Another Week of GW News, April 29, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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• Top Stories, WGII draft leaks, PETM theories, Methane from plants, Warming Island, Earth Day
• Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Chinese CO2, Temperatures, Glaciers, Satellites
• Impacts, Wacky weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
• Mitigation, Transportation, Arcitecture, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science
• Kyoto-2, Pope, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Strategy, Security
• Politics,

  International, US-EU meeting, G8 meeting, America, Britain, Europe,

• More Politics,

  Australia, China, Japan, Canada

• Ecological Economics, Wolfowitz, Media, Framing, Books, Video, Betting
• Energy, Biofuel, Coal, Nukes, Efficiency, Business, Carbon Lobby
• The Usual, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion
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It's always nice to start with a laugh, if you can:

• 2007/04/25: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) In Case of Global Warming

  The WGIII report due next week has been leaking:

• 2007/04/29: ABC(Au): Orbiting giant sunshade gets thumbs down from climate scientists

• 2007/04/28: ClimateP: IPCC: Forthcoming Summary on Mitigation

• 2007/04/28: Yahoo: Climate report to warn time running out in greenhouse gas battle

• 2007/04/28: Guardian(UK): UN: we have the money and know-how to stop global warming

• 2007/04/27: ClimateArk: Climate Panel Sees Need for New Steps on Emissions

• 2007/04/26: Reuters: Means exist to cut emissions, but is there the will?
  The tools exist to cut greenhouse gas emissions enough to meet aggressive global warming caps, but it may take more catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina to forge the political will, a top U.N. expert said. "We have a fair degree of confidence that the technologies exist. The question is: How much cost are we willing to bear?" Mohan Munasinghe, vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said in an interview on Thursday. "The push for greater mitigation will come through catastrophes and other extreme events," he said.

• 2007/04/25: Australian: Brawls loom on climate burdens [WGIII]
  The latest report by the world's pre-eminent climate change advisory body will unleash a series of diplomatic rows about the levels of emissions cuts that should be shouldered by individual countries. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, to be released next week, will not recommend greenhouse gas emissions targets, setting the scene for a global round of bruising negotiations on the cuts necessary to tackle global warming.

• 2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Scientists to lay out ways to head off worst of climate change [WGIII]

• 2007/04/23: PhysOrg: [WGIII] U.N. Panel to Lay Out Steps on Warming
  After two reports predicting a warmer Earth where life is fundamentally changed, a U.N.-sponsored scientific panel next month will issue a third study describing how a united world can avert the worst, by embracing technologies ranging from nuclear power to manure controls.

It seems the PETM [Paleo Eocene Thermal Maximum] was triggered by

the massive volcanism that formed the Atlantic 55 mya:

• 2007/04/27: KSJT: LA Times, others: For the PETM, finding the smoking volcano

• 2002/12/: DUR:AG: Plumes, or plate tectonic processes? by G R Foulger

• 2007/04/27: TerraDaily: Scientists Link Volcanic Eruptions To Ancient Global Warming

• 2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Gassy Blast From Prehistoric Volcanoes Heated Earth [PETM 55 mya]

• 2007/04/27: SciDaily: Ancient Global Warming Linked To Volcanic Eruptions That Formed North Atlantic Ocean

• 2007/04/26: Yahoo: Planet 'emergency' 55 million years ago was global warming: study

• 2007/04/26: Eureka: Scientists link volcanic eruptions [55 mya] that formed

  North Atlantic Ocean to ancient global warming
  Jump in prehistoric ocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming studies

• 2007/04/26: Eureka: Volcanic eruptions, ancient global warming linked [55 mya]

  A paper refuting that "plants release methane" hypothesis has been published:

• 2007/04/27: SciDaily: Don't Blame Climate Change On Plants, Methane Emission Study Says

• 2007/04/27: Blackwell: Plants do not emit methane -- Scientists disprove a recent study that suggests plants emit the potent greenhouse gas methane

  A new island has shown up where there used to be a Greenland glacier:

• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: An Island Made by Global Warming

• 2007/04/24: PhysOrg: Global warming creates an island

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Icemelt Spawns New Island Off Greenland

• 2007/04/24: OilChange: Welcome to Warming Island

• 2007/04/24: Independent(UK): An island made by global warming
  The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming. Several miles long, the island was once thought to be the tip of a peninsula halfway up Greenland's remote east coast but a glacier joining it to the mainland has melted away completely, leaving it surrounded by sea. Shaped like a three-fingered hand some 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it has been discovered by a veteran American explorer and Greenland expert, Dennis Schmitt, who has named it Warming Island (Or Uunartoq Qeqertoq in Inuit, the Eskimo language, that he speaks fluently).

Late comment on Norway's intention to be carbon-neutral by 2050:

• 2007/04/24: CarbonPositive: Norway to go carbon neutral

  Late comment on Earth Day:

• 2007/04/25: MTobis: Earth Day in an Airplane

• 2007/04/24: CPunch: The Corporate Debasement of Earth Day by Ralph Nader

• 2007/04/23: CPunch: Earth Day, Incorporated

• 2007/04/22: TruthOut: This Earth Day, a Focus on Earth's Warming

• 2007/04/23: GWWatch: This Earth Day in America

• 2007/04/22: CDreams: IPS: Earth Day 2007: Happiness Is a Smaller Eco-Footprint

• 2007/04/22: HuffPo: This Earth Day, Corporate Accountability is the Inconvenient Truth

  And in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/04/28: MTobis: Bill Gray says no worries

• 2007/04/27: Stoat: Hurricanes and AIT, again

• 2007/04/27: Local6: Coast Guard Launches 'Floating Weather Centers'

  [high-tech buoys] For Hurricane Season

• 2007/04/24: RealClimate: Hurricane Spin

• 2007/03/: USDA: Disturbance and coastal forests: a strategic approach to forest management in hurricane impact zones by John A Stanturf et al.

• 2007/04/23: USDA: How to Manage Forests in Hurricane Impact Zones

  Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/04/27: IPSNews: EU Emissions to Rise, Despite Claims

• 2007/04/26: C411: Slicing the greenhouse gas pie: Where from?

