A Few Things Ill Considered: Another Week of GW News, March 11, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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Top Stories, EU agreements, WGII draft leak, Particulates, Cosmic ray hypothesis
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, PFC
Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade,
Politics, American, British, European, Australian, Asian, Canadian
Ecological Economics, Media, Books, Video, Courts
Energy, Business, Carbon Lobby The C4 Swindle
The Usual, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion
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The big story of the week has to be the EU renewable energy & climate change mitigation agreements:

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2007/03/09: EUO: EU sticks out neck in global climate change battle

2007/03/09: PhysOrg: Progress toward Artificial Photosynthesis?

2007/03/09: TruthOut: EU Drafts Plan to Battle Global Warming, Sets Binding Targets for Switch to Green Energy

2007/03/09: ABC(Au): EU summit adopts energy-climate strategy

2007/03/10: ABC(Au): Environmentalists welcome EU climate deal

2007/03/10: NewScientist: Europe's '2020 vision' to lead climate change battle

2007/03/09: PhysOrg: EU Leaders Agree to Cut Greenhouse Gases

2007/03/09: TCE: EU Agrees to Bold New Emissions Deal

2007/03/10: Reuters: EU can be green model for US, India, China :[German Chancellor, Angela] Merkel

2007/03/10: WaPo: E.U. Raises Bar in Fight Against Global Warming

2007/03/10: News(Au): Australia urged to join EU's 2020 climate vision

2007/03/09: Yahoo: EU leaders clinch climate change deal

2007/03/09: CBC: EU challenges industrial world to match its green plan - Ambitious deal in Brussels aims to boost renewable energy use to 20%

2007/03/09: DerSpiegel: EU Summit Breakthrough - Europe Takes the Lead in Fighting Climate Change

2007/03/10: Guardian(UK): Europe sets benchmark for tackling climate change

2007/03/09: BBC: European Union leaders have agreed to adopt a binding target on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power, officials say

2007/03/09: AFP: EU leaders clinch climate deal, but hard work yet to come

2007/03/07: TerraDaily: EU Summit Seeks Unity On Tackling Global Warming

2007/03/08: CNN: EU meets to forge new green policy

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: Czechs Will Not Veto Strict EU Green Energy Targets

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: EU Wants Top Spot in Tackling Climate Change

2007/03/08: BBC: EU leaders have agreed in principle to make targets for renewable energy binding, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced

2007/03/08: BBC: EU leaders face climate challenge

2007/03/07: DeSmogBlog: Another EU leader [Merkel] joins bid to lead struggle against global warming

2007/03/08: PlanetArk: Key Issues at the EU Summit on Climate and Energy

2007/03/07: BBC: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to take the lead in tackling global warming

2007/03/06: PlanetArk: Industries Urge EU to Reconsider Renewables Policy

2007/03/06: DerSpiegel: Can Europe Curb Climate Change?

2007/03/06: DeutscheWelle: EU Squarely Divided on Renewable Energy Targets - Everyone's for renewables, but the devil's in the details
European foreign ministers on Monday could not agree on binding targets for the use of renewable energy. European leaders will hash out the issue at an upcoming EU summit later this week.

2007/03/05: IHT: EU Commission president [Jose Manuel Barroso] warns that CO2 cuts will add costs to economy

2007/03/05: DerSpiegel: Merkel Wants Radical Plan on CO2 Cuts at EU Summit

2007/03/06: PlanetArk: EU Still Stuck on Green Fuels Target

2007/03/06: PlanetArk: EU Seeks to Narrow Differences on Climate Plan

2007/03/05: Yahoo: Germany wants 60-percent cut in CO2 by 2050

2007/03/08: Eureka: Scientists investigate impact of climate change on India's monsoon season
Changes to India's annual monsoon are expected to result in severe droughts and intense flooding in parts of India. Scientists predict that by the end of the century the country will experience a 3 to 5C temperature increase and a 20% rise in all summer monsoon rainfall.

