change...

And the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: Time Running Out for Post-Kyoto Climate Deal - Germany
• 2007/03/13: TruthOut: Al Gore Seeks Earlier Start to Kyoto Pact Successor
• 2007/03/14: PlanetArk: Al Gore Seeks Earlier Start to Kyoto Pact Successor

  The G8 + 5 held a conference in Germany:

• 2007/03/17: BBerg: U.S. Disagrees at G8 Climate Meeting, Germany Says
  The U.S. disagreed at a meeting of the Group of Eight nations and five key developing countries over the need for a global carbon market and economic incentives to help emerging economies protect the environment, said the German chairman of the talks. The 13 countries agreed on a range of points, including that global warming is happening and more needs to be done to tackle it such as by the development of clean technologies, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel told reporters after a day of talks with his counterparts.
• 2007/03/17: BBC: US 'blocks environment progress'
  Germany's environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, says the United States has blocked progress on two key issues to protect the global environment. He was speaking after a two-day meeting of environment ministers in the German city of Potsdam. The issues were carbon emissions trading and rewarding developing nations for protecting their natural assets, he said. Mr Gabriel said the US opposition was "not a surprise".

  The Potsdam conference brought together ministers from the Group of Eight

  leading industrialised nations - the United States, Canada, France, UK,

  Germany, Japan, Italy and Russia - and Brazil, India, China Mexico and

  South Africa from the developing world.

• 2007/03/17: Reuters: G8 climate consensus emerging, U.S. odd man out
• 2007/03/16: BBerg: G-8, Key Developing Nations, Debate Climate Change
• 2007/03/16: BBC: Environment ministers from the G8 have agreed to a study of the economic costs globally of species becoming extinct as a result of climate change.
• 2007/03/16: SwissInfo: U.S. seen joining climate fight [say G8 ministers]
• 2007/03/16: BBC: Climate summit for G8 ministers
  Environment ministers from the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations are in Germany to discuss a global response to the problem of climate change. The ministers will meet counterparts from key developing nations at the two-day meeting in Potsdam. They will discuss how to cut greenhouse gas emissions and how to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out in 2012. Ministers from Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa will be attending the talks.

And on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: Traders Left Guessing at Future Carbon Prices
• 2007/03/14: PlanetArk: Canada Emissions Trade Seen Worth C$12 Bln - CIBC

  The controversy over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets

  and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs is getting louder:

• 2007/03/16: GristMill: No, no -- I'll cap, you trade...
• 2007/03/14: TWN: Cap & Trade: No Time to Lose
• 2007/03/14: EnvEcon: Carbon credits in the product markets
• 2007/03/13: AlterNet: Al Gore's Carbon Solution [carbon trading] Won't Stop Climate Change
• 2007/03/12: SLTrib: Only a carbon tax can stop global warming

  Polls, we have opinion polls:

• 2007/03/16: GristMill: Global opinion warming
• 2007/03/14: FramingScience: In Contrast to Americans, A Majority of Iranians View Climate Change As a Critical Threat
• 2007/03/12: FramingScience: For a Majority of Americans, Global Warming Is Creating More Powerful Hurricanes
• 2007/03/14: ABC(Au): Vast majority of Australians want to tackle global warming: survey
• 2007/03/14: GristMill: Poll finds worldwide agreement that climate change is a threat
• 2007/03/14: GristMill: [Dessler] Why is climate change not taken seriously in the U.S.?
• 2007/03/13: PIPA: Poll Finds Worldwide Agreement That Climate Change is a Threat - Publics Divide Over Whether Costly Steps Are Needed
• 2007/03/14: DeSmogBlog: Poll finds worldwide agreement climate change is a threat
• 2007/03/14: MSNBC: Global poll shows warming a major concern - U.S. an exception, but overall awareness is 'phenomenal,' researcher says
• 2007/03/14: Yahoo: Climate change seen as threat
  A survey on climate change conducted in more than a dozen countries found that a majority of people in nations including South Korea, Australia, Iran and Mexico -- but not the United States -- view global warming as a critical threat.
• 2007/03/12: Gallup: To Americans, the Risks of Global Warming Are Not Imminent - A majority worries about climate changes, but thinks problems are a decade or more away
• 2007/03/13: CCM: Public Opinion on Hurricanes and Global Warming
• 2007/03/12: ThinkP: Poll: Americans are worried about global warming

