Another Week of GW News - March 25, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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Live and direct from the laugh, it's funny, damnit department:

• 2007/03/24: uComics: (cartoon - Wiley) Ok Ok So Maybe...

• 2007/03/23: HuffPo: (cartoon - Tyrell) Gore's Visit to the Hill

• 2007/03/23: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Congress finally settles on a response to GW

• 2007/03/23: uComics: (cartoon - Danziger) Our Next Witness to Speak Against GW

• 2007/03/23: SeattlePI: (cartoon - Horsey) Inhofe presents his own GW slideshow

  The big story of the week has to be the in the US congressional committees hearings.

  First up Barbara Boxer:

• 2007/03/23: PoliCortex: Al Gore's Plan Goes Far Beyond What Congress Envisions

• 2007/03/22: Guardian(UK): Message in hand, Gore returns in triumph to Congress

• 2007/03/23: Grist: The Goracle - Gore gets a warm welcome on Capitol Hill,

  and a few heated exchanges

• 2007/03/22: GristMill: Final final thought on Gore's testimony

• 2007/03/22: GristMill: GOP attack on Gore makes no sense at all

• 2007/03/21: ClimateP: GOP Attack on Gore Makes No Sense At All

• 2007/03/21: TruthOut: Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet

• 2007/03/23: LA Times: Returning as the 'Goracle'

• 2007/03/23: HuffPo: On Hurricanes (And Much Else), Gore Did Better

  Than His Congressional Critics

• 2007/03/21: SpaceRef: Congressional Testimony on Climate Change by Al Gore

• 2007/03/22: NewScientist: Al Gore rallies US Congress over climate

• 2007/03/21: CCM: Two Americas on Gore and Global Warming?

• 2007/03/21: CCM: Getting Ready for Double Testimony from Gore

• 2007/03/21: TerraDaily: Al Gore Issues Lawmakers Dire Warning On Climate Change

• 2007/03/22: OilChange: Reinvented Gore Returns to Capitol Hill

• 2007/03/22: CPunch: Another Oscar Performance from Al Gore

• 2007/03/22: TomPaine: Gore Or More Of The Same?

• 2007/03/22: NYT: Gore Warns Congress of ‘Planetary Emergency’

• 2007/03/22: WaPo: Gore Challenges Congress on ClimateCommittees Implored to Combat Warming With Unprecedented Controls

• 2007/03/22: Guardian(UK): Message in hand, Gore returns in triumph to Congress -

  Oscar-winner back on Capitol Hill with well-honed warning on climate change

• 2007/03/21: ClimateP: Gore Heats Up the House

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Final thought on Gore's day in Congress

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Gore Senate testimony: final thoughts

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Al Gore's testimony to the Senate

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Gore errata

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Gore's legislative recommendations to the House

• 2007/03/21: ENS: Gore Urges Immediate U.S. Freeze on Warming Emissions

• 2007/03/21: ClimateArk: Star in New Role, Gore Revisits Old Stage

• 2007/03/21: MSNBC: Gore takes warming warning to Congress

• 2007/03/21: OurFuture: Blog Reaction to Gore House Testimony

• 2007/03/20: MediaMatters: The New York Times continues its War on Gore

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Al Gore's testimony to the House

• 2007/03/21: HuffPo: Al Gore: Now's The Time To Jump In The Race

• 2007/03/21: HuffPo: On Gore, Tipping Points, The Law of the One,

  and Google's New Climate Maven

• 2007/03/21: HuffPo: Al Gore's Legislative Recommendations to the House

• 2007/03/21: HuffPo: Triumphant Return To Hill For Gore

• 2007/03/21: ThinkP: Boxer Slams Down Inhofe's Global Warming Filibuster:

  "You Don't Make The Rules Anymore"

• 2007/03/21: BBC: Al Gore makes global warming plea -

  Former US Vice-President Al Gore made an emotional return

  to the US Congress to testify about global warming.

