On the Other Hand

With all the talk about the negative impacts of Global Warming I thought I would share this story, which should get one tick mark in the "Pros" column! Real estate speculators, get out your calculators...

Global warming creates an island

NUUK, Greenland April 24 (UPI) -- An island has separated from mainland Greenland because of global climate change.

The Independent reported that the melting of Greenland's ice sheetcaused what was once thought to be the tip of a peninsula on Greenland's east coast to separate from the mainland.

U.S. Geological Survey satellite photos confirmed the island's existence. American explorer Dennis Schmitt discovered the mass and named it Warming Island, the Independent reported.

Satellite photos show that the island was part of the coast in 1985, linked to the mainland by an ice bridge in 2002 and completely separate by the summer of 2005, the newspaper said.

It is an example of the melting of the world's second-largest ice sheet, after Antarctica, the Independent reported.

Another Week of GW News, April 22, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
(skip to bottom)

• Top Stories,Australian drought, UNSC Climate Change, CNA report, Earth Day, Hansen,Norway, Bright Line, WGII, WGIII leaks, Bala paper, Arctic current
• Hurricanes,GHG Stats, Temperatures, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
• Impacts,Tropical Rainforests, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
• Mitigation,Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals,EGU, Cosmoclimatology, Misc. Science
• Kyoto-2,UNEO dead, Carbon Trading, Carbon Tax, Carbon Offsets
• Politics,International, America, Britain, Europe,
• Australia,Asia, China, Canada
• The Kids,Population, Media, Video, Courts
• Energy,Biofuel, Coal, Nukes, Efficiency, Business, Insurance Carbon Lobby
• The Usual,Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion
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It's always nice to start with a chuckle:

• 2007/04/18: uComics: (cartoon - Wiley) Hey Daddy, Did you know...

• 2007/04/19: MTobis: In a balloon [denial]

• 2007/04/20: ERabett: A joke? Al Gore and James Annan and Roger Pielke Jr. were sleeping in a hotel room when a fire broke out...

  The Australian government has announced irrigation from the Murray-Darling river system

  will end in 8 weeks if there is no rain:

• 2007/04/21: ABC(Au): Dire Murray-Darling predictions released.
  The report which prompted the Prime Minister's warning to farmers that they will no longer be able to rely on water from the Murray-Darling system has been publicly released. It contains more dire warnings on the reliability of town water supplies. The Government's second Contingency Planning Report says it is expected that critical urban and stock demands can be met, but quality issues may arise in some smaller towns where water may need to be trucked in.

• 2007/04/20: Independent(UK): Australia's epic drought: The situation is grim

• 2007/04/21: BorderMail: Fossil fuel feast to deliver us an even drier future

• 2007/04/22: GWWatch: Howard prays drought not linked to global warming

• 2007/04/22: ThinkP: Climate change disaster strikes Australia

• 2007/04/22: Guardian(UK): Drought in Australia (6 pictures)

• 2007/04/20: RawStory: Australia's drought linked to global warming

• 2007/04/20: ClimateP: Australia's "Food Bowl" Running Dry

• 2007/04/19: TerraDaily: Australia To Turn Off The Tap On Farmers As Drought Bites

• 2007/04/20: DeSmogBlog: Australian Farmers High, Dry and Desperate

• 2007/04/20: France24: Australia's drought linked to global warming

• 2007/04/20: Australian: Murray running on empty
  The nation's food bowl will be sacrificed to provide drinking water to towns and cities as John Howard moved yesterday to tackle an "unprecedentedly dangerous situation" in the drought-ravaged Murray-Darling Basin.

• 2007/04/20: PlanetArk: Drought-Hit Australia to Stop Irrigating Food Bowl

• 2007/04/20: Guardian(UK): Drought threatens crop catastrophe, Australian prime minister says

• 2007/04/20: Independent(UK): A global warning from the dust bowl of Australia

• 2007/04/12: HorseTalk(NZ): Crunch time for drought-stricken horse owners [in Australia] - vets

• 2007/04/19: ABC(Au): Murray-Darling farmers face water shut-off
  Prime Minister John Howard says irrigation water for farmers in the Murray-Darling Basin will be cut off if there is no significant rain in the next six to eight weeks. Mr Howard says the basin is suffering from an "unprecedentedly dangerous" water shortage but water will continue to be available for "critical urban" water supplies.

• 2007/04/19: GWWatch: PM voices dustbowl fears for Australia's breadbasket

• 2007/04/19: ABC(Au): Drastic plan announced for Murray-Darling crisis
  The Prime Minister [John Howard] today announced a drastic proposal to cut off vital water to crops in the drought stricken Murray-Darling Basin unless rains fall in the next six to eight weeks. The plan would lead to immense economic and social fallout and marks the first time such drastic measures have been contemplated.
  
  Australian of the Year Tim Flannery has called it a national disaster plan,with worse to come. He says the greenhouse nightmare has begun.

• 2007/04/19: SMH: For millions the water will stop midyear

• 2007/04/19: DailyTelegraph(Au): Howard refuses climate change link
  The federal government still refuses to accept a confirmed link between global warming and the drought, but says it's preparing for a drier climate. Prime Minister John Howard has said the jury is out on the connection and in announcing severe drought measures today did not veer from that stance. Mr Howard warned that the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin was so bad irrigators would not receive any water allocations in the coming season without heavy rainfall within eight weeks.

• 2007/04/19: ABC(Au): Murray-Darling crisis could devastate farmers: NFF

• 2007/04/19: BBC: Australian PM John Howard has warned that irrigation

  of much of the nation's farmland will be banned unless there is

  heavy rainfall in the next month

  The UNSC debate on climate change as security, triggered others:

• 2007/04/18: ABC(Au): UN Security Council debates climate change

• 2007/04/17: TerraDaily: Security Council Holds Landmark Debate On Climate Change

• 2007/04/17: TruthOut: Climate Change May Worsen Instability

• 2007/04/18: NYT: UNSC Hits Impasse Over Debate on Warming

• 2007/04/18: Guardian(UK): There is now no doubt that global warming is

  a security threat to us all
  The debate on climate change at the UN top table is a sign that the big powers are at last beginning to see sense

• 2007/04/17: AfterGutenberg: Climate Change Alarms Security Experts

• 2007/04/18: AngryBear: Britain, the Security Council, and Global Warming

• 2007/04/18: BBC: First climate debate divides UN
  The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever debate on climate change with some members arguing it was not the place for such a discussion. British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett justified the debate by linking the issue to security. But Russia and China said that as an international security watchdog, the 15-member council was not the right forum to debate climate change. Mrs Beckett said an unstable climate could lead to increased world conflict. The debate was initiated by the UK, which holds the presidency of the Security Council this month. No resolution or statement arose from the discussion, in which 55 member states spoke.