2007/03/01: RSMAS: RAINEX Findings - Hurricane can form new eyewall and change intensity rapidly

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: Active Hurricane Season Risk Grows - Meteorologists

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Official report says US CO2 to rise by 20% [over 2000 levels by 2020] - Publication delayed for more than a year

2007/03/06: CDreams: Reflections on China's Growing CO2 Emissions

2007/03/05: DeSmogBlog: Long-awaited report shows continued rise in carbon emissions in U.S.

2007/03/05: SF Gate: China about to pass U.S. as world's top generator of greenhouse gases

2007/03/05: OilChange: US Carbon Emissions to Rise by 20%

2007/03/05: CDreams: SF Chronicle: China About to Pass US as World's Top Generator of Greenhouse Gases

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Official report says US CO2 to rise by 20%
Publication delayed for more than a year - Authors argue president's efforts 'are working'

As are the temperatures:

2007/03/09: TCE: In Case You Forgot it Was Hot Last Year...

Consider transportation & GHG production:

2007/03/07: GristMill: Ships? Planes? Who's counting the carbon?

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: U.S. Proposes Rules to Cut Train, Ship [diesel particulate] Emissions

While on the el Niño front:

2007/03/08: JFleck: Some El Nino That Turned Out to Be

2007/03/08: TerraDaily: Pacific Shows Signs of Morphing From Warm El Nino To Cool La Nina

Glaciers are melting:

2007/03/07: SciDaily: Heatwave On The Top Of The World

2007/03/05: PhysOrg: Global warming reaches Mount Everest

Sea levels are rising:

2007/03/10: ERabett: More sea level rise toys

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

2007/03/07: NASA: NASA and USGS Produce Most Detailed Satellite Views of Antarctica [LIMA: Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica]

2007/03/06: NASA: NASA's Advanced Technology Peers Deep Inside Hurricanes

2007/03/05: NASA: Antarctic Ice Sheet's Hidden Lakes Speed Ice Flow Into Ocean

More GW impacts are being seen:

2007/03/11: NDTV: Crusader fights to save climate change [desertification of vast stretches of Western Orissa predicted]

2007/03/11: SciDaily: Regardless Of Global Warming, Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten Marine Life

2007/03/08: ABC(US): Polar Bear Population Shrinks: Symptom of Global Warming? Polar Bears May Get Added to the Threatened Species List

2007/03/07: CCM: Vancouver, Stanley Park, and the Politics of Global Warming

2007/03/10: SciNews: Not-So-Perma Frost - Warming climate is taking its toll on subterranean ice

2007/03/10: Olympian: Study says warming will cost Alaska billions

2007/03/09: Yahoo: Climate change pushes "African" diseases north: expert

2007/03/08: CSM: Climate change brews ocean trouble
Scientists tie global warming to increased upwelling of deep ocean water, which can create crippling aquatic dead zones.

2007/03/08: PhysOrg: Regardless of global warming, rising CO2 levels threaten marine life

2007/03/08: Australian: Climate change bad for health

2007/03/06: Stoat: What level CO2 is "dangerous"?

2007/03/06: EnvEcon: Global Warming Externalities

2007/03/05: BBC: Swiss resorts tackle snow decline - Some of Switzerland's most famous ski resorts have compiled a report on how to cope with climate change

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

2007/03/05: Wunderground: An early and vicious tornado season

And speaking of floods & droughts:

2007/03/10: ABC(Au): Melbourne's main water supply, the Thomson Dam, has reached a record low of 20 per cent capacity

2007/03/09: ABC(Au): Water storages hit quarter capacity The Victorian Government's latest report into the drought says pasture in parts of the state is turning to powder

2007/03/08: PlanetArk: Australia's Longest River [Darling] is Drying Up

2007/03/06: Reuters: Bolivia suffers worst floods for 25 years

2007/03/05: TerraDaily: High Temperatures Leave Five Million Chinese Short Of Water

2007/03/04: Yahoo: High temperatures leave five million Chinese short of water

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

2007/03/09: Yahoo: Demand for corn driving up meat prices

2007/03/10: PhysOrg: Biofuels Boom Raises Tough Questions

2007/03/09: CattleNetwork: Industry Testifies Before Congress In Food Vs. Fuel Debate

2007/03/08: AllAfrica: CapeArgus: South Africa: Gore Urged to Put Brake on Biofuel Production

2007/03/08: PlanetArk: As Biofuels Boom, Will More Go Hungry?

