Another Week of GW News, May 27, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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• Top Stories, Accelerating CO2 Rise, G8 Leak, G8 Controversy, APEC meetings, Bonn meeting
• Hansen SLR paper, Ayles Ice Island, Global Energy Budget from the Moon, Pleistocene Impact
• Hurricanes, GHG Stats, Glaciers, Satellites
• Impacts, Tropical Rainforests, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
• Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science
• Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Optimal Strategy
• Politics, International, Security America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, Canada
• Media & Climatology, Framing, Books, the Law
• Energy, Biofuel, Coal, Nukes, Efficiency, Business, Carbon Lobby
• The Usual, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion
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Let us start with a smile, if not a laugh:

• 2007/05/25: ClimateP: AP & MSNBC: Climate Progress Knows its Crap
• 2007/05/23: AFTIC: Polar Bear: Victim or Perpetrator?

  The big story of the week has to be the accelerating rise in CO2 concentration:

• 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): CO2 emissions rise outpaces worst-case scenario
• 2007/05/22: ClimateP: The growth rate of carbon emissions has TRIPLED
• 2007/05/22: TruthOut: Global Carbon Emissions in Overdrive
• 2007/05/22: ABC(Au): Dire warning on carbon emissions
• 2007/05/22: SciAm: World growth spurs faster climate change: [CSIRO] report
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: The growth rate of carbon emissions has tripled
• 2007/05/23: TCE: CO2 Rising Faster Than Worst Case Predictions
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: CO2 Emissions Increasing Faster Than Expected
• 2007/05/23: CSM: Global carbon emissions in overdrive
• 2007/05/22: DeSmogBlog: Reality Swamps IPCC's "Worst Case Scenario"
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: US Says World CO2 Output to Rise 59 Pct by 2030
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: World Carbon Emissions Speed Up Since 2000 - Study
• 2007/05/21: Eureka: CO2 emissions increasing faster than expected
  Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels have accelerated globally at a far greater rate than expected over recent years
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: World Growth Spurs Faster Climate Change - [CSIRO] Report
• 2007/05/23: NEN: CO2 Rising
• 2007/05/21: NewScientist: Recent CO2 rises exceed worst-case scenarios
  The world's recent carbon dioxide emissions are growing more rapidly than even the worst-case climate scenario used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, say researchers.
• 2007/05/21: PhysOrg: Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
• 2007/05/21: Eureka: Alarming acceleration in CO2 emissions worldwide
  Between 2000 and 2004, worldwide CO2 emissions increased at a rate that is over three times the rate during the 1990s -- the rate increased from 1.1% per year during the 1990s to 3.1% per year in the early 2000s.

GreenPeace has leaked a draft of the G8 declaration:

• 2007/05/: GP: (154k pdf) Leaked G8 draft
• 2007/05/26: CDreams: AFP: Greenpeace Posts Leaked US Objection to G8 Climate Statement
• 2007/05/26: AFP: Greenpeace posts leaked US objection to G8 climate statement
• 2007/05/23: NewScientistBlog: G8 climate pact: the missing text

  The upcoming G8 summit continues to get a lot of play:

• 2007/05/26: Times(UK): US dashes hopes for "Kyoto II" deal
• 2007/05/27: Guardian(UK): G8 leaders fight over global agreement on climate change
• 2007/05/26: WaPo: U.S. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal -

  Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase

• 2007/05/26: ABC(Au): US 'rejects' G8 emissions targets
• 2007/05/26: PhysOrg: US objects to G8 global warming declaration: report
• 2007/05/26: GWWatch: US to sink G8 Summit climate change deal, not CO2
• 2007/05/26: DeSmogBlog: As US Obstructs Progress, The Climate Heads Toward the Cliff
• 2007/05/26: DeSmogBlog: Climate Spat Creates Major US-German Rift
• 2007/05/26: ThinkP: U.S. to reject G8 climate deal
• 2007/05/25: GPBlog: US harpoons G8 climate language in leaked document
• 2007/05/26: BBC: US 'opposes' G8 climate proposals
  The US appears to have rejected draft proposals by Germany for G8 members to agree tough measures in greenhouse gas emissions, leaked documents have shown
• 2007/05/25: FTimes: US and Berlin clash on G8 climate text
• 2007/05/26: Guardian(UK): US rejects all proposals on climate change -

  Embarrassment for Blair as G8 draft covered in red ink

• 2007/05/22: Globe&Mail: U.S. aims to stop G8's tough push on global warming
• 2007/05/25: TruthOut: US Rejects - In Red - G8 Climate Draft --

  "Fundamental opposition" to German goal of mandatory cuts, trading.

• 2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Targets Still Out, Bali Back in G8 Climate Draft
• 2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Merkel Unsure G8 Will Clinch Climate Breakthrough
• 2007/05/24: FTimes: Merkel plays down G8 climate deal hopes
• 2007/05/25: OilChange: Merkel Plays Down Hopes of G8 Climate Deal
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Bush Sees G8 Climate Change Principles Possible
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: G8 Summit is "Litmus Test" for US on Warming - UN [UNEP head, Achim Steiner]
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Britain Sees No Talk of Emissions Targets at G8
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Public Opinion Could Swing G8 Climate Success - Expert
• 2007/05/23: ZMag: G8: U.S. Cooling Off to Summit
  The United States appears to be cooling off to some key concerns at the G8 heads of state summit next month. The United States is evidently not interested in an international consensus on environmental policy against global warming. Nor does it appear keen on new regulations to control financial speculation. The U.S. government withdrew participation of treasury secretary Henry Paulson at the preparatory summit of finance ministers in Potsdam near Berlin May 18-19.
• 2007/05/19: CanWest: Governments undermining action on climate, Canadian, U.S. critics charge
  Canadian and American politicians renewed attacks on their respective governments Friday over concerns the Harper and Bush administrations are cooking up a scheme to undermine international action on climate change.
• 2007/05/22: PlanetArk: US Bids to Stop G8 Pushing for Climate Deal
• 2007/05/22: PlanetArk: Japan to Unveil Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases - Kyodo
• 2007/05/20: CDreams: IPS: US Cooling Off to G-8 Summit
  The United States appears to be cooling off to some key concerns at the G8 heads of state summit next month. The United States is evidently not interested in an international consensus on environmental policy against global warming. Nor does it appear keen on new regulations to control financial speculation. The U.S. government withdrew participation of treasury secretary Henry Paulson at the preparatory summit of finance ministers in Potsdam near Berlin May 18-19.