• 2007/04/18: Guardian(UK): Climate change threatens security, UK tells UN
  Council debates 'weather of mass destruction' - US claims other factors more important for peace

• 2007/04/17: NewScientist: Global warming an issue for UN Security Council

• 2007/04/17: CanWest: Darfur war, climate change linked
  A violent conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Darfur is one of the early signs of threats to global security prompted by climate change,a senior representative of the British government warned yesterday on the eve of a special United Nations debate. "Like most conflicts, it's complex. It results from an interplay of a lot of social and political and possibly ethnic factors," said John Ashton,Prime Minister Tony Blair's special ambassador on climate change. "But there is absolutely no doubt that it's a more difficult conflict to deal with,because on top of all that, you've had a 40-per-cent fall in the rainfall in northern Darfur over the last 25 to 30 years, again in a way that's entirely consistent with what the climate models would have told you to expect."

• 2007/04/17: ENN: Melting Himalayan Glaciers Pose Security Risk, UNEP Says
  Global warming will cause the Himalayan glaciers to melt, leading to mass migration and possibly conflicts over valuable resources such as agricultural land and fresh water,the U.N. Environment Programme chief said. Achim Steiner, speaking ahead of the U.N. Security Council's first-ever debate on climate change, said that global warming should be considered a security issue as shortages of water and fertile land in the next 10 to 20 years may lead to conflicts. The melting of the Himalayan glaciers is expected to displace millions of people from low-lying land as sea levels rise,and will disrupt river flows and irrigation of agricultural land.

• 2007/04/18: PlanetArk: UK Puts Climate Change in UN Council, China Objects

• 2007/04/17: Yahoo: Security Council to hold unprecedented debate on climate change [Tues]

• 2007/04/16: CDreams: Reuters: Global Warming Could Spur 21st Century Conflicts

• 2007/04/16: Guardian(UK): UK to raise climate talks as security council issue

  The US CNA released a report on national security & climate change:

• 2007/04/16: CNA: (pdf links) National Security and the Threat of Climate Change

• 2007/04/17: SciDaily: Climate Change Poses Serious Threat To U.S. National Security

• 2007/04/17: EnergyBulletin: Climate change poses serious threat to U.S. national security

• 2007/04/17: C411: Military experts: climate change a threat

• 2007/04/16: TruthOut: Ex-Generals: Global Warming Threatens US Security

• 2007/04/15: WaPo: Military Sharpens Focus on Climate Change -

  A Decline in Resources Is Projected to Cause Increasing Instability Overseas

• 2007/04/16: GristMill: U.S. military steps it up

• 2007/04/16: ENN: Global Warming a Security Risk [say retired U.S. military leaders]

• 2007/04/15: ThinkP: U.S. generals call for action on climate change

• 2007/04/15: BBC: US generals urge climate action - Former US military leaders

  have called on the Bush administration to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions

  It's Earth Day, Rah rah:

• 2007/04/21: TreeHugger: Earth Day: Oh, What is the Point of it all?
  Politicians everywhere don't lead public opinion, they follow it, and when public opinion says go green, even right wing Australians ban incandescents. Survival trumps ideology.

• 2007/04/20: CDreams: CSM: Finally, An Earth Day With Promise -

  For Many Years, It Was a Hollow Joke. But This Year,We're On The Cusp of Real Progress by Bill McKibben

• 2007/04/21: CDreams: OrlandoSentinel: In Florida, Warming Gives Earth Day New Urgency

  James Hansen wrote an article that received a lot of comment:

• 2007/04/19: Nation: Why We Can't Wait by James Hansen

• 2007/04/21: TreeHugger: The Big Five For Climate [Hansen paraphrase]
  

  1. place a "moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until we have the technology to capture and sequester the CO2";
  2. put a gradually rising price on emissions";
  3. mandate maximum achievable energy-efficiency standards on vehicles, buildings, appliances, and so on;
  4. ask the National Academy of Sciences to do a study on the risk of polar ice sheet collapse;
  5. Reform the way in which agencies of the Federal government communicate scientific characterization of risk and introduce effective campaign finance reform, so that special interests no longer have such a big influence on policy-makers.

• 2007/04/20: CDreams: Nation: Why We Can't Wait [Hansen]

• 2007/04/20: EcoEcon: James Hansen Pleads for: Better Policy, Better Government, Less Spin

  Norway has announced it intends to be carbon-neutral by 2050:

• 2007/04/21: Guardian(UK): Norway aims for zero-carbon status with all emissions offset by 2050

• 2007/04/20: TreeHugger: Norway Commits To Stretch Climate Goal

• 2007/04/20: PlanetArk: Norway Aims to be Carbon Neutral by 2050

• 2007/04/19: PhysOrg: Norway aims to be 'zero-emission' state by 2050

  GristMill published a Bright Line series:

• 2007/04/20: GristMill: Super-adobe (Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.)

• 2007/04/18: GristMill: Material intensity (Part of the No Sweat Solutions series)

• 2007/04/17: GristMill: On efficiency (Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.)

• 2007/04/16: GristMill: No sweat solutions to global warming: a series

  Some late IPCC-WGII kvetching:

• 2007/04/19: ClimateP: Water Down --

  the most urgent messages were not conveyed due to diplomats' edits

• 2007/04/19: CSW: UPDATE on IPCC Working Group II Climate Change Impacts Assessment Report

• 2007/04/17: PhillyInquirer: Report: Global warming's grim effect on U.S., Canada [WGII]

• 2007/04/17: DeSmogBlog: New analysis: Chinese and Saudi Diplomats Water Down Global Warming Estimates

• 2007/04/16: CanWest: UN climate report 'watered down' -

  A handful of countries demanded changes, authors say

  And there were more IPCC-WGIII leaks:

• 2007/04/17: GristMill: IPCC Working Group III goes after transportation pollution

• 2007/04/16: ClimateP: IPCC: Working Group III goes after transportation pollution

  Some late commentary on that counter-intuitive Bala paper on trees:

• 2007/04/19: TreeHugger: Is Deforestation the Solution to Climate Change?

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): Planting the right trees could combat global warming by Dr Govindasamy Bala

  There is a report the Arctic circumpolar current may be reversing:

• 2007/04/04: GRL: Recent trends in Arctic Ocean mass distribution revealed by GRACE by James Morison et al.