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

2007/03/07: DeSmogBlog: Cowboy capitalists promote slime in your gas tank to curb carbon emissions

2007/03/06: GristMill: The moral aspects of mitigation vs. adaptation

While on the carbon sequestration front:

2007/03/07: BBJ: EU's [Energy Commissioner, Andris] Piebalgs wants 12 carbon-capture power plants by 2015

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: EU Summit Set to Agree Carbon Capture Projects

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: Norway Says to Form State CO2 Storage Company

Meanwhile in the journals:

2007/03/08: CPD: Surface thermal perturbations of the recent past at low latitudes - inferences based on borehole temperature data from Eastern Brazil by V. M. Hamza et al.

2007/03/08: CPD: Thermal signal propagation in soils in Romania: conductive and non-conductive processes by C. Demetrescu et al.

2007/03/05: CPD: New constraints on the gas age-ice age difference along the EPICA ice cores, 0 - 50 kyr by L. Loulergue et al.

2007/03/06: PNAS: Delayed upwelling alters nearshore coastal ocean ecosystems in the northern California current by John A. Barth et al.

2007/03/06: PNAS: Solar influence on climate during the past millennium: Results from transient simulations with the NCAR Climate System Model by Caspar M. Ammann et al.

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

2007/03/09: SciDaily: Ocean Acidification From Carbon Dioxide

2007/03/10: SciDaily: Climate Change: Could It Be Random?
Severe climate changes during the last ice-age could have been caused by random chaotic variations on Earth and not governed by external periodic influences from the Sun.

2007/03/09: Eureka: Climate shifts -- probability of randomness

2007/03/02: DerSpiegel: Antarctic Ice Study - Refrigeration System for the Earth's Oceans Threatens to Break Down

2007/03/08: SciDaily: Greenhouse Gas Threat From Tropical Peatland Under Investigation

2007/03/08: Eureka: Regardless of global warming, rising CO2 levels threaten marine life

2007/03/08: Eureka: Leicester researcher to lead global team tackling carbon 'time-bomb' [the CARBOPEAT project]

2007/03/08: Eureka: Scientists uncover link between ocean's chemical processes and microscopic floating plants [phytoplankton]

2007/03/07: NewScientist: Spiky glaciers are slower to melt

2007/03/07: ABC(Au): (transcript) Scientists to measure strength of [Antarctic Circumpolar] ocean current

2007/03/08: PlanetArk: Baltic Sea Region to Warm Sharply in 21st Century

2007/03/07: SciDaily: Tundra Disappearing At Rapid Rate

2007/02/28: RSMAS: Carbon Dioxide and the Ocean - A new scientific paper quantifies over a half-century of environmental research

2007/03/05: NewScientist: Plugging the ozone hole cut global warming too

2007/03/05: PhysOrg: Tundra disappearing at rapid rate

2007/03/05: SciDaily: Ocean Upwelling Delay Gives Scientists Sneak Preview Of What Future May Hold

2007/03/05: Eureka: Tundra disappearing at rapid rate
Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there. This shift can happen at a much faster speed than scientists originally thought, according to a new University of Alberta study that adds to the growing body of evidence on the effects of climate change.

2007/03/05: Eureka: Miniature lab ice spikes may hold clues to warming impacts on glaciers

2007/03/05: Eureka: How can desertification control and development be reconciled?

The Pielkes fan club is tickled pink:

2007/03/09: ERabett: More Pink Helicopters...