• 2007/03/21: BBerg: Gore Asks Congress to Address `Planetary Emergency'

• 2007/03/21: AP: Gore Implores Congress to Save Planet

  Earlier, Henry Waxman looked into Bush administration manipulation of science:

• 2007/03/24: FreeP: When politics edits out science -

  Hard to believe, but they're at it again

• 2007/03/22: WSWS: Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research

• 2007/03/21: GWWatch: Hansen to Congress: Big Brother censoring climate science for big oil

• 2007/03/20: PRWatch: More Global Warming Edits See Light of Day

• 2007/03/20: ENS: House Panel Investigates Bush's Climate Science Manipulations

• 2007/03/20: Guardian(UK): Bush appointees 'watered down greenhouse science'

• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: Material Shows Weakening of Climate Reports

• 2007/03/20: NewScientist: US fudging of climate science - details revealed

• 2007/03/20: DeSmogBlog: Former White House official doctored global-warming reports

  to undercut scientific findings

• 2007/03/20: Yahoo: Official [P. Cooney] defends editing climate papers

• 2007/03/20: OilChange: Hansen Attacks "Gagging" by White House

• 2007/03/20: LA Times: Congressional hearing heats up over changes to climate reports

• 2007/03/20: ThinkP: Ex-Bush Official [Philip Cooney]: I Fixed The Facts Around The Policy

• 2007/03/20: HuffPo: NASA, Political Interference, and the Vindication of James Hansen

• 2007/03/19: Guardian(UK): Climate change expert slates US 'interference' in research

• 2007/03/20: Guardian(UK): Bush appointees 'watered down greenhouse science'

• 2007/03/19: LA Times: Scientist accuses White House of 'Nazi' tactics

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: Final reflections on this morning's Waxman hearing

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: Wednesday must-see TV
  

  Gore and Inhofe, mano-a-mano. Or, more accurately, mano-a-wacko.

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: Spencer's testimony at Waxman committee

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: The Waxman hearing ...

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: Today's Waxman hearing: Philip Cooney speaks!

• 2007/03/19: CCM: The Waxman Hearing: Information Overload!!

  The WWF released a major study on the world's rivers:

• 2007/03/20: WWF: [with link to pdf] Going nowhere fast: Top rivers face mounting threats

• 2007/03/25: DaijiWorld: Ganga and Indus Rivers Drying up: WWF-India

• 2007/03/21: SciDaily: Going Nowhere Fast: Top Rivers Face Mounting Threats

• 2007/03/21: Guardian(UK): Dams, farms, shipping and climate threaten to dry up world's greatest rivers

• 2007/03/20: BBC: Rivers run towards 'crisis point'
  

  Some of the world's major rivers are reaching crisis point

  because of dams, shipping, pollution and climate change,

  according to the environment group WWF.

And the FAO is not much more cheerful:

• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): Two-thirds of world population could face water shortage by 2025: FAO

  There is a report the Antarctic is melting faster:

• 2007/03/23: TruthOut: Antarctic Melting May Be Speeding Up - Scientists

• 2007/03/24: TheWest: Climate doomsday approaching: report [Antarctic warming]

• 2007/03/24: SMH: Antarctic melting 'may be speeding up'

• 2007/03/23: CDreams: Reuters: Antarctic Melting May be Speeding Up

  And the circumpolar current may be slowing:

• 2007/03/23: PlanetArk: Southern Ocean Current Faces Slowdown Threat

• 2007/03/22: Yahoo: Southern Ocean current faces slowdown threat

  Some late commentary on the IPCC SPM:

• 2007/03/23: DeSmogBlog: IPCC Pulls Its Punches: Scientific American

• 2007/03/20: SCitizen: Lack of Errors in the IPCC Statement for Policymakers

  And in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/03/22: USAToday: Census shows Katrina's effects on populations

• 2007/03/22: ABC(Au): Larry was a category four cyclone: BoM

• 2007/03/21: Reuters: Forecaster [Tropical Storm Risk] sees active Atlantic hurricane season

• 2007/03/20: PhysOrg: Scientists uncover prehistoric hurricane activity

• 2007/03/20: PhysOrg: 'Cyclone science' shows rainforest impacts and recovery

• 2007/03/20: Eureka: LSU professor uncovers prehistoric hurricane activity -

  Chances of Category 4 or 5 hurricanes hitting Gulf location are .03 percent annually