• 2007/04/26: C411: Slicing the greenhouse gas pie: What gases?

• 2007/04/23: OilChange: New report shows global warming pollution up in 48 U.S. states[US PIRG]

  The IEA says Chinese CO2 emmissions will soon top those of the US

  and the Chinese say nonsense:

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: China Won't be Top CO2 Emitter This Year - Official

• 2007/04/26: OilChange: China to Overtake US Emissions

• 2007/04/25: NewScientist: China's emissions to surpass the US within months [says IEA]

• 2007/04/25: Reuters: China won't be top CO2 emitter this year-

  [a top Chinese climate change] official

• 2007/04/25: Guardian(UK): China could overtake US as biggest emissions culprit by November

• 2007/04/24: BBC: China could overtake the US this year as the world's largest emitter

  of greenhouse gases, a leading international energy group [IEA] has said

  And the relationship of CO2 rise and temperature rise is debated again:

  The relationship of CO2 rise and temperature rise feedsback:

• 2007/04/27: GristMill: CO2 rise lags temperature rise, redux

• 2007/04/27: RealClimate: The lag between temperature and CO2. (Gore's got it right.)

  As are the temperatures:

• 2007/04/28: PhysOrg: Britain basks in hottest April since 1865

• 2007/04/28: DailyHerald: Warmest April has Europe bracing for killer heat wave

• 2007/04/27: Reuters: April sets European heat records

• 2007/04/27: Guardian(UK): What a scorcher ... hottest April for 140 years

• 2007/04/27: BBC: The UK Met Office has released figures showing that

  this month is likely to be the warmest April since records began

• 2007/04/26: France24: Europe swelters in record spring heatwave

• 2007/04/26: IHT: High temperatures, and even higher anxiety, in Europe

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/04/24: PlanetArk: Melting Himalayan Glaciers a Dire Threat - Experts

• 2007/04/23: Yahoo: Global warming imperils Himalayan glaciers

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/04/26: PhysOrg: NASA's AIM Cloud Mission Launches

• 2007/04/27: SciDaily: Satellites Shed Light On Global Warming

• 2007/04/27: ESA: Satellites shed light on global warming [2007 Envisat Symposium]

• 2007/04/25: PhysOrg: Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle

• 2007/04/25: ESA: Satellites play vital role in understanding the carbon cycle

• 2007/04/25: SciDaily: Understanding Polar Climate, With Help Of Cloudy Skies [CloudSat]

• 2007/04/25: SciDaily: Satellites Play Vital Role In Understanding The Carbon Cycle

• 2007/04/24: Eureka: Satellites offer sunny outlook on understanding polar climate, with help of cloudy skies

• 2007/04/24: PhysOrg: Satellites Offer Sunny Outlook on Understanding Polar Climate, With Help of Cloudy Skies

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/04/27: FTimes: Climate change bites [Malaria in Corsica]

• 2007/04/27: ABC(Au): Fish growing faster as oceans warm.[CSIRO]

• 2007/04/27: TerraDaily: Fish Growth Enhanced By Climate Change

• 2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Ice Shrinks, Birds Migrate Early in Warmer Arctic

• 2007/04/26: Yahoo: Ice shrinks, birds migrate early in warmer Arctic

• 2007/04/25: C411: Climate Dangers You May Not Know About -

  Part 3 of 5: Shifts in Lifecycle Timing

• 2007/04/24: FTimes: Climate toll "to double within 25 years"

  [to reach more than 300,000 a year by 2030]

• 2007/04/23: ERabett: Things are going to get worse...

  Table 2 in the Working Group I Summary for Policy Makers...

• 2007/04/23: TerraDaily: Global Warming Could Provoke More Polar Bear Attacks

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/04/24: Wunderground: Big Wind in the Windy City

• 2007/04/23: Wunderground: Earth Day photos; severe weather outbreak in the Plains this week

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/04/28: ClimateArk: Meanwhile, in Australia a global crisis arrives in the back yard [drought]

• 2007/04/27: Reuters: Djibouti: Government declares drought in pastoral zones

• 2007/04/27: SavannahNow: Water, water nowhere - Savannah's severe drought is

  causing extreme distress for the city's homeowners...and their plants

• 2007/04/27: GristMill: Australia's 'food bowl' running dry

• 2007/04/28: Australian: Water hogs leave Darling high and dry downstream
  They call it the forgotten river. Drought has reduced the Darling River, which meanders through western NSW, to a chain of stagnant, algal-infested ponds lined with ailing river red gums. Its billabongs and flood runners are dry. Flood plains are deserts.

• 2007/04/27: Reuters: Australia drought is climate change warning: UK

• 2007/04/26: Economist: Australia's water shortage - The big dry
  Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought. As the world warms up, other countries should pay heed

• 2007/04/26: IPSNews: Development-Africa: "Extreme Water Events" Predicted
  In Africa, 25 countries are expected to experience water scarcity or water stress in the next 20 to 30 years. This translates into 16 percent or 230 million of Africa's population facing water scarcity by 2025, and 32 percent or 460 million people living in water-stressed countries by that time.

• 2007/04/24: Reuters: Drought threatens Australia's hydropower scheme [the Snowy Hydro power scheme]

• 2007/04/24: ZMag: Australia's epic drought: The situation is grim

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): Drought worsens dwindling water storage levels

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): Snowy water level the lowest in 34 years

• 2007/04/22: JFleck: Defining the Australian Drought

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/04/23: UNFAO: FAO Committee on Commodities to review impact of oil prices and biofuels

• 2007/04/23: AllAfrica: IPS: Biofuels vs Food Crops?

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

• 2007/04/24: GristMill: Feeding the world sustainably (Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.)