• 2007/04/16: UPI: Arctic Ocean distribution trends studied

• 2007/04/16: DailyIndia: Arctic Ocean distribution trends studied
  U.S. scientists using satellite data have determined a reversal of the Arctic Ocean's circulation might be under way. Satellite-detected distribution and magnitude of the salinity and bottom pressure in parts of the polar ocean suggest a shift from a clockwise to a counterclockwise pattern prevalent prior to the 1990s.

While in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/04/20: ABC(Au): Experts told worldwide cyclone risk hasn't increased [Darwin workshop]

• 2007/04/19: ERabett: All hell breaks loose --

  Ethon flew in from Boulder and dove straight into the hurricane shelter.

• 2007/04/19: Wunderground: 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook

• 2007/04/18: NewScientist: Wind shear may cancel climate's effect on hurricanes

• 2007/04/18: TerraDaily: A Change In The Wind [shear]

• 2007/04/18: SciDaily: Global Warming Increases Wind Shear, Reduces Hurricanes, Climate Model Shows

• 2007/04/18: Yahoo: Researchers debate warming, hurricanes

• 2007/04/18: EnvEcon: Climate Change, Global Warming and Hurricanes...I'm confused

• 2007/04/17: GRL: Increased tropical Atlantic wind shear in model projections of global warming by Gabriel A. Vecchi & Brian J. Soden

• 2007/04/18: PlanetArk: Global Warming May Spur Wind Shear, Sap Hurricanes

• 2007/04/16: PhysOrg: Dusty Hurricanes

  GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: China to Become Top CO2 Emitter in 2007 or '08 - IEA

• 2007/04/19: CDreams: Reuters: World Needs to Axe Greenhouse Gases by 80 Pct: Report

• 2007/04/19: ABC(Au): China set to overtake US on carbon emissions [this year or next, says IEA]

• 2007/04/17: TruthOut: US 1990-2005 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up 16 Percent

• 2007/04/17: PlanetArk: US 1990-2005 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Up 16 Pct

  We were treated to the odd spectacle of the Bush EPA praising a record level of emissions:

• 2007/04/17: MongaBay: Bush administration praises record level of global warming emissions

• 2007/04/17: C411: U.S. emissions up, EPA calls that 'results'

• 2007/04/17: Yahoo: EPA chief [Dave Johnson]: Bush climate policy working

• 2007/04/16: ThinkP: Warming emissions increase, administration celebrates

  Kilimanjaro is now projected to last until 2040:

• 2007/04/17: BBC: Kilimanjaro's ice set to linger
  A fresh assessment suggests the famous ice fields on Africa's tallest mountain will be around for decades yet. Recent concerns that climate warming would rob Mount Kilimanjaro of all its glaciers within 20 years are overly pessimistic,say Austrian scientists. Their weather station data and modelling work indicate the tropical ice should last well beyond 2040.

Sea levels are rising:

• 2007/04/20: TruthOut: Study Shows Sudden Sea Level Surges Threaten One Billion

• 2007/04/20: PlanetArk: Sudden Sea Level Surges Threaten 1 Billion - Study

• 2007/04/20: CNN: Study: Sudden sea level surges threaten 1 billion

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): No need to panic, but you might like to build on higher ground

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/04/16: SciDaily: NOAA, NASA To Restore A Key Climate Sensor

  [Ozone Mapping & Profiler Suite Limb, will be returned to

  the NPP satellite, set to launch in 2009]

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/04/20: MongaBay: Global warming, not mass suicide, threatens lemmings

• 2007/04/20: PhysOrg: Will lemmings fall off climate change cliff?

• 2007/04/20: Eureka: Will lemmings fall off climate change cliff?

  Warmer conditions may impact Arctic rodents and predators alike

• 2007/04/19: CSM: Could global warming cause war? A new report warns

  that conflicts over water and food could intensify as the climate changes

• 2007/04/17: WaPo: Warming Predicted to Take Severe Toll on U.S.

• 2007/04/19: Freep: Mice on the move -

  White-footed mice are replacing deer mice in Michigan as the climate warms

• 2007/04/20: ABC(Au): Global warming a gender bender for lizards

• 2007/04/19: C411: Nasty surprises for health?

• 2007/04/18: ClimateP: The Great (Lakes) Disappearing Act

• 2007/04/18: TruthOut: Death in the Rainforest:

  Fragile Creatures Give the World a New Climate Warning

• 2007/04/18: TruthOut: Global Warming Health Effects

• 2007/04/18: FinExpress: "India likely to witness shift in rainfall pattern"

• 2007/04/18: CCurrents: Climate Change Will Devastate South Asia

• 2007/04/17: BostonGlobe: Coastal areas face risks from warming

• 2007/04/17: SF Gate: Global warming health effects -

  Smog, heat waves may contribute to big rise in illness

• 2007/04/17: ENN: Global Warming May Put U.S. in Hot Water

• 2007/04/17: Guardian(UK): Death in the rainforest:

  fragile creatures give the world a new climate warning
  Amphibian and reptile numbers fall by 75% in reserve meant to save them

• 2007/04/16: MongaBay: Icy places first feel the effects of global warming

• 2007/04/16: MongaBay: Bad news for frogs; amphibian decline worse than feared -

  Global warming, not disease, may be the culprit this time

• 2007/04/16: PhysOrg: Climate change could trigger 'boom and bust' population

  cycles leading to extinction

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): Forum [International Coastal Symposium] puts focus on global warming
  Coastal engineers from more than 40 countries will meet on Queensland's Gold Coast today to consider the impact of global warming.

• 2007/04/16: ENN: Far North Feels Worst Effects of Warming

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/04/21: Guardian(UK): Invisible but all too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest

• 2007/04/19: EnvFin: World Bank failing to stop Congo rainforest destruction - Greenpeace

• 2007/04/18: TerraDaily: Greater Use Of Biofuels Threatens Rain Forests

• 2007/04/18: TerraDaily: Soybean Planting Hastens Drying Of Amazonia

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: Tropical Forest Felled for Biofuels, Ecologists Say

• 2007/04/18: TruthOut: Greenpeace Says China Guilty in Illegal Logging

• 2007/04/18: Reuters: Tropical forest felled for biofuels, ecologists say

• 2007/04/18: PlanetArk: Greenpeace Says China Guilty in Illegal Logging

• 2007/04/17: ENN: Greenpeace Says China Guilty in Illegal Logging [in Southeast Asia]

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/04/18: Guardian(UK): Is spring the new summer?

• 2007/04/18: BBC: 'Spring is new summer' - report
  Two events in nature that usually herald the beginning of summer have started already, say researchers looking into reports from the public. The blossoming of hawthorn and return of migrating swifts - usually in May - have prompted the Woodland Trust to declare "spring is the new summer".