• 2007/03/18: CCM: An Eyewitness Account of Cyclone George

  Meanwhile on the GHG front:

• 2007/03/21: NewScientist: Movies map global greenhouse gas [CH4 & CO2] movement

• 2007/03/21: NOAA: Powerful New Tool [CarbonTracker] to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by Source

• 2007/03/20: ESA: First greenhouse gas animations produced using Envisat SCIAMACHY data

  While on the el Niño front:

• 2007/03/24: IPSNews: El Niño Has Bigger Bite with Climate Change [Bolivia]

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/03/19: Wunderground: NHC director Proenza calls for new satellite

• 2007/03/20: ESA: IceSAR [Synthetic Aperture Radar] campaign provides glimpse of future Sentinel-1 images over ice

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/03/23: BSD: Global warming and the Santa Clara Valley Water District

• 2007/03/23: ClimateP: The Horrific Impact of Climate Change this Century

• 2007/03/22: Eureka: Changing ocean conditions led to decline in Alaska's sea lion population

• 2007/03/22: Eureka: Fisheries group calls for science-based approach

  to address climate impacts

• 2007/03/23: Yahoo: Warmer world puts squeeze on U.S. maple syrup

• 2007/03/22: AbqJournal: N.M. Rivers Gush as Snowpack Melts Off Early

• 2007/03/20: JFleck: No Palms - Australia's drought means

  no palms for Palm Sunday in New South Wales

• 2007/03/21: DeSmogBlog: Long Range Forecast Not Encouraging

• 2007/03/21: JFleck: Desalination

• 2007/03/20: TCulture: A Host of Plastic Daffodils?

  An Odd Manifestation of Climate Change Denial

• 2007/03/20: AgriNews: Spring forecast includes southern drought, Midwest floods

• 2007/03/20: RealClimate: Has Pacific Northwest snowpack declined? Yes.

• 2007/03/19: ClimateP: Megafires are a Megaworry

• 2007/03/19: PhysOrg: [Alaskan] Sea lion decline linked to climate change

• 2007/03/19: PlanetArk: Global Warming Boosts Arctic Shipping, Oil -

  [US Arctic Research Commission] Report

• 2007/03/19: Guardian(UK): Plague of beetles raises climate change fears

  for American beauty

• 2007/03/20: PlanetArk: Global Warming Action Could Curb Nightmare Impacts

• 2007/03/20: PlanetArk: Rising Sea Levels Threaten Indian Islands

• 2007/03/17: BBC: Climate change shifts sheep shape - Climate change

  could have an impact on animal evolution and ecology, scientists believe.

  This site presents a visual record of impacts:

• WVoGW: World View of Global Warming - Glaciers and Glacial Warming, Receding Glaciers

  Meanwhile in the "Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology" equation:

• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: Feeding Nine Billion Earthlings [in 2050]

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/03/24: MObjectivist: Deforestation [Brazil]

• 2007/03/22: TruthOut: Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation

• 2007/03/23: PhysOrg: Save forests to fight global warming: Stern

• 2007/03/23: Reuters: World must pay poorer nations to keep forests: Stern

• 2007/03/22: CDreams: IPS: Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/03/24: IRNA: 11 people killed in powerful storm in Bangladesh

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/03/24: BBC: Millions face drought in SW China
  

  More than 5.5 million people are short of drinking water because of an acute drought

  in south-western China, state media reports. Low rainfall in the province of Sichuan

  has forced officials to deliver clean water to the worst-hit areas.