Some of the G8 backstory:

• 2007/05/27: GristMill: Worse than a prisoner's dilemma
• 2006/12/06: WBCSD: Lose-lose: the penalties of acting alone stall collective effort

  on climate change

• 2007/05/26: ClimateP: Worse than a Prisoner's Dilemma
• 2007/05/16: RoyalSoc(UK): Joint science academies' statement: sustainability, energy efficiency and climate protection
• 2007/05/24: MTobis: Joint Academies' Statement Real? Yes.

  An APEC ministerial meeting is going down in Darwin, while the main show is scheduled for September:

• 2007/05/27: AFP: APEC energy meeting begins in Australia
  Senior APEC energy officials began meeting in the northern Australian city of Darwin on Sunday for talks which will focus on energy security and climate change, an official said. The three-day event will culminate with talks between the energy ministers of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation members on Tuesday. "APEC economies account for 60 percent of the world's energy demand so a meeting of this sort is a fairly crucial opportunity to nut out some of the issues," a spokeswoman for Australian Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane said.
• 2007/05/24: ABC(Au): Howard, Abe consult on climate change approach [pre-APEC]
• 2007/05/21: PlanetArk: Australia Plans Carbon Scheme Counting US, China
• 2007/05/21: ENN: Australian Foreign Minister [Alexander Downer] Says

  Regional Carbon Trading Scheme Unlikely Soon [because of Chinese and U.S. opposition]

  Late comment on the Bonn UNFCCC meeting:

• 2007/05/21: PlanetArk: Kyoto Nations Seek Deeper Greenhouse Gas Cuts
• 2007/05/21: PlanetArk: Deadlock at Climate Talks Mars Kyoto Hopes

  RealClimate has posted a good article on global climate models:

• 2007/05/27: RealClimate: Why global climate models do not give a realistic

  description of the local climate

  James Hansen has posted an article on sea-level rise:

• 2007/05/24: ERL: Scientific reticence and sea level rise by J E Hansen
• 2007/05/25: GristMill: Yet another must-read by James Hansen
• 2007/05/26: TreeHugger: Speaking Out on Global Warming
• 2007/05/26: ThinkP: Top U.S. Climate Scientist Issues New Warning

  On Catastropic Sea Level Rise

• 2007/05/25: ClimateP: Yet Another Must Read by James Hansen

  And his previous paper is still raising comment:

• 2007/05/22: OilDrum: Implications of "Peak Oil" for Atmospheric CO2 and Climate
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: Peak oil and climate change
• 2007/05/21: CasaubonsBook : Will Peak Oil Save us from Global Warming?

  The Ayles ice ice island has been tagged:

• 2007/05/26: PhysOrg: Warming threatens Arctic glaciers [Ayles]
• 2007/05/24: PhysOrg: Canadian, US scientists tag Arctic ice island [Ayles]

  bigger than Manhattan

• 2007/05/22: BBC: Science team lands on Ice Island [plants a tracking beacon on its surface]
  Scientists in the Arctic have just carried out the first research on a huge iceberg the size of Manhattan. Some 16km long and 5km wide (10x3 miles), Ayles Ice Island broke away from the Canadian Arctic coast in 2005, but has only recently been identified.

With Triana languishing unlaunched, Shaopeng Huang has suggested using the moon

to monitor the earth's energy budget:

• 2006//: COSIS: A prospective project of the Chang’E program:

  Engaging the Moon in the study of terrestrial climate by Shaopeng Huang et al.

• 2007/05/26: SciDaily: Shine On, Shine On, Climate Monitoring Station:

  Moon-based Observatories Proposed

  Tamino has posted a nice discussion of borehole proxies:

• 2007/05/20: Tamino: Notes from Underground

  Some late coverage of the Pleistocene impact theory:

• 2007/05/23: PhysOrg: Did a comet hit the Great Lakes region and fragment human populations 12,900 years ago?
• 2007/05/21: Eureka: Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory
• 2007/05/21: KSJT: The Observer, BBC: Did a comet's air blast wipe out

  N. America's Pleistocene giants, ravage stone-age peoples, etc?

• 2007/05/21: BBC: Ice Age blast 'ravaged America'
  A controversial new idea suggests that a large space rock exploded over North America 13,000 years ago. The blast may have wiped out one of America's first Stone Age cultures as well as the continent's big mammals such as the mammoth and the mastodon. The blast, from a comet or asteroid, caused a major bout of climatic cooling which may also have affected human cultures emerging in Europe and Asia.

Pause & consider: selah:

• 2007/05/21: CSM: Fuse on the 'population bomb' has been relit
  While the developed world deals with a 'birth dearth,' populations are exploding in developing nations

Things are warming up in the hurricane wars:

• 2007/05/27: SciDaily: El Nino And African Monsoon Have Strongly Influenced

  Intense Hurricane Frequency In The Past

• 2007/05/25: KSJT: Wires, NYTimes: For millenia, hurricane intensities, frequencies ebbed and waned in natural cycles
• 2007/05/23: NSU: Torrid hurricane season in store -

  Forecasters predict above-average spate of Atlantic storms

• 2007/05/24: TerraDaily: WHOI Geologists Compile Longest Ever Record Of Atlantic Hurricane Strikes
• 2007/05/24: ENN: Killer Hurricanes Thrived in Cool Seas
• 2007/05/24: NYT: Study Finds Hurricanes Frequent in Some Cooler Periods
• 2007/05/23: NewScientist: Have hurricanes met their match in El Niño?
• 2007/05/23: PhysOrg: Global warming's impact on hurricanes more complex than thought
• 2007/05/22: NOAA: 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
• 2007/05/23: Wunderground: Very active Atlantic hurricane season forecast by NOAA
• 2007/05/23: CCM: NOAA Predicts 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season 'Above Normal'
• 2007/05/22: TerraDaily: New Technique [VORTRAC] Provides 3-D View Of Approaching Hurricanes
• 2007/05/22: TerraDaily: Ten Hurricanes Could Form In The Atlantic This Year
• 2007/05/23: SciDaily: NOAA Predicts Above Normal 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season
• 2007/05/23: Eureka: Hurricane risks higher than usual for most of US coasts
  10 counties in Fla., 8 in N.C. among top 20 at risk for storms based on past tracks and 2007 climate conditions
• 2007/05/23: WHOI: WHOI Geologists Compile Longest Ever Record of Atlantic Hurricane Strikes
  Reconstruction Reveals that El Niño and the West African Monsoon Have Strongly Influenced Intense Hurricane Frequency
• 2007/05/21: Wunderground: 2007 typhoon season forecast
• 2007/05/20: CCM: Our First Supertyphoon of 2007?

