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Another week of GW news - January 22

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H. E. Taylor

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Even though it is political, this week will be remembered for
James Lovelock's grim essay in the Independent,
so I'll start with that and the resultant storm of commentary:

<http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article338830.ece>
2006/01/15: Independent(UK): James Lovelock: The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever
that may last as long as 100,000 years
Each nation must find the best use of its resources
to sustain civilisation for as long as they can

<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338879.ece>
2006/01/16: Independent(UK): Why Gaia is wreaking revenge on our abuse of the
environment

<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece>
2006/01/16: Independent(UK): Environment in crisis: 'We are past the point of no
return'

<http://jebin08.blogspot.com/2006/01/gaia-revenge-and-trust.html>
2006/01/16: GoS: Gaia, revenge and trust [Lovelock]

<http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2006/01/should-we-do-anything-about-lovelock.html>
2006/01/19: BSD: Should we do anything about Lovelock?

<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=21&ItemID=9548>
2006/01/19: ZNet: Point of No Return?

<http://www.energybulletin.net/12179.html>
2006/01/19: EnergyBulletin: Cloudy with a chance of chaos

<http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0117-24.htm>
2006/01/17: CDreams: Independent(UK): There Is No Reason to Despair -
Signs of climate change do not confirm that the point of no return has been reached

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1689539,00.html>
2006/01/19: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Climate failure

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011706EB.shtml>
2006/01/17: TruthOut: Green Campaigners Support Lovelock for Sparking Fresh Debate on
Global Warming

<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/01/global_warming_alarmism.php>
2006/01/18: Deltoid: Global Warming Alarmism [Michaels & Lovelock]


<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_pielke_jr_r/000679past_the_point_of_no.html>
2006/01/18: Prometheus: Past the Point of No Return?

<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2006/01/lovelock-were-all-going-to-die.html>
2006/01/16: Stoat: Lovelock: We're all going to die!

<http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6405>
2006/01/17: GlobalEcho: The Point of no Return - Where James Lovelock Meets BP


Also in the alarming, if not alarmist, category, there is a disquieting report
on how warming may impact plankton:

<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article339596.ece>
2006/01/19: Independent(UK): Warmer seas will wipe out plankton, source of ocean life

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011906EC.shtml>
2006/01/19: TruthOut: Warmer Seas Will Wipe Out Plankton, Source of Ocean Life

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/19/122811/172>
2006/01/19: GristMill: Walk the plankton

The Max Planck Society scientists who discoverd plants exude methane, try
to set journalists straight:


<http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/documentation/pressReleases/2006/pressRelease200601131/>
2006/01/18: MaxPlanckSoc: Global Warming - The Blame Is not with the Plants
International scientific team reacts to misinterpretation of their research
results and provides the correct perspective

<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0119/p13s01-sten.htm>
2006/01/19: CSM: Do trees share blame for global warming?

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060115155754.htm>
2006/01/15: SciDaily: The Forgotten Methane Source

Pielke Sr. is challenging the amphibians conclusion:


<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/17/is-the-report-linking-the-extinction-of-frogs-with-global-warming-a-scientifically-robust-conclusion/>
2006/01/17: CliSci: Is the Report Linking the Extinction of Frogs with Global Warming a
Scientifically Balanced Conclusion?

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060115173209.htm>
2006/01/17: SciDaily: Climate Change Devastating Latin American Frogs


Yes we have duelling blogs again:

<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/01/prometheus-myanna-lahsens-latest-paper.html>
2006/01/19: JEB: Prometheus: Myanna Lahsen's Latest Paper on Climate Models Archives


<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000675myanna_lahsens_late.html>
2006/01/17: Prometheus: Myanna Lahsen's Latest Paper on Climate Models


RealClimate has a good article on the natural greenhouse effect:

<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=220>
2006/01/21: RealClimate: Calculating the greenhouse effect


And another on changing Atlantic currents:

<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=187>
2006/01/19: RealClimate: Atlantic circulation change summary


There has been some confirmation of the articles last fall
noting an accelerating sealevel rise:

<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060116/full/060116-11.html>
2006/01/19: NSU: Sea-level rise is quickening pace -
Data crunch confirms model predictions of flooding coastlines


The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is back in the news:

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012006EA.shtml>
2006/01/20: TruthOut: 'Green' Measures Key to Earth's Future, [MEA] Report Says

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/20/121518/506>
2006/01/20: GristMill: Earth in 2050 [Millennium Ecosystem Assessment]

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
<http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx>


And the impacts of GW are becoming clearer:

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011806EB.shtml>
2006/01/18: TruthOut: Landslides Could Worsen with Global Warming

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/20/112559/300>
2006/01/20: GristMill: Drought in Africa

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34595/story.htm>
2006/01/20: PlanetArk: Hunger kills in Kenya's north as drought takes toll

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34586/story.htm>
2006/01/20: PlanetArk: Drought Worsens Somalia Humanitarian Crisis - UN

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34565/story.htm>
2006/01/19: PlanetArk: Hunger Threat to East Africans Grows by Millions

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9689>
2006/01/19: ENN: Texas Expects to Fight Wildfires through April

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9697>
2006/01/19: ENN: Drought Puts Kenya's Wildlife at Risk

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9688>
2006/01/18: ENN: Landslides Could Worsen with Global Warming

<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2006/2006-01-16-02.asp>
2006/01/17: ENS: Deforestation, Climate Change Magnify East African Drought

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34515/story.htm>
2006/01/17: PlanetArk: Burundians Flee to Tanzania to Escape Drought

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9665>
2006/01/16: ENN: Warm Weather Isolates Northern Canadian Natives

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34490/story.htm>
2006/01/16: PlanetArk: Drought Forces Kenyan Nomads to Rethink Traditions

<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Dangerously_Dry.html>
2006/01/16: SeattlePI: Drought-stricken Okla. thirsts for relief


Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/babs-gct011906.php>
2006/01/19: Eureka: Growing crops to cope with climate change

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060119231817.htm>
2006/01/20: SciDaily: Growing [GMO] Crops To Cope With Climate Change


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

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060118214229.htm>
2006/01/20: SciDaily: Mobile Climate Monitoring Facility To Sample Skies In Africa

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34588/story.htm>
2006/01/20: PlanetArk: Balloons to Help Scientists Clear Cloudy Picture

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ddoe-mcm011806.php>
2006/01/18: Eureka: Mobile climate monitoring facility to sample skies in Africa

<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uol-elc011806.php>
2006/01/18: Eureka: Europe's largest climate change experiment launched -
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have launched a large scale experiment
to monitor the impact of climate change on freshwater systems

<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/20/land-use-temperature-change-draft/>
2006/01/20: CliSci: Effect on Surface Temperature Trends Due to Local Human Alteration
of the Landscape

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4624520.stm>
2006/01/18: BBC: Experiment probes climate riddle [cloud formation & heat transfer]

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1548137.htm>
2006/01/16: ABC(Au): Satellite imagery helps climate change reef study

Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1687979,00.html>
2006/01/17: Guardian(UK): The scam of global warming is that we pay others
for our complacency The most destructive effect of the carbon offset trade
is that it allows us to believe we can carry on polluting


And on the American political front:

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011906EA.shtml>
2006/01/18: TruthOut: Warmer Al Gore Finds a New Stump -
Al Gore on Global Warming in New Documentary

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9694>
2006/01/19: ENN: Former Republican EPA Chiefs Accuse Bush of Neglecting Global Warming


<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/17/AR2006011700895_pf.html>
2006/01/18: WashPost: Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest Story in
Our History

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_go_ot/global_warming>
2006/01/18: Yahoo: Ex-EPA Chiefs Blame Bush in Global Warming

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_go_ot/global_warming>
2006/01/18: Yahoo: Ex-EPA Chiefs Blame Bush in Global Warming

<http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0118-33.htm>
2006/01/18: CDreams: WashPost: Is It Warm in Here? We Could Be Ignoring the Biggest
Story in Our History

<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/global-warming-its-new_b_13887.html>
2006/01/16: THP: Global Warming? It's News to Them

Consider the state of the main stream media:

<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4369>
2006/01/17: PRWatch: Skeptical Journalism?

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011806EA.shtml>
2006/01/18: TruthOut: Is It Warm in Here?
We could be ignoring the biggest story in our history


While in Canada the upcoming election looms:

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34493/story.htm>
2006/01/16: PlanetArk: Conservative Leader [Harper] Says Canada Might Miss Kyoto

Meanwhile in Australia:

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1550671.htm>
2006/01/18: ABC(Au): [APPCDC] Climate pact will cause temperature rise, report warns.

There was more on wacky weather:

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34576/story.htm>
2006/01/20: PlanetArk: Bitter Russian Winter Kills Homeless, Drunks

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4626862.stm>
2006/01/19: BBC: Some 24 people have died of exposure in Russia as freezing winter
temperatures plunged to minus 30C overnight.