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/03/17: ClimateP: The State of State Action
• 2007/03/17: CSW: House Science Committee chairs question 11 federal agencies about science media openness policies
• 2007/03/17: CSW: House approves landmark whistleblower legislation with protection for scientific freedom
• 2007/03/15: ClimateP: The Great Political Divide on Global Warming
• 2007/03/16: GristMill: Edwards: 80% reductions by 2050
• 2007/03/16: CSW: GAP press release: Monday House Hearing to Feature Cooney, Hansen, Deutsch
• 2007/03/15: CSW: Cooney, Hansen, and Connaughton to testify before House Oversight Committee
• 2007/03/16: CCM: Waxman's Having One Hell of a Hearing
• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: New Hampshire Towns Press Washington on Warming
• 2007/03/15: GristMill: Here come the law students - The Gore Tour Stops in D.C.
• 2007/03/14: GristMill: [US Democratic Presidential candidate, John] Edwards goes carbon neutral
• 2007/03/14: TCE: Bush Administration Opposes BC Coal [Appalachian is fine]
• 2007/03/14: GristMill: Will Pelosi abandon deadline for climate legislation?
• 2007/03/14: AlterNet: Why the U.S. Is So Far Behind the Brits on Climate Change
• 2007/03/13: CSW: GAP letter to the NOAA Administrator on criteria for media policy reform
• 2007/03/13: CSW: House Oversight Committee to hold second hearing on political interference with climate science
• 2007/03/13: CSW: Panel at National Press Club agrees the public's right to know is frequently compromised
• 2007/03/13: WaPo: White House seeks to cut geothermal research funds
• 2007/03/13: Yahoo: Emission Caps unlikely without Bush help [says Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NewMex) chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee]
• 2007/03/12: NEN: Global Warming Gets Low TV Ratings
• 2007/03/12: CSW: More on the Administration's long-withheld U.S. Climate Action Report
• 2007/03/12: WaPo: Pelosi Reveals Who's Who On Global Warming Panel
• 2007/03/11: CDreams: Newsday: US Has a Moral Duty to Lead in Climate Fix

  While in religious circles:

• 2007/03/13: ClimateP: Creation Care Embraces Climate Change
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: Evangelicals to Dobson: Whatevs
• 2007/03/11: WaPo: Evangelical Body Stays Course on Warming - Conservatives Oppose Stance
• 2007/03/12: C411: I Met a Bishop -- and the Pope! [hearing to devise a Catholic response to climate change]

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/03/17: PhysOrg: Gore Gets [300k] Signatures for Climate Change
• 2007/03/16: HuffPo: Reading The Pictures: The (Visual) Hit On Gore
• 2007/03/14: CDreams: Reuters: Pension Funds Must Heed Climate Change: Gore

  Bill McKibben's Step It Up campaign is getting press as well:

• Step It Up 2007
• 2007/03/15: TruthOut: Renewing a Call to Act Against Climate Change
• 2007/03/14: OilChange: Step it Up On Climate Change
• 2007/03/14: CDreams: NYT: Renewing a Call to Act Against Climate Change

  While in UK politics:

• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Green policies: how the three parties compare - Where do Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems really stand on climate change?
• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Brown and Cameron battle over green air travel and phasing out old-style light bulbs
• 2007/03/12: Guardian(UK): Brown and Cameron fight to set the green agenda
• 2007/03/12: GWWatch: UK politics now just a climate change auction
• 2007/03/12: Yahoo: [UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon] Brown wants 'new world order' to fight global warming
• 2007/03/12: BBC: Chancellor Gordon Brown will try to seize back the green agenda from the Tories when he calls for worldwide action to tackle climate change
• 2007/03/12: OilChange: UK Politicians Fight Over Climate Credentials
• 2007/03/13: PlanetArk: UK's Brown Prefers 'Green' Incentives Over [brown] Penalties

  And in Europe:

• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: ECB Could Handle CO2 Emissions Trading - Germany
• 2007/03/13: OilChange: Germany Opposes Speed Restrictions

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/03/16: GWWatch: Climate change front & Centre in Queensland politics
• 2007/03/16: ABC(Au): Govt out of options on Murray-Darling flows: environmentalists
• 2007/03/14: ABC(Au): NSW [New South Wales] drought area at 91 per cent
• 2007/03/15: ABC(Au): [Feral] Camels blighting rural Australia: expert
• 2007/03/14: ABC(Au): Report urges mandatory renewable energy targets
  A new report by the Northern Territory's Environment Centre is calling on the Martin Government to adopt a mandatory renewable energy target to increase the uptake of solar energy in Darwin.
• 2007/03/13: TheAge: Emissions panel funds fossil fuels over renewables
  The fossil-fuel industry has been the overwhelming beneficiary of the Federal Government's $500 million low-emission technology development fund, receiving $335 million of the $410 million already allocated.

