Another week of GW news - August 21
H. E. Taylor
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2005/08/bet.html>
2005/08/21: JEB: The Bet
<http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/20/1845247&mode=nocomment>
2005/08/20: SlashDot: Climatologists Wager on Global Warming
<http://timlambert.org/2005/08/betting-on-warming/>
2005/08/19: Deltoid: James Annan's bet is taken
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1552092,00.html>
2005/08/19: Guardian(UK): Climate change sceptics bet $10,000 on cooler world
The Russian solar physicists Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev have agreed
the wager with a British climate expert, James Annan.
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2005/08/climate-sceptics-place-bets-on-world.html>
2005/08/18: JEB: Climate sceptics place bets on world cooling down :Nature
A theory regarding the infuence of climate change on human evolution
raised its head this week:
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003338.html>
2005/08/20: WorldChanging: Will Climate Change Make Us Smarter?
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4164022.stm>
2005/08/20: BBC: Complex variation of the East African climate may have played
a key role in the development of our human ancestors.
<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050815/evolution.html>
2005/08/15: Discovery: Climate Change Fueled Human Evolution?
The weather balloon and satellite data resolution story is still getting attention:
<http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1436206.htm>
2005/08/12: ABC(Au): (transcript) Researchers confirm global warming
<http://timlambert.org/2005/08/msu-correction/>
2005/08/18: Deltoid: Elvis has left the Building! (Guest Post by Scott Church)
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4152576.stm>
2005/08/15: BBC: Error may have hidden warming
A dispute over the data for global warming may be down to the way sensors
were placed on weather balloons when readings were taken in the 1970s.
And it seems that the recent resolution of weather balloon and satellite data
has caused some to re-evaluate their GW denial:
<http://www.reason.com/links/links081105.shtml>
2005/08/11: Reason: We're All Global Warmers Now -
Reconciling temperature trends that are all over the place
<http://scienceg8.com/in-praise-of-reason-and-ronald-bailey/>
2005/08/15: ScienceGate: In Praise of Reason
The carbon cycle has been mentioned because of the small genome of the Pelagibacter ubique:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4166076.stm>
2005/08/19: BBC: Ocean bug [Pelagibacter ubique] has 'smallest genome' [1,354 genes]
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003334.html>
2005/08/20: WorldChanging: Genetic Efficiency and the Carbon Cycle
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/osu-mhh081805.php>
2005/08/18: Eureka: Microbe [SAR11] has huge role in ocean life, carbon cycle
The possibility of abrupt climate change has caught some attention:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=32>
2005/08/19: ClimateScience: Linear Climate Trends or Sudden
Transitions of Climate - Which is More Likely?
<http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081705_lesson_humanity.shtml>
2005/08/20: FTW: A Lesson in Humility [Book Review] Climate Crash:
Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means for Our Future by John D. Cox
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819094701.htm>
2005/08/20: SciDaily: Past Droughts Geographically Widespread In The West,
According To Tree-ring Data
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=31>
2005/08/17: ClimateScience: What is the Relevance of a Tropical Average
Surface Temperature Change to Organisms in the Tropics?
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoa-pdg081805.php>
2005/08/19: Eureka: Past droughts geographically widespread in the West,
according to tree-ring data
There was a big conference in Greenland this week, which didn't seem to decide or do anything:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32071/story.htm>
2005/08/17: PlanetArk: Denmark Urges "New Thinking" on Climate Change
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8530>
2005/08/17: ENN: Denmark Urges "New Thinking" on Climate Change
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/19/AR2005081900051_pf.html>
2005/08/19: WashPost: World Officials Want Global Warming Action
<http://www.physorg.com/news5933.html>
2005/08/20: PhysOrg: Calls for action as global warming conference in Greenland ends
<http://www.physorg.com/news5926.html>
2005/08/19: PhysOrg: Calls for action as global warming conference in Greenland ends
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8564>
2005/08/19: ENN: Officials at Global Conference Say It's Time to Take Action on Global Warming
"We must find a model for how all big emitters of greenhouse gas can be actively
involved in future climate efforts," [Foreign Minister, Per Stig] Moeller said.
Yet more GW impacts are being delineated:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32106/story.htm>
2005/08/19: PlanetArk: Drought Flattens Portugal Wheat, Hits Tourist Area
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050810135943.htm>
2005/08/18: SciDaily: University Of Oregon Study Says Sunnier Oregon Summers
Reflect Global Warming
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7876>
2005/08/20: NewScientist: Global warming brings earlier spring thaw to Great Lakes
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0817/p01s03-usec.htm>
2005/08/17: CSM: In parched Midwest, corn shrivels under the sun -
In hardest-hit Illinois, corn crop may come in a third under last year.
<http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/full/050815-2.html>
2005/08/15: NSU: Monsoons may dry up - Land use changes in India could turn off the rain.
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050815.wsalmo0815/BNStory/National/>
2005/08/15: Globe&Mail: [Fraser River] Sockeye salmon fishery threatened
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/sea_ice.html>
2005/08/16: NASA: Sea Ice May Be on Increase in the Antarctic:
A Phenomenon Due to a Lot of 'Hot Air'?