  Otherwise with GHGs:

• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Bush's dumb luck on emissions
• 2007/05/25: PlanetArk: US Carbon Emissions Slip Seen Separate From Trend
• 2007/05/24: C411: President says CO2 emissions have declined - have they?
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: US Carbon-Dioxide Emissions Fell 1.3 Percent In 2006
• 2007/05/24: SciDaily: U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Fossil Fuels Declined By 1.3 Percent In 2006
• 2007/05/24: Reasic: What Is "Emissions Intensity"?
• 2007/05/24: TerraDaily: AIRS Global Map Of Carbon Dioxide From Space

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/05/25: NatGeo: The big thaw -- From Greenland to Antarctica, the world is losing its ice faster than anyone thought possible.

  Can humans slow the melting?

• 2007/05/24: RealClimate: Glacier Mass Balance: equilibrium or disequilibrium response?

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/05/16: ESA: MetOp-A takes up service
• 2007/05/21: TerraDaily: GeoOptics Announces 100-Spacecraft Array to Deliver

  Critical Hurricane And Climate Data

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/05/26: GristMill: A really vicious cycle [impacts]
• 2007/05/23: FuturePundit: Sixth Of European Mammal Species Face Extinction
• 2007/05/24: TruthOut: Africa Feels the Warming It Didn't Cause
• 2007/05/25: BBC: A warm spring has brought about the early arrival

  of some UK wildlife, the first results of the Springwatch 2007 survey suggest

• 2007/05/22: Globe&Mail: Climate change could put Canada's Arctic whales in hot water
• 2007/05/22: PhysOrg: Scientists concerned about effects of global warming on infectious diseases
• 2007/05/22: PhysOrg: Study: Climate Change May Imperil Plants
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: Scientists Concerned About Effects Of Global Warming On Infectious Diseases
• 2007/05/23: DeSmogBlog: Rapid climate change threatens world's largest creatures
• 2007/05/22: Eureka: Scientists concerned about effects of global warming on infectious diseases
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Climate Change to Spur Allergies, Ticks, Malaria - UN
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Global Warming Helps Greenland Mining - Angus & Ross
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Wild Potatoes, Peanuts at Risk From Global Warming
• 2007/05/23: SciDaily: Whales In Hot Water: Global Warming's Effect On World's Largest Creatures
• 2007/05/22: OilChange: Britain's Warmest Spring Brings out the Butterflies
• 2007/05/22: BBC: Climate 'threatening UK species'
  Action is needed to prevent the loss of some of the UK's best-loved plants and wildlife to climate change, the authors of a report have suggested. The seven-year research programme known as Monarch was developed to assess the impacts of projected climate change on wildlife in the UK and Ireland.
• 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): The heat is on - How climate change will affect Britain's weather
• 2007/05/21: KSJT: AP: Warming may make 18 US state flowers into 18 former state flowers
• 2007/05/21: TruthOut: Western Fires: The Next Katrina?
• 2007/05/22: PlanetArk: Animals, Plants Under Threat From Global Warming [UN's International Day for Biological Diversity]
• 2007/05/21: ENN: Polar Bears at Risk as Warming Thaws Icy Home

  And then there are the tropical rainforests:

• 2007/05/22: BBC: Ugandan plan for forest suspended
  Plans to give thousands of acres of rainforest in Uganda to an Asian-owned sugar company have been suspended after protests left three people dead

Speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/05/26: PhysOrg: Spain evaluating scale of flood damage
• 2007/05/26: Wunderground: Texas floods kill 5
• 2007/05/26: AfterGutenberg: Is Someone Taking Notes? [Aus drought]
• 2007/05/25: AP: Georgia Feeling Effects of Drought
• 2007/05/25: ABC(Au): Melting glaciers 'could flood Yangtze'
  Chinese Government authorities warn melting glaciers in Tibet could flood China's longest river, the Yangtze, later this year. According to the Yangtze River Flood Control Headquarters, currrent meteorological and hydrological readings are similar to those in 1998. In that year, 3,000 people were killed when the Yangtze River overflowed.
• 2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Drought Highlights Morocco's Need for Farm Reform
• 2007/05/25: BBC: Chinese flooding leaves 21 dead -

  Heavy rains in south-western China have caused flash floods and mudslides, killing at least 21 people...

• 2007/05/24: France24: Yangtze flood alert as Tibetan glaciers melt
• 2007/05/24: PhysOrg: Drought Aids Scientists in Muck Removal
• 2007/05/23: BBC: Drought hits Aussie wheat profits
  The severe drought in Australia has dented profits at the country's troubled wheat exporting business. AWB saw its first-half profits fall 71% to 11.8m Australian dollars ($9.7m; £4.9m) from A$41.4 for the same period last year
• 2007/05/24: PlanetArk: Trains Stopped, Highway Flooded by Madrid Rain
• 2007/05/24: ENN: Drought Lets Officials Remove Muck at Florida's Lake Okeechobee

  To Restore Habitat

• 2007/05/24: SciAlert: Climate change: running rivers dry
• 2007/05/22: JFleck: Climate Change and the Colorado River
• 2007/05/21: JFleck: Discussing the Coming Dust Bowl

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/05/11: FinSense:FSU: The Coming Explosion in Energy & Food Prices
• 2007/05/23: CanWest: Why food costs more
• 2007/05/22: CBC: Rising corn prices hit grocery shoppers' pocketbooks

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

• 2007/05/: FAO: Crop Prospects and Food Situation
• 2007/05/25: WRI: World Grain Supplies Barely Meeting Demand, Despite Record Harvests in 2007
• 2007/05/21: SoftMachines: In praise of Vaclav Smil
• PS&D: Production, Supply, and Demand
• WASDE: World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates
• 2007/05/23: ENN: Study Shows that Climate Change Could Harm Crops
• 2007/05/10: CGIAR: Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
• 2007/05/23: CBC: Climate change could harm crops: study
• 2007/05/22: CBC: Farm group warns of looming global food crisis
• 2006/05/06: NFU: (126k pdf) An open letter to the United Nations by NFU President Stewart Wells Regarding Rapidly declining global food supplies
• 2007/05/21: EnergyBulletin: Tilling our own soil: Preparing a surge capacity for food