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34497/story.htm>
2006/01/16: PlanetArk: Japan's Snow-Related Deaths Worst in Over 20 Years


Here is something for your library:

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/20/14325/7979>
2006/01/20: GristMill: Jeremy Leggett offers peak oily gloom and doom

<http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0713999144,00.html>
Penguin(UK): _The Revenge of Gaia_ by James Lovelock

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

<http://jebin08.blogspot.com/2006/01/uk-energy-debate.html>
2006/01/17: GoS: UK energy debate

<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34582/story.htm>
2006/01/20: PlanetArk: Italy Drafts Emissions [increase] Bill to Offset Gas Crunch

<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0119/p02s01-usec.htm>
2006/01/19: CSM: A new gust of wind projects across the US -
High natural-gas prices and global-warming concerns may help wind energy gain critical
mass

<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1550059.htm>
2006/01/18: ABC(Au): Govt urged to offer more solar energy support

<http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/1/15/221931/985>
2006/01/17: OilDrum: Environmentalists: Global Warming Trumps NIMBYism

<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/13/165247/263>
2006/01/16: GristMill: Global warming, Cape Cod, and Manicheanism

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1688032,00.html>
2006/01/17: Guardian(UK): Nuclear power 'cannot tackle climate change' -
Energy efficiency far more important, expert says


The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/01/annals_of_extreme_statements.php>
2006/01/19: CCM: Annals of Extreme Statements

<http://www.arabnews.com/?article=76459>
2006/01/18: ArabNews: Carbon-Offset Trade Could Turn Out to Be a Scam

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

<http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/01/19/little/index.html>
2006/01/19: Grist: Climb-It Science - An interview with swashbuckling climate scientist
Lonnie Thompson

<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/20/7194/94155>
2006/01/20: DailyKOS: Science Friday: Real Climate [Schmidt, Mann & Rahmstorf
interview]

<http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=96112006>
2006/01/20: Scotsman: Scotland is warming at its fastest rate on record

<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/01/nieman_reports_on_evolution_an.php>
2006/01/20: Deltoid: Nieman Reports on Evolution and Global Warming

<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/19/ileaps-meeting-_draft/>
2006/01/19: CliSci: Land Ecosystem - Atmosphere Processes Conference


<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/19/where-is-the-newly-recognized-uncertainty-in-the-global-surface-temperature-record-assessed-in-the-giss-surface-temperature-record/>
2006/01/19: CliSci: Where are the Newly Recognized Uncertainties Assessed in the 2005
GISS Surface Temperature Record?


<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_pielke_jr_r/000683practically_useful.html>
2006/01/21: Prometheus: 'Practically Useful' Scientific Mischaracterizations

<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2006/01/scienv-ipcc-understates-risks.html>
2006/01/20: Stoat: Sci.env: IPCC understates the risks?

<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011706EA.shtml>
2006/01/17: TruthOut: Flannery Sets Deadline to Save World

<http://www.energybulletin.net/12159.html>
2006/01/18: EnergyBulletin: Warming: it's time to come clean


<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000674indur_goklanys_reje.html>
2006/01/16: Prometheus: Indur Goklany's Rejected Nature Letter

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/16/revenge_of_gaia/print.html>
2006/01/16: Register: Forget global warming - think boiling oceans

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1687197,00.html>
2006/01/16: Guardian(UK): The boiling point is coming for the fight against climate
change
Environmentalists must use their anger at the government's betrayal on global warming
to mobilise the mainstream


<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/01/15/MNG3FGMHML1.DTL&type=printable>

2006/01/15: SF Gate: Polar Warning - A warming world: the difference a degree makes


And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:

<http://jebin08.blogspot.com/>
GoS: Grains of Sand - Observations from a strange planet

EESI: Environmental and Energy Study Institute Briefings
<http://www.eesi.org/briefings/2005/2005briefings.htm>

WWF on Climate Change
<http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/index.cfm>

European Commission on the Environment
<http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/index_en.htm>

Metis: Discussion and announcements on climate science policy
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/sparc/metis/>

The Climate Change Caucus in the US House of Representatives
<http://www.house.gov/olver/climatechange/>

PEARL: Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory
<http://biology.queensu.ca/~pearl/index.htm>

<http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/Publications/index.html>
Stefan Rahmstorf - List of Publications

<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/>
JEB: James' Empty Blog

<http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/steffen/>
Konrad Steffen Research Group, CIRES/University of Colorado

<http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/>
NASA:GSFC: ICESat (Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite)

<http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/glacio/LITERATUR/index.html>
Publications - Innsbruck Tropical Glaciology Group (many in .pdf)

<regards>
-het

PS.
You can access the previous postings of this series at:
<http://tinyurl.com/9zyom>
which should open to:

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