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050811084912.htm>
2005/08/16: SciDaily: High Carbon Dioxide Levels Spur Southern Pines To Grow More Needles
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/esr-gwt081505.php>
2005/08/15: Eureka: Global warming to boost Scots farmers
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/15/national/15drought.html?ei=5090&en=e82043ae39b039df&ex=1281758400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print>
2005/08/15: NYT: Drought Threatens Crops and Shuts River in Midwest
In the UK they are wondering about the effect of climate change on birds:
<http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/sotukb/climateandbirds.asp>
2005/08/19: RSPB: Climate change affecting UK birds
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1552684,00.html>
2005/08/19: Guardian(UK): Warm winters bewilder British birds
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8565>
2005/08/19: ENN: Britain's Climate Blamed for Bird Changes
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/4164950.stm>
2005/08/19: BBC: Climate change is affecting both bird numbers in the UK
and where they live, according to a new report.
Further in the 'from unexpected directions' department:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/4146542.stm>
2005/08/15: BBC: City traders facing up to climate change
The winner-takes-all world of stock markets and financial trading
is not one you usually associate with attempts to save the planet.
Asian nations are setting up a climate change monitoring network:
<http://www.physorg.com/news5806.html>
2005/08/15: PhysOrg: Japan to set up climate change monitoring network with neighbours
And on the American political front:
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0819-03.htm>
2005/08/19: CDreams:Independent(UK): Global Warming: Will You Listen Now, America?
Two of the leading contenders to contest the next US presidential election
have delivered an urgent warning to the United States on global warming,
saying the evidence of climate change has become too stark to ignore and
human activity is a major cause.
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/081805EA.shtml>
2005/08/18: TruthOut: US Senators Say Global Warming Obvious in Far North
<http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050818/ap_on_go_co/climate_change_alaska_2>
2005/08/18: Yahoo: Senators Attest to Alaska Climate Change
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8549>
2005/08/18: ENN: U.S. Senators Say Global Warming Obvious in Far North
<http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/17/MTFH55800_2005-08-17_23-12-31_HO783557.html>
2005/08/17: Breitbart: US senators: Global warming obvious in far north
<http://www.enn.com/aff.html?id=811>
2005/08/15: ENN: Will Climate Wake Up Call Be Answered?
<http://scienceg8.com/press-releases-take-ii/>
2005/08/17: ScienceGate: Press Releases, Take II
[Bush vs Clinton admins on Climate news releases]
<http://scienceg8.com/more-bush-admin-press-release-games/>
2005/08/16: ScienceGate: More Bush Admin Press Release Games?
[no U.S. govt agency press release about major climate work]
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/08/14/EDG2RE6OBK1.DTL&type=printable>
2005/08/14: SF Gate: Facing Our Energy Dependency -
Feds can follow local lead to reduce global warming
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8508>
2005/08/15: ENN: Judge Reluctant To Create Judicial Oversight of Global Warming
The carbon lobby are up to the usual or are they?:
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/global-warming-drudge-r_b_5912.html>
2005/08/19: THP: Global Warming: Drudge Rebels Against the Dark Side
There are a couple of older stories still reverberating through
the media echo chamber:
<http://i-newswire.com/pr42191.html>
2005/08/14: INW: Global warming most evident at high latitudes,
but greatest impact will be in tropics
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0816_050816_heat_wave.html>
2005/08/16: NatGeo: Record-Breaking Heat: Is Global Warming to Blame?
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2005/08/more-on-spencer-and-christy.html>
2005/08/20: JEB: More on Spencer and Christy
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8541>
2005/08/17: ENN: Pacific Coast Ecosystems Return to Normal after Winds Arrive Late
<http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMP2Z808BE_index_0.html>
2005/08/16: ESA: MSG-2 now planned for launch towards year's end
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050814164823.htm>
2005/08/16: SciDaily: New Observations And Climate Model Data
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=30>
2005/08/15: ClimateScience: Resignation from the CCSP Committee
"Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere-Steps for Understanding
and Reconciling Differences"
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
ClimateScience [Note new address]
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/>
Kyoto USA
<http://www.kyotousa.org/>
Sierra: Petition - Global Warming
<http://www.sierraclub.org/petition/globalwarming/>
Climate Audit [M&M]
<http://www.climateaudit.org/>
CTW: Carbon Trade Watch
<http://www.carbontradewatch.org/>
Plausible Futures
<http://www.plausiblefutures.com/>
PNT: Post-Normal Times
<http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/index.html>
NODC: Publication summary of the NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1990-2005
<http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indpub.html>
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
<http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx>
<http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic=wrc>
World Radiation Centre
<http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/IRRADIANCE/irrad.html>
NGDC.NOAA: Solar Irradiance Data
<http://www.exxposeexxon.com/>
Exxpose Exxon
<http://sciam-editor.typepad.com/weblog1/>
SciAmP: SciAm Perspectives
<regards>
-het
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