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/05/20: GristMill: Charcoal agriculture: not ready for prime time [agrichar]
• 2007/05/21: WorldChanging: Carbon Tools Scale up for City-Wide Footprinting [ZeroFootPrint]

  On the tricky question of aviation & GHGs:

• 2007/05/26: Guardian(UK): Flying addicts take dim view of air taxes in poll -

  Climate fear not translated into action ICM shows

• 2007/05/23: ABC(Au): Fly less to reduce carbon emissions: think tank [Australia Institute]
• 2007/05/23: ABC(Au): Green levy 'punishment' of air travel rejected

  Elsewhere in the business of transportation:

• 2007/05/20: Fosters: Freight train usage keeps rolling higher: Passing tracks added in Dover

  Building codes for the future: The role of building codes:

• 2007/05/22: C411: Energy-Efficient Buildings

  And on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/05/26: TreeHugger: Back in Black: Using Hydrothermal Carbonization to Clean Emissions
  ...a cost-efficient process known as hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) to turn fast-growing energy crops into a form of "bio-coal" that would be stored into "carbon landfills" that could act as effective carbon sinks
• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Feel the carbon sequestration love [BP in Scotland]
• 2007/05/24: PlanetArk: BP Abandons Plans to Build UK Carbon Capture Plant
• 2007/05/24: OilChange: BP Scraps Carbon Capture Project [after the British Government's energy review yesterday delayed a decision on subsidies]

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/05/23: GPM: Relocalization: A Strategic Response to Peak Oil and Climate Change

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/05/22: CP: Climatic changes in the Urals over the past millennium -

  an analysis of geothermal and meteorological data by D. Yu. Demezhko & I. V. Golovanova

• 2007/05/22: CP: Spatial structure of the 8200 cal yr BP event in northern Europe by H. Sepp? et al.
• 2006//: COSIS: A prospective project of the Chang’E program:

  Engaging the Moon in the study of terrestrial climate by Shaopeng Huang et al.

• 2007/05/24: ERL: Scientific reticence and sea level rise by J E Hansen
• 2007/05/02: ScienceMag: Saturation of the Southern Ocean CO2 Sink Due to

  Recent Climate Change by Corinne Le Quéré et al.

• 2007/05/22: PNAS: Global and regional drivers of accelerating CO2 emissions

  by Michael R. Raupach et al.

• 2007/05/22: PNAS: Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the microbial

  landscape of the New Orleans area by C. D. Sinigalliano et al.

• 2007/05/22: PNAS: A climate-driven switch in plant nitrogen acquisition within

  tropical forest communities by Benjamin Z. Houlton et al.

• 2007/05/22: PNAS: Irreducible imprecision in atmospheric and oceanic

  simulations by James C. McWilliams

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

• 2007/05/26: BCLSB: Welcome To The Crystal Eye of Nunavit [sediment core]
• 2007/05/24: BBC: The loneliest science lab in the Arctic
  Perched on a windswept ridge amid the fjords and mountains of Ellesmere Island stands one of the world's northernmost atmospheric research stations - a rugged outpost of frontline science with the delicate name of Pearl. Pearl stands for Polar Environment Atmosphere Research Laboratory and the scientists braving the elements here believe that in coming years it should help reveal vital clues about our changing planet.
• 2007/05/21: PhysOrg: Oceanic Storms Create Oases in the Watery Desert
• 2007/05/21: SciDaily: Norwegian National Team In Arctic Climate Research

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto-2 front:

• 2007/05/24: DeSmogBlog: Japan's PM looks beyond Kyoto
• 2007/05/24: BBC: Japan eyes 50% greenhouse gas cut [by 2050]
  Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, has said the world should halve emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050. It is the first time Japan has set a firm target to replace the present Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. The plan is believed to be less demanding than other proposals from European countries such as the UK. But Mr Abe said it was important to come up with a scheme flexible enough to win over those countries which are among the world's biggest polluters. "We must create a new framework which moves beyond the Kyoto Protocol, in which the entire world will participate in emissions reduction," Mr Abe said in a speech in Tokyo. He made it clear that his country wanted to take a leading role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. But Mr Abe said he believed those efforts would fail unless the countries which are among the biggest polluters, China, India and the United States, could be persuaded to take part.

And on the emissions trading front:

• 2007/05/24: CarbonFin: Lack of consistency in carbon accounting -- IETA,PwC
  Companies are employing a variety of different accounting practices for carbon emissions in the absence of clear international guidance on the issue, according to a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA).
  The survey found that companies covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) had applied 15 distinctive approaches when accounting for EU allowances (EUAs), although there were six main approaches.
  Such diversity in accounting practice led to companies with similar emissions profiles providing very different results on the balance sheet, said Richard French, a senior manager in the energy and utilities assurance practice at PwC in London.
• 2007/05/24: EnvFin: UK to extend carbon trading to service sector
• 2007/05/24: ABC(Au): Carbon offset opponents 'can't see forests for the trees'
  Carbon credit companies have rejected an environment group's report that questions the credibility of tree planting to offset greenhouse gas emissions. The Total Environment Centre says trees should be used as a last resort in carbon offset projects because they are prone to fire, disease and drought. But the CEO of Carbon Planet, Dave Sag, says the carbon credits his company sells are accredited by the New South Wales greenhouse abatement scheme. He says forests are the most effective way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
• 2007/05/22: PlanetArk: UK Narrows Scope of Domestic Carbon Trading - Source

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

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

• 2007/05/25: GristMill: Cap-and-trade is looking like duck-and-cover
• 2007/05/25: NEN: The Debate of our Time: Tax or Trade?
• 2007/05/24: ABC(Au): Carbon offsets just 'guilt-free pollution'
• 2007/05/21: NEN: The Debate of our Time: Carbon Tax [or a cap-and-trade system?]