• 2007/04/16: Hindu: Heat wave in north India

• 2007/04/15: Telegraph(UK): Temperatures soar on hottest day of the year

• 2007/04/16: Wunderground: High tide in New York brings flooding

• 2007/04/16: Wunderground: Nor'easter of 2007 slowly winds down

• 2007/04/16: Wunderground: Nor'easter of 2007 peaks in intensity, continues pounding New England

• 2007/04/16: BBC: Powerful spring storms battering the eastern US have claimed

  at least eight lives and caused widespread flooding and damage to property

• 2007/04/16: CBC: Spring storm drenches New York - Breaks a 100-year-old New York record

• 2007/04/16: PhillyInquirer: [Acting NJ Governor, Richard] Codey declares

  state of emergency because of nor'easter

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/04/21: JFleck: California Drought

• 2007/04/: LDEO: An imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America

• 2007/04/20: TheAge: Global warming 'to fuel global drought'

• 2007/04/20: Yahoo: Australia's drought linked to global warming

• 2007/04/17: PhysOrg: Study: Earth's 4th largest lake shrinking -

  British scientists have determined the Aral Sea is drying so rapidly

  it has shrunk by two-thirds in fewer than 50 years

• 2007/04/16: JFleck: Southern Africa's Hurting [drought]

• 2007/04/17: CSM: Trade-off looms for arid US regions: water or power?

• 2007/04/13: ACitW: No More Water: Scientists, Oak Trees Predict Drought

• 2007/04/16: JFleck: Acorns

• 2007/04/16: AlterNet: Global Warming Hits Home in the Southwest

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/04/20: CSM: Ethanol policy divides Latin America -

  US efforts to promote ethanol have raised food prices in the region

• 2007/04/18: Scotsman: World now faces competition between food and fuel, expert warns

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

• 2007/04/22: Guardian(UK): Millions face famine as crop disease rages -

  Scientists say wheat blight that ravaged Africa is set on a course for Asia

• 2007/04/16: PhysOrg: Earth's dirty little secret:

  Slowly but surely we are skinning our planet

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/04/19: CSM: Giant carbon vacuums could cool Earth -

  Tall metal structures would scrub the greenhouse gas from the air

  As for transportation & the production of GHGs:

• 2007/04/22: Telegraph(UK): Stop coming to work and save the planet [reducing commuting]

• 2007/04/17: PlanetArk: EU Confirms to Propose Ships Join Emissions Trade

  And on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/04/17: EnergyBulletin: Wanna bet the farm on carbon capture and sequestration?

• 2007/04/17: GPM: Wanna Bet the Farm on Carbon Capture and Sequestration?
  If you want to go on living on the planet Earth, then you'd better learn how to love sequestration. Because if sequestration doesn't work,the planet is toast. Literally.

While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/04/17: PhysOrg: Africa must adapt to soaring temperatures: UN scientists

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/04/18: ERW: Is geoengineering the "Lesser Evil"?

• 2007/04/18: PhysOrg: China claims first artificial snowfall in drought-hit Tibet

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/03/26: Science: Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America by Richard Seager et al.

• 2007/04/19: GAO: (abs) Climate Change: Financial Risks to Federal and Private Insurers in Coming Decades are Potentially Significant

• 2007/04/17: GRL: Increased tropical Atlantic wind shear in model projections of global warming by Gabriel A. Vecchi & Brian J. Soden

• 2007/04/17: PNAS: Ancient DNA reveals lack of postglacial habitat tracking in the arctic fox by Love Dalén et al.

• 2007/04/17: PNAS: Projected impacts of climate change on salmon habitat restoration by James Battin et al.

• 2007/04/17: PNAS: Geochemical proxies of North American freshwater routing during the Younger Dryas cold event by Anders E. Carlson et al.

• 2007/04/17: PNAS: Conventional wisdom and climate history by Steven M. Colman

  UKCIP puts out a monthly Climate Digest with useful journal references:

• 2007/03/ UKCIP: (pdf - 387k) Climate Digest

  The EGU conference went down this week:

• 2007/04/20: Stoat: EGU friday

• 2007/04/19: Stoat: EGU: thursday

• 2007/04/18: Stoat: EGU: wednesday

• 2007/04/17: Stoat: EGU - Its EGU time again. Monday was a bit of a blur...

  If you read the Svensmark paper, you should check Damon & Laut:

• 2007/02/: Blackwell: Cosmoclimatology: a new theory emerges by Henrik Svensmark

• 2004/09/28: EOS: Pattern of Strange Errors Plagues Solar Activity and Terrestrial Climate Data by Paul E. Damon & Peter Laut

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

• 2007/04/20: NewScientist: High-altitude jet will track Asian dust plumes

• 2007/04/20: SciDaily: Astronomer Backs Link Between Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change
  Professor Nigel Weiss, 2007 winner of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Gold medal,is rebutting claims that a fall in solar activity could cancel out the effects of man-made global warming. In a lecture at the RAS-sponsored National Astronomy Meeting in Preston, Professor Weiss, who is Emeritus Professor in Mathematical Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, described how solar activity was an important factor in past climate change but that current global warming is very much driven by human activity - specifically the emission of greenhouse gases.

• 2007/04/19: ESA: Scientists and polar explorers brave the elements in support of CryoSat-2

• 2007/04/19: Eureka: U of Colorado researchers forecast 1 in 3 chance of record low sea ice in 2007

• 2007/04/19: Eureka: Scientists track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change

• 2007/04/18: Eureka: Scientists to track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, climate change [specialized jet ]

• 2007/04/17: NSU: Decades needed to tell whether ocean currents are slowing -

  Researchers pin down when we'll know the effects of climate on water flow

• 2007/04/18: PhysOrg: Scientists to track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, weather, climate change

• 2007/04/18: RealClimate: Ocean Cooling. Not.