2007/03/08: ERabett: Pink Helicopters, the Equilateral Commission and Auris Dei
...all this pales compared to the gross unfairness of labeling a bunny a stalker. What are you, a carrot?

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

2007/03/05: FuturePundit: CFC Phaseout More Powerful Than Kyoto Accord

That would be UN conference is still tentative:

2007/03/09: DeSmogBlog: UK pushes climate change for UN debate; US and China skeptical

2007/03/08: Guardian(UK): British push on CO2 at security council - Diplomats seek to put climate change on agenda

2007/03/05: DeSmogBlog: Global warming is an issue of "particular urgency" says UN chief

And on the emissions trading front:

2007/03/09: ABC(Au): World Bank report shows size of carbon market

2007/03/06: MWatch: Greenhouse gas credit-trading beckons investors - Even with U.S. outside Kyoto Protocol, money flows into funds, say experts

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

2007/03/08: Globe&Mail: Carbon tax would ease pollution: TD Bank -- It's now 'too cheap to pollute, and too expensive not to'

2007/03/05: BSD: Good news/bad news on a carbon tax

The controversy over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs is getting louder:

2007/03/09: TreeHugger: My Views on Carbon Offsets

2007/03/08: Tom Paine: Indulging In Carbon

2007/03/09: BtP: Bad Logic On Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

2007/03/08: TruthOut: The Carbon Folly [emissions trading]

2007/03/09: GristMill: Would Adam Smith buy green power? [carbon offsets, Gore, etc]

2007/03/09: GristMill: The problem with carbon offsets

2007/03/08: C411: Carbon Offsets Count

2007/03/08: WTimes: Offsets and off-putting
What is a carbon offset, and why does Mr. Gore think it inoculates him against charges of hypocrisy?

2007/03/06: GristMill: American Consumer Institute favors carbon tax over emission trading

2007/03/04: FramingScience: When Big Business Gets Behind Cap and Trade, The Wall Street Journal Suddenly Re-Frames Its Position Around Standing Up for the Little Guy

2007/03/05: EnvEcon: Carbon offsets

And on the American political front:

2007/03/08: TruthOut: Taking Climate Legislation to the Hill: Four Major Bills Battle for Congress' Support

2007/03/09: GristMill: Membership of the new House committee on global warming

2007/03/09: GristMill: Texas: The Climate Anti-Canary

2007/03/09: ClimateP: Climate Change on Ice in Alaska

2007/03/08: Yahoo: New House panel to study global warming

2007/03/09: ThinkP: House Conservatives Appoint Chief Climate Skeptic [Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI)] To Lead New Global Warming Panel

2007/03/08: AP: New House Panel to Study Global Warming

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: Climate is Big Issue for US Hunters, Anglers

2007/03/06: TruthOut: Declare Polar Bears Threatened? Alaska Wary - Concerned about its impact on energy, governor questions US proposal

2007/03/06: GristMill: Jonah Goldberg is scared [conservative let's do nothingism]

2007/03/06: TreeHugger: Illinois Man Fined Thousands And Threatened With Felony Prosecution For Using Untaxed Biodiesel

2007/03/06: SeattlePI: Global Warming: Don't talk, do [USCAR]

2007/03/06: Forbes: Industries Urge No Polar Bear Protection

2007/03/05: TruthOut: Will the National Science Teachers Convention Welcome the Native Forest Council Amongst Climate Change Deniers?

2007/03/05: GristMill: Global warming splits conservatives

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: US Companies Feel Heat of Global Warming Awareness

Evangelicals are still in conflict:

2007/03/06: GristMill: The civil war among evangelicals

2007/03/06: HuffPo: Dr. Dobson, Let's Have a Real Debate

2007/03/05: HuffPo: Dobson Gets Personal on Global Warming [evangelical denial]

The Bush administration is showing its propensity to censor, again:

2007/03/08: TruthOut: Memos Tell [F&WS] Officials How to Discuss Climate

2007/03/10: PhysOrg: Don't ask U.S. [F&WS] workers about warming

2007/03/09: ERabett: When asked, don't tell [F&WS]