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/05/24: People's Daily: Developed countries most to blame for climate change
• 2007/05/21: Guardian(UK): Beckett urges Japan to take lead on climate change
• 2007/05/23: TruthOut: Ecuador Seeks Aid Not to Exploit Amazon Oil
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: Britain Urges Japan to Help China on Emissions

  The GW security meme has been active:

• 2007/05/25: CCM: Signs of a Growing U.S. Climate Consensus? [on security]
• 2007/05/23: ABC(Au): Intelligence agency refuses to release climate change studies
  The Office of National Assessments (ONA) says it has done several studies on climate change but to release them to the public would result in "dumbing" them down
• 2007/05/21: STimes: Military leaders join chorus warning of climate change

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/05/26: ASZ: Perfect Storm: A Rising Tide But The Boats Won't Float
• 2007/05/18: NatPat: Natural Patriotism gathers steam
• 2007/05/25: GristMill: Cutting carbon by 80% by 2050
• 2007/05/25: SF Gate: Governor's budget plan diverts millions from public transit
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new budget plan would divert $1.3 billion from the California public transportation fund to cover other state expenses -- a move that would mean a $146 million hit to Bay Area transit service
• 2007/05/25: GristMill: A little hope for a change:

  The promises of religious environmentalism

• 2007/05/25: WarmingLaw: The Senate Hearing: The Skeptics Press On
• 2007/05/25: WarmingLaw: New State Climate Registry
• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Taxes: bad because they produce revenue
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: Dems in Congress: 'Green-collar jobs' will fight

  poverty and global warming

• 2007/05/24: CSW: Congressional investigation into science editing of Smithsonian Arctic climate exhibit
• 2007/05/23: HuffPo: Dems In Congress: 'Green-Collar Jobs' Will Fight Poverty & Global Warming
• 2007/05/23: HuffPo: Are Republican Presidential Candidates Taking Global Warming Seriously?
• 2007/05/22: Guardian(UK): Where there's a will... [GWB & US]
• 2007/05/23: TruthOut: California Urges EPA to Change Greenhouse Gas Rules
• 2007/05/22: TruthOut: Smithsonian Toned Down Exhibit on Arctic
• 2007/05/22: MongaBay: NASA issues guide on global warming
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: Are Republican presidential candidates taking global warming seriously?
• 2007/05/23: WarmingLaw: Senate hearing on CA clean cars waiver today
• 2007/05/22: CSW: Smithsonian officials altered Arctic climate change exhibit

  to cut link with human-induced warming

• 2007/05/21: CSW: House Science investigations chairman calls on Exxon to account

  for global warming denial funding

• 2007/05/22: SOSD: Global warming sounded from unexpected source
• 2007/05/23: ThinkP: House investigating Smithsonian global warming exhibit
• 2007/05/22: HuffPo: You Can Hear the Base Breaking Up [US pol]
• 2007/05/21: Yahoo: Religious leaders urge action on warming
  Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders are urging President George W. Bush and Congress to take action against global warming, declaring that the changing climate is a "moral and spiritual issue." In an open letter to be published on Tuesday, more than 20 religious groups urged U.S. leaders to limit greenhouse gas emissions and invest in renewable energy sources.
• 2007/05/21: IHT: Smithsonian toned down exhibit on climate change in the Arctic
• 2007/05/20: CSpin: 20 more months of no U.S. action?
• 2007/05/20: CSpin: Public and Republican presidential candidates think

  global warming is a problem

• 2007/05/20: CSW: Critical public review comments on the administration's

  Fourth Climate Action Report

• 2007/05/21: TreeHugger: Nancy Pelosi Asks: What Do You Want to See

  on Global Warming Legislation?

• 2007/05/21: DeSmogBlog: Smithsonian, Fearing Retribution, Toned Down Climate Exhibit
• 2007/05/21: EconView: Glaeser: We are All Environmentalists Now
• 2007/05/20: HuffPo: Putting the Green in Greensburg
• 2007/05/21: HuffPo: Brace Yourself -- New Orleans Was Just the Beginning [US pol]

  A couple of republican governors have fired a broadside at the EPA:

• 2007/05/23: EESD: Lead or Step Aside, EPA
• 2007/05/21: WarmingLaw: GOP govs to feds: Be our partner or get out of the way
• 2007/05/21: DeSmogBlog: Schwarzenegger launches scathing attack against U.S. government

  for inaction on global warming

• 2007/05/21: WaPo: Lead or Step Aside, EPA - States Can't Wait on Global Warming by [Cal Gov] Arnold Schwarzenegger and [Conn Gov] Jodi Rell
• 2007/05/21: ABC(US): Gore Blasts Bush in 'The Assault on Reason' --

  Former Vice President's Book a Searing Assault on the Bush Administration

• 2007/05/21: Reuters: Schwarzenegger accuses government on warming
  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and fellow Republican Gov. Jodi Rell of Connecticut accused the U.S. government on Monday of "inaction and denial" on global warming. "It's bad enough that the federal government has yet to take the threat of global warming seriously, but it borders on malfeasance for it to block the efforts of states such as California and Connecticut that are trying to protect the public's health and welfare," the governors wrote in The Washington Post. These two states and 10 others have approved plans for tougher standards than those imposed by the government to limit vehicle emissions of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change. But the states can't put the new standards into practice without a waiver from the Environmental Protection Agency, which has not yet granted one, 16 months after California first requested it.

Utah has joined the WRCAI [Western Regional Climate Action Initiative]:

• 2007/05/22: PhysOrg: Utah Joins Pact to Reduce Gas Emissions
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: [California Gov. Arnold] Schwarzenegger, Utah Governor [Jon Huntsman] Join on Emissions Cuts

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/05/25: HuffPo: Al Gore Urges Us to Think Differently
• 2007/05/25: GristMill: "A politics of reason faces a strong headwind"
• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Gore watch
• 2007/05/25: ERabett: Ask Al Gore
• 2007/05/25: HuffPo: Al Gore's Assault on Reason: A Call to Action
• 2007/05/22: DeSmogBlog: Gore's latest truth even more "inconvenient" than his previous one
• 2007/05/21: GristMill: The assault on Gore's capacity to keep his cool

  While in the UK:

• 2007/05/24: TruthOut: Blair Commits to Nuclear Future as Plans

  for Five New Power Plants Are Revealed

• 2007/05/24: PlanetArk: Britain Maps Out Clean, Secure Energy Future
• 2007/05/24: FTimes: The [UK] government's carbon Greenplan
• 2007/05/23: Guardian(UK): Government pushes forward nuclear plans
• 2007/05/23: BBC: Nuclear power 'must be on agenda' -

  Nuclear power is needed to help reduce carbon emissions and to ensure

  that the UK has secure energy supplies in the future, Tony Blair has told MPs.

