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Another Week of GW News, April 29, 2007
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Click here to read more 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? 2007/04/25: Australian: Brawls loom on climate burdens [WGIII] 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 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 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 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 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 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 2007/04/27: Reuters: Australia drought is climate change warning: UK 2007/04/26: Economist: Australia's water shortage - The big dry 2007/04/26: IPSNews: Development-Africa: "Extreme Water Events" Predicted 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 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] 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... 2007/04/28: SciDaily: A Handful Of Countries Can Solve The Climate Problem 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 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" 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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] 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 2007/04/24: ABC(Au): Greens' emissions target 'crazy': Howard 2007/04/24: ClimateArk: Australia: Howard widens climate divide 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 2007/04/28: ABC(Au): Labor attacks Howard's nuclear vision 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? 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 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 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 2007/04/25: CBC: Lights to go out on inefficient bulbs by 2012 Meanwhile, there is more than one way to shut those pesky scientists up: 2007/04/24: CBC: Funding crunch tosses ocean research into limbo The disposition of the Arctic is another of those looming questions: 2007/04/27: Yahoo: Climate change heats up Arctic geopolitics 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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 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 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 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. PS. You can access the previous postings of this series here "We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit." -David Suzuki
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.
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.
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.
Jump in prehistoric ocean temperatures from greenhouse gases provides perspective for global warming studies
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).
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.
Australia is struggling to cope with the consequences of a devastating drought. As the world warms up, other countries should pay heed
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.
"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.
Pope addresses climate change conference - US church leaders lobby Bush on global warming
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.
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.
At least 21 states and the District of Columbia are on track to trim 108 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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.
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.
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.
On Earth Day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg introduced a plan for more green spaces, fees to drive in Manhattan, and improved mass transit
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.
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.
Prime Minister John Howard says the Greens' policy to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 is both "crazy" and "irresponsible".
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.
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.
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.
Its plans to limit emissions and boost efficiency could undercut
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...
The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which acknowledges that the country will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A new study suggests that biodiesel could increase rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to petrol diesel.
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 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
Exxon Mobil is "the only principled oil and gas company I know in the US." -Richard S. Lindzen The sordid little tale behind that Revelle & Singer paper:
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