Another Week of GW News, September 2, 2007

Courtesy of H.E.Taylor, here is this week's GW news roundup
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• Top Stories, UNFCCC in Vienna, Greece on Fire, Arctic, Tropical Rain, Milankovitch, Free Access
• Hurricanes, Felix & Henriette, Katrina, Temperatures, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR
• Impacts, Forests, Coral, Wacky Weather, Floods & Droughts, Biofuel & Food
• Mitigation, Sustainable Buildings, Sequestration, Adaptation
• Journals, Misc. Science
• Carbon Trading, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
• Politics, International, APEC, America, Britain, Germany, Australia, China, Canada
• Apocalypso, Media, Books, Courts
• Energy, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Cars, Insurance Carbon Lobby
• The Usual, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion
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The big story of the week is the UNFCCC meeting in Vienna:

• UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• 2007/09/01: WaPo: U.N. Climate Talks End in Cloud of Discord -- Industrialized, Developing Nations Still at Odds Over How and When to Cut Emissions
• 2007/08/31: TruthOut: Rich Countries Deadlocked Over 2020 Climate Goals
• 2007/08/31: PhysOrg: Agreement Reached on Greenhouse Gas Curb [Vienna]
• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: Rich Countries Deadlocked Over 2020 Climate Goals
• 2007/08/31: ENN: Industrial Nations Agree To Look At Tough New Climate Rules
• 2007/08/31: Yahoo: Industrial nations agree step to new climate pact
• 2007/08/31: Yahoo: Industrial nations shy away from stiff 2020 goals [Vienna]
• 2007/08/31: CSM: Global warming -- who pays and when? The economics of climate change is driving what kind of pact nations may be willing to make
• 2007/08/31: CBC: 158 countries agree on rough emissions targets [25 per cent to 40 per cent of their 1990 levels by 2020]
• 2007/08/31: CTV: Agreement reached on curbing greenhouse gas
  Negotiators from 158 countries reached basic agreement Friday on rough targets aimed at getting some of the world's biggest polluters to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. A weeklong UN climate conference concluded that industrialized countries should strive to cut emissions by 25 per cent to 40 per cent of their 1990 levels by 2020. Experts said that target would serve as a loose guide for a major international climate summit to be held in December in Bali, Indonesia
• 2007/08/31: CTV: Canada under fire at UN climate talks
  Five industrialized countries including Canada came under fire on Friday for blocking a draft agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and counter the most catastrophic effects of global warming. Talks continued in the final hours of a weeklong UN climate change conference in Vienna in an attempt to get the holdouts -- Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Russia and Switzerland -- to agree to set a target of cutting emissions by 25 to 40 per cent of 1990 levels by 2020
• 2007/08/29: TerraDaily: US casts doubt on global carbon market
  The US delegate to a United Nations conference on climate change cast doubt Wednesday about the creation of a global carbon market to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "It's unclear when and if there's going to be a global carbon market," Harlan Watson, the head of the US delegation, told a press conference in Vienna
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: No Sign of US Carbon Trading Consensus - Watson
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: US Praises Developing Nations' Climate Curbs [Vienna]
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Mankind to Blame for Warming but Can Slow Damage - UN
• 2007/08/29: PhysOrg: U.S. Plays Down Split With EU on Climate
  The United States and Europe are working together to tackle global warming, the chief U.S. climate negotiator [Harlan Watson] said Wednesday, deflecting growing criticism within the EU and the developing world over Washington's perceived go-it-alone stance.
• 2007/08/29: ENN: Draft U.N. study shows climate risks and solutions
• 2007/08/29: ENN: Mankind to blame for warming but can slow damage
• 2007/08/29: ENN: U.N. says climate deal in 2009 ideal, but complex [Vienna]
• 2007/08/29: Reuters: Mankind to blame for warming but can slow damage
• 2007/08/27: UN: UN-backed global climate change meeting kicks off
• 2007/08/28: TruthOut: Energy Efficiency Easiest Path to Aid Climate
• 2007/08/28: PhysOrg: 'Green' Investments Key to Climate Fight [Vienna]
• 2007/08/27-31: UNFCCC: Vienna Climate Change Talks 2007 -- AWG 4 and the Dialogue 4
• 2007/08/28: C411: Vienna Climate Change Talks
• 2007/08/28: DeSmogBlog: US Rejects 50% Cuts As Superstantial [Vienna]
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Talkin' -- Latest round of UN climate talks focuses on energy investment
• 2007/08/28: SciDaily: Major Shift In Investments Crucial To Responding To Climate Change, UN [Vienna]
• 2007/08/28: ENN: U.S. Says Steep Climate Curbs May Not Be Needed
• 2007/08/27: Yahoo: UN climate change talks open in Austria
• 2007/08/28: Guardian(UK): India and China urged to cut emissions [Vienna]
• 2007/08/27: KSJT: Wires, etc: In Vienna, UN delegates struggle for route past Kyoto Protocol
• 2007/08/26: PhysOrg: U.N. Climate Talks Focus on Business End
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: U.N. Climate Talks Seek Deal on Warming
• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: Climate Talks Start on Widening Kyoto to Outsiders
• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: US Says Steep Climate Curbs May Not be Needed [Vienna]
• 2007/08/27: ENN: Climate talks start with calls for new global deal
• 2007/08/27: SwissInfo: Climate talks start on widening Kyoto [Vienna]
• 2007/08/27: Xinhuanet: Preparation meeting for UN climate change summit held in Vienna
• 2007/08/27: Xinhuanet: UN urges more funds to tackle climate change
• 2007/08/27: BBC: Vienna meeting seeks climate plan
  Delegates from more than 150 countries are meeting in Vienna to discuss ways to widen and extend the United Nations Kyoto protocol on climate change

The fires in Greece have killed 60+ and sent billions up in $moke:

• 2007/09/02: TreeHugger: Backfire: Constitutional Forest Protection in Greece May Promote Arson to Abet Land Developers (or "Forests Don't Vote")
• 2007/08/31: GristMill: While Greece burns...Fires in Greece encouraged by global warming, developers
• 2007/08/31: CSM: Greeks angry, confused over fires
• 2007/08/28: WSWS: Over 60 die as forest fires sweep Greece
• 2007/09/01: Guardian(UK): Death and desolation after the inferno on road from Artemida
• 2007/08/30: CBC: Damage from fires in Greece reaches $1.7B -- High winds could fuel new fires
• 2007/08/29: PhysOrg: Greece suffers more fires in 2007 than in last decade, satellites reveal
• 2007/08/29: ESA: Greece suffers more fires in 2007 than in last decade, satellites reveal
• 2007/08/27: WP: Greece Ablaze: Is This The Way The World Ends?
• 2007/08/27: IndiaDaily: Fringes of Athens burning - more than 70 dead
• 2007/08/28: BBC: Wildfires rage on across Greece
• 2007/08/28: Guardian(UK): Death toll mounts as Greek wildfires rage on [60+ dead]
• 2007/08/27: TruthOut: Why Is Greece on Fire?
• 2007/08/26: GristMill: 'An unspeakable tragedy' - In Greece, 170 fires burning, 37 dead, and government shaken
• 2007/08/27: Reuters: Frantic Greeks flee villages, fires kill 63
• 2007/08/27: CSM: Why is Greece on fire? As at least 170 wildfires spread, many say that a lack of environmental protection is to blame
• 2007/08/27: CarsonsPost: Why is Greece on fire?
• 2007/08/27: CBC: Deadly Greek fires burning into the fourth day
• 2007/08/27: Guardian(UK): Helpers fly in from across Europe as forest blazes threaten [Greek] historic sites

  Climate Spin has pointed out a little problem with a widely echoed NASA release:

• 2007/08/31: CSpin: There are models and then there are models
• 2007/08/31: KSJT: AP, etc: NASA study says warmer world may bring more, big thunderstorms. Tornadoes too? That's a bigger maybe.
• 2007/08/31: ClimateP: Global warming will spawn severe storms and tornados, reports NASA
• 2007/08/30: TerraDaily: Global warming will bring stronger storms and tornadoes
• 2007/08/31: ENN: NASA Study: Stronger But Fewer Storms
  NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms
• 2007/08/30: ENN: NASA Study Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming
• 2007/08/30: SciDaily: Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts
• 2007/08/30: Eureka: NASA study predicts more severe storms with global warming

  So how will current high GHG levels interact with the Milankovitch cycles?

• 2007/08/31: Atmoz: Climate change may delay Ice Age by 500,000 years
• 2007/08/29: TerraDaily: Global warming could delay next ice age: study
• 2007/08/30: SciDaily: Next Ice Age Delayed By Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels
• 2007/08/29: PhysOrg: Next Ice Age delayed by rising CO2 levels
  Future ice ages may be delayed by up to half a million years by our burning of fossil fuels. That is the implication of recent work by Dr Toby Tyrrell of the University of Southampton's School of Ocean and Earth Science at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: Strong Evidence Points to Earth's Proximity to Sun as Ice Age Trigger

  The Northwest Passage is ice-free:

• 2007/08/29: TreeHugger: Northwest Passage All But Ice-Free
• 2007/08/29: DeSmogBlog: Arctic Passage - Step Right Up, Sail on Through
• 2007/08/29: CanWest: Arctic passage opens - Ship could voyage 'Tokyo to Boston'
• 2007/08/29: CanWest: The Northwest Passage: in dispute, and navigable - Summer's record melt of Arctic sea ice causes 'unprecedented' opening of route
• 2007/08/28: Guardian(UK): North-West Passage is now plain sailing

  And here is an Arctic melange:

• 2007/08/31: KSJT: WS Journal: Mapping the Arctic -- and another one on fashions for a greenhouse gassed world
• 2007/08/31: DailyGreen: Axis of Arctic Oil - Germany And Norway Form Partnership, While Russia Plans Oil Exploration
• 2007/09/01: BBC: Vast ice island trapped in Arctic
  An island of ice the size of Manhattan has drifted into a remote channel and jammed itself in. The Ayles Ice Island changed the Arctic map by breaking free from the Canadian coast two years ago
• 2007/08/29: RigZone: USGS Greenland Survey Shows Much Lower Resource Potential
  The northeastern shore of Greenland could provide the U.S. with significantly fewer billions of barrels of oil and gas resources than previously thought, the U.S. Geological Survey said Tuesday
• 2007/08/29: Tamino: Polar Ice
• 2007/08/29: DeutscheWelle: German Foreign Minister Warns Against Exploiting Arctic
  German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cautioned against countries breaking the law in attempts to reap the Arctic's natural energy resources. The warning comes shortly after Russia laid claims to the area.
• 2007/08/27: TreeHugger: In Harpers Magazine: The Battle for the Melting North

  I wonder how this jibes with the Zhang et al. paper:

• 2007/08/31: ENN: Hotter Earth Implicated In Tropical Rainfall Rise
• 2007/07/24: Nature: (abs) Detection of human influence on twentieth-century precipitation trends by Xuebin Zhang et al.
• 2007/08/27: Eureka: Long-term increase in rainfall seen in tropics
• 2007/08/27: NASA: Long-Term Increase in Rainfall Seen in Tropics
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: Long-term increase in rainfall seen in tropics

  Meanwhile the rain broke records in the UK:

• 2007/08/31: BBC: Record rains for British summer
  This summer appears to have been the wettest since rainfall records began in 1914, according to provisional data from the UK Meteorological Office
• 2007/08/31: BBC: Torrential rain across the UK is likely to mean the summer of 2007 will have been the wettest since records began in 1914, Met Office figures suggest

  And may do so elsewhere:

• 2007/08/30: ABC(Au): Global warming flood threat worse than predicted: study
• 2007/08/29: TerraDaily: Flooding risk from global warming badly under-estimated: study
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Predictions Off [low] for Global Warming Flood Risk - Study
• 2007/08/29: Yahoo: Flooding risk from global warming badly under-estimated: study
• 2007/08/29: Yahoo: Climate change impact worsening, Ireland getting wetter: report
• 2007/08/29: BBC: Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports

  And just a reminder that in spite of 25 million displaced & 2000+ dead, it's never a simple story:

• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: India's Monsoon to Revive, Crops Looking Good
  India's monsoon, vital for farmers and the larger economy, will revive in central states by Friday, and crops are growing well following good rains in key agricultural states, officials and traders said. There has been devastating flooding in the last month in some eastern states, but overall this year's rains have been a boon at 103 percent of the long-term average up to Aug. 22, a weather department official, who did not wish to be named, told Reuters.