• 2007/04/25: Guardian(UK): Cheap milk costs dear

• 2007/04/23: Times(UK): China admits climate change dangers [worsening floods and falling crop production]

• 2007/04/19: NOW To: Starved for change - It’s not too late to stave off food disaster, but it’s long past the time to put public cash into urban farming

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/04/28: AfterGutenberg: A Simple Solution to Carbon Emissions [Lackner Towers]

• 2007/04/25: PhysOrg: First Successful Demonstration of

  Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved

• 2007/04/25: CSM: In warming world, time to reconsider the clothesline

  As for transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/04/28: TEB: Sustainable Fuel for the Transportation Sector

• 2007/04/25: GristMill: Turbocharged crap by any other name would smell as...[aviation & GHGs]

• 2007/04/23: TruthOut: For the Sake of the Planet, Privatize Amtrak

  And the role of building codes:

• 2007/04/23: AIA: The 2007 COTE Top Ten Green Projects

• 2007/04/24: ENN: U.S. Architects Announce 10 Best Green Buildings

• 2007/04/23: GristMill: A quick partial overview of green building techniques

  (Part of the No Sweat Solutions series.)

  While on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/04/29: ABC(Au): Alcoa launches emissions capture technology

• 2007/04/27: NEN: Ohio Sequestration: Still Testing

• 2007/04/24: DailyIndia: Ohio CO2 sequestration test well completed

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): Study reveals Gippsland potential for carbon dioxide storage

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/04/24: GristMill: The ethics of geoengineering

• 2007/04/25: CBC: Artificial volcanoes, space umbrellas among far-out climate change plans

• 2007/04/24: TerraDaily: Are Pies In The Sky A Solution To Global Warming

  [the scramble for geo-engineering solutions has begun]

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2002/12/: DUR:AG: Plumes, or plate tectonic processes? by G R Foulger

• 2007/04/23: ClimPast: Northern hemisphere winter storm tracks of the Eemian interglacial and the last glacial inception by F. Kaspar et al.

• 2007/04/20: Arxiv: Implications of "peak oil" for atmospheric CO2 and climate by P.A. Kharecha & J.E. Hansen

• 2007/03/: USDA: Disturbance and coastal forests: a strategic approach to forest management in hurricane impact zones by John A Stanturf et al.

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

• 2007/04/26: PhysOrg: Ocean iron and CO2 interaction studied

• 2007/04/26: PhysOrg: Geologists to discuss historic ice core [FSU meeting]

• 2007/04/27: TerraDaily: Oceanic Twilight Zone Plays Important Role In Climate Change

• 2007/04/27: Eureka: Ocean's 'twilight zone' may be a key to understanding climate change

• 2007/04/26: TerraDaily: Global Warming And Antarctic Ice Is Focus Of Multinational Workshop [at FSU's Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility]

• 2007/04/26: NewScientist: Ocean gobbles carbon at different rates

• 2007/04/26: ESA: Climate catastrophes in the Solar System

• 2007/04/26: Eureka: Ocean's 'twilight zone' plays important role in climate change

• 2007/04/23: NSU: Only mother nature knows how to fertilize the ocean -

  Natural input of nutrients works ten times better than manmade injections

• 2007/04/24: NSU: Every cloud has an invisible halo -

  Unseen particles may confuse climate models

• 2007/04/25: NewScientist: 'Arctic hippo' hints at a once-balmy North Pole

• 2007/04/25: Eureka: Global warming, Antarctic ice is focus of multinational workshop

  The Pielkes fan club is getting feisty:

• 2007/04/28: ERabett: The Pielke fan club will come to order

• 2007/04/26: MTobis: What not to do about Prometheus

• 2007/04/23: ERabett: Popcorn - As Ethon feared Roger is playing little brother...

• 2007/04/23: ERabett: The mice play (avert eyes) - Michael Tobis started it, Eli joined in, but the anonymice have stolen the cheese...

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2007/04/28: SciDaily: A Handful Of Countries Can Solve The Climate Problem
  "The climate problem can by and large be solved if the eight to ten largest countries in the world can agree on effective climate measures," says Professor Jon Hovi. One of the themes at a recent climate conference arranged by the Norwegian research program RENERGI was how we can achieve an effective international climate agreement. Professor in political science Jon Hovi at the University of Oslo and CICERO has studied this topic for years. He argues that although the international community faces many obstacles in mitigating the climate problem, solutions are possible.

• 2007/04/23: Yahoo: India, Japan sign pact on global warming [looking to Kyoto-2]

  Live & direct from the pope-mobile:

• 2007/04/28: TreeHugger: Pope Says 'Respect Creation'

• 2007/04/27: Guardian(UK): Protect God's creation:

  Vatican issues new green message for world's Catholics

• 2007/04/27: ENN: Cardinal Says Pope Should Talk Climate Change with Bush

• 2007/04/27: Guardian(UK): Protect God's creation: Vatican issues new green message

  for world's Catholics
  Pope addresses climate change conference - US church leaders lobby Bush on global warming

And on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/04/26: OilChange: The Carbon Credit "Smokescreen"

• 2007/04/25: Macroblog: Some Inconvenient Truths [carbon trading problems]

• 2007/04/25: FTimes: Industry caught in carbon "smokescreen"
  Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on "carbon credit" projects that yield few if any environmental benefits. A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.

• 2007/04/25: MSNBC: Devil is in details of carbon cap system -

  Despite broad consensus, fault lines run through 'cap and trade' debate

• 2007/04/25: NEN: Details of a Cap-and-Trade System

• 2007/04/25: NEN: Kansas Farmers - CO2 to Chicago Climate Exchange

• 2007/04/22: GristMill: Another day, another carbon trading scandal

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/04/29: EcoEcon: Financial Times weighs in for Carbon Taxes

• 2007/04/27: SF Gate: Why some experts want higher gas tax

  [promoting conservation and fuel efficiency]

• 2007/04/27: BostonGlobe: A corporate carbon tax

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

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

• 2007/04/28: NEN: Truth on Carbon Capping from CBO

• 2007/04/24: MyDD: The Cap and Trade Scam

  The "climate change as security threat" meme is propagating:

• 2007/04/28: PhysOrg: Officials: Climate Change Harms Security

• 2007/04/24: CDreams: NYT: Terror in the Weather Forecast [security]