2007/03/08: CCM: More Bush Admin Heavy-Handedness on Global Warming and Scientist Communication

2007/03/09: Yahoo: "Don't discuss polar bears": memo to scientists

2007/03/09: SF Gate: U.S. accused of silencing experts on polar bears, climate change - Scientists told not to speak officially at conferences

2007/03/08: DeSmogBlog: U.S. stifles officials from responding to global warming questions

2007/03/08: NYT: Memos Tell [Federal Fish and Wildlife Service] Officials How to Discuss Climate

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

2007/03/07: GristMill: An opportunity for reflection

2007/03/08: OilChange: Gore Urges EU to take Lead on Climate

2007/03/08: PlanetArk: Gore Says EU Leadership on Climate Change Vital

2007/03/06: SF Gate: Do as I say, not as I spew

While in the UK:

2007/03/11: Telegraph(UK): Cameron considers tax hikes on air travel

2007/03/11: BBC: [UK] Conservatives are planning a series of new environmental taxes on flights aimed at combating climate change

2007/03/09: OilDrum: UK Government: "energy security and climate change"

2007/03/09: BBC: The government's target of generating 10% of Britain's electricity from renewable sources by 2010 is unlikely to be met, a report has concluded

2007/03/07: Guardian(UK): Government departments fail to meet basic green targets, says watchdog

2007/03/07: OilChange: UK Watchdog: Blair the Climate Hypocrite

2007/03/07: BBC: Whitehall 'fails on eco-targets'
Government departments failed to meet targets on cutting carbon emissions, waste and water use last year, a watchdog's annual report says. The assessment of 19 departments by the Sustainable Development Commission found "patchy data and poor performance across most areas" - as it did in 2005. Most ministries were "using energy less efficiently" although recycling had increased by 8% over the year. The government said steps were being taken to ensure the targets were met.

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Just a lot of hot air
Tony Blair talks the talk on climate change. But a new investigation reveals that the government's strategies for cutting carbon dioxide emissions are little more than a sham.

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Target practice
In order to deliver a sufficient reduction in carbon emissions by 2020, we need to start making cuts on an annual basis now.

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): UK plans to cut CO2 doomed to fail - scientists

2007/03/05: CDreams: Guardian(UK): UK Plans to Cut CO2 Doomed to Fail - Scientists

And in Europe:

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: Norway Plans Carbon Trade System "Tougher" Than EU

Meanwhile in Australia:

2007/03/09: WSWS: The NSW state elections and the climate change debate

2007/03/08: ABC(Au): Australians will accept nuclear power: [ANSTO Head, Ziggy] Switkowski

2007/03/08: ABC(Au): [Head of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Ziggy] Switkowski says rushed green efforts pointless

2007/03/06: ABC(Au): [South Australian Premier, Mike] Rann wants state referendum on nuclear power

2007/03/07: ABC(Au): Power firm looks to build Hunter plant with lower greenhouse output [by unspecified method]

2007/03/06: ClimateArk: Australia: Voters want more spent on climate threat

2007/03/05: TheAge: Emissions trading deadline at risk as report battle rages

2007/03/05: PerthNow: Aussies embrace nuclear power: poll
A Newspoll published in today's The Australian newspaper reveals support for nuclear power has surged 10 percentage points to 45 per cent in four months, outstripping opposition, which has plummeted 10 points to 40 per cent. But a vast majority - 66 per cent - are against having a nuclear power station in their local area.