While in China:

• 2007/03/16: Reuters: China's [Premier] Wen [Jiabao] hedges on climate change response
• 2007/03/12: PlanetArk: China Says No Carbon Exchange Plan, UN Still Keen

  And in Canada:

• 2007/03/15: Globe&Mail: Alberta is Canada's top polluter, survey finds - Province's industry generated 40 per cent of climate-warming gases in 2005
• 2007/03/12: TCE: Montreal To Cut Emissions by 20%
• 2007/03/12: TSun: Kyoto rally targets Canadian leaders - Urged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions [It was a call for peace in the "War on Terra."]

  Also in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper is madly greenwashing:

• 2007/03/18: CanWest: Government to move toward Kyoto
• 2007/03/16: DeSmogBlog: Canadian government pulls plug on climate-change policy group
• 2007/03/14: CanWest: Tories kill Environment Canada climate-change group
  The Conservative government has eliminated a section of Environment Canada that played a key role in shaping climate-change policies now being announced by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, The Canadian Press has learned. Frustrated bureaucrats said the move is an example of the government's zeal to wrest control from public servants over an increasingly politicized issue. A memo sent to Environment Canada officials this month announced a new organizational structure for the department -- and it no longer includes the Climate Change Policy Directorate. The memo came just as the prime minister embarked on a national tour to announce a series of green initiatives that were largely prepared by the division now being dismantled.
• 2007/03/14: HamiltonSpectator: Emissions regulations ready to roll says Harper

  Funny how the press releases stand out:

• 2007/03/12: Eureka: Canada's new government invests in carbon capture research delivering real results on greenhouse gas

  Also in Canada, the Liberals have released their climate plan:

• 2007/03/18: BCLSB: Everyone's Proposing A Carbon Tax [Can pol]
• 2007/03/17: Canoe: Gritty carbon tax plan promised - The federal Liberals are promising a carrot-and-stick approach to industrial polluters
• 2007/03/17: Globe&Mail: Meet Kyoto or pay up, Dion tells big industry - Liberals plan stiff fines for polluters that fail to reduce emissions by 2008
• 2007/03/17: Yahoo: Canada greenhouse gas 'violators' would pay under Liberal plan
• 2007/03/16: GristMill: Dion burnishing his green cred
• 2007/03/16: BCLSB: Dion Strikes Back!
• 2007/03/16: CBC: Make big business pay for greenhouse-gas emissions, [Liberal Leader Stephane] Dion says

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2007/03/18: GWWatch: Examining our fears around global warming
• 2007/03/18: TheAge: A climate of fear
• 2007/03/17: Deltoid: Climate Paranoia
• 2007/03/15: Guardian(UK): 'We should be scared stiff'
  Renowned scientist James Lovelock thinks mainland Europe will soon be desert - and millions of people will start moving north to Britain.
• 2007/03/12: MongaBay: An Interview with Dr. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden: Biodiversity extinction crisis looms says renowned biologist
• 2007/03/14: MR: Notes on "anxiety-driven ecological catastrophism"
• 2007/03/14: ZWire: [Jared Diamond] Author of 'Guns, Germs and Steel' - Eco-suicide is the new danger; writer finds a warning in failures of past civilizations
• 2007/03/13: ABC(US): Global Warming Is a Crisis - Debate: Time to Sound the Alarm Bells?