• 2007/04/24: WSWS: Climate change seen as "security threat" by UN Security Council, US military experts

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Rebuffed at UN, Britain continues world climate-change crusade

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/04/23: BBC: The UK must show "leadership" on the environment

  if countries such as China, India and Brazil are to reduce

  their carbon emissions, Tony Blair has said

  The upcoming EU-US summit seems to have a foregone conclusion:

• 2007/04/26: EUO: EU-US summit to see trade move but no climate deal

• 2007/04/27: TruthOut: Divisions Over Global Warming Threaten EU-US Climate Meeting

• 2007/04/27: OilChange: EU-US Divided Over Climate

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: Climate Change on Back Seat at EU-US Summit

• 2007/04/27: Xinhuanet: EU sees agreement with U.S. on summit climate declaration

• 2007/04/25: FTimes: Climate clash threatens EU-US summit [in Washington next Monday]

• 2007/04/24: PlanetArk: EU, US at Loggerheads Over Climate Change, Energy

  And the upcoming G8 meeting as well:

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: German G8 Climate Bid Meeting US Resistance

• 2007/04/25: Deutsche Welle: Germany Predicts Hard Talks With US on Climate Change

  [at G8 summit]

  The UNEO didn't take off, so we'll change the name?

• 2007/04/28: TreeHugger: Time For A World Climate Management Agency

  On the American political front:

• 2007/04/29: Guardian(UK): Green groups act to halt Shell plans [in Alaska]

• 2007/04/26: CBS: Poll: Global Warming Worries Grow -

  But CBS/NY Times Survey Suggests Environment Won't Be Major Issue In 2008 Campaign

• 2007/04/28: PhysOrg: U.N. Chief [Ban Ki-moon] Backs Gore on Climate Change

• 2007/04/28: PhysOrg: Americans say global warming is a problem

• 2007/04/27: HuffPo: The Empire Strikes Back
  In a key test of how much pressure the coal and nuclear lobbies can muster, the House of Representatives voted, 264-154, to make the two worst available energy options (coal-to-liquids and nuclear reprocessing) the top priorities for federal research.

• 2007/04/27: Yahoo: Americans see climate threat, but reluctant to conserve: poll

• 2007/04/25: TruthOut: The "American Way" of Ecology

• 2007/04/25: TruthOut: Bush Administration's Response to Global Warming Under Scrutiny

• 2007/04/26: GristMill: An internally incoherent Republican position on global warming

• 2007/04/26: WarmingLaw: More on CA County Growth Plans

• 2007/04/25: WarmingLaw: More on the Role of Agencies in Preemption

• 2007/04/27: AJC: Scientists warn of global warming doom; skeptics scoff

  [Ed Markey chairs House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming]

• 2007/04/27: CSM: States take lead in cutting carbon emissions
  At least 21 states and the District of Columbia are on track to trim 108 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.

• 2007/04/27: Mercury: Americans stepping up to the plate on global warming -

  When a mood shifts, it can happen fast.

• 2007/04/27: NYT: Public Remains Split on Response to Warming
  Ninety percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and 60 percent of Republicans said immediate action was required to curb the warming of the atmosphere and deal with its effects on the global climate. Nineteen percent said it was not necessary to act now, and 1 percent said no steps were needed.

• 2007/04/26: EnergyBulletin: House hearing puts the heat on climate stagnators

• 2007/04/26: NYT: Poll Finds Majority See Threat in Global Warming

• 2007/04/26: CSM: Walk the talk on global warming -

  New York's mayor wants to tax driving in Manhattan, a truth-in-pricing way of battling climate change

• 2007/04/26: ENN: EPA Accused of Flouting Supreme Court in Proposing New Pollution Standard

• 2007/04/26: GPM: House Hearing Puts the Heat on Climate Stagnators

• 2007/04/25: EnergyBulletin: Hot politics [US pol]

• 2007/04/23: GristMill: McCain's big speech on energy and climate

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Californians offer support en masse for early action on global warming

• 2007/04/24: ENN: California Assembly Committee Calls for Phase-Out of Incandescent Lights

• 2007/04/23: ThinkP: McCain Hires Prominent Global Warming Denier

  [James Schlesinger] To Help Craft Global Warming Policy

• 2007/04/23: CSW: GAP and UCS call on Commerce Dept. to suspend new restrictive media policy

  In a committee hearting the EPA head outright refused to take action against GHGs:

• 2007/04/25: SF Gate: EPA chief criticized for lagging on warming -

  He won't say if he'll act on justices' ruling

• 2007/04/24: Yahoo: EPA won't specify global warming plans
  The head of the Environmental Protection Agency repeatedly refused to say Tuesday how soon he will comply with a Supreme Court ruling and decide whether to regulate carbon dioxide, the leading gas linked to global warming.

• 2007/04/24: WarmingLaw: "You astonish me!" [Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on how EPA should respond to Mass. v. EPA]

  Arnie has threatened to take the EPA to court:

• 2007/04/25: Ecocene: Clean Air "Or Else"

• 2007/04/27: WarmingLaw: Arnold to EPA: Step on the Accelerator

• 2007/04/26: ENN: Schwarzenegger Warns of California Suit Against EPA

• 2007/04/26: KCBS: CA Threatens to Sue EPA Over Greenhouse Gas Regulations
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday said his administration will sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it fails to act more quickly on California's request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.