• 2007/04/18: UCAR: Scientists to Track Impact of Asian Dust and Pollution on Clouds, Weather, Climate Change

• 2007/04/17: SciDaily: Climate Change Could Trigger 'Boom And Bust' Population Cycles Leading To Extinction

• 2007/04/17: SciDaily: Researchers Setting Up Observatories To Examine Changes Under The Arctic Ice

• 2007/04/16: PhysOrg: From beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea, scientists

  retrieve pristine record of the continent's climate cycles [ANDRILL]

• 2007/04/16: WHOI: Researchers Setting Up Observatories to Examine Arctic Changes from Under the Ice

• 2007/04/16: Eureka: Climate change could trigger 'boom and bust' population cycles leading to extinction

  The Pielkes fan club is doing just fine:

• 2007/04/15: ERabett: The speakable and unspeakable in climate science

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2007/04/20: TruthOut: Successor Deal to Kyoto Now Vital for Former Refusenik

• 2007/04/20: ClimateArk: Australia: Successor deal to Kyoto now vital for former refusenik

  That French suggestion to create a United Nations Environment Organisation [UNEO]

  got shot down this week:

• 2007/04/17: ENN: U.S. Rejects Call for Tougher U.N. Environment Role
  The United States supports moves to strengthen the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP) but sees no need for a new, more powerful U.N. agency, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. France led 46 nations calling in February for the creation of a U.N. Environment Organisation (UNEO) to fight threats like global warming, water shortages and the extinction of species.

And on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/04/19: NEN: Big Carbon Sit-Down
  Major Players in the Carbon Markets to Meet in May [21-23] at North Americ's First Carbon Finance and Investment Summit

• 2007/04/20: NineMSN: Carbon trading 'futile' without China
  Human activity is contributing to climate change but programs like emissions trading are futile unless big polluters such as China and the US are on board, Treasurer Peter Costello says.

• 2007/04/17: CarbonFinance: S&P to rate carbon funds

• 2007/04/17: HeraldSun: Carbon 'black market' emerges

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/04/18: Yahoo: [Sen. Chris] Dodd favors corporate [carbon] tax for emissions

• 2007/04/20: EESD: Fuel taxes: An important instrument for climate policy

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: Presidential contender [Chris Dodd] supports carbon tax

• 2007/04/18: GWWatch: Carbon dollars help individuals fight climate change

• 2007/04/19: Asia Times: Carbon tax threatens to ground Asia tourism

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

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

• 2007/04/19: Nation: Don't Bet on Offsets

• 2007/04/18: EnvEcon: Classroom experiments 1: Firms prefer cap-and-trade to carbon taxes

• 2007/04/16: WTimes: Court ruling on greenhouse gases boosts 'cap and trade'

• 2007/04/16: BaltimoreSun: There's a right way and a wrong way to combat global warming [optimal strategy]

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/04/21: BrisbaneTimes: [Aussie Labor leader, Kevin] Rudd calls on US

  to ratify Kyoto protocol

• 2007/04/21: ClimateArk: US too cool to global warming fixes, EU says

• 2007/04/19: IHT: EU officials to press U.S. to commit to carbon caps at summit [EU-US summit on April 30]

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: No US Emissions Curbs Without China,India - Envoy
  The United States will not join an international regime curbing emissions blamed for global warming until it also applied to China and India, the US ambassador to the European Union said on Wednesday.

• 2007/04/16: TreeHugger: Indian Environmentalist Calls US on Climate Change Blame Game

• 2007/04/18: CDreams: OneWorld: World to US: We Demand "Climate Justice"

• 2007/04/16: GristMill: G8: We really mean it on climate change this time

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/04/22: NSU: Could America lead the world on global warming?
  Leaders from three steadfastly right-wing arenas - church, military and industry - are now calling for limits on US emissions.

• 2007/04/22: PhysOrg: Maryland joins greenhouse coalition [RGGI]

• 2007/04/22: GWWatch: Book-burning in Washington DC, 2007 AD

• 2007/04/21: BSD: Courts affect public on science views more than they should, but maybe it's a good thing

• 2007/04/22: HuffPo: Karl Rove Gets Thrown Under the Stop Global Warming Bus

• 2007/04/21: CSW: Bush administration is #1 on 2007 annual list of Jefferson Muzzle 'winners'

• 2007/04/21: MiamiHerald: Scientists: Climate clock is ticking in South Florida

• 2007/04/20: Yahoo: Powerful policy group [National Commission on Energy Policy] toughens U.S. emissions plan

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: Sensenbrenner: protecting the children from fearing global warming

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: [Dessler] Bush vs. Clinton on climate change

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: Bingaman and Domenici propose Energy Efficiency Promotion Act

• 2007/04/19: USAToday: Green living takes root But habits die hard -

  Doing right thing isn't easy, even for those who want to [poll]

• 2007/04/20: ABC(US): Concern Soars About Global Warming as World's Top Environmental Threat

• 2007/04/20: WaPo: Growing Number of Americans See Warming as Leading Threat --

  Most Want U.S. to Act, but There Is No Consensus on How

• 2007/04/19: TruthOut: Boxer: Time for Bush to Act on Climate Change

• 2007/04/19: PhysOrg: Republicans See Global Warming Alarmism

• 2007/04/19: Mercury: Boxer's 2-track push on warming

• 2007/04/18: SF Gate: Boxer: Time for Bush to act on climate change

• 2007/04/19: CDreams: Is "Green" Tom Friedman The New Eco-Orwell of Solartopia?

• 2007/04/17: CQ: For Evangelicals, Global Warming is a Pro-Life Cause

• 2007/04/18: DeSmogBlog: Bush Administration subjects environment to "Texas chainsaw management," writer [RFK Jr.] says

• 2007/04/18: OilChange: "End Oil Aid" Bill introduced

• 2007/04/14: CPunch: Solar Capitalism -- Consume Like There's No Tomorrow

• 2007/04/18: HuffPo: Getting Real [US reaction to IPCC]

• 2007/04/17: CasperStarTrib: Senators push carbon capture
  Use of clean-coal technology to capture and store carbon dioxide instead of releasing the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere will not be widespread until 2045, a Bush administration official testified Monday. But senators and other experts vowed during a hearing of the Senate Energy Committee to speed up that timeline.

• 2007/04/17: ZMag: Denial in the Desert [US pol]

• 2007/04/15: TruthOut: Global Warming Challenges the Unitary Executive

• 2007/04/16: GristMill: Walking backwards from cataclysm: A strategic planning methodology

• 2007/04/15: GristMill: Slouching towards sanity

• 2007/04/15: MongaBay: Palo Alto aims to cut CO2 emissions 80% by 2050

  The David/Crow Stop Global Warming College Tour wound up this week:

• 2007/04/20: HuffPo: Social Change is a Journey

• 2007/04/19: HuffPo: Laurie and Sheryl Go to School

• 2007/04/18: HuffPo: Stop Global Warming College Tour: Nashville, TN

• 2007/04/17: HuffPo: Stop Global Warming College Tour: Gainesville

  The Bush admin relaxed pollution rules to benefit ethanol producers:

• 2007/04/16: TruthOut: Air Pollution Rules Relaxed for US Ethanol Producers

  Late coverage of the Step It Up campaign:

• 2007/04/15: AlterNet: Climate Change Day of Action a Success!