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/03/12: PlanetArk: US Magazines Go Green With Global Warming Issues

  An article by William Broad of the NYT came in for a lot of flak:

• 2007/03/14: FramingScience: Upstream/Downstream: Why The NY Times Should Understand the Nature of Inconvenient Truths
• 2007/03/15: CDreams: When Climate Message is Strong, Attack the Messenger!
• 2007/03/14: CSW: Misleading NY Times article on Gore film gets deserved excoriation by RealClimate
• 2007/03/13: JFleck: Broad in the New York Times
• 2007/03/13: MediaMatters: NY Times article on Gore leaves out inconvenient truths
• 2007/03/13: GristMill: [Dessler] More on the 'reasonable middle'
• 2007/03/13: GristMill: Debunking the NYT's sloppy hit piece on Gore
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: NYT 'hit' on Gore?
• 2007/03/12: ERabett: Adeptly Adapting to the New Middle
• 2007/03/13: Deltoid: Broadly Misrepresenting
• 2007/03/13: RealClimate: Broad Irony
• 2007/03/13: CCM: New York Times Slams Gore...
• 2007/03/13: NYT: From a Rapt Audience, a Call to Cool the Hype [Gore]
• 2007/03/13: HuffPo: Debunking the NYT's Sloppy Hit Piece on Gore
• 2007/03/13: HuffPo: The New York Times Asks the Wrong Question [Gore]

  A kafuffle over how scientists comment on GW is being played up:

• 2007/03/18: Independent(UK): Global warming is a 'weapon of mass destruction' - Climate experts hit back after being accused of overstating the problem
  Global warming is a "weapon of mass destruction", one of Britain and the world's top climatologists said yesterday. Sir John Houghton, former director-general of the Meteorological Office and chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, entered the debate over the seriousness of climate change after two meteorologists were reported as saying that "some scientists have been guilty of overplaying the available evidence". He said he agreed with the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, that it posed a greater threat than terrorism.
  The comments of the two meteorologists, Professor Paul Hardaker and Professor Chris Collier, both of the Royal Meteorological Society - billed on Radio 4 as "leading experts on climate change" - threatened to revive the row over the scientific view of global warming after the broadcasting of Channel 4's polemic The Great Global Warming Swindle 10 days ago, which took issue with the view set out in Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth.
• 2007/03/17: ABC(Au): Don't overplay global warming threat, scientists say
• 2007/03/17: BBC: Caution urged on climate 'risks'
  Two leading UK climate researchers have criticised those among their peers who they say are "overplaying" the global warming message. Professors Paul Hardaker and Chris Collier, both Royal Meteorological Society figures, are voicing their concern at a conference in Oxford. They say some researchers make claims about possible future impacts that cannot be justified by the science.

Here is something for your library:

• 2007/03/15: LRB: [Book Reviews] Warmer, Warmer
  The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock
  Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis Summary for Policymakers [IPCC]
  Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot
  The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies by Richard Heinberg
  The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review by Nicholas Stern

Developing a new energy infrastructure is the fundamental challenge of

the current generation:

• 2007/03/14: FuturePundit: Biomass Plus Hydrogen For All Transportation?
• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: British Gas Plans Rooftop Solar Panel Launch
• 2007/03/15: GristMill: Poll: Texas hearts solar
• 2007/03/14: GristMill: Compare and contrast [geothermal]
• 2007/03/13: SciDaily: A Step Toward Inexpensive Geothermal Energy
• 2007/03/15: SciDaily: Hydrogen Storage: Researchers Achieve Technology Breakthrough
• 2007/03/15: TEB: AMAT [Applied Materials, Inc.] to Install 1.9 MW of Solar Panels, the Largest Corporate Installation
• 2007/03/14: UPI: Coal-fired ethanol plant opens in Minn.
• 2007/03/14: Purdue: New biofuels process [H2CAR] promises to meet all U.S. transportation needs
• 2007/03/14: CDreams: Reuters: White House Seeks to Cut Geothermal Research Funds
• 2007/03/13: PhysOrg: Research provides model for improving alternative energy source [geothermal]
• 2007/03/13: GristMill: Who ya gonna call? [biofuels, Gore]
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: Phase out electricity emissions in a decade!
• 2007/03/11: Yahoo: U.S. needs national energy, climate policy: GE CEO [Jeff Immelt]
• 2007/03/12: TechRev: Nanocharging Solar - Arthur Nozik believes quantum-dot solar power could boost output in cheap photovoltaics

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/03/15: NSU: What's the future of coal? A US study calls for more investment and focus on carbon capture and storage to make for cleaner coal.
• 2007/03/15: TruthOut: Cheap Coal Threat to Global Climate
• 2007/03/15: TEB: The Future of Coal
• 2007/03/14: Yahoo: [MIT] Study: Coal industry faces bleak future
• 2007/03/14: PhysOrg: MIT provides blueprint for future use of coal
• 2007/03/14: TechRev: The Precarious Future of Coal
  A new MIT report says that much more effort is needed to develop and test technology that will make clean-coal power plants economical and practical.
• 2007/03/13: OilDrum: So will it be the Emperor Coal?
• 2007/03/12: TruthOut: Let's Call the Coal Thing Off
• 2007/03/13: PlanetArk: India's Coal Demand May Quadruple by 2031 - Minister [for Coal, Desari Rao]