NYC has a sustainability plan:

• 2007/04/23: Guardian(UK): New York to follow London's example with congestion charge -

  Mayor says climate change leaves no other option

• 2007/04/23: C411: New York City's sustainability plan:

  A bold 'greenprint' for the city's future

• 2007/04/23: CSM: New York City's mayor wants to turn the city green
  On Earth Day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a plan for more green spaces, fees to drive in Manhattan, and improved mass transit

The post tour adventures of Sheryl & Laurie:

• 2007/04/24: HuffPo: As the Crow Fights

• 2007/04/24: HuffPo: Global Warming: Sheryl is Right

• 2007/04/23: HuffPo: Let's Wrap it Up by Laurie David and Sheryl Crow

• 2007/04/23: Wonkette: Laurie David: Making Karl Rove Look Good Since 2007

• 2007/04/24: Guardian(UK): Singer's toilet paper musings leave Rove untouched

• 2007/04/23: GristMill: Eating Crow

• 2007/04/23: ENN: Sheryl Crow, Laurie David Enlist College Students in Global Warming Campaign

• 2007/04/22: BoomanTrib: WWW Saturday Night Smackdown: Sheryl Crow v. Karl Rove

• 2007/04/23: ThinkP: Sheryl Crow on Rove incident

• 2007/04/23: ThinkP: Perino Snaps At Crow And David, Demands They Show More "Respect" For President Bush

• 2007/04/23: BBC: Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper

  should be introduced to help the environment.

• 2007/04/22: ThinkP: Rove "explodes" at Crow over global warming

  While in the UK:

• 2007/04/27: Guardian(UK): Blue won't be green - David Cameron's environmental

  rhetoric is not reflected in the actions of his party

• 2007/04/26: Guardian(UK): Scottish Tories get zero [out of 10] rating

  for green policies [from FOE]

• 2007/04/27: Guardian(UK): Miliband calls for worldwide 'ecological conversion'

• 2007/04/26: Guardian(UK): Miliband calls for worldwide 'ecological conversion'

  And in Europe:

• 2007/04/25: EUO: Greens expose CO2 folly of Strasbourg parliament

• 2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Germany Sets Tougher Goals to Protect Climate

• 2007/04/26: EnvFin: Germany outlines plan for 40% cut [on 1990 levels] in GHGs by 2020

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: Two EU Parliament Seats Bad for Climate - Report

• 2007/04/24: BBC: Greens condemn EU's carbon cost [eu pol]
  The European Parliament's monthly move from Brussels to Strasbourg generates more than 20,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, Green Party MEPs say.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/04/29: GWWatch: Aussies voters wooed with green and gold

• 2007/04/26: ABC(Au): Treasurer's brother [WVision Costello] calls for emission action

• 2007/04/26: ABC(Au): Global warming doesn't respect borders: World Vision

• 2007/04/27: ABC(Au): Garrett, Turnbull at odds over climate change report [by Climate Institute]

• 2007/04/27: ClimateArk: Study Shows Australia's Climate Change Policy is Failing

• 2007/04/27: ENN: Study Shows Australia To Exceed Kyoto Targets

• 2007/04/27: NineMSN: Australia emissions off Kyoto target: study

• 2007/04/26: DailyTelegraph: Australia's greenhouse blowout

• 2007/04/25: TheAge: I'm not at odds with CSIRO: Howard

• 2007/04/24: TheAge: Howard undermined on climate
  The nation's leading scientific body, the CSIRO, has undermined Prime Minister John Howard's position on climate change by advising that big cuts in greenhouse gas emissions appear to be both inevitable and affordable for Australia. As the Federal Government yesterday intensified its attacks on "crazy" pledges from Labor and the Greens to reduce Australia's emissions by 60 to 80 per cent by 2050, it emerged that the CSIRO had told Mr Howard's emissions trading task group last month that most studies agreed developed countries needed to cut emissions by 60 to 90 per cent to avoid "dangerous" climate change.

• 2007/04/24: ABC(Au): Greens' emissions target 'crazy': Howard
  Prime Minister John Howard says the Greens' policy to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 is both "crazy" and "irresponsible".

• 2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Australia: Howard widens climate divide
  Prime Minister John Howard has rejected Labor Leader Kevin Rudd's declaration that climate change is the greatest threat facing the nation, dramatically sharpening the divide on the critical election issue.

• 2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Australia: Flannery angry at PM's climate policies

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): [Aussie Federal Environment Minister, Malcolm] Turnbull says

  global carbon trading scheme need 'obvious'

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): CSIRO to improve climate change prediction system

• 2007/04/23: GWWatch: Howard denies moral dimension to global warming

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): Greens call for 80pc emissions cut

  [30 per cent by 2020, then by 80 percent by 2050]

  Howard has pitched nukes & Rudd has changed the ALP 'no new mines' policy:

• 2007/04/29: ABC(Au): Rudd rejects Howard's nuclear industry plans

• 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): [ALP leader, Kevin] Rudd asks ALP conference to scrap 'no new mines' policy

• 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): Nuclear power a feasible solution to climate change: PM

• 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): Howard's nuclear future draws Greens' ire

• 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): States give mixed responses to nuclear announcements

• 2007/04/28: JQuiggin: End of the three mines policy [Aus pol]

• 2007/04/27: ABC(Au): Govt rejects claims it won't meet Kyoto benchmarks

• 2007/04/27: PerthNow: PM stumbles on climate change
  Kevin Rudd's address to the ALP national conference this week drew maximum hoopla and attention, but John Howard's earlier, low-key effort was much more significant.

• 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): Labor attacks Howard's nuclear vision
  Labor has attacked Prime Minister John Howard's plans for a nuclear energy industry in Australia, after its own national conference dumped a long-standing ban on new uranium mines. Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's motion to scrap the 'no new mines' policy was passed by a slender 15 votes at the ALP national conference, with environment spokesman Peter Garret among those voting to maintain the ban. But the move was overshadowed by Mr Howard's outlining of a future nuclear energy industry for Australia. Speaking at the Victorian Liberal Party conference, Mr Howard said Australia needed to rethink its energy production in the face of climate change, and the only feasible options were clean coal technology and nuclear power.

While in China:

• 2007/04/29: PhysOrg: China dream a nightmare for climate change

• 2007/04/28: ClimateArk: Cutting Through China's Smog -

  Premier Calls For Phase-Out Of Tax Breaks, Incentives For Major Polluters

• 2007/04/28: ChinaDaily: Premier [Wen Jiabao]: Macro control to focus on energy saving

• 2007/04/28: ChinaDaily: China to act on pollution, warming gases [by phasing out

  tax breaks and discounts on land and electricity for highly polluting industries]

• 2007/04/27: CSM: Is China outdoing US in curbing carbon?
  Its plans to limit emissions and boost efficiency could undercut

  a key argument against carbon dioxide limits in the US.