• 2007/03/22: TerraDaily: Yangtze Drought Triggers Debate Over China's Three Gorges Dam

• 2007/03/21: MWR(Cn): Drought leaves 121,000 short of drinking water in Hainan

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/03/22: FSF: Carbon Footprint of a Bag of Potato Chips

• 2007/03/23: NWN: "Ethanol Binge" Hikes Corn Prices

• 2007/03/23: OilChange: Biofuels Increase Food Prices

• 2007/03/22: P&P: Ethanol drives up world food prices

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

• 2007/03/19: CDreams: Independent(UK): World's Most Important Crops Hit

  by Global Warming Effects

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/03/20: C411: The Carbon Footprint of -- Everything [eco-labels]

• 2007/03/19: TruthOut: Sustainable Living: Scientists Have Plan to Fight Warming [Princeton Wedge]

  And on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/03/24: NEN: Company to Capture Carbon

• 2007/03/24: SciDaily: Using Microalgae To Try To Eliminate Carbon Dioxide Emissions

• 2007/03/22: JFleck: Carbon Capture

• 2007/03/22: PlanetArk: UK Plans Contest to Build Big Carbon Capture Plant

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/03/18: CNN: Scientists: Trying to change earth's climate is tricky

• 2007/03/19: CBC: Scientists eye odd climate fixes

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/03/22: CP: Simulating sub-Milankovitch climate variations associated with vegetation dynamics by E. Tuenter et al.

• 2007/03/19: CP: Change in ice rheology during climate variations - implications for ice flow modelling and dating of the EPICA Dome C core by G. Durand et al.

• 2007/03/23: CPD: The LGM surface climate and atmospheric circulation over East Asia

  and the North Pacific in the PMIP2 coupled model simulations by W. Yanase & A. Abe-Ouchi

• 2007/03/20: CPD: Repeated temperature logs from the sites of the Czech, Slovenian

  and Portuguese borehole climate stations by J. 'afanda et al.

• 2007/03/20: PNAS: Altered soil microbial community at elevated CO2 leads to loss of soil carbon by Karen M. Carney et al.

• 2007/03/20: PNAS: Tradeoffs between income, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning

  during tropical rainforest conversion and agroforestry intensification

  by Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter et al.

• 2007/03/20: PNAS: Sustainable fuel for the transportation sector by Rakesh Agrawal et al.

• 2007/03/20: PNAS: Large seasonal swings in leaf area of Amazon rainforests by Ranga B. Myneni et al.

• 2007/03/20: PNAS: The importance of the Montreal Protocol in protecting climate by Guus J. M. Velders et al.

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

• 2007/03/24: Stoat: The borehole mystery

• 2007/03/23: NewScientist: Serendipitous sensors reveal secrets of storm surge

• 2007/03/23: PhysOrg: Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa

• 2007/03/20: FuturePundit: Sun 200 And 88 Year Cycles?

• 2007/03/23: SciDaily: Global Warming Could Be Reversing A Trend That Led To Bigger Human Brains

• 2007/03/23: NWO: Microfossils unravel climate history of tropical Africa

• 2007/03/23: Eureka: New evidence puts 'Snowball Earth' theory out in the cold

• 2007/03/22: PhysOrg: Storm-force winds exert less pull on ocean than expected: study

• 2007/03/22: UPI: Study: Oceans acidify from CO2 buildup

• 2007/03/22: CSM: New efforts to predict when polar ice will melt

• 2007/03/20: TerraDaily: NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection In Old Nile Records

  Here is a different solar theory:

• 2007/03/20: PlanetArk: Solar Pulses Suggest Heavy Australia Rain - Scientist

  Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/03/21: GWWatch: More about the Chicago Climate Exchange

• 2007/03/20: GWWatch: AGL joins the Chicago Climate Exchange

• 2007/03/20: EnvEcon: Prediction: A binding carbon market in 7 years

• 2007/03/19: ABC(Au): AGL signs onto global climate exchange effort
  

  The energy company AGL has become the first Australian utilities company

  to sign up with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCE).

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

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

• 2007/03/23: SF Gate: Global Warming Response - Markets or Taxes? Time for a carbon tax?