Tim & Eli triggered a discussion of one of my hobby horses:

• Free Science News & Sources
• 2007/08/30: ERabett: Here and back again...An interesting discussion on open access...
• 2007/08/28: Denialism: Denialist Deck Applied: PRISM
• 2007/08/28: ERabett: Why librarians want to kill libertarians
• 2007/08/27: Deltoid: Open access to scientific papers is bad because it makes them more accessible

  The hurricane wars are kicking over with Felix & Henrietta:

• 2007/09/02: CCM: Hurricane Felix Bats an Eye
• 2007/09/02: SwissInfo: Hurricane Felix upgraded to Category 2 storm
• 2007/09/02: BBC: Felix has strengthened to a Category Two hurricane as it roars towards the Netherlands Antilles in the eastern Caribbean, US meteorologists say
• 2007/09/01: PhysOrg: Felix becomes sixth named storm of the 2007 season
• 2007/08/31: GristMill: [Dessler] Eye on the storm - Thoughts on Chris Mooney's Storm World
• 2007/09/01: Wunderground: Felix a major threat to Central America; new disturbance could develop
• 2007/08/31: Wunderground: Tropical Depression Six forms; Henrietta lashes the Pacific coast of Mexico
• 2007/08/31: Wunderground: Hurricane Hunters find a tropical depression forming; Henriette lashes Pacific coast of Mexico
• 2007/08/31: Wunderground: Two Atlantic storms are near tropical depression strength
• 2007/09/01: ENN: Tropical Storm Felix forms in Atlantic near Caribbean
• 2007/09/01: BBerg: Tropical Storm Felix Forms in Caribbean, Heads West
• 2007/08/31: CBC: Mexico braces for [Pacific] tropical storm Henriette
• 2007/09/01: SunSentinel: Tropical Storm Felix Forms in Caribbean
• 2007/08/30: PhysOrg: NASA [AIRs: Atmospheric Infrared Sounder on Aqua] Satellite Captured the Life and Death of Hurricane Dean
• 2007/08/30: Wunderground: Lesser Antilles wave gets better organized; weather radio recall ordered
• 2007/08/30: Wunderground: Lots of disturbances, but not much threat
• 2007/08/29: WarmingLaw: Sustaining New Orleans
• 2007/08/29: TerraDaily: Devastated New Orleans mourns Katrina dead two years on
• 2007/08/29: PlanetArk: Warming-Fueled Hurricanes Need New Tactics - Experts
• 2007/08/28: Wunderground: Disturbance 94L in Central Atlantic; NHC management changes
• 2007/08/27: Wunderground: The cold water wake of Dean
• 2007/08/26: Wunderground: Quiet in the tropics

  The two year anniversary of Katrina has given rise to many retrospectives:

• 2007/09/01: AngryBear: Krugman on the Kudlow Approach to Katrina Relief
• 2007/09/01: AngryBear: Turning Their Backs on NOLA
• 2007/09/01: TCR: Compassionate conservatism -- Katrina style
• 2007/09/01: HuffPo: Conservatives to New Orleans: Stop Whining Already
• 2007/08/30: CDreams: MoJo: Windfall: How Conservatives, Contractors, and Developers Cashed In on Katrina
• 2007/09/01: WSWS: Hurricane Katrina two years on - Part 3: New Orleans levees still not rebuilt
• 2007/08/31: WSWS: New Orleans: a scene of devastation and blight -- Hurricane Katrina two years on - Part 2
• 2007/08/29: WSWS: Hurricane Katrina two years on - Part 1: New Orleans - A city in social and economic distress
• 2007/08/30: WSWS: Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath: from natural disaster to national humiliation
• 2007/08/30: EmpireBurlesque: Blood in the Water: Katrina and the Death of the Common Good
• 2007/08/31: EconView: Paul Krugman: Katrina All the Time
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: Katrina - A good analysis of the fateful hurricane's political aftermath
• 2007/08/30: CCM: ...but We ALL Knew Katrina Was Coming!
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Climate Report May Have Cut Katrina Impact - Analyst
  Hurricane Katrina might have caused less damage if the Bush administration had completed a required report of US vulnerability to global warming before the storm hit, an environmental policy analyst said on Wednesday.
• 2007/08/23: SouthernStudies: Two years after Katrina, Washington money not getting to those in need
• 2007/08/24: SouthernStudies: Is Katrina our "defining moment?"
• 2007/08/29: DemNow: The Path to Destruction: Two Years After Katrina, Cleanup and Recovery Far From Complete
• 2007/08/26: MoJo: Storm Warning - An Investigative Series [Katrina]
• 2007/08/29: CCM: Hurricane Katrina Lessons, Part IV: It's the President, Stupid
• 2007/08/29: CCM: Hurricane Katrina Lessons, Part III: Why Aren't We Studying Changing Risks?
• 2007/08/29: CCM: Hurricane Katrina Lessons, Part II: It's Bigger Than New Orleans
• 2007/08/29: CCM: Hurricane Katrina Lessons, Part I: Learning to Live With Scientific Uncertainty
• 2007/08/29: KSJT: Sacramento Bee: Fight! Fight! (ok, polite disagreement?) Scientists and engineers tell Corps to rethink trees on levees
• 2007/08/29: Wunderground: Katrina's 2nd anniversary, and the tropical update
• 2007/08/29: USAToday: 2 years after Katrina, pace of rebuilding depends on who pays
  Nearly 80% of the homes in affluent Lakewood have been rebuilt or reoccupied, a remarkable return rate for an area just down the road from one of the biggest levee breaches. [...] None of the 115 "critical priority projects" identified by city officials has been completed
• 2007/08/29: AFP: Devastated New Orleans mourns Katrina dead two years on
• 2007/08/29: Guardian(UK): Summertime - and after Katrina, life still ain't easy - Two years after hurricane, frustration grows at sluggish rebuilding of New Orleans
• 2007/08/29: Guardian(UK): The Lower Ninth is rising from Katrina's awful ashes
• 2007/08/28: CCM: Cliff Notes to the Katrina Anniversary Literature
• 2007/08/28: CCurrents: Two Years Of Katrina

  Meanwhile the temperature record came in for some examination:

• 2007/08/30: FergusB: Medieval not-so-warm period? Or; "Hey, look, has someone fixed the Hockey Stick?"
• 2007/08/29: KSJT: AP, Reuters: Those high temps last year? Gov't scientists say greenhouse gases were prime culprits
• 2007/08/29: TerraDaily: Greenhouse Gases Likely Drove Near-Record US Warmth In 2006
• 2007/08/28: CNN: Scorching U.S. heat in 2006 blamed on humans
  NOAA: Warming caused by human activity biggest factor in '06 - 2006 was 2nd-warmest year on record over 48 contiguous states - 42 tests simulated atmospheric changes under various conditions
• 2007/08/28: ClimateP: NOAA: Greenhouse gases drove near-record U.S. warmth in 2006
• 2007/08/28: DeSmogBlog: NOAA vs. NASA hottest year in the US still officially 1998
• 2007/08/28: ENN: Experts Say Greenhouse Gases Fueled 2006 US Heat, Not El Nino
• 2007/08/28: Eureka: Greenhouse gases likely drove near-record US warmth in 2006
• 2007/08/27: Missoulian: Expert: Extreme heat may be norm
  The blistering heat of this past July will be the norm in less than 50 years if global warming continues as expected, a University of Montana ecologist and climate expert predicts. Steve Running, a UM forestry professor who was one of the authors of a seminal international paper on climate change released this spring, said forecasts predict an average July in 2050 will be like the withering, record-breaking July of 2007 - with triple-digit temperatures the norm.