  Nuclear energy continues to split (and fuse?) the crowd:

• 2007/03/14: GristMill: Journalism, wonkery, advocacy, nuclear power, and the kitchen sink
• 2007/03/12: OilDrum: A review of the underlying fundamentals of nuclear energy
• 2007/03/12: SciDaily: A Step Toward Fusion Energy [Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX)]

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/03/16: GristMill: Energy efficiency and economic growth?
• 2007/03/13: CNN: Going green can pay off in the home

  If you really want to see the fur fly, threaten subsidies and tax breaks:

• 2007/03/15: OilChange: Germans Unite Against Oil Aid!
• 2007/03/12: TreeHugger: End The Perverse Incentives Effect On Renewable Energy

  There is more than one path to energy efficient lighting:

• 2007/03/18: HuffPo: A Bright Idea for America's Energy Future by Rep. Jane Harman
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Powerful Little Light: LED With 1,000 Lumens

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

• 2007/03/16: ClimateP: GM's Schizophrenia: Europe vs America
• 2007/03/16: TreeHugger: Steady As She Goes: Climate Week In Review
• 2007/03/16: PlanetArk: Automakers Fight Calls to Boost US Fuel Efficiency
  A sharp increase in auto fuel efficiency standards will not result in a meaningful drop in US oil consumption and would add billions in costs, chief executives of the world's top car companies said Wednesday. The officials from Chrysler Group , General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. agreed that significant efficiency improvements and reduced carbon emissions will come mainly from alternative fuels, hybrids and other technology -- not tougher fuel mandates.
• 2007/03/15: GristMill: UAW opposes new CAFE standards
• 2007/03/15: WaPo: Auto Execs, Lawmakers Focus on Climate
• 2007/03/15: DeSmogBlog: Sure! And Toyota Completely Ruined Japan's Economy Too!
• 2007/03/15: C411: Auto Industry Changing Gears [Cap&trade, yes -- CAFE, no]
• 2007/03/15: TreeHugger: US Auto Industry Supports National Global Warming Legislation
• 2007/03/15: OilChange: US Carmakers Ask for Help
• 2007/03/14: EnvEcon: Detroit hates CAFE standards
• 2007/03/14: TruthOut: Auto Execs Head to Congress for Warming Talks - Ford: Industry should be part of solution, but not "the entire solution."
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: CAFE standards should be the focus

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/03/18: PhysOrg: Ski Industry Goes Green to Fight Warming
• 2007/03/15: BBC: Gore urges investors to go green - Former US vice president Al Gore has called on investors to consider climate change factors when buying stocks
• 2007/03/14: CanWest: Consequences of ignoring green issues dire for big oil: [Ethical Funds Co.] report
• 2007/03/12: CSM: How do investors factor climate change into their stock-picking equation? Corporations are catching on to the risks and opportunities of global warming

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/03/18: N3xus6: Ray Evans' 'Nine facts about climate change' debunked. Pt. 3.
• 2007/03/16: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science V
• 2007/03/15: DeSmogBlog: Flattery and Fallacies
• 2007/03/15: N3xus6: The Oz editorial - still wing-nut central. Part IV
• 2007/03/12: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball Death Threats
• 2007/03/12: DeSmogBlog: Friends of Science Lives!
• 2007/03/11: Telegraph(UK): Scientists threatened for 'climate denial'

  Does any one else smell an incipient E,A&M fanclub?