2007/02/23: ABC(Au): The Flannery Verdict

The NSW Minerals Council took a website to court:

2007/03/05: RisingTide: NSW Minerals Council attempts to silence critics

2007/03/05: IMC: Coal lobby censors climate change website

2007/03/05: ClimateArk: Australia: Industry closes anti-coal website

And in New Zealand:

2007/03/05: NBR(NZ): Renewables don't need help to compete, energy users say

While in China:

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Chinese premier calls for fairer, greener economy

And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, is prepping for an election:

2007/03/08: TStar: TD urges taxation to fight pollution, global warming

2007/03/08: DeSmogBlog: Canadian bank report plugs pollution taxes in climate-change fight

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: Canadian Oil Sands Nuclear Plant Seen for 2016

2007/02/27: CBC: B.C. energy plan pushes conservation, new technology - Traditional critic agrees it's one of 'best energy plans in the world'

The tricky question of the oil sands looms:

2007/03/10: CanWest: Oilpatch besieged by climate drive - Rules, costs mount

2007/03/09: ENN: Canada, Alberta to Study Greenhouse Gas Capture

2007/03/06: TCE: [Canadian] Tories Told to Scrap Tax Breaks for Oil

Apocalypso anyone?:

2007/03/08: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: our 4 storms [peak oil production, peak oil exports, climate change, and economic decline]

2007/03/07: ClimateArk: A cost of climate change that can't be counted in dollars - survival

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

2007/03/09: FramingScience: When Climate Change Hits the Sports Beat

2007/03/09: CCM: How Can the Scientific Community Reorganize to Improve Communication?

2007/03/06: CCM: Our Massive Communication Failure on Climate Change

It's always worthwhile to check out Bob Park's acerbic perspective:

2007/03/09: BobPark: What's New
1. Global Climate: Are those white ursine carnivores endangered?
2. Christian Climate: "Evangelical climate initiative" opposed.
4. Energy: You should worry about what Bush is doing in Brazil.

Here is something for your library:

2007/03/11: Times(UK): To the end of the earth [Book Review] _Six Degrees_ by Mark Lynas
This is our future - famous cities are submerged, a third of the world is desert, the rest struggling for food and fresh water...the reality behind the science of climate change

2007/03/04: ClimateP: Excerpt from Hell and High Water's Conclusion: The End of Politics

And for your film & video enjoyment:

2007/03/09: GristMill: Gore on the small screen [AIT on Showtime]

Meanwhile in the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

2007/03/07: MSNBC: Automakers seek to dismiss warming suit - California action seeks damages for effects of climate change

2007/03/06: FCJ: Automakers ask judge to dismiss global warming lawsuit
Six leading American and Japanese automakers asked a federal judge in San Francisco today to dismiss a public nuisance lawsuit filed against them by the state of California over global warming. The car manufacturers' lawyer, Theodore Boutrous, argued to U.S. District Judge Martin Jenkins that the case doesn't belong in court because global warming is a policy issue. "Global warming is fraught with economic, political and social issues of global significance," Boutrous said. "This is a classic case where this is a political issue," he said.

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

2007/03/10: GristMill: Renewable energy, Texas style

2007/03/10: TEB: DOE Selects 13 Projects for Solar Technology Development

2007/03/06: Oikos: Green ethanol - from coal?!

2007/03/10: Times(UK): Europe agrees to embrace nuclear option in battle to save the planet

2007/03/08: TruthOut: Brazil's Ethanol Push Could Eat Away at Amazon

2007/03/09: Guardian(UK): Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom

2007/03/08: ABC(Au): BP to invest [millions] in biofuel research

2007/03/06: PhysOrg: Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help mitigate global warming

2007/03/03: SLTrib: In search of a moral solution to our energy problem

2007/03/05: TechRev: Cheap Nano Solar Cells - Carbon nanotubes could help make nanoparticle-based solar cells more efficient and practical

2007/03/05: DeSmogBlog: U.S., Brazil looking to expand ethanol-use in Latin America, Caribbean

2007/03/06: ArgonneNL: Solar energy conversion offers a solution to help mitigate global warming

2007/03/05: PlanetArk: Top Polluters Aim to Build Global Biofuel Market [IBF]

2007/03/04: NEN: New Energy: The Numbers

2007/03/05: OilChange: The Big Green Fuel Lie

2007/03/05: CDreams: Independent(UK): The Big Green Fuel Lie
George Bush says that ethanol will save the world. But there is evidence that biofuels may bring new problems for the planet

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

2007/03/10: JFleck: The Nuclear Power Dilemma

2007/03/09: Guardian(UK): Split on nuclear power threatens agreement on global warming

2007/03/07: GristMill: Is nuclear power green?