• 2007/04/16: PlanetArk: In US Earth Day Prelude, Calls for Greenhouse Gas Cuts

• 2007/04/16: ENN: Global Warming Activists Urge U.S. Emissions Cuts [SIU]

• 2007/04/15: WaPo: Nationwide, a Clamor Over Global Warming -

  Rally Near Capitol Mirrors More Than 1,400 Others Urging Congressional Action

• 2007/04/16: CDreams: IPS: Step It Up Rallies Take Aim at U.S. Congress

• 2007/04/16: TomPaine: Green Activists Stepped It Up by Bill McKibben

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/04/19: Yahoo: U.N. lauds Gore, environment leaders at green awards

• 2007/04/18: ENN: Al Gore Gets Approval To Install Solar Panels at His Tennessee Home

• 2007/04/20: ERabett: Al Gore does Chris Mooney

  [Al Gore has a new book coming out in May "The Assault on Reason"]

  While in the UK:

• 2007/04/16: FTimes: [UK] Tory transport policy to make rail a priority

  And in Europe:

• 2007/04/20: SwissInfo: Greens make gains as climate fears grow [Swiss pol]

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: Spain's CO2 Emissions Fell in 2006 - Study

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: German Cabinet Accepts EU's CO2 Allocation Plan

• 2007/04/16: Reuters: EU demands Hungary slash its 2008-12 emissions cap [by more than 12 percent]

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/04/21: GWWatch: Rupert backs Rudd: St Kevin's Kyoto coronation

• 2007/04/20: GWWatch: Dear ALP: Keep the 'no more uranium mines' policy

• 2007/04/19: BrisbaneTimes: Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town

• 2007/04/18: AFP: Drought uncovers Australia's drowned town [Adaminaby]

• 2007/04/17: ABC(Au): Carbon tax key to successful offsets: WA expert
  One of Western Australia's leading sustainability experts has unveiled an ambitious plan to make Australia carbon-neutral within three years. The former director of the WA Government's sustainability policy unit, Peter Newman,wants to introduce a tax of $13 per tonne of carbon dioxide produced. Professor Newman says this would create a $3.5 billion carbon fund each year which would be used for projects to offset emissions.

• 2007/04/17: GWWatch: Aussies up for a fight against global warming

  While in Asia:

• 2007/04/21: BDL: Larry Summers Thinks About Global Warming and the Industrial Revolution in Asia

• 2007/04/20: FTD: Dry reality - China and India face up to curbs on carbon
  Both China and India are becoming concerned about climate change,if only for their own sakes.

While in China:

• 2007/04/22: Reuters: China says global warming threatens development

• 2007/04/19: Nation: China vs. Earth
  The message is clear: Shanghai under water, Tibetan glaciers disappearing,crop yields in precipitous decline, epidemics flaring. These are just some of the dire consequences that Chinese scientists predict for their country this century if current climate change is not addressed. Yet China's leaders pay about as much attention to the issue as does George W. Bush. In fact, a report issued last year by the Climate Action Network-Europe ranks China fifty-fourth out of fifty-six countries for its climate change response,just behind the United States and ahead only of Malaysia and Saudi Arabia.

• 2007/04/21: CBS: China Vs. Earth - The World's Leading Polluter Has Plenty

  Of Room To Improve

• 2007/04/20: NEN: China Will Get Solar
  China seems to represent all the possibilities, one day talking up coal or nuclear and the next day talking up renewables. All you can do is watch where the investment goes. One thing is certain: They are getting busier every day while the west waits for the decision: Cap-And-Trade or Carbon Tax?

• 2007/04/17: TehranTimes: China's economy reaching environmental limits
  China's booming economy is being increasingly constrained by shortages of energy and natural resources as well as environmental concerns -- forcing the nation to seek a more efficient growth model. According to high-ranking officials in Beijing,there is simply not enough fuel around on the planet to sustain a Chinese boom using the same energy-intensive recipe that made the western nations rich.

• 2007/04/16: PlanetArk: China Rejects Caps, Aims to Cut "Carbon Intensity"
  China aims to nearly halve by 2020 the amount of greenhouse gases it emits for each dollar of its economy, but will reject strict caps for decades,a copy of a national global warming assesment seen by Reuters shows.

And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper is trying to weasel out of Kyoto:

• 2007/04/20: BBC: Canada could see a deep recession if it were to meet

  its Kyoto targets for reducing emissions, the country's environment

  minister [John Baird] has warned

• 2007/04/19: MTobis: Today's Globe and Mail [Tories & Kyoto]

• 2007/04/20: BCLSB: ExxonMobile Front Group Backs Baird On Climate Change

• 2007/04/20: DeSmogBlog: National Post Threatens Nazi-like Deprivations

• 2007/04/20: DeSmogBlog: Tories' Economics are Short-term, Self-Destructive

• 2007/04/20: ChronicleHerald: Tories: Kyoto will fry economy -

  Opposition scoffs at scenario of 275,000 jobs lost, gas 60% pricier

• 2007/04/20: CanWest: Tories warn of economic shockwave from Kyoto provisions

• 2007/04/20: PlanetArk: Jobless Rate Could Soar on Kyoto Compliance -

  Canada [Env Min John Baird]

• 2007/04/19: CBC: Is meeting Kyoto 'bad economic policy'?

• 2007/04/19: DeSmogBlog: Tories Put Forth Argument for Inaction

• 2007/04/19: BBerg: [Can Env Minister, John] Baird Says Meeting Kyoto Target Would Cause Recession

• 2007/04/19: Globe&Mail: Ottawa rolls out 'validators' to bolster anti-Kyoto stand

  The Tories ran a trial balloon on joining the APPCDC this week:

• 2007/04/19: CanWest: Canada joins anti-Kyoto bloc
  This week's announcement by the Canadian government -- that it may join a U.S.-led coalition focused on voluntary emissions cuts -- could be part of a global shift away from Kyoto's binding targets.

Inaction is the Tory GW theme:

• 2007/04/19: PlanetArk: Canada Mulls Diluting Emissions Targets - Document

• 2007/04/19: ENN: Canada Mulls Diluting Emissions Targets
  As recently as last week Canadian officials mulled whether to weaken the government's commitment to cut emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, according to a leaked document. The Conservative government -- which says Canada cannot meet emissions targets set by the Kyoto Protocol on climate change -- last October unveiled legislation that would cut emissions by between 45 and 60 percent of 2003 levels by 2050. But a secret government document leaked to green activists shows the officials last week proposed cutting emissions by 45 to 60 percent of 2006 levels by 2050 instead. Emissions rose steadily from 2003 to 2006.