Phoenix has set a dubious record:

• 2007/08/30: CSM: More people, more concrete, and lots more heat in Phoenix
• 2007/08/30: AP: Nearly a Month of 110 or More in Phoenix
• 2007/08/29: AzCentral: Today could make '07 a record-breaker - 29 days of at least 110 degrees [F in Phoenix]

  The ozone hole is back early this year:

• 2007/08/28: ENN: Antarctic Ozone Hole Appears Early, Growing

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2007/08/30: Yahoo: Rising sea threatens China's south: report
  Over 1,100 square kilometres (440 square miles) of land in economically booming southern China will be inundated by rising sea-levels by 2050 due to global warming, state press said Thursday
• 2007/08/30: ChinaDaily: Sea to 'engulf Guangdong' by 2050
• 2007/08/29: IHT: Vulnerable to rising seas, Singapore envisions a giant seawall
• 2007/08/30: ENN: China Warns: Rising Seas Will "Engulf" Tract Of Pearl River Delta
• 2007/08/25: Globe&Mail: Will oceans surge 59 centimetres this century - or 25 metres?

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/08/28: TerraDaily: European Hot Spots And Fires Identified From Space
• 2007/08/27: ESA: European hot spots and fires identified from space

  DeSmogBlog has started a publicity campaign for the DSCOVR climate satellite:

• 2007/09/01: CSpin: Who killed the DSCOVR climate satellite? An experiment in blog-to-traditional media crossover
• 2007/09/01: MTobis: Earth Observation COVR-up
• 2007/08/28: DeSmogBlog: A DeSmogBlog exclusive investigation into NASA's DSCOVR climate station

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/09/01: BBC: UK peatlands face future stress
  Severe erosion and climate change could result in a vast volume of carbon from the UK's peatlands being released into the atmosphere, scientists have warned
• 2007/08/30: TerraDaily: Mediterranean countries feel the force of deadly forest fires
• 2007/09/01: TreeHugger: The Pine Beetle's Deadly March
• 2007/09/01: TreeHugger: Putting the Sex Back in Climate Change [impacts]
• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: Fire Burns in Eastern Spain, 125 Evacuated
• 2007/09/02: SciDaily: Faster Climate Change Means Bigger Problems
• 2007/08/31: AFP: Ice fjords, lifeblood for polar species, at risk in melting Arctic
• 2007/08/29: ClimateP: Climate change threatens America, IPCC warns
• 2007/08/30: ENN: New U.S. Test: CO2 Could Make Grasslands 'Unusable'
• 2007/08/29: ABC(Au): Fires choke Indonesian peatlands
• 2007/08/29: NewScientist: Leaf 'sweat glands' to worsen future flooding
• 2007/08/29: PhysOrg: UC Riverside hydrologist to study ecological impact of climate change on mountain lakes
• 2007/08/28: KSJT: LA Times: Rising CO2 gives "useless" shrubs the edge in grasslands
• 2007/08/28: TreeHugger: The End of the World's Grasslands as We Know Them?
• 2007/08/26: MongaBay: European blood-sucker falls victim to global warming
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: Study links greenhouse gas to changing ecology of global rangelands
  Rising carbon dioxide levels are almost certainly fueling the encroachment of shrubs on global grasslands, a trend that could eventually jeopardize the use of these lands for cattle grazing, according to a study released Monday
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: Hungry insects leave clues to impacts of climate change

  Corals are dying:

• 2007/08/29: Maribo: Coral decline in the Indo-Pacific
• 2007/08/28: TerraDaily: Corals And Climate Change

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2007/08/31: Eureka: Population movements and money remittances spur forest regrowth
  Socioeconomic data, land-use surveys, and satellite imagery document increases in wooded area of El Salvador

Desertification looms:

• 2007/08/28: WSWS: Scientists warn Spain could see mass spread of deserts

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/09/02: ChinaDaily: 7 dead, 4 missing in Shaanxi rainstorm
• 2007/08/29: TreeHugger: Foaming Ocean Whips Beachgoers into a Frenzy
• 2007/08/29: DailyMail: Cappuccino Coast: The day the Pacific was whipped up into an ocean of froth
• 2007/08/28: CCurrents: What's Happening To Our Weather?

  We have heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2007/08/27: Xinhuanet: At least 11 people killed in summer heatwave in Mexico

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/08/31: AbqJournal: Notes From A Water Meeting [Notes From a Not Enough Water Meeting]
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Australian Farmer Battles Drought
• 2007/08/29: PlanetArk: UN Says Floods Affect 100,000 Ethiopians
• 2007/08/29: PlanetArk: China Puts Summer Flood Death Toll at 1,138
• 2007/08/28: Australian: Drought hits electricity wholesalers - hydro-electric and thermal coal plants in Victoria and Queensland are temporarily shut down because of water shortages
• 2007/08/27: SeattlePI: Rain, floods sock Midwest - Evacuations ordered near Wisconsin dams
• 2007/08/26: TheAge: Water shortage to cost dearly: expert
• 2007/08/27: Kentucky: More of the [Kentucky] state falls into extreme drought
• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: Floods and Landslides Kill 14 in Southwest China
• 2007/08/27: HuffPo: This is the Face of Global Warming [South Asia & Midwest storms]
• 2007/08/24: BrisbaneTimes: Flash flooding in SE Qld breaks records
• 2007/08/26: WisconsinSJ: Nature trumps decades of effort [US floods]
• 2007/08/25: ABC(US): Aftermath of Midwest Deluge: Economic Impact - The Midwest Braces for the Effects of the Record Flooding
• 2007/08/26: BBC: Europe counts cost of flood chaos
  Cities and towns across central Europe remain on alert as they deal with the impact of devastating floods which have killed at least 42 people
• 2007/08/26: BBC: Floods strand Romania villagers
  At least 1,400 villagers have been stranded in northern Romania amid heavy rains that caused rivers to overflow, killing a 19-year-old man