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: Chirac - EU Renewables Goal Must Include Nuclear

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

2007/03/10: GristMill: A simple choice [coal]

2007/03/10: WaPo: Midwest Has 'Coal Rush,' Seeing No Alternative - Energy Demand Causes Boom in Plant Construction

2007/03/10: NZHerald: Coal debate creates a hot climate - A battle is on for the hearts, minds and votes of Australia's miners and their families

2007/03/09: Grist: Let's Call the Coal Thing Off - Coal-bashing is hot new trend in Congress, science circles, and business world

2007/03/10: MSNBC: Coal rush' pits utilities against Congress - Growing energy demand collides with desire to cut pollution levels

2007/03/09: BBC: US-Brazil deal to boost bio-fuels

2007/03/08: SeattlePI: Energy Department: Standard inertia

2007/03/07: TruthOut: Case Against TVA's Coal-Plant Emissions Heats Up

2007/03/06: GristMill: Coal-fired ethanol plants

2007/03/05: GristMill: Coal-to-liquid fuels: Not 'clean coal', not economically viable, and just not cool

2007/03/05: BostonGlobe: Dethroning King Coal

Some late commentary on the TXU deal:

2007/03/07: Understory: The Gritty Nitty [TXU deal]

2007/03/07: GristMill: TXU bleg

Follow the money!

2007/03/09: DeSmogBlog: Oink! US Carbon Subsidies Exceed $37 Billion in 2007

2007/03/08: OilChange: Climate Coalition Calls on G8 to End Oil Aid

2007/03/08: GristMill: Subsidies: The good, bad, and the ugly

2007/03/05: OilChange: Euro NGOs Demand World Bank End Oil Aid

And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

2007/03/09: PhysOrg: Study: Extending Daylight Saving Time is an unlikely energy saver

2007/03/05: ClimateP: DoE Drops the Efficiency Ball 34 Times!

Promoting CFLs is taking off around the world:

2007/03/11: Scotsman: Two years to change EU light bulbs

2007/03/10: Telegraph(UK): Brussels pulls plug on old light bulbs
Traditional light bulbs have only two years of life left after a Brussels summit declared yesterday that they will be phased out in the battle against climate change

2007/03/09: CBC: EU to switch off incandescent bulbs - Follows lead of Australia and other pioneers to save energy, cut emissions

2007/03/08: WorldChanging: World Governments Adopting A Bright Idea [CFLs]

2007/03/06: C411: Why Switch to Compact Fluorescents?

Automakers, lawyers and activists argue over the future of the car:

2007/03/10: WaPo: [House] Democrats Plan to Press Automakers on Fuel Efficiency

2007/03/07: ClimateP: The Car of the Future: Plug-in Hybrids

2007/03/05: PhysOrg: Scientists design 'green' automobile

Meanwhile in the "every problem is an opportunity in disguise" crowd:

2007/03/06: Australian: Cleaning up in green stocks - Clean, green companies are the flavour of the times, as we wrestle with drought and global warming

2007/03/06: ClimateArk: Venture Capitalists Move From Web to Algae [a natural photosynthetic process to produce biofuel]

Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

2007/03/08: BBC: Climate change will lead to heftier insurance claims in the long term, insurer Swiss Re has warned

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: US Insurers Seen as Lagging on Global Warming

2007/03/09: PlanetArk: Swiss Re Says Global Warming to Cause Heavy Claims

2007/03/07: ABC(Au): Insurer [Lloyds of London] sounds warning bell on climate change

Brian raises an interesting prospect:

2007/03/07: BSD: Did Exxon stop its denialism because of liability concerns?
I attended the symposium on climate change and liability held at Stanford several weeks ago. Possibly the most interesting statement was in the second panel, where a speaker associated with insurance companies said that directors' liability insurance for corporate boards would start containing climate-change exclusions. This means that unless the corporations undertake certain actions to reduce the insurer's exposure, the directors theoretically could be individually liable for harm caused by the company.