• 2007/04/26: CSM: China moves to shrink its carbon footprint -

  Within a year, China is expected to outpace the US in carbon dioxide emissions

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: China Must Keep Energy, Emission "Promises" - Wen

• 2007/04/26: BBerg: China's Protein Gap Will Stoke Global Inflation

• 2007/04/24: TerraDaily: China Delays Release Of Climate Change Report

• 2007/04/25: TreeHugger: Isn't It Ironic? China Calls For Citizen Activism, Detains Environmentalist

• 2007/04/24: JFleck: The Fundamental Issue [China & energy]

• 2007/04/24: FTimes: China delays climate change plan indefinitely
  China has delayed indefinitely its national "action plan" on climate change, which was due to be released on Monday after exhaustive consultations among ministries in Beijing and provincial and local governments. No explanation was given for the move...

• 2007/04/24: TreeHugger: China Will Be No Climate Tiger

• 2007/04/23: Reuters: China's first climate change steps too small

• 2007/04/23: ClimateP: China to be Proactive in Post-Kyoto Talks

• 2007/04/23: PlanetArk: China's First Climate Change Steps Too Small

• 2007/04/23: ENN: China Says Global Warming Threatens Development

  While in Japan:

• 2007/04/24: PlanetArk: Japan PM to Broach Post-Kyoto Cooperation With Bush

  In Canada, the minority Harper government introduced another climate plan:

• 2007/04/27: TCE: Pass the Conservative Climate Change Plan

• 2007/04/28: TreeHugger: Canada's New Green Plan: Not Very

• 2007/04/27: DeSmogBlog: Short-sighted Canada Fails with New Climate Policy

• 2007/04/28: CanWest: Europeans tell Canada to honour Kyoto

• 2007/04/28: HfxNews: Critics call climate plan 'disasterous, shameful'

• 2007/04/28: EdSun: Here lies Kyoto, dead and unloved

• 2007/04/26: GovCan: Turning the Corner -

  An action plan to reduce greenhouse gases and air pollution

• 2007/04/27: BBC: Canada sets reduced climate goal
  The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which acknowledges that the country will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment.

• 2007/04/27: ABC(Au): Carbon trading scheme to start in Canada

• 2007/04/26: PhysOrg: Canada Announces Greenhouse Gas Targets

• 2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Key Points in Canada's Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases

• 2007/04/27: CDreams: IPS: Climate Change: Canada's New Plan "Pretends"

  to Curb Emissions, Say Activists

• 2007/04/27: CBC: Baird defends 'balanced' emissions targets plan

• 2007/04/27: CBC: Alberta warms to 'workable' climate change plan

• 2007/04/26: CBC: Baird's 'real' emissions plan misses Kyoto deadline by years

• 2007/04/26: CBC: Industry grumbles but says it can meet emissions targets

• 2007/04/26: CBC: Tories unveil emission plan, say Kyoto goal will be reached 8 years late

• 2007/04/26: BBerg: Canada Seeks 18% Cut in Emissions, Won't Set Hard Cap

• 2007/04/26: Globe&Mail: Oil sands hit by climate change politics -

  Industry fears impact of emission targets

• 2007/04/26: France24: Canada: Ottawa to unveil climate change strategy amid criticism

• 2007/04/26: CBC: Industry braces for Tory climate change plan

• 2007/04/24: BCLSB: Expect Crocodile Tears...out of the oil patch

• 2007/04/25: TreeHugger: Canada's New Green Plan Leaks Out Early

• 2007/04/25: CanWest: 20% emissions cut by 2020 -

  Environment minister reveals details of plan for greenhouse gases

• 2007/04/25: ENN: Leaked Canadian Government Plan Includes

  Promise To Cut Greenhouse Gases, Air Pollution

• 2007/04/24: CanWest: Gloom descends on oil patch ahead of Ottawa's emissions plan

• 2007/04/25: CBC: Tories outline climate change targets

• 2007/04/24: CanWest: Kyoto protocol targets won't be part of Tories' clean air legislation

• 2007/04/23: BCLSB: Tories Retreat on Tory Retreat On Clean Air Act

• 2007/04/23: BCLSB: Conservatives In Retreat [over Clean Air Act]

• 2007/04/23: CBC: Feds expected to introduce emission targets this week

• 2007/04/19: Greens(Can): Economic Armageddon: Baird's Kyoto Fear Factory

  Canada is jumping on the CFL bandwagon:

• 2007/04/25: MongaBay: To fight warming, Canada will ban incandescent light bulbs by 2012

• 2007/04/25: CanWest: Feds to ban bulbs
  The federal government will develop national standards for energy efficient lighting by the end of the year and ban inefficient bulbs by 2012, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn announced Wednesday

• 2007/04/25: CBC: Lights to go out on inefficient bulbs by 2012
  The federal government will ban the sale of inefficient light bulbs by 2012 in a move to reduce energy consumption and reduce greenhouse gases, Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, there is more than one way to shut those pesky scientists up:

• 2007/04/24: CBC: Funding crunch tosses ocean research into limbo
  Ongoing research into the effects of climate change off Nova Scotia could be in trouble because of uncertainty over federal funding. The money for a five-year, $5-million project in Lunenburg Bay came from the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, but the agency's future is in limbo. The federal Conservative government has not renewed its funding and the foundation has stopped accepting applications. Across Canada, dozens of projects will wind down in the next few years. Dalhousie University's Lunenburg Bay project is in its final year, but scientists hope to continue their research. Without continued funding, researchers fear their teams will disappear.

The disposition of the Arctic is another of those looming questions:

• 2007/04/27: Yahoo: Climate change heats up Arctic geopolitics
  Global warming has the United States and Canada scrambling to overhaul their strategies for controlling North America's vast Arctic, as sea passage grows easier and natural gas resources beckon.