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/08/29: AllAfrica: Nation(Kenya): Biofuels Likely to Boost Energy But Increase Hunger, Now Critics Warn
• 2007/08/29: Guardian(UK): The looming food crisis
  Land that was once used to grow food is increasingly being turned over to biofuels. This may help us to fight global warming - but it is driving up food prices throughout the world and making life increasingly hard in developing countries. Add in water shortages, natural disasters and an ever-rising population, and what you have is a recipe for disaster
• 2007/08/25: Economist: The agonies of agflation - Fuel for the body and the car

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

• 2007/08/31: TruthOut: Dirt Isn't So Cheap After All
• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: Food Demand, Climate Change Strain Soils - Experts
• 2007/08/31: Eureka: The 5 Ws of corn production - The 'who' is farmers, and they're asking where to plant, what hybrid, when to apply nitrogen and why
• 2007/08/31: CDreams: IPS: Dirt Isn't So Cheap After All
  Soil erosion is the "silent global crisis" that is undermining food production and water availability, as well as being responsible for 30 percent of the greenhouse gases driving climate change.
• 2007/08/30: Yahoo: Food demand and climate straining soils
• 2007/08/31: Guardian(UK): Global food crisis looms as climate change and population growth strip fertile land
• 2007/08/30: MTobis: Food and Carbon Dioxide
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Drought Catastrophe Stalks Australia's Food Bowl
• 2007/08/29: KSJT: NY Times: More food and science news - this one is about meat, and climate change
• 2007/08/29: TruthOut: The Looming Food Crisis
• 2007/08/28: FinanceWeek: The last straw? Alongside debt, rising food prices threaten industrial growth
• 2007/08/28: BBC: Shoppers 'face meat price rises'
  Meat prices are set to increase as farmers pass on the burden of surging costs, a report has suggested. With wheat prices rising, animal feed costs have almost doubled for farmers, the study by Deloitte found
• 2007/08/27: PlanetArk: Summer Rains Cloud Wheat Harvest as Prices Soar
• 2007/08/27: ArabNews: Starving Without Money, They Waited for Death
  In a country like India, where the majority is poor and starvation and malnutrition affect over half the population, the gravity of a starvation death is often confined to statistics

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/08/31: Guardian(UK): $350m to leave oil in the ground - Country asks developed world to pay it not to pump - and avoid further pollution of the Amazon rainforest
• 2007/08/30: PhysOrg: Fireproofing homes dramatically reduces forest fire size, according to new study

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/08/31: CSM: Toronto turns to lake water for air conditioning - Cold water drawn from Lake Ontario cools buildings and provides big energy savings
• 2007/08/30: SciDaily: New Energy-efficient Roof System Designed
• 2007/08/28: TreeHugger: The Transportation Energy Intensity of Buildings
• 2007/08/28: TreeHugger: Number of the Day: 300 [building codes]
• 2007/08/28: NEN: California Home builder will make solar standard
• 2007/08/27: NEN: New houses, new energy
• 2007/08/27: SwissInfo: WWF unveils blueprint for eco-living
  Conservation group WWF Switzerland has announced plans to create eco-communities in Geneva to counter over-exploitation of the Earth's natural resources. The organisation says it is in advanced negotiations with three of the city's communes to construct thousands of homes meeting the strict ecological standards of its One Planet Living (OPL) label

And on the carbon sequestration front:

• 2007/08/30: ABC(Au): Queensland underground gas storage project progresses
• 2007/08/28: KSJT: ABC Science Show (Australia): Sequestering carbon not so easy

  On the adaptation front:

• 2007/08/27: NPR: Swiss Town Guards Itself Against Climate Hazard
• 2007/08/29: ClimateP: Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Global Warming Adaptation

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/08/28: CP: New constraints on the gas age-ice age difference along the EPICA ice cores, 0 - 50 kyr by L. Loulergue et al.
• 2007/08/28: CP: Surface thermal perturbations of the recent past at low latitudes - inferences based on borehole temperature data from Eastern Brazil by V. M. Hamza et al.
• 2007/08/30: ACP: Volcanic effects on climate: revisiting the mechanisms by H.-F. Graf et al.
• 2007/08/30: ACP: The effect of harmonized emissions on aerosol properties in global models -- an AeroCom experiment by C. Textor et al.
• 2007/08/30: ACPD: Performance of the meteorological radiation model during the solar eclipse of 29 March 2006 by B. E. Psiloglou & H. D. Kambezidis
• 2007/08/29: ACPD: Aerosols' influence on the interplay between condensation, evaporation and rain in warm cumulus cloud by O. Altaratz et al.
• 2007/08/29: ACPD: Modelling the optical properties of fresh biomass burning aerosol produced in a smoke chamber: results from the EFEU campaign by K. Hungersh?fer et al.
• 2007/08/29: GRL: (ab$) Adjustment for proxy number and coherence in a large-scale temperature reconstruction by David Frank et al.
• 2007/08/28: ACPD: Comparison of satellite limb-sounding humidity climatologies of the uppermost tropical troposphere by M. Ekstroem et al.
• 2007/08/28: PNAS: Increases in nitrogen uptake rather than nitrogen-use efficiency support higher rates of temperate forest productivity under elevated CO2 by Adrien C. Finzi et al.

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

• 2007/08/28: NSU: Worm chewing changes soil chemistry - Earthworm invasion into North America could alter carbon sinks
• 2007/09/02: SciDaily: Up, Up And Away -- To Venus
• 2007/08/30: PhysOrg: Dispelling the myth of bipolar glaciation 41 million years ago
• 2007/08/30: PhysOrg: Weird 'Engine of The Reef' Revealed
  Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University and the University of Queensland have compiled the world’s first detailed gene expression library for Symbiodinium, the microscopic algae that feed the corals -- and so provide the primary energy source for the entire Reef
• 2007/08/29: CoralCOE: Weird 'Engine of The Reef' Revealed
• 2007/08/29: Atmoz: A Model Sensitivity Study of PM2.5 to Climate
• 2007/08/29: SciDaily: [TU Delft's] Drizzle Radar: A Gain For Climate Research
• 2007/08/29: Eureka: Volcanoes key to Earth's oxygen atmosphere
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Past perceptions of climate change - A new study gathers 20 years of public opinion about global warming

  The Pielkes fan club is slowly fading:

• 2007/09/01: Stoat: A sad end

  On the carbon trading front:

• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: EU and UN Agree Long-Awaited Carbon Market Link [to be completed in November]