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/03/25: WaPo: Free to Speak Truth to Power

• 2007/03/24: CDreams: BostonGlobe: Science Starts To Fight Back

• 2007/03/22: 27B/6: Waxman Introduces Aggressive Climate Change Bill [The Safe Climate Act of 2007]

• 2007/03/21: WaPo: Activists Feel Warming on Climate Change -

  Hundreds Attend Capitol Rally to Demand Action on Cutting Greenhouse Gases

• 2007/03/23: FramingScience: Americans Now View the Environment as

  a Bigger Priority Than Energy Supplies

• 2007/03/23: PlanetArk: California Climate Action Registry a Big Draw

• 2007/03/21: FramingScience: The Two Americas of Global Warming Perceptions:

  Concern Among Dems Rises While Republicans Remain Unmoved

• 2007/03/22: SF Gate: Global warming activists try to stir Americans to change -

  Urging different lifestyles on people seen as difficult

• 2007/03/20: UCSUSA: Safe Climate Act Best Chance to Avert Dangerous

  Climate Change, Scientists Say

• 2007/03/20: PhysOrg: Utility Chiefs Wary of Emission Limits
  

  Top executives of some of the country's largest electric utilities

  gave guarded support Tuesday - or at least said they were not opposed -

  to mandatory carbon emission limits to deal with global warming.

• 2007/03/20: FPB: He hit me, and it felt like a kiss [US pol & biz]

• 2007/03/20: SwissInfo: Bush, Edwards, activists focus on global warming

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: 'Creation care' embraces climate change

• 2007/03/19: Reuters: Ex-CIA chief says U.S. must act on climate
  

  The United States must act to cap its emissions of greenhouse gases and

  join the fight against climate change or risk losing global leadership,

  a former CIA director said in a report released on Monday.

  "The United States must adopt a carbon emission control policy," John Deutch,

  head of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1995-96, said in a report

  to the Trilateral Commission, a grouping of business and opinion leaders

  from Europe, the United States and Asia.

Some financial big guns visited the hill this week:

• 2007/03/19: PRInside: Investors Managing $4 Trillion Call on Congress

  to Tackle Global Climate Change

• 2007/03/18: GristMill: CERES wrangles some big financial guns behind carbon limits

• 2007/03/20: PlanetArk: Investors Urge US Congress for Rules Slashing CO2
  

  Institutional investors joined a corporate chorus seeking to sink money

  into clean energy markets and called Monday for US Congress to pass rules

  slashing output of gases linked to global warming. The investors, including

  Merrill Lynch and Calpers, the largest US public pension fund -- which

  together manage nearly US$4 trillion in assets -- called on Congress

  to pass legislation aimed to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases

  60 to 90 percent under 1990 levels by 2050.

• 2007/03/19: TruthOut: Investors to Press US Congress on Global Warming

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/03/23: GristMill: Post-Gore: Still two Americas

• 2007/03/23: DeSmogBlog: Take the swiftboating as a compliment [Olberman on Gore]

• 2007/03/23: OpEdNews: I'm Not Buying What Al Gore's Selling

• 2007/03/23: DeSmogBlog: Gore says Quebec is Canada's climate-change conscience

• 2007/03/23: CCM: On HuffPost: My Take on Gore, Hurricanes, and Scientific Accuracy

• 2007/03/23: CanWest: Al Gore praises young people for awareness of global warming
  

  Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and Canadian scientist David Suzuki filled Montreal's Palais des congres yesterday with 5,000 mostly young Montrealers eager to hear their calls for massive

  global action to avoid the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming.

• 2007/03/22: Consortium: U.S. News Media's 'War on Gore'

• 2007/03/21: ERabett: The War on Gore

• 2007/03/20: ClimateP: Answers to Questions the Drudge Report poses to Al Gore, including one from Climate Progress (!)

• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: Gore's Global-Warming Testimony Expected to Draw Big Crowds

  The McKibben campaign continues:

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Rethinking the bottom line

• 2007/03/21: CDreams: LA Times: Global Warming Can't Buy Happiness by Bill McKibben

  While in the UK:

• 2007/03/23: Scotsman: Cost of carbon targets - 57,500 fewer cars

  and 12,300 new wind turbines

• 2007/03/22: Guardian(UK): A one-day summit [Climate Change Summit 2007] examining

  how your organisation needs to prepare for,

  and combat climate change [Monday June 11 2007]

• 2007/03/21: BBC: Cars bear brunt of green taxation -

  Drivers of the biggest and most polluting vehicles are to see car tax

  almost double to £400 by April 2008, Chancellor Gordon Brown has said.