  Tony is still chugging the koolaid:

• 2007/05/25: BBC: Blair: US may back carbon deal
  The US may be willing to back an agreement at next month's G8 summit on cutting carbon dioxide emissions, Tony Blair has said on BBC TV
• 2007/05/23: ClimateP: Bush 100, Blair 0. Game over.

  And in Europe:

• 2007/05/10: Panda: (link to 1 meg pdf) Europe's Dirty 30 --

  A new ranking of Europe's worst climate-polluting power stations

• 2007/05/27: Scotsman: Countries to sue EU Commission over CO2 limits
  Poland and the Czech Republic on Friday announced separate legal challenges against the European Commission for setting carbon emission limits that they said would hurt their developing economies. The two countries joined Slovakia in a legal row pitting newer European Union states against the EU executive over how strict to make the emissions trading scheme, the bloc's key tool to fight climate change under the Kyoto Protocol. The Commission said it was confident the EU court, which can take years to issue a ruling, would side with Brussels.
• 2007/05/24: EnvFin: Sarkozy opens presidency with climate change debate
• 2007/05/23: ENN: Two-Base EU Parliament Seeks Carbon Neutral Status
• 2007/05/21: PlanetArk: EU Farm Subsidies in Climate Change Spotlight - Report

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/05/27: ABC(Au): Aust economists call for Kyoto action
  Seventy-five professors of economics have called on the Federal Government to stop undermining international efforts to tackle climate change and ratify the Kyoto Protocol without delay. They are among 271 Australian university economists who have signed a statement drawing attention to the economic damage that could be done to Australia for failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• 2007/05/25: ABC(Au): Power bills up 30 percent in carbon scheme: [Dr. Tim] Flannery
• 2007/05/26: ABC(Au): Howard 'last man standing' on emissions trading
  The Victorian Government has accused Prime Minister John Howard of being negligent in not setting up a national emissions trading scheme. The states and territories have vowed to set up their own system if the Commonwealth does not establish one to tackle climate change. The Federal Government is waiting on a report on climate change, due at the end of the month, before making a decision.
• 2007/05/23: ABC(Au): Leading climate experts gather for forum in Brisbane
• 2007/05/21: ABC(Au): Aust needs shared view on 'seriousness of climate change'
  The head of the Federal Government's uranium task force Ziggy Switkowski says nuclear power will never be considered as a serious alternative to fossil fuels unless community opinion on global warming changes.
• 2007/05/22: ABC(Au): Drought claims business scalp - The drought

  looks like it has claimed its first victim in Canberra's business community

• 2007/05/22: SMH: Tough decisions to ensure a low-carbon world
  There is a sense of total unreality in our public rhetoric. We are continually reminded we have never had it so good - the economy is doing splendidly, the stockmarket is booming and employment is at full stretch after 15 years of growth. At the same time we are looking at the most serious issue to confront humanity in centuries - human-induced climate change - largely caused by the unsustainable energy consumption and exports on which our prosperity is based. After years of denial, we are beginning to accept this reality and seek solutions. The biggest problem is the Australian coal industry. It has belatedly acknowledged that clean-coal technology and carbon sequestration are essential if coal combustion is to continue. So it is good to see more research funds being committed with the expansion of its Coal21 Fund. However, the industry has been on notice for more than 20 years that these technologies would be needed if coal was to retain its "licence to operate", but it ignored this need until recently.
• 2007/05/21: SMH: Powerless against Mother Nature
  This is the world of "brownouts", when the electricity generated by the power industry is no longer adequate to the demands made by the population during the hours of peak demand. It is a world we risk entering next year if the winter rains and snow fail again. Because a shortage of water must lead to a shortage of power. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the market, concerned by the lack of rain and lack of future investment, has driven a dramatic run-up in the price of electricity. The forward price for a megawatt hour of electricity for NSW in 2008 has doubled in less than five months. What are we doing about it? We are waiting for rain. Thanks to years of inertia and denial, there is no other choice. Australia has thus become the first advanced economy in the world to be dependent on the weather.
• 2007/05/21: Australian: BP eyes $2bn clean coal plant
  BP and Rio Tinto are starting feasibility studies into the $2 billion coal-fired power generation project at Kwinana in Western Australia that will be fully integrated with technology to capture and store its greenhouse emissions

While in China:

• 2007/05/23: OilChange: China To Move on Climate
• 2007/05/22: People's Daily: China calls for coordinated global efforts

  to address climate change
  China on Monday fully elaborate on its stand on climate change, and urged the industrialized nations to take a lead in tackling the "severe challenge around the globe". "To deal with climate change is a systematic and integrated work and requires the international community enhance cooperation and make joint efforts," said Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan.

While in Japan:

• 2007/05/24: Guardian(UK): Japan calls for 50% reduction in emissions by 2050
• 2007/05/25: TruthOut: Japan Eyes Households, Transportation in Struggle

  to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions

• 2007/05/25: ABC(Au): Japan promises to halve world's emissions [by 2050]
• 2007/05/25: PlanetArk: Japan Urges Global Target to Halve Emissions by 2050
• 2007/05/25: ENN: Japan Prime Minister's Climate Plan Seen Lacking Teeth
• 2007/05/25: Guardian(UK): Tokyo unveils proposals for 50% cut in greenhouse gases by 2050
• 2007/05/24: PhysOrg: Japan Proposes Halving Emissions by 2050

  And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his inaction:

• 2007/05/26: CanWest: [Canadian] Greenhouse gas emissions 32% above Kyoto targets
• 2007/05/24: CanWest: Canadians not prepared for financial sacrifices

  to tackle environment, [FinDept] survey says

• 2007/05/20: CSpin: Spin alert: intensity reduction [Gore's criticism of the Canadian government's climate plan]
• 2007/05/18: CBC: B.C. premier wants Alberta to join in carbon trading
  British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell wants Alberta to join a carbon trading market that could involve a large portion of western North America.