B.C. has signed onto the California carbon trading market:

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: Canadian Province Joins California Climate Pact

• 2007/04/25: CanWest: B.C. joins Schwarzenegger's 'carbon credits' trading market

  B.C. has also implemented a partial carbon tax:

• 2007/04/25: CanWest: Keep an eye on the green tax
  Going green is going to start costing all British Columbians a bit more money, thanks to a tiny tax the government is slapping on electricity, natural gas, grid propane and fuel oil used for heating. The "green levy" will be only 0.4 per cent and will not apply to transportation fuels. Still, it will raise $25 million for a clean energy fund, announced by the government in the throne speech in February.

Accompanied by the usual noise:

• 2007/04/24: Yahoo: Tories voice support for motion that contradicts their Kyoto stance

• 2007/04/25: TCE: Tories Vote for Hard Caps on Emissions,...Accidentally?

• 2007/04/25: BCLSB: Coyne's Ghastly Car Metaphor Totally Fucking Collapses!

• 2007/04/25: BCLSB: Coyne's Crappy Car Metaphor [absolute vs intensity GHG reductions]

  The movement toward ecologically based economics is glacial:

• 2007/04/25: GWWatch: Marginals want investment in biodiversity infrastructure

  Meanwhile Wolfie's neocon roots are showing:

• 2007/04/26: CSW: Wolfowitz deputy's efforts to undercut climate change text

  in World Bank strategy paper

• 2007/04/26: Deltoid: Wolfowitz deputy tried to water down references to climate change

• 2007/04/25: ThinkP: Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

• 2007/04/25: OilChange: Erasing Climate Change at the World Bank

  UBS is launching a Global Warming index:

• 2007/04/24: FTimes: Climate change provides rise to weather hedge -

  The first Global Warming index is to be launched this week by UBS...

  Apocalypso anyone?:

• 2007/04/27: FTimes: Lunch with the FT: James Lovelock

• 2007/04/24: TruthOut: Life Is Hanging by a Thread by Jane Goodall

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/04/27: DeSmogBlog: CBC aka Callow Broadcasting Corporation

  [should be embarrassed to be quoting Tim Ball]

• 2007/04/26: ClimateP: The Magazine Stand has got a Spring Fever

• 2007/04/24: GristMill: The Nation takes on climate change

  The 'framing' meme is still kicking:

• 2007/04/26: FramingScience: In letter at Science, a focus on framing, religion, and climate

• 2007/04/27: CCM: Letter in Science on Climate Change and Religion

• 2007/04/25: FramingScience: At the Washington Times, Two Scientists Apply Framing

  to Get Their Message Across

• 2007/04/24: FramingScience: Framing and the problem of choice:

  Infinite information, limited motivation

• 2007/04/23: BSD: Nisbet and Copernicus' Foreword

• 2007/04/23: Stoat: Framing Science

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/04/27: WorldChanging: [Book Review] _Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future_ by Peter Ward

• 2007/04/23: Guardian(UK): Six steps to hell [Book] _Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet_ by Mark Lynas

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2007/04/26: CSW: "Hot Politics" -- PBS FRONTLINE program and extended interviews online

• 2007/04/26: ERabett: Google's Inconvenient Truth [Utube video]

  The betting meme rolls on:

• 2007/04/26: ERabett: Calling James Annan and Brian Schmidt...

  Richard Lindzen is in a betting mood

• 2007/04/24: BSD: New global warming bet for $6-$9 thousand established;

  question is how much of a rise will occur over 10, 15 and 20 years

• 2007/04/25: JEB: Brian has a bet!

• 2007/04/25: Stoat: Betting on Global Warming

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/04/28: AfterGutenberg: 22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition

• 2007/04/28: AfterGutenberg: Semiconductor Device Splits Carbon Dioxide

• 2007/04/24: FuturePundit: Solar Energy Creates Chemical Energy

• 2007/04/27: TreeHugger: Solar-Powered Device Converts CO2 to Fuel

• 2007/04/27: TreeHugger: Kohl's Converting Californian Stores To Solar Power

• 2007/04/27: PlanetArk: Chevron Shareholders Reject Environment Proposal
  Chevron Corp. shareholders rejected a proposal requiring it to draft a report on whether laws in countries where the oil and gas producer operates are adequate to protect human health, the environment and its own reputation.

• 2007/04/26: CTV: Canada's largest solar farm to be built in Ontario

• 2007/04/25: NEN: China Sun King on China Solar

• 2007/04/24: PhysOrg: H2CAR could fuel entire U.S. transportation sector

• 2007/04/24: TEB: Lanza Tech Bacteria Produce Ethanol from Carbon Monoxide

• 2007/04/24: ZMag: Global Warming: Limits of Solar and Wind Power

• 2007/04/23: ABC(Au): Green energy could fuel jobs boom: report

• 2007/04/23: PhysOrg: Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting

• 2007/04/23: AfterGutenberg: Rooftop Photo Voltaic Panels

• 2007/04/22: EnergyBulletin: Construction starts on world's largest solar array

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/04/26: GristMill: Today in Big Coal

• 2007/04/24: C411: Should we fill our gas tanks with coal?

  Biofuel bickering continues:

• 2007/04/26: Euro2day: Move to biofuels could speed up rainforest destruction

• 2007/04/25: Scenta: Bad news for biodiesel
  A new study suggests that biodiesel could increase rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to petrol diesel.

• 2007/04/23: Eureka: Biodiesel won't drive down global warming

  I wonder if this proposal will catch on:

• 2007/04/28: PhysOrg: Dutch Propose System for Biofuel Import
  A Dutch commission proposed a system Friday aimed at ensuring that crops used to create biofuels as replacements for oil and gas do not do more harm than good.