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

• 2007/08/30: CDreams: InTheseTimes: Offsets Aren't Enough: Two Environmental Groups Cave To Big Coal in Texas
• 2007/08/30: NEN: Gotta do something: carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade
• 2007/08/29: MongaBay: How private equity can profit from carbon offsets in Indonesia

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/08/30: GristMill: Do as we say...Developed world scolds China for doing what it does
• 2007/08/29: DeutscheWelle: Germany, Japan Close Ranks on Efforts to Fight Climate Change
• 2007/08/28: People's Daily: Consensus reached on energy, green tech [Merkel visit to China]
• 2007/08/27: BBC: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged China to address the issue of climate change, as she starts a three-day visit to the country

  The upcoming APEC meeting is getting a lot of attention:

• 2007/09/02: ABC(Au): Activists charged after APEC protest [painting slogans on the side of a coal tanker]
• 2007/09/01: EpochTimes: Climate to Top Canada's APEC Agenda - Conservatives to promote approach that is 'inclusive, fair, and flexible'
• 2007/09/02: ABC(Au): Greenpeace protesters facing arrest [APEC]
• 2007/08/31: ABC(Au): Aust, US 'lack credentials' to lead climate change talks [says Malaysia]
• 2007/08/31: ABC(Au): 'Bridget Jones' greenhouse targets not good enough
  John Howard and George W Bush will try to use APEC to undermine international action to address climate change...
• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: Malaysia Criticises APEC Climate Change Agenda
  Malaysia said on Thursday Australia and the United States should not hijack next week's summit of Asia-Pacific leaders to discuss climate change, saying it was not the right forum
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: China's Hu Says Climate Change on APEC Agenda
• 2007/08/27: ABC(Au): Howard unveils key APEC objectives
• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: Australian PM Says APEC to Tackle Energy Savings

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/08/30: SciDaily: Scientists, Evangelicals Team Up For Alaska Expedition
• 2007/08/30: NEN: BLM [U.S. Bureau of Land Management] opens geothermal opportunities --- To who?
• 2007/08/28: TheTrail: Bush's Hurricane Damage
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: Keep your friends close...Some unwitting climate change advice from the National Review
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: Catching up - Experts to Utah: Climate change is real
• 2007/08/28: CSpin: U.S. states continue to lead on global warming
• 2007/08/29: TreeHugger: Americans Care More About Gay Marriage Than Global Warming [poll]
• 2007/08/27: PRWatch: Criminal Silence on Climate Change
• 2007/08/28: PhysOrg: Energy Department to aid biofuels creation [with US$33.8 million]
• 2007/08/28: EnvEcon: A western RGGI [WCI]
• 2007/08/27: ClimateP: Thoughts on IWF/C-SPAN Debate: Where is Buffy when we need her the most?
• 2007/08/27: DeSmogBlog: Both Democrats and Republicans bend over for King Coal, but Bush administration bends further
• 2007/08/27: NEN: Arnold leads, West follows

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/09/01: TreeHugger: Al Gore Coming To Victoria for High Tea
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: Tribal people in India's remote northeast to Honour Al Gore on Global Warming

  While in the UK:

• 2007/08/30: BBC: Brits 'addicted' to cheap flights
  Britons are "addicted" to cheap flights and confused about the climate impact of flying, according to research. In a government-funded study, even people living generally "green" lives said they were reluctant to fly less. The Exeter University team that carried out the research says cheap flights have become a lifestyle choice. Aviation accounts for about 7% of the UK's emissions, and research suggests Britain will not meet its climate targets without curbing the industry.
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Little green lies -- [UK] Survey reveals truth about environmental fibs
• 2007/08/29: Guardian(UK): Liberal Democrats see zero-carbon Britain setting the global green agenda
  Party unveils blueprint for tackling climate change - End of the road by 2040 for petrol-driven cars
• 2007/08/28: BBC: Call for 'green-home' cash bonus
• 2007/08/27: Guardian(UK): Poll: No change despite CO2 fears
  The public's concern about climate change is at odds with its willingness to change everyday behaviour, a survey has revealed

And in Germany:

• 2007/09/01: BBC: Call for German nuclear shutdown
  The German Environment Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, has called for seven of the country's oldest nuclear reactors to be closed down immediately. Justifying his demand, Mr Gabriel pointed to recent breakdowns at two ageing nuclear plants. Germany is committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2020.
• 2007/08/30: Yahoo: Germany's Merkel urges U.S. to support climate deal
• 2007/08/28: PlanetArk: German Energy Plan Faces Reality Check
  A government plan to make Germany a global leader in fighting climate change must win the support of a reluctant finance minister to succeed. The 30-point plan, which appeals to German households and industry to change their energy consumption habits, may also only take effect under the next government, due to be elected in late 2009. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet last week overcame internal differences to agree the plan, but the measure will first require changes to several laws which could take up to a year to achieve. Only then can the long process of implementation begin.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/09/02: ABC(Au): Howard boosts climate change funds by $70m
• 2007/09/02: ABC(Au): Labor slams PM's refusal to set binding emissions targets
• 2007/08/31: ABC(Au): Business heavyweights leaning on Govt over emissions
  Nine companies from the mining, finance, resource and energy sectors have joined forces to urge the Federal Government to develop a low-emissions technology strategy. Companies including BP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Westpac and Mirvac have formed an alliance called the Australian Business and Climate Group. They want the Federal Government to take over research and development into emissions technology from the states and form a national policy
• 2007/08/30: The Age: Hot winds force fire bans --- in winter
• 2007/08/26: ABC(Au): Brisbane crowd favours Garrett during climate debate
  Federal Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Opposition counterpart Peter Garrett have debated the issue of climate change at a public forum in Brisbane. Even before today's debate began at the Queensland Conservatorium, former Midnight Oil singer Mr Garrett was clearly a favourite with the university crowd.

While in China:

• 2007/08/30: TruthOut: China Says One-Child Policy Helps Protect Climate
• 2007/09/01: TreeHugger: For China's Environment, Technology Transfer and International Diplomacy May Never Be Good Enough
• 2007/08/27: FPB: Is China serious about going green?