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/05/25: FramingScience: Breaking the Tyranny of the News Peg in Hurricane Coverage
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: Looking for a new GW metaphor: Canaries exhausted
• 2007/05/20: JFleck: Various Canaries - the "canary in the climate change coal mine"

  Framing came up again:

• 2007/05/23: CCM: Framing IV: The Lorax Phenomenon
• 2007/05/23: CCM: Framing III: Happy Feet
• 2007/05/23: CCM: Framing II: Weapons in the Form of Words
• 2007/05/23: CCM: Re-Framing Science While Chris Mooney's Away...

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/05/25: Wunderground: Bryan Norcross's Hurricane Almanac: a book review
• [Book ad] _Sustainable Fossil Fuels_ by Dr. Mark Jaccard

  Meanwhile in the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/05/26: PhysOrg: Climate change leads to lawsuits
• 2007/05/22: C411: Environmental Groups Put EPA on Notice

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/05/23: VT: Novel sugar-to-hydrogen technology promises transportation fuel independence
• 2007/05/26: OilDrum: Nuclear Power for the Oilsands
• 2007/05/22: WWI: Solar Power Set to Shine Brightly
• 2007/05/23: REA: PV Costs to Decrease 40% by 2010
• 2007/05/25: PhysOrg: NREL Updates National Solar Radiation Database
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: On the non-inevitability of solar
  Right now, if solar panels were free -- handed out on street corners -- you still would not see market uptake anywhere near the technical potential. Why? Because we do not yet have the right regulatory infrastructure
• 2007/05/24: TreeHugger: National Solar Radiation Data Base Updated
• NREL: National Solar Radiation Database 1991-2005 Update
• 2007/05/24: PlanetArk: Solar Power Heads Mainstream as Costs Drop - Report
• 2007/05/24: Telegraph(UK): Wind, wave and solar power targets

  will not be met, says White Paper

• 2007/05/23: Eureka: Cleaner manure burns hotter in ethanol processing
• 2007/05/23: Eureka: Hydrogen breakthrough could open the road to carbon-free cars
  A new breakthrough in hydrogen storage technology could remove a key barrier to widespread uptake of non-polluting cars that produce no carbon dioxide emissions. UK scientists have developed a compound of the element lithium which may make it practical to store enough hydrogen on-board fuel-cell-powered cars to enable them to drive over 300 miles before refuelling. Achieving this driving range is considered essential if a mass market for fuel cell cars is to develop in future years, but has not been possible using current hydrogen storage technologies.
• 2007/05/23: SMH: Solar power to head mainstream: survey
• 2007/05/23: Yahoo: Global energy use seen rising 57 pct through 2030: US [EIA]
• 2007/05/23: NEN: Can't Stop Burnin'(Energy)
• 2007/05/21: EnergyBulletin: Global warming exaggerated, insufficient oil, natural gas and coal
• 2007/05/21: KSJT: SF Chronicle: At Stanford, patience in hunt for way out

  of the climate and energy jam

• 2007/05/20: MongaBay: Improving energy efficiency will require

  overcoming market distortions

• 2007/05/21: PhysOrg: Beijing to turn rubbish into power
• 2007/05/21: NEN: Oil & Mining Giants Join to Capture CO2, Make H2
• 2007/05/21: NEN: Spain Goes ThermoSolar

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/05/25: People's Daily: European Commission proposes to keep coal subsidies intact
• 2007/05/21: EurActiv: [Eu] Coal subsidies maintained until 2010
• 2007/05/21: CanWest: Coal is on the comeback
• 2007/05/21: AfterGutenberg: Getcha Yer Coal Zombie Clean

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Noam Chomsky on ethanol
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: Biofuels and the poor
• 2007/05/22: SwissInfo: Study questions benefits of biofuels
• 2007/05/21: BioPact: Brazilian biofuels can meet world's total gasoline needs - expert [Professor Luis Cortez]

  Nuclear energy continues to split the crowd:

• 2007/05/23: GristMill: [Poet] Gary Snyder: James Lovelock's arguments

  for nuclear power 'demented'

• 2007/05/24: TerraDaily: Czech Government Extends Life Of Threatened Uranium Mine [at Dolni Rozinka]
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: Britain Launches Energy Blueprint, Stresses Importance Of Nuclear
• 2007/05/18: RoB: What's the meltdown price for uranium?
• 2007/05/23: CDreams: Independent(UK): These Nonsensical Arguments For Nuclear Power
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: Another attempt to push nukes
• 2007/05/21: ClimateP: Story of the Day: Nukes and Global Warming
• 2007/05/21: GristMill: Story of the day: Nukes and global warming

  Yes, there is no peak in peaks:

• 2007/05/20: Times(UK): Fears over looming energy crisis in UK
  The lights could go out in Britain within eight years as demand is predicted to outstrip supply
• 2007/05/21: EnergyBulletin: Peak coal: sooner than you think

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/05/23: WorldChanging: No Efficiency Without Controls
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: EcoLEDs Announces Brightest Commercial LED Light Bulb Yet

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

• 2007/05/25: TreeHugger: Climb Aboard For 90 Percent Less CO2
• 2007/05/25: TreeHugger: Just In Time For The Summer Drive Season...
• 2007/05/24: NewScientist: Starch diet could power car of the future
• 2007/05/24: SciDaily: Novel Sugar-to-hydrogen Technology Promises Transportation Fuel Independence
• 2007/05/24: SciDaily: California's Clean Car Program Would Cut Pollution, Save Drivers Money
• 2007/05/24: PlanetArk: EU Targets Empty Trucks to Cut Road Emissions
• 2007/05/24: SciDaily: Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Open The Road To Carbon-free Cars
• 2007/05/23: CDreams: SF Chronicle: Rejoice, The Hummer Is Dead
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: NYC's yellow cabs go green
• 2007/05/23: AfterGutenberg: Autoblog Green, Ford Escape, Hybrid Taxi, Facts, Jack
• 2007/05/23: AfterGutenberg: Cobasys NiMHax Battery in Enova Retrofit
• 2007/05/21: CTB: Honda's FCX: Out-Priusing the [Toyota] Prius
  While the Toyota Prius is the current "must-have" of the "green" community, Honda (NYSE: HMC) is aiming to trump Toyota (NYSE: TM) in the eco-friendly car derby. Recently, Honda announced that it will commercially-unveil a fuel cell vehicle aimed for U.S. drivers, the FCX...next year, a fuel cell car will be offered by a major auto manufacturer in the U.S.