Nuclear energy continues to split the crowd:

• 2007/04/28: HuffPo: Chernobyl Reminds Us That Nukes Are NOT Green

• 2007/04/26: HuffPo: The Spin Over the "Joint Nuclear Energy Action Plan"

• 2007/04/25: ABC(Au): Scientist questions nuclear future

• 2007/04/23: PhysOrg: Nuclear power not the solution for China: official
  Nuclear power is not the long-term answer to China's energy needs due to limited global uranium supplies and problems with nuclear waste disposal, state media on Monday quoted a top official as saying

Intersecting peaks abound this week:

• 2007/04/24: EnergyBulletin: Implications of "peak oil" for atmospheric CO2 and climate

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/04/26: OilDrum: Efficiency Policy, Jevon's Paradox, and the "Shadow" Rebound Effect

• 2007/04/25: TreeHugger: Why Conservation Is the World's Best Energy Source

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

• 2007/04/28: AfterGutenberg: Ultra Caps, Now with New Nanoparticle Encapsulation

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Ford chief executive admits global warming is real;

  GM official calls for action

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/04/26: EnvFin: More US companies report on environmental performance

  [said Social Investment Research Analysts Network (SIRAN) & KLD Research & Analytics]

• 2007/04/26: EnvFin: CERES blasts mutual funds for ignoring shareholders on climate

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: In US, Climate Denial is Mutual [fundless]

• 2007/04/24: EnvEcon: Should mutual fund managers care about the environment?

• 2007/04/24: PlanetArk: UK Companies Unite to Help Fight Climate Change

  [Eight leading companies united to fight global warming]

• 2007/04/24: PlanetArk: Mutual Funds Ignore Climate Change Risks - Ceres

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/04/28: CPunch: Is Global Warming A Sin?

• 2007/04/27: GristMill: Richard Lindzen: Exxon is principled; school teachers are like Hitler

• 2007/04/27: HuffPo: Richard Lindzen: Exxon is Principled; School Teachers are Like Hitler

• 2007/04/26: GristMill: Let's all go to the lobby [Exxon doubles lobbying funds]

• 2007/04/26: BBC: Science climate conflict warms up [Exxon]

• 2007/04/27: DeSmogBlog: NRSP: Not Ready to Stop Perjuring

• 2007/04/27: DeSmogBlog: Would You Buy A Used Oil Well From This Guy?
  Exxon Mobil is "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US." -Richard S. Lindzen

• 2007/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Stewart Interview with Seattle Man Opposing Gore Film in Schools [video denial]

• 2007/04/22: GristMill: The wrong question [MTobis on Lomborg]

  The sordid little tale behind that Revelle & Singer paper:

• The Cosmos Myth - The Real Truth About the Revelle-Gore Story

• 2007/04/26: ERabett: If Richard Lindzen shows up at your door, slam it

• 2007/04/27: Deltoid: Nobody should trust S Fred Singer

  A group of scientists has challenged the TGGWS producer:

• 2007/04/24: ClimateOfDenial: The Great Global Warming Swindle: open letter to Martin Durkin

• 2007/04/27: UIO: Joint statement by Rive and Friis-Christensen

• 2007/04/27: Stoat: Joint statement by Rive and Friis-Christensen on "The Great Global Warming Swindle"

• 2007/04/26: ENN: Scientists Demand Changes to Film by Global Warming Skeptic

• 2007/04/25: Yahoo: Film on Global Warming Is Challenged [TGGWS]

• 2007/04/25: Yahoo: Film on global warming is challenged - grave errors in the program

• 2007/04/25: Stoat: TGGWS, again

• 2007/04/25: Guardian(UK): Move to block emissions 'swindle' DVD --

  Climate scientists say film misleads public -

  Wag TV producers reject 'contemptible gag attempt'

• 2007/04/25: DeSmogBlog: Scientists Try to Protect British Public from A Spreading "Swindle"

• 2007/04/25: MSNBC: Scientists want edits to warming skeptic's film -

  Documentary aired on British TV, and is about to go to DVD

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/04/28: WorldChanging: From California to the New York Islands, to the British Isles --

  Blair, Bloomberg and Schwarzenegger Ally on Climate Change Action

• 2007/04/28: AlterNet: Can the Ruling Classes Save the World From Global Warming?

• 2007/04/27: PhysOrg: No silver bullet to combat climate change: IEA chief

• 2007/04/27: GristMill: Antarctic ice streams are no bubbling brook

• 2007/04/26: Deltoid: Mooney in Sydney

• 2007/04/26: TreeHugger: CO2 Saver: Toolbar Reduces, Measures Computer Energy Use, Carbon Emissions

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: Spinal Tap Reunites to Fight Climate Change

• 2007/04/25: TSC: Green initiatives lead to survival, prosperity

• 2007/04/25: ClimateP: Antarctic Ice Streams Are No Bubbling Brook

• 2007/04/25: GWWatch: Arctic hippopotamus to survive the polar bear

• 2007/04/26: PlanetArk: Climate Winners, Losers Must Adapt - German Expert

• 2007/04/24: OilDrum: Short takes [mpg vs gpm & subsidies vs. carbon tax]

• 2007/04/25: CCurrents: Scientists Offer Frightening Forecast [Timeline]

• 2007/04/23: HeraldSun: Beach protest spelt out

• 2007/04/18: RAS: RAS Gold Medal Winner Backs Link Between Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change

• 2007/04/23: ERabett: Another one falls to the blorg [Tobis at Grist]

• 2007/04/24: ZMag: Climate: Time Is Short [SIU]

• 2007/04/23: TruthOut: Hard Choices, Sacrifices Ahead on Global Warming -

  Including Higher Costs

• 2007/04/23: GristMill: A functional, global response: Strategy

• 2007/04/22: CSW: PBS FRONTLINE "Hot Politics" of global warming on April 24

• 2007/04/22: CSW: "Dante's Inferno: Green Edition" -- The Eighth Circle

• 2007/04/23: JEB: The EGU review

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

• Ecocene

• Knight Science Journalism Tracker

• FSU: Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility

• CCX: Chicago Climate Exchange

• USCAP: United States Climate Action Partnership

• Global Climate Change

• Carbon Positive

• Carbon Trust

• Carbon Trust: UK Carbon Map

• GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment

• UIUC: Cryosphere Today

• CSW: Climate Science Watch

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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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-David Suzuki

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