• 2007/03/17: ERabett: Eli writes a letter (cont.) [EA&M]
• 2007/03/16: ERabett: The Rabett writes: Universitaets Prof. i.R. Dr. Jurgen U. Keller
• 2007/03/17: BCLSB: Global Warming Deniers Deny Concept Of An Average Value
• 2007/03/15: ERabett: What is local thermodynamic equilibrium?
• 2007/03/15: Eureka: Global temperature -- politics or science?
• 2007/03/15: PhysOrg: Danish scientist [Andresen]: Global warming is a myth
• 2007/03/15: SciDaily: Researchers Question Validity Of A 'Global Temperature'
• 2007/03/15: ERabett: Answers, we got answers...
• 2007/03/14: ERabett: An open book test
• 2007/03/12: AFTIC: Making an ASS out of U and ME (denial)
• 2007/03/13: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball, et al: Revisionist History?
• 2007/03/13: N3xus6: The Oz editorial - still wing-nut central. Part III

  The TGGWS spun along:

• 2007/03/17: JEB: Swindled?
• 2007/03/17: RealClimate: A much more eloquent rebuttal of TGGWS
• 2007/03/16: JQuiggin: Swindle update
• 2007/03/14: C&C: Climate Change Denial: The Swindle Continues
• 2007/03/14: ESeymour: Who swindled who?
• 2007/03/13: Stoat: Spot the difference!
• 2007/03/14: ClimateArk: The real global warming swindle
• 2007/03/14: OilChange: The Real Climate Swindle
• 2007/03/13: Guardian(UK): Don't let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change
• 2007/03/13: JQuiggin: Self-described [TGGWS]
• 2007/03/13: Coeruleus: Nasty and personal [Tim Ball]
• 2007/03/12: ERabett: Give and take [Ball, TGGWS]
• 2007/03/13: Monbiot: Channel 4's Problem with Science -- It doesn't give a damn about whether the facts stack up - as long as it creates a controversy
• 2007/03/12: DeSmogBlog: A Global Warming Swindle play-by-play
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: Scenes from the denialist denouement
• 2007/03/13: CCM: Misrepresenting Carl Wunsch, Part II
• 2007/03/11: AFTIC: Swindled!
• 2007/03/12: DeSmogBlog: Carl Wunsch Dismisses Channel 4 Fiction
• 2007/03/12: Stoat: More TGGWS fakery
• 2007/03/12: RealClimate: Swindled: Carl Wunsch responds
• 2007/03/12: OilChange: "I was Conned By C4", Says Scientist [Professor Carl Wunsch]

  A deniers/scientists debate has been held:

• 2007/03/12: RealClimate: Global Warming debate
• 2007/03/15: RealClimate: Adventures on the East Side
• 2007/03/16: Mobjectivist: Walk the walk
• 2007/03/16: GristMill: A long rant about facts, persuasion, and global warming
• 2007/03/16: HuffPo: A Long Rant About Facts, Persuasion, and Global Warming

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/03/17: PhysOrg: Web Site to Pool European Weather Data
• 2007/03/16: C411: Coral Reef Haiku
• 2007/03/16: DerSpiegel: The Decarbonization Challenge
• 2007/03/15: GristMill: [Dessler] Hang the bastards!
• 2007/03/15: C411: Fallacies of Movie Critics
• 2007/03/15: TreeHugger: Kyoto as Cliche
• 2007/03/14: WorldChanging: Costa Rica Aims to Become First "Carbon Neutral" Country
• 2007/03/09: RI: Peak Oil Passnotes: Markets Don't Work Anymore
• 2007/03/14: Deltoid: Party at Rabett's!
• 2007/03/14: C411: Part 2 of 4: Worldwide Emissions
• 2007/03/13: SummitDaily: Global warming story hits critical mass
• 2007/03/13: PhysOrg: Frostbite Ends Bancroft-Arnesen Trek
• 2007/03/08: Time: The Power Of One - A Climate for Change
• 2007/03/12: GristMill: A petition? That kinda Sachs.
• 2007/03/13: Stoat: Even more T/CO2 lags
• 2007/03/12: Stoat: Yet more T/CO2 lags
• 2007/03/12: ClimateP: People Who Just Don't Get Global Warming: Gregg Easterbrook and the Editors of the Atlantic
• 2007/03/12: TheAge: Cutting emissions: the new power ploy
• 2007/03/13: PlanetArk: Icy Nordics Doubt Net Gains From Global Warming

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

• MeteoAlarm
• C&C: Climate and Capitalism
• GEOSS: Global Earth Observation System of Systems
• GristMill
• CarboEurope
• CCI: Climate Change Institute

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Announcing the book launch of my forthcoming novel _Water_.

Time: 20:00

Date: Thursday, May 17th

Place: McNally Robinson, Grant Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba

You can find a short introduction to _Water_ here.

<regards>

-het

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

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conclude his speech with an estimate of the probable error of

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