  And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues to do as little as possible:

• 2007/09/01: Farnwide: The Rhetoric Gap
  If the following from John Baird is true: "Canada now has one of the most aggressive plans to tackle greenhouse gases and air pollution in the world." it seems odd to hear these criticisms: 'Canada played a lead role in undermining the Kyoto protocol on climate change, at a major United Nations conference that ended in Vienna yesterday...'
• 2007/08/30: TStar: PM wants to join opponents of mandatory emission goals
  Harper heading to APEC meeting in Australia to actively involve Canada in the workings of AP-6 [APPCDC]

An application has been made to build a nuclear reactor in Alberta:

• 2007/08/29: CanWest: Nuclear just too hot for Alberta -- Why Would Oilsands Court More Controversy?
• 2007/08/30: CanWest: The 'N' word that makes politicians quake - Rhetoric overtakes reason in reaction [nukes]
• 2007/08/28: BuckDog: Nuclear Power Reactor To Be Built In Alberta

  Canada has been invited to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership:

• 2007/08/31: CanWest: Canada invited to join controversial nuclear club - Sept. 16 Meeting; Aims To Promote Nuclear Power, Control Its Use
  Canada is poised to join an elite club of "advanced nuclear nations" that -- led by U.S. President George W. Bush -- plans to promote nuclear energy as a key solution to global warming and to control the international movement of enriched uranium and radioactive waste, CanWest News Service has learned. Canada's membership in the controversial Global Nuclear Energy Partnership would open a new battlefront in the divisive national debate over what this country should do about planetary climate change. And joining the partnership -- initiated by the Bush administration last year, and now counting Russia, China, Japan and France as members --could raise thorny questions about the costs and benefits to Canada, including its uranium export industry, its CANDU reactor sales and its capacity to dispose of nuclear waste. Responding to a CanWest News Service request about Canada's possible involvement in GNEP, a Foreign Affairs spokeswoman said: "Canada has been invited to join the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership and to participate in the next meeting scheduled to take place on Sept. 16 in Vienna."

As the lazy Canadian summer rounds up:

• 2007/08/31: TStar: Hydro plan generates controversy - Ontario Power Authority road map
• 2007/08/30: CBC: Greenpeace activists storm ship in power plant protest
  Five Greenpeace activists used inflatable boats Thursday to board an ore carrier bringing coal to the Nanticoke power plant, on the shores of Lake Erie southwest of Hamilton. The environmental group says the plant is among the province's single greatest contributors to global warming and pollution.
• 2007/08/28: 24Hrs: NDP waits for action on climate [in BC]
• 2007/08/26: GristMill: Silence up north - The coming nuclear expansion in Ontario is absent from election debate

  Apocalypso anyone?:

• 2007/09/01: CCurrents: Environmental Crisis And Despair
• 2007/08/27: Lifeboat: Looking Human Extinction in the Face
• 2007/08/29: TransitionCulture: The Rise and Fall of Sea Levels and Civilisations
• 2007/08/28: CBaker: The Plan by William Kotke
  A plan to save the life of the earth and the human species by creating an entirely new human culture... The Plan is to establish self-sufficient, population- stable, seed communities, wherever possible with the expectation that some or most of them would survive the apocalypse. These then become the seed of the future human species. Most species devote much energy to raise and prepare a future for their young. For our species to endure, we civilized humans must come up to that level of maturity.

As for how the media handles science:

• 2007/08/29: TAP: A Guide to Media Manipulation, Republican Style
• 2007/08/30: GristMill: Editorial vs. news - The Wall Street Journal contradicts itself on global warming
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: OK, I was bass-ackwards the last 12 times, but now I'm 'moderate'! Why do documented liars and dummies get taken seriously about climate change?
• 2007/08/27: Deltoid: Maybe the Australian could employ a solar power PR person for balance?

  Here is something for your library:

• 2007/08/27: TreeHugger: [Book Review] _The Winds of Change_ by Eugene Linden

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/08/30: WarmingLaw: Massachusetts (v. EPA) Blues
• 2007/08/29: BSD: Some good legal news in California about global warming and air pollution
• 2007/08/30: WarmingLaw: Paint the Desert Green
• 2007/08/29: WarmingLaw: A Fleeting Defeat for Local Government? Perhaps Not...
• 2007/08/28: WarmingLaw: The Great Salt Lake Effect?
• 2007/08/28: WarmingLaw: Industry Concessions at S. Ct. Oral Argument Help Support Gov't Victory on Remand in Fleet Rules Case
• 2007/08/27: WarmingLaw: New Supreme Court Preemption Case

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2007/09/01: TEB: New Hydrogen from Aluminium-Water Reaction Developed at Purdue
• 2007/08/30: EnvFin: Enel plans 300 million euro solar investment
• 2007/08/30: EnvFin: UK solar firm [Solarcentury] raises £13.5 million
• 2007/08/30: ClimateP: The solar power you don't hear about [solar thermal]
• 2007/08/30: PlanetArk: [German utility] E.ON Plans Wind Turbine Park Off UK Coast
• 2007/08/28: IHT: 'Dead-end' Austrian town blossoms with green energy
• 2007/08/28: Asia Times: Alternative energy: It's not for everybody
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Getting past 'hypedrogen'? Interesting hydrogen-generating technology from Purdue
• 2007/08/28: SciDaily: Wind Turbine Has Switch To Move Clear Of Migrating Birds
• 2007/08/28: HuffPo: Oil Shale to the Rescue?
• 2007/08/26: USAToday: Forecast for solar power: Sunny
• 2007/08/27: PhysOrg: Engineers perfecting hydrogen-generating technology [alloy of aluminum and gallium catalyst]
• 2007/08/27: NEN: States mandate new energy, spark booms

  Jeff Vail has continued his EROEI series:

• 2007/08/31: OilDrum: EROEI Short #3: Price-Estimated EROEI
• 2007/08/28: OilDrum: EROEI Short #2: Lenin & Lohan

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/09/02: ClimateP: The Future of Coal
• 2007/08/31: ClimateP: Liquid coal means liquid problems
• 2007/09/01: GristMill: Was this found on a stone tablet? Papyrus? Vellum? Handpress broadsheet? W. Va. editorial says mining coal should be easier
• 2007/08/30: Guardian(UK): The great global coal rush puts us on the fast track to irreversible disaster
• 2007/08/29: KSJT: Wash. Post: Coal -- what it costs us
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Dave's Second Law of Sustainability Politics - Coal can be clean and cheap, but it can't be both at once
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Coal welfare queens unite - Liquid coal coalition gears up to suck from the public teat

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/08/31: PlanetArk: Mozambique Unveils US$550 Million Bio-Fuels Project
• 2007/08/31: TEB: Are Biofuels Sustainable?
• 2007/08/31: CPunch: The Biofuels Trap
• 2007/08/29: IRC Americas Program: Biofuels and Small Farmers
• 2007/08/30: PhysOrg: Iowa State researcher studies the sustainability of the bioeconomy [ethanol]
• 2007/08/26: GristMill: Industrial agrodiesel - 'Biodiesel' is looking worse and worse
• 2007/08/27: GCD: Should the increased use of biofuels be a goal of Canadian governments?
• 2007/08/27: DodosVille: The Great Canadian Debate on Biofuels