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/05/25: GristMill: Is greenwashing good for you?
• 2007/05/24: TreeHugger: Corporate Climate Response: Business Solutions to the Climate Crisis
• 2007/05/24: TreeHugger: Corporate Run Down
• 2007/05/24: GristMill: Interface and Anderson [GW & biz]
• 2007/05/23: PlanetArk: EIB [European Investment Bank] to Sell Bond Linked to Climate Index
• 2007/05/23: EESD: Is There A Green Business Bubble?

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/05/24: EnvFin: Funds fight Exxon board pick for climate stance
• 2007/05/24: ClimateP: Bush's Dumb Luck on Emissions & PGDW#7
• 2007/05/25: TCE: Arguing with a Denier? Here's Your Ammo
• 2007/05/25: DeSmogBlog: McIntyre Unearths Fresh Climate Graph Outrage
• 2007/05/25: DeSmogBlog: Automakers Ad Up Their Denials!
• 2007/05/25: EnvEcon: Climate Change, Recreation and Inhofe
• 2007/05/16: RespectfulInsolence: Cranks against peer review
• 2007/05/23: TerraDaily: ExxonMobil Shareholders To Raise Heat On Global Warming
• 2007/05/21: ClimateP: PGDW#5: Claiming Climate Mitigation must be Regressive
• 2007/05/23: GristMill: Post of the day: Crichton's fictions
• 2007/05/23: ERabett: Yah gotta pay attention [McIntyre robot]
• 2007/05/20: Reasic: Michael Crichton: "Aliens Cause Global Warming"
• 2007/05/23: Deltoid: Michael Crichton debunked
• 2007/05/23: DeSmogBlog: "Think" tank throws down gauntlet... right on its own foot
• 2007/05/24: SMH: Climate-change sceptics shouldn't bluff the world
• 2007/05/21: HuffPo: ExxonMobil: Sex, Lies and Global Warming
• 2007/05/20: CSW: Greenpeace report on Exxon's continued funding of

  global warming denial and disinformation machine

• 2007/05/21: Denialism: Who are the [GW] denialists? (Part III)
• 2007/05/21: Deltoid: Guide to Global Warming Denialists
• 2007/05/20: Deltoid: National Post hatchet job on Gore
• 2007/05/21: Stoat: Talkin' Tosh with the IEA [Institute for Economic Affairs] [econ silly denial]

  A.Cockburn is enjoying his denial far too much:

• 2007/05/26: CPunch: The Greenhousers Strike Back and Out
• 2007/05/25: ZMag: Fetters of the Old Contrarians [ACockburn]
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: Strange bedfellows in climate politics

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/05/26: JEB: No Comment(s) -- The IPCC promises that [bizarre bureaucracy]
• 2007/05/25: Stoat: On the CO2/T lag, again
• 2007/05/24: Guardian(UK): Charities urged to step up green efforts
• 2007/05/25: WorldChanging: Principle 15: Carbon Neutrality and Climate Foresight
• 2007/05/25: ERabett: Why stock markets are evil [Vranes, CF]
• 2007/05/25: C411: That Ocean Fertilization Idea
• 2007/05/25: ENN: Costa Rica Aims To Win Carbon Neutral Nation Race
• 2007/05/24: JFleck: Global Warming or Climate Change
• 2007/05/23: CDreams: IPS: Climate Change: "We've Never Seen What We're Seeing Now"
• 2007/05/22: KSJT: NPR: People and climate series - today, artists meet Spitzbergen
• 2007/05/22: TruthOut: Scorching Summer Forecast in USA
• 2007/05/22: TruthOut: Dutch Keep Nervous Eye on Climate
• 2007/05/22: ABC(Au): Aust among worst offenders on carbon emissions: scientist
• 2007/05/22: GristMill: Response from Environmental Defense:

  Top-down or bottom-up, the goal is cutting carbon

• 2007/05/23: FergusB: More odds, less time
• 2007/05/22: FergusB: Gone fishin?
• 2007/05/22: MTobis: Uncertainty and Conservatism
• 2007/05/22: MTobis: Essential Reading [in blogs]
• 2007/05/22: RealClimate: Start here
• 2007/05/22: CCM: IEO2007 Report Released: Choose Your Own Adventure
• 2007/05/23: C411: Global Warming in the Garden
• 2007/05/22: BCLSB: A Plethora Of Hockey Sticks
• 2007/05/22: AfterGutenberg: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• 2007/05/21: KSJT: NY Times: A few more in the Gray Lady's energy & climate watch
• 2007/05/20: ClimateP: Climate Progress, "Environmental Pragmatist," in the New York Times
• 2007/05/21: TruthOut: No More Private Jets for Me, DiCaprio Tells Cannes
• 2007/05/24: Climate Feedback: The land of unintended consequences [HFC-2x]
• 2007/05/21: GristMill: Global warming and the vision thing
• 2007/05/21: GristMill: Climate changes the picture
• 2007/05/20: ERabett: Sucking thumbs - A few days ago, when Ethon flew in

  with the news that Prometheus was taking a sabbatical...

• 2007/05/20: ERabett: Things worth looking at elsewhere...
• 2007/05/21: FergusB: Not a cost, but an investment
• 2007/05/21: CCM: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
• 2007/05/21: C411: Do Volcanoes Cause Global Warming?
• 2007/05/21: CCurrents: Tracking Dangerous Climate Change This Week
• 2007/05/21: HuffPo: Who Would Have Thunk It? [Sierra Club's Cool Cities program]

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

• Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development
• Worldwatch Institute
• Greenpeace - Making Waves
• PS&D: Production, Supply, and Demand
• WASDE: World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates
• Solar Catalyst Group
• 2007/05/: FAO: Crop Prospects and Food Situation
• NREL: National Solar Radiation Database 1991-2005 Update
• Fermi Paradox
• Reasic: Climate change class is in session
• Tamino: Open Mind
• Biopact - Bioenergy pact between Europe and Africa
• UNL: Drought Monitor
• BOM: The South Pacific Sea Level & Climate Monitoring Project
• Climate Progress
• Climate Choices - Global Warming and Climate Change in California
• LE: Lomborg Errors
• CDP: Carbon Disclosure Project
• CPC: Climate Protection Campaign
• NASA:SORCE: Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment

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Typically Low Key Plug

My first novel Water was published May, 2007.

An

Introduction

to the novel is available, along with the

Unpublished Foreword

and the

Launch Talk.

An overview of my writing is available

here.

<regards>

-het

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