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

2007/03/09: BSD: Responding to the "no big deal" denialists

2007/03/09: Stoat: World Climate Report telling porkies?

2007/03/09: DeSmogBlog: Solomon Defames Another "Denier"

2007/03/10: Stoat: Scientific Errors With the IPCC Statement for Policymakers!?!

2007/03/10: Stoat: CO2 and T, again

2007/03/10: N3xus6: Ray Evans' 'Nine facts about climate change' debunked. Pt. 2.

2007/03/07: N3xus6: Ray Evans' 'Nine facts about climate change' debunked. Pt. 1.

2007/03/08: OilChange: Climate Sceptic Alert

2007/03/06: JQuiggin: Delusions deluxe

2007/03/05: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball: Ad hominems ad nauseum

2007/03/05: Stoat: The inherent contradictions of greenyness

2007/03/05: ePolitix: Climate change threat played down [Lawson - Goldsworthy debate]

C4's Great Global Warming Swindle raised a ruckus:

2007/03/11: Guardian(UK): Climate scientist [Carl Wunsch] 'duped to deny global warming'
A Leading US climate scientist is considering legal action after he says he was duped into appearing in a Channel 4 documentary that claimed man-made global warming is a myth. Carl Wunsch, professor of physical oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, was 'grossly distorted' and 'as close to pure propaganda as anything since World War Two'.

2007/03/09: RealClimate: Swindled!

2007/03/11: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Climate change: An inconvenient truth... for C4
This expert in oceanography [Professor Carl Wunsch] quoted in last week's debunking of the Gore green theory says he was 'seriously misrepresented'

2007/03/11: BadScience: Insert "swindle" joke here

2007/03/10: ERabett: Carl Wunch is an unhappy camper

2007/03/09: InTheGreen: Deconstructing Channel 4's Great Global Warming Swindle

2007/03/08: BadScience: Against Nature - Channel 4 tonight

2007/03/09: ClimateDenial: The Great Channel Four Swindle

2007/03/09: DeSmogBlog: The Great Global Warming Swindle

2007/03/08: Stoat: The great global warming swindle!

2007/03/06: DeSmogBlog: Channel 4 Now Ashamed of its Experts

2007/03/04: Stoat: The great global warming swindle?

2007/03/05: C4: The Great Global Warming Swindle

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

2007/03/10: GWWatch: Who's winning the global warming war?

2007/03/09: GristMill: A systems approach to the impacts of climate change

2007/03/08: GristMill: The unity of the virtues

2007/03/10: DeSmogBlog: Green Sheets: We're Not All Doom and Gloom

2007/03/10: FramingScience: Citizens...and Scientists Who "Go Without Data"

2007/03/09: C411: Arctic Villages Haiku

2007/03/08: WorldChanging: How to Think Differently About Climate

2007/03/06: SportsIll: Going, Going Green
As global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world. To counter the looming environmental crisis, surprising and innovative ideas are already helping sports adapt

2007/03/08: USAToday: Los Angeles on pace for driest rain year ever

2007/03/07: DeSmogBlog: Asia's pollution hits global climate harder than previously realized, study finds

2007/03/07: C411: Part 1 of 4: How Warm is Too Warm?

2007/03/07: CDreams: SeattlePI: Protect The Planet, and Hurry

2007/03/06: Xinhuanet: Most Europeans concerned about climate change [poll]

2007/03/05: Guardian(UK): Chinese inertia stalls green revolution
Despite new rhetoric on climate change, China is unlikely to see any real progress in environmental policies until its political system is overhauled

2007/03/05: C411: Inuits Blame U.S. for Global Warming

2007/03/05: TerraDaily: A Roadmap For Climate Change