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/08/27: PRWatch: Exelon's Nuclear Plant Is Excellent, Say Exelon-Funded Group, Study

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2007/08/28: E&C: Blindsided by Peak Oil
• 2007/08/29: CDreams: SF Chronicle: After Oil Supplies Dry Up, What's Plan B?
• 2007/08/27: ASPO-USA: NPC Report is Hand Grenade in Bubble Wrap

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

• 2007/09/02: TreeHugger: Axel Friedrich: VW Two-Faced on Emissions Efficiency
• 2007/09/01: ClimateP: GM may make 60,000 plug-in hybrids in 2010
• 2007/08/31: C411: New Report on Cars and Carbon
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: Hybrid wars - Honda fights to regain green car company mantle
• 2007/08/28: NEN: German auto rebel disses hydrogen, touts efficiency
• 2007/08/27: ClimateP: Prius easily beats Hummer in life-cycle energy use, "Dust to Dust" report has no basis in fact
• 2007/08/27: IHT: Toyota wary of real consumer demand in U.S. for plug-in cars

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2007/08/28: CCM: Getting High in North Carolina [insurance rates]

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/08/31: Tamino: Garbage is Forever
• 2007/08/26: CCDenial: Live Wild and Die
• 2007/08/31: GWWatch: Global warming denialist scrambles for Bolt hole
• 2007/08/30: MTobis: Some Obfuscation from Patrick Moore
• 2007/08/29: MTobis: Systematic Noise - Denial of science can be dressed in leftist or rightist garb but it follows universal patterns.
• 2007/08/30: BCLSB: Chris De Freitas Lets Slip
• 2007/08/30: DeSmogBlog: August Newsmaker Award to Steve McIntyre
• 2007/08/29: BCLSB: Lomborg Reviewed
• 2007/08/29: DeSmogBlog: "Extermist" hopes Heartland's "building explodes"
• 2007/08/29: CanWest: An inconvenient fact
  Despite the anti-forestry scare tactics of celebrity movies, trees are the most powerful concentrators of carbon on Earth [Moore]
• 2007/08/26: GristMill: [Dessler] Looking over our shoulder - Thoughts on the GISS temperature adjustment
• 2007/08/26: BSD: Lindzen lies, dog bites man
• 2007/08/26: ERabett: Station of the day: Farmington ME
• 2007/08/27: BCLSB: Great Balls Of Dry Ice: Deniers At Play
• 2007/08/27: DeSmogBlog: Jacoby's questionable column is chopped liver

  Yet another study has proven beyond a doubt there is no consensus:

• 2007/08/31: StrangerFruit: Oreskes responds to Schulte
• 2007/09/01: Denialism: Contrarians?
• 2007/08/30: Stoat: Survey: Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory?
• 2007/08/30: Deltoid: Classifying abstracts on global climate change

  The American Association of Petroleum Geologists has come up with a new climate change policy:

• 2007/08/31: Stoat: The pathetic AAPG
• 2007/08/31: ERabett: Birthing a mouse is hard...the new American Association of Petroleum Geologists climate change policy...
• 2007/08/30: ERabett: The AAPG brings forth a mouse (which is better than a rat)
• 2007/08/30: JQuiggin: AAPG abandons delusionism

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/09/01: TheAge: World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas [flaring] fire
• 2007/08/30: ERabett: The AGU is revising its position statements on Teaching Evolution, Human Impacts on Climate and Natural Hazards
• 2007/08/31: Stoat: Multi-scale analysis of global temperature changes and trend of a drop in temperature in the next 20 years!?! [Zhen-Shan and Xian dissec]
• 2007/08/30: Stoat: Sawyer: prophetic or wot?
• 2007/08/31: EnergyBulletin: Updating the book on global warming [Monbiot]
• 2007/08/30: KSJT: Telegraph, a few others: High CO2 may mean more plants AND more runoff (a neat trick)
• 2007/08/30: KSJT: San Diego Union Tribune: Rewilding America, and the weather cycles mixed into the global warming trend
• 2007/08/30: GristMill: Fast to stop global warming September 4th event marks new phase in struggle for the planet
• 2007/08/29: GristMill: 'If you were really green, you would have walked here' - Is Burning Man living up to its Green Man intentions?
• 2007/08/30: FergusB: Does what scientists think matter?
• 2007/08/30: SciDaily: Wildfires: Homes Fuel The Fires More Than Forests
• 2007/08/29: Stoat: The value of polling scientists
• 2007/08/28: CasaubonsBook: Diversify, Diversify, Diversify
• 2007/08/28: Atmoz: The Science Hypothesis [a better way to communicate science?]
• 2007/08/28: ClimateP: Top Ten Climate Change Blogs
• 2007/08/27: ClimateP: "Forecast: Storm Warning" -- Preparing for Global Warming
• 2007/08/28: WindWorks: Beating Swords into Wind Turbines -- or Solar Panels if You Like [How much wind and solar could we have gotten for the cost of the Iraq War?]
• 2007/08/28: GristMill: Shopping causes global warming - Australian newspaper [SMH] identifies consumerism as warming culprit
• 2007/08/28: FergusB: Why small contributions can make a difference
• 2007/08/28: MTobis: Whom to Trust?
• 2007/08/27: RealClimate: Regional Climate Projections [in the IPCC AR4]
• 2007/08/28: TreeHugger: If Global Warming Never Happened...
• 2007/08/28: ENN: Indonesian peatlands seen playing key climate role
• 2007/08/28: AfterGutenberg: Game Changing
• 2007/08/26: CCurrents: Obstacles To Counter Global Warming And Climate Change
• 2007/08/27: Guardian(UK): BBC news chiefs attack plans for climate change campaign [provisionally titled Planet Relief]

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

• NSIDC:SOTC: Glaciers
• NSIDC: World Glacier Inventory [information for over 67,000 glaciers worldwide]
• Wiki: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
• US DOE: GNEP: Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
• CSM: Global Warming
• BrookingsInst: Katrina Reading Room
• Wind-Works by Paul Gipe
• UNFCCC: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Skeptical Science: Examining Global Warming Skepticism
• StephenSchneider: Climate Change
• StephenSchneider: An Overview of the Climate Change Problem
• European Environment Agency on Climate Change
• NOAA: Real-time, global, sea surface temperature (RTG_SST) analysis
• NOAA: Gulf Stream Finder Project
• New Scientist
• Nature Science Update
• Science Daily
• Eureka Alert

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