The usual actors play their roles:

• 2007/04/20: CBC: Suzuki delivering environmental petition to Baird
  Calling it a crime against future generations to ignore warnings about global warming,environmentalist David Suzuki was to present a petition to Environment Minister John Baird on Friday.

• 2007/04/17: CanWest: CAW head blasts 'green god' -

  Buzz Hargrove says strict emission rules on new cars will cripple auto industry

• 2007/04/17: BCLSB: Torys Serve Up Vaporware

  Ontario is phasing out incandescents:

• 2007/04/19: ENN: Lights Out in Ontario for Incandescent Bulbs [by 2012]

• 2007/04/18: TreeHugger: Ontario Canada Bans Incandescent Bulbs

  Here's something to explain to your kids:

• 2007/04/17: BDL: What Environment Do We Owe Our Descendents?

  The economics of dealing with global climate change

• 2007/04/16: TreeHugger: "What Is Climate Change, Daddy?"

  Population as in IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] cited as a problem:

• 2007/04/21: MTobis: Sachs lecture and quibbling at the fringes

• 2007/04/21: Stoat: Reith Lecture woes

• 2007/04/20: CDreams: ProvidenceJournal: Effective Way To Fight Global Warming [pop]

• 2007/04/18: DeSmogBlog: Population growth cited as key driver of climate change

  Apocalypso anyone?:

• 2007/04/21: ClimateArk: That sinking feeling
  The scientific evidence is undeniable. And sea-level rises inevitable. So why is no one interested in the plight of our nearest neighbours... Environmentalist Tim Flannery munches on a club sandwich in a suburban Sydney shopping mall and casually begins predicting Armageddon. "Sometime in the next 30 years, we face significant destabilisation," he says. "Rapidly rising sea levels, maybe up to six metres. And hundreds of millions of refugees, because there are whole cities going under."

As for how the media handles the issues:

• 2007/04/18: FAIR: CBS's Nuclear Revival: 60 Minutes' critic-free boosterism

• 2007/04/17: ClimateP: Climate Change, Illustrated

  The 'framing' meme was big:

• 2007/04/20: CCM: Framing Science from Australia

• 2007/04/18: FramingScience: On Framing, Two More Candles in the Dark

• 2007/04/18: JFleck: An Example of Framing

• 2007/04/17: FramingScience: BloggingHeadTV on Framing Science

• 2007/04/17: FramingScience: The UN Frames Global Warming as Really about Security

• 2007/04/17: JFleck: Another Example of Framing

• 2007/04/17: JFleck: An Example of Framing

• 2007/04/16: FramingScience: Coturnix: A Candle in the Dark

• 2007/04/14: Pharyngula: Nisbet and Mooney in the WaPo: snake oil for the snake oil salesmen

• 2007/04/14: SandWalk: Nisbet & Mooney Reveal Their True Colors

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2007/04/21: CSW: Check out PBS Frontline "Hot Politics" of global warming on April 24

  Meanwhile in the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/04/20: Oikos: Lawyers leading the way on climate change?

• 2007/04/18: WarmingLaw: Preemption, Wachovia, and Global Warming in the Lower Courts

• 2007/04/17: TruthOut: Rulings Go Against Administration

• 2007/04/16: WarmingLaw: Critical Importance of Third Branch to Environment

  The automakers' Vermont suit grinds on:

• 2007/04/20: WarmingLaw: Road to Ridiculous?

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/04/20: UPI: Developing new markets for carbon will be vital

  to make coal to liquids and coal gasification economically competitive

• 2007/04/21: CDreams: AP: Power Bills Soar After Electric Deregulation

• 2007/04/22: PhysOrg: Japan, US eye emission-free coal plant

• 2007/04/20: PhysOrg: Energy Producers Capture Speedier Wind

• 2007/04/19: PhysOrg: Renewable hydrogen energy - an answer to the energy crisis

• 2007/04/19: WFU: Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record at WFU nanotechnology center [6%]

• 2007/04/19: DReckoning: Oil Futures Bidding To Heat Up As Energy Crisis Looms

• 2007/04/18: CNN: The war on oil -- Coming soon to a test tube near you: America's new war.
  Fought in laboratories and farmers' fields, the fight to break us of our chronic oil habit won't be without its perils.

• 2007/04/18: HuffPo: Learning the Truth about Coal and Nuclear Energy [Crow]

• 2007/04/18: DeSmogBlog: Are We In Danger of Becoming Biofools?

• 2007/04/18: TEB: Evergreen Solar Marches On

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): Expert [Jesse Ausubel] blasts 'horrible' renewable energy ideas

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): Alice [Springs] to become [Australia's fourth] 'solar city'

• 2007/04/16: HeraldSun: Climate expert urges dropping clean coal
  A climate change expert has urged Australia to step away from the development of clean coal technology for power generation in favour of natural gas and nuclear energy. Jesse Ausubel, director of the Program for the Human Environment at the Rockefeller University in New York, has also bagged renewable fuels like solar and wind power saying while they may be renewable they were not really environmentally friendly.

• 2007/04/16: CourierPost: Energy Solution - America has wasted $400 billion on the war in Iraq.

  For the same $400 billion, we could have built 400,000 windmills costing $1 million each.

• 2007/04/15: SeattlePI: On energy, it's better to work with China -

  China will overtake the United States as the world's greatest emitter of greenhouse gases.

• 2007/04/16: CNN:Fortune: The defiant one
  Unlike its rivals, Exxon Mobil doesn't much care about alternative fuels and doesn't try to please the greens. Is CEO Rex Tillerson nuts - or shrewd? Exxon is certain that oil, gas and coal will remain the world's dominant energy sources for decades to come.

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/04/18: DenverPost: Slow down the coal express

• 2007/04/18: GFTrib: Coal-fired plant critics coming to Great Falls

  Is this is anything more than a one day wonder?:

• 2007/04/18: PhysOrg: Device Uses Solar Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

• 2007/04/17: UCSD: Device Uses Solar Energy to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Fuel

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/04/20: TruthOut: UN Backs Biofuel Despite Fears of Deforestation

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: The new energy debate: ethanol, or more ethanol?

• 2007/04/19: TruthOut: Study Warns of Health Risk From Ethanol

• 2007/04/19: NewScientist: Biofuel plantations fuel strife in Uganda

• 2007/04/19: GristMill: Corn ethanol: it really does suck

• 2007/04/17: ABC(Au): Summit fails to agree on alternative fuels
  A South American energy summit has ended with Brazil and the host nation Venezuela failing to reach agreement over the production of alternative fuels.

