A Few Things Ill Considered: Another Week of GW News, June 24, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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Top Stories, Humour, Rolling Stone, Chinese CO2, Forests, Ocean Temperatures, Hansen & Independent
Hurricanes, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites
Impacts, Rainforests, Darfur, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
Mitigation, Transportation, Architecture, Sequestration, Adaptation, Planktos
Journals, Misc. Science
Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Tax, Carbon Trade, Optimal Strategy
Politics, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Japan, Asia, Canada
Ecological Economics, Media, Books, Courts, Betting, Mob posts
Energy, Biofuel, Coal, Nukes, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Carbon Lobby
The Usual, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Another Week of GW News, June 24, 2007

In the laugh, it's funny, damnit department:

The verbal slip of the week award goes to....:

An old joke is better than no joke?

Rolling Stone has a big spread on Climate Change:

The Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency reported China is now the top in CO2 emissions which of course China immediately denied:

Another report on various forest types relative CO2 absorption:

It seems that report of 2003 - 2005 ocean cooling may have been a result of instrumentation changes:

The Independent(UK) picked up on J. Hansen's latest warning:

Meanwhile people are talking, but there have been no hurricanes:

Temperatures are high:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

While in the tropical rainforests:

Controversy over the role of climate change in the Darfur conflict continues:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

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

And on the mitigation front, aviation took a lickin:

Bringing it all back to the (money) train:

Building buildings for the future:

On the carbon sequestration front:

And on the adaptation front:

Planktos is keeping the iron hypothesis alive:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

As for nd emissions trading:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:

On the American political front:

The Senate has passed an energy bill, that now has to get through the House:

The grand historical paradigm has been invoked, again:

So when will the EPA refuse to enforce its regulations?

The 2008 campaign is picking up:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

While in China:

In Canada, parliament has prorogued. The Senate passed the Kyoto compliance law dumping a hot potato in Harper's lap:

Ontario has proposed some worthwhile initiatives [Is there an election coming?]:

Otherwise, it's business as usual:

Now here is an apt description for the tar sands:

Several people have stepped back to ask where are we going?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

Joseph has continued his practice of commenting on specific articles:

Here is something for your library:

Meanwhile in the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

The betting meme is back:

Eli, Simon & Tamino have invented the 'mob post':

Developing a new energy infrastructure is the fundamental challenge of the current generation:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Yes, we have a peak coal sighting:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

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

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

The denier du jour has to be Czech President Vaclav Klaus:

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

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

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