• 2007/03/20: GristMill: Brit's Eye View: U.K. climate politics heating up

• 2007/03/19: BBC: Budget report 'not green enough'
  

  The chancellor's pre-Budget report fell far short of measures needed

  to tackle global warming seriously, an influential committee of MPs has said.

  Environmental Audit Committee chairman Tim Yeo said the report was

  "grossly inadequate" and that "steep cuts" in emissions were needed.

And in Europe:

• 2007/03/23: PlanetArk: EU Takes [legal] Action Over Climate, Landfill Failures

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/03/24: PeakEnergy: Delayed Reaction [Howard, GW, Kyoto & al.]

• 2007/03/24: DeSmogBlog: Down-Under CEO Wants No Part Of Putting CO2 Down Under

• 2007/03/21: ABC(Au): PM's task group told carbon trading's not enough

• 2007/03/22: ABC(Au): [Brisbane City] Council to plant 1 million trees [within two years to help restore south-east Queensland's creeks and waterways]

• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): Carbon scheme to pay farmers

• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): New central Qld power station to cut greenhouse gas

• 2007/03/21: EnergyBulletin: Brisbane City Council report on Climate Change and Energy

• 2007/03/20: GWWatch: Garrett: Put economy first by addressing climate change

• 2007/03/20: ABC(Au): Govt 'in denial' over water, climate change link

• 2007/03/20: ABC(Au): Big businesses sign carbon reduction scheme
  

  Origin Energy says some of Australia's biggest businesses have signed up

  to its new carbon reduction scheme to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

  Origin says it is a voluntary system where companies can buy offsets such

  as carbon sinks or renewable energy from accredited providers.

While in India:

• 2007/03/22: FinEx: [India] 550 projects for carbon credit get govt nod

• 2007/03/20: EconomicTimes: India not keen on binding global pact on emissions

  And in China:

• 2007/03/23: ClimateArk: China seen topping US carbon emissions in 2007

• 2007/03/23: EcoEcon: Willem Buiter's Doubts on Continuing China/India's Meteoric Rise

  Canada is largely on hold while the Quebec election plays out:

• 2007/03/19: StraightGoods: An embarrassing week for Albertans -

  Premier Stelmach's proposals on climate change will actually

  legislate an increase in emissions

• 2007/03/23: DeSmogBlog: Canadian Idle

• 2007/03/23: TCE: Belated Budget Breakdown

• 2007/03/20: Tyee: Campbell's Green-Speak Double Talk -

  Oil and gas subsidies belie throne speech talk, enviros say.

• 2007/03/22: BCLSB: Get Set For Harper Flip-Flop On Kyoto

• 2007/03/22: Globe&Mail: Four in five Canadians believe global warming is real: survey

• 2007/03/22: PlanetArk: Canada Auto Emissions Incentives Seen Ineffective

• 2007/03/18: WaPo: British Columbia Aligns With California to Create

  a Green Bloc Along Pacific

  Toronto has outlined a climate plan:

• 2007/03/24: TreeHugger: Toronto Unveils Blueprint for a Green City

• 2007/03/23: DeSmogBlog: Toronto girds for climate-change battle

• 2007/03/23: Globe&Mail: City to reveal tough climate change proposals -

  Includes dramatic emissions cuts, rules for energy-efficient buildings

• 2007/03/23: OilChange: EU Inspires Toronto to Act on Climate

  And the tricky question of the oil sands looms:

• 2007/03/20: RigZone: Canada Moves to Phase Out Tax Break for Tar Sands Producers

  Apocalypso anyone?:

• 2007/03/24: PostChronicle: Catastrophic Hypothesis: Could Global Warming Melt All Ice On Earth?

• 2007/03/22: EnergyBulletin: Not the end of the world
  

  Much of what is required to prevent [disaster] is simply coming to terms

  with the notion that a radical change in your way of life is not

  the same thing as the end of the world.