• 2007/04/17: Yahoo: Chavez, Lula clash over ethanol at [Margarita] energy summit

• 2007/04/16: Brazzil: US-Brazil Biofuel Plan Will Condemn 3 Billion People to Death, Says Fidel

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/04/19: CNN: What's behind the red-hot uranium boom?

  Supply crunch, demand from nuclear power plants push metal prices higher

• 2007/04/19: TruthOut: Divisions Surface Over Nuclear Option

• 2007/04/19: IPSNews: Divisions Surface Over Nuclear Option

• 2007/04/19: Globe&Mail: Price forecasts red hot for uranium -

  CIBC World Markets Inc. has raised its price forecasts for uranium oxide by 40 per cent...

• 2007/04/16: ABC(Au): Global warming, nuclear power health risks underestimated: [Dr. Helen] Caldicott

  This article is good for the listed forecasts:

• 2007/04/20: WorldOil: Peaking of world oil production: Recent forecasts

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

• 2007/04/15: FuturePundit: US Auto Industry Desperate For Better Batteries

• 2007/04/19: Yahoo: Nissan senses US market for small, cheap cars

• 2007/04/16: GristMill: American automakers: The power of can't

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/04/19: Nation: Cooler Elites [Davos & GW]

• 2007/04/17: Yahoo: Don't even leave a footprint [Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year]

• 2007/04/18: PlanetArk: Eurostar [Chunnel train service] Plans 25 Percent Cut in CO2 by 2012

• 2007/04/17: BBC: Eurostar to cut emissions by 25% - Eurostar has set

  itself the target of cutting CO2 emissions per passenger by 25% by 2012

• 2007/04/15: DeSmogBlog: Do Nothing, Risk Everything [ethical funds]

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2007/04/19: Yahoo: Global warming swelling insurance risk

• 2007/04/20: MSNBC: Warming cited for $900 billion insurance risk -

  Worst-case scenario by congressional agency looks at flooding, crops

• 2007/04/19: Yahoo: Global warming swelling insurance risk

• 2007/04/20: DeSmogBlog: Nature's Bargain: A Mere $900 Billion

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/04/21: DeSmogBlog: Friends of Science: Forgotten, but Not Dead

• 2007/04/19: DeSmogBlog: NRSP: More Pseudo-Science Goofiness

• 2007/04/18: GristMill: Lindzen againzen

• 2007/04/18: ERabett: Vanity Fair about the Foul [Myron Ebell]

• 2007/04/18: TomPaine: Get Aggressive On Global Warming [exxon]

• 2007/04/18: TWN: World Affairs Council and Woolsey Team Up in an Assault on Climate Science

• 2007/04/18: TWN: U.S. Takes Embarrassing Climate Policy Center Stage

• 2007/04/17: BoomanTrib: The Lies of Bush's EPA -- Greenhouse Gas Edition

• 2007/04/18: ABC(Au): US professor [Dr. Michael Economides] refutes carbon emissions theory

• 2007/04/17: GristMill: Jim Sims and the clean coal PR push

• 2007/04/17: RealClimate: Lindzen in Newsweek

• 2007/04/17: HuffPo: Jim Sims and the 'clean coal' PR push

• 2007/04/15: ACitW: Dumb, Dishonest Deniers

  "Delusionist" joins septics, greenhouse mafioso, permanently uninformed, carbon lobbyist,denialist, fossil fool, climate contrarian, biostitute and the Slick 60 Climate Change

  Denial Gang in the Hall of Shame:

• 2007/04/15: MTobis: Latest delusionism from the WSJ

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/04/22: GWWatch: Carbon sink. Or swim

• 2007/04/20: EcoEcon: How Much is a Tree Worth? Ask the US Forest Service or Not!

• 2007/04/21: CDreams: SeattlePI: Acting Now To Save Life On Earth by E.O. Wilson

• 2007/04/20: Yahoo: [Former U.N. Secretary-General, Kofi] Annan: Climate change threat to humanity

• 2007/04/20: GristMill: An end-game scenario, supply-side policy, and defining our goal: The solution statement [Bright Lines]

• 2007/04/20: GristMill: The responsibility era

• 2007/04/20: CanWest: Icebergs melting before they reach Canada
  East coast 'iceberg season' disappears as those formed in Greenland,though greater in number, are smaller and melt faster

• 2007/04/19: EnvFin: Businesses "face tougher climate change legislation"

• 2007/04/18: EcoEcon: Global Climate Change Fixes Prove Politically Vexing

• 2007/04/19: BSD: BetUS.com has work to do on global warming bets

• 2007/04/19: HuffPo: Converts and heretics

• 2007/04/18: ABC(Au): Groups [scientists & parks workers] consider climate change impact on national parks

• 2007/04/18: ABC(Au): WWF urges Govt to set greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020

• 2007/04/18: GristMill: Responsibility [Climate Change and International Development conference]

• 2007/04/18: GristMill: The chasm between our agenda and climate science: The problem statement

• 2007/04/17: MTobis: A Passionate Defense of Optimism [by Jeffrey Sachs]

• 2007/04/18: EnvEcon: Measuring the value of trees

• 2007/04/18: CCurrents: How Close Are We To Irreversible Damage? What Can We Still Do About It?

• 2007/04/18: CDreams: Target Global Warming, Target Exxon

• 2007/04/17: Stoat: Lack of lack of ocean warming

• 2007/04/16: TruthOut: Activists Stepping Up Fight Against Warming With Rallies, Lobbying

• 2007/04/16: CCM: Details, Details, Details

• 2007/04/16: TCE: An Inconvenient Truth for BC High Schools

• 2007/04/13: DeSmogBlog: Al Gore's Energy Bill: The Power of Tattletelling

• 2007/04/16: WaPo: Climate Change Scenarios Scare, and Motivate, Kids

• 2007/04/16: IHT: New U.S. report repeats warning on warmer climate

• 2007/04/16: CDreams: BostonGlobe: New Thinking To Save The Earth

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

• UNL: US Drought Monitor

• UKCIP: The UK Climate Impacts Programme

• Planet Extinction

• ACitW: A Change in the Wind

• Columbia: Dr. James E. Hansen [web page]

• ESA: GLOBCARBON - Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation

• CDP: The Carbon Disclosure Project

• Wiki: Carbon cycle

• EAB: Environmental Action Blog

• Carbon Trade Watch

• DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science

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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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think will be built around the world over the next 25 years,without carbon capture and sequestration, these new plants will

emit 30% more CO2 than ALL previous human uses of coal."

-David Hawkins, NRDC Climate Center director

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