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/03/22: BDL: Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? [Broad]

• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: When Climate Message Is Strong, Attack the Messenger! [Broad]

• 2007/03/20: PNT: The news that didn't fit - into the Broadly misleading NYT article

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/03/19: C411: A Climate Change Reading List

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2007/03/20: CCM: Go See Hurricane on the Bayou

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/03/25: GWWatch: Spanish wind power blows nuclear away

• 2007/03/24: NewsObserver: Clean coal would cost billions -

  Energy department puts $4 billion annual price tag on cleansing process

• 2007/03/24: REA: CSI: Examining California's Ambitious Solar Program

• 2007/03/21: GWWatch: Uni NSW research harnesses sea, sun for hydrogen fuel

• 2007/03/19: NEN: Clouds over "Million Solar Roofs"

  Bickering over biofuel:

• 2007/03/25: WaPo: Corn Can't Solve Our Problem

• 2007/03/23: EnergyBulletin: Ethanol and biofuels: Agriculture, infrastructure,

  and market constraints related to expanded production [Congressional Research Service]

• 2007/03/23: PlanetArk: EU Biodiesel Slumps Despite Global Warming Fear

• 2007/03/19: BWeek: Ethanol's Growing List of Enemies
  

  As demand for the alternative fuel drives corn prices up, an unlikely

  assortment of groups are uniting with the hopes of cutting government support

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/03/22: FuturePundit: Coal Cheaper Without Tougher Emissions Restrictions [Duh!]

• 2007/03/21: DeutscheWelle: Despite Climate Concerns, Germany Plans Coal Power Plants

• 2007/03/21: SciDaily: Lower Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Coal-fueled Power

  Plants Possible With Technology Development

• 2007/03/22: CSM: Global boom in coal power -- and emissions

• 2007/03/19: Globe&Mail: Can dirty old king coal manage to clean up its act?

  Global warming has fuelled changes, but the industry remains Public Enemy No. 1

  Are you ready for peak uranium?

• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): Nuclear power essential to reducing CO2 emissions: physicist [Professor Aiden Byrne]

• 2007/03/23: ABC(Au): Global demand will outstrip supply of uranium: resources executive

• 2007/03/21: OilDrum: Uranium Depletion and Nuclear Power: Are We at Peak Uranium?

• 2007/03/21: Eureka: MIT: Lack of fuel may limit US nuclear power expansion

• 2007/03/17: People's Daily: Russia to build 3 nuclear plants each year from 2016

  As for transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/03/25: SundayHerald: Time is ripe to push for free public transport

• 2007/03/21: ABC(Au): Jetsetters can chip in [voluntarily] for greenhouse offset

• 2007/03/22: TerraDaily: Global Shipping Must Curb 'Unchecked' Pollution

  The automakers are in court:

• 2007/03/24: BostonGlobe: Judge in emissions suit rejects companies' push for secrecy

• 2007/03/23: ClimateArk: United States: Automakers challenging states' emission laws
  

  They say Vermont rules are invalid because only the federal government can set standards.

  The trial is a preview of a bigger case in California. A swarm of lawyers hired

  by the world's automakers is descending on a federal courthouse in the picturesque

  New England town of Burlington, Vt., to wage a proxy fight against a California law

  to curb global warming. The 2002 law, which set stringent tailpipe standards

  for carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases, has been adopted

  by 10 other states including Vermont. None of those emissions standards are

  in effect yet, but a federal lawsuit by automakers against the Vermont law

  is being closely watched as a test of states' power to regulate carbon emissions.

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

• 2007/03/18: FuturePundit: Venture Capitalists Place Big Energy Bets

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/03/25: LA Times: Why the right goes nuclear over global warming -

  Most of the heat is generated by a small number of hard-core ideologues

• 2007/03/23: GristMill: "Supporting global warming initiatives is tantamount to endorsing communism and the one world order"

• 2007/03/22: DeSmogBlog: Deniers evolution from ozone to global warming

• 2007/03/23: N3xus6: Ray Evans' 'Nine facts about climate change' debunked. Pt. 5.

• 2007/03/19: BSD: Pat Michaels, former denialist?

• 2007/03/22: N3xus6: Ray Evans' 'Nine facts about climate change' debunked. Pt. 4.

• 2007/03/22: PlanetArk: Czech Leader [Vaclav] Klaus Fights Global Warming "Religion"

• 2007/03/21: ClimateP: Who is Amy Ridenour and Why is she so Confused about Climate Change?

• 2007/03/21: WVU: How to dismiss global warming in 30 seconds

• 2007/03/20: DeSmogBlog: The Self-Serving Environmentalist [BL]

• 2007/03/18: GristMill: Another op-ed on climate change [H2O forcing]

  The E,A&M fanclub made a short reprise:

• 2007/03/19: ERabett: Once more dear Prof. Keller

• 2007/03/18: ERabett: The bunny still has pen in paw

• 2007/03/18: ERabett: Auditing the odd

  Senator Inhofe is dubiously honoured:

• 2007/03/22: Grinzo: The Inhofe Scale

• 2007/03/25: GWWatch: Thank god I don't live in that country...[Gore, Inhofe]

• 2007/03/22: HuffPo: Senator James Inhofe: Supreme "Bullshitter"

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Inhofe makes the grown-ups laugh

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/03/25: JEB: Crisis? What crisis? [NY debate]

• 2007/03/24: PhysOrg: Resource Race Heats Up in Melting Arctic

• 2007/03/23: CDreams: A Convenient Windfall: Global Warming's Big Cash Dividend

• 2007/03/22: TruthOut: Global Warming Can't Buy Happiness

• 2007/03/22: TruthOut: Utility and Sierra Club Deal Aims to Cut Carbon Dioxide

• 2007/03/22: JFleck: An Interesting Response to Scientization

• 2007/03/20: WorldChanging: The Politics and Science of Global Warming - Winnipeg Lecture

• 2007/03/22: DeSmogBlog: Climate Change: A Real Expert's View

• 2007/03/23: C411: Too-Warm Winter Haiku

• 2007/03/23: SciDaily: Lake Superior Summer Temperatures Rising Faster Than Regional Air Temperatures

• 2007/03/21: FramingScience: AGU Conference Buzz Alerted NPR's Richard Harris

  To Whether or Not Gore Got the Science Right

• 2007/03/20: ERabett: Dear John...Some of you might remember

  the great pink helicopter dust up

• 2007/03/21: DeSmogBlog: Put the science where your mouth is

• 2007/03/21: C411: Part 3 of 4: U.S. Emissions Target

• 2007/03/22: TreeHugger: Two Views on the Effects of Global Warming [Easterbrook & Hunter]

• 2007/03/22: PlanetArk: Meteorologists Say Sure Humans Cause Climate Change

• 2007/03/21: GristMill: Addressing climate change won't be easy

• 2007/03/20: TruthOut: Are Big Enviro Groups "Holding Back" Anti-Warming Movement?

• 2007/03/19: GristMill: The latest debate on 'overselling' climate science

• 2007/03/20: JFleck: A Problem With "Average Temperature"

• 2007/03/18: ClimateP: Feedback Frenzy

• 2007/03/18: Globe&Mail: Climate-change cures may be worse than the disease

• 2007/03/18: Yahoo: U.S. decries key points at climate talks

• 2007/03/22: EnvEcon: The demand for insurance

• 2007/03/19: TerraDaily: Statistical Analysis Debunks Climate Change Naysayers

• 2007/03/19: HuffPo: Up on the roof

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

• FSF: Food System Factoids

• Grinzo: The Cost of Energy

• ScienceBlog

• Cap and Share Carbon Equity Project Australia

• EPA: Global Warming

• EPA: Global Warming

• CACC: Campaign against Climate Change

• ClimateCrisis

• ARCSS: Arctic System Science Program

• UA:ISPE: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth

• UA:DGESL: Environmental Studies Laboratory - Publications

• ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework

• Kerry Emanuel's Homepage

• Integrated Project CarboEurope-IP - Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance

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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.

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<regards>
-het

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

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