Another week of GW news - October 8 [A-Part 1]
H. E. Taylor
<http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/06/ocean-warming.html>
2006/10/06: CBC: New research turns up more evidence
of warming Arctic waters - Abnormal water flows from
the North Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean are causing
unprecedented warming in some areas, new research
collected this fall shows.
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Arctic_Fever_Getting_Hotter_999.html>
2006/10/05: TerraDaily: Arctic Fever Getting Hotter
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Arctic_Sea_Ice_Declines_Again_In_2006_999.html>
2006/10/05: TerraDaily: Arctic Sea Ice Declines Again In 2006
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061004173104.htm>
2006/10/05: SciDaily: Continued Warming Of The Arctic Ocean
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061004173904.htm>
2006/10/04: SciDaily: Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks As Temperatures Rise
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-04-02.asp>
2006/10/04: ENS: Arctic Sea Ice Melt Accelerating
The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by 2060
if current warming trends continue, scientists
with the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said Tuesday.
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061004.ICE04/TPStory/Environment>
2006/10/04: Globe&Mail: Arctic sea ice at all-time low, researchers say
<http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=979c127c-0bba-4939-aa42-43b018aed2c6&k=57038>
2006/10/04: CanWest: The big melt: Canada's North on front line -
Erosion, sea surges nibbling away Arctic infrastructure
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/awif-cwo100406.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Continued warming of the Arctic Ocean -
Northernmost position of the new research vessel Maria S Merian
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoca-asi100306.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Arctic sea ice declines again in 2006,
say University of Colorado researchers
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003283374_beringsea01m.html>
2006/10/01: STimes: Ecological upheaval on the edge of the ice
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061002-ozone.html>
2006/10/02: NatGeo: Polar Winds Depleting Ozone, Affecting Climate
Change, Study Says
<http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/39537>
2006/10/02: PoliGateway: Climate change takes toll on Bering Sea
Here are several takes on atmosphereic CO2:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/10/hmm.html>
2006/10/08: ERabett: Hmm...CO2 mixing ratio records.
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/attribution-of-20th-century-climate-change-to-cosub2sub/>
2006/10/04: RealClimate: Attribution of 20th Century climate change to CO2
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20514934-30417,00.html>
2006/10/03: Australian: Air samples show build-up of CO2
In the hurricane wars, the Atlantic has been quiet,
but the Pacific got whalloped:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100201063_pf.html> 2006/10/03: WaPo: Drones Expected to Be New Eye Into Little-Seen
Part of Hurricanes [low level]
<http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=534&tstamp=200610>
2006/10/04: Wunderground: October hurricane season outlook
<http://www.physorg.com/news79112057.html>
2006/10/03: PhysOrg: Experts forecast one more
Atlantic hurricane this season
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Experts_Forecast_One_More_Atlantic_Hurricane_This_Season_999.html>
2006/10/03: TerraDaily: Experts [Philip Klotzbach and William Gray]
Forecast One More Atlantic Hurricane This Season
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Typhoon_Death_Toll_Nears_250_In_Vietnam_Philippines_999.html>
2006/10/03: TerraDaily: Typhoon Death Toll Nears 250 In Vietnam Philippines
<http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=532&tstamp=200610>
2006/10/01: Wunderground: Vietnam bashed by Xangsane -
Isaac headed to Newfoundland
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38350/story.htm>
2006/10/02: PlanetArk: Central Vietnam Clears Debris After Typhoon [Xangsane]
Strikes [killing at least six]
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/5394626.stm>
2006/10/01: BBC: Six killed in Vietnamese typhoon [Xangsane]
And one of those gee whiz stories:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061002/full/061002-6.html>
2006/10/03: NSU: Demise of the world's most famous iceberg -
Swell from Alaskan storm breaks up megaberg [B-15A]
at opposite end of the globe.
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc-asc_1100206.php>
2006/10/02: Eureka: Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway
Antarctica Study tracks surprising connection between distant events -
A severe storm that occurred in the Gulf of Alaska in October
2005 generated an ocean swell that six days later broke apart a giant
iceberg floating near the coast of Antarctica, more than 8,300 miles away.
More bullets in the ongoing discussion of ocean currents:
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc--ian100206.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Ice Age North Atlantic temperatures,
tropical oceans linked - Evidence that climate change
can have a rapid effect on ocean circulation
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061006074312.htm>
2006/10/07: SciDaily: Researchers Link Ice Age Climate-change Records
To Ocean Salinity
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nsf-rli100406.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Researchers link Ice Age climate-change
records to ocean salinity - Water is saltier during cold,
fresher with tropical rain
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/carl-wunsch-the-economist-and-the-gulf-stream/>
2006/10/03: RealClimate: Carl Wunsch, The Economist and the Gulf Stream
Glaciers are melting:
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=61690>
2006/10/07: ClimateArk: China bars tourists from shrinking glaciers
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
<http://www.esa.int/esaLP/SEMND5LKKSE_LPmetop_0.html>
2006/10/05: ESA: MetOp to be launched on 17 October
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nsfc-nsd100306.php>
2006/10/03: Eureka: NASA satellite data helps assess the health
of Florida's coral reef
<http://www.desmogblog.com/anyone-for-a-dscovr-bake-sale>
2006/10/02: DeSmogBlog: Anyone for a DSCOVR Bake Sale?
<http://www.esa.int/esaLP/SEM0XLKKKSE_LPmetop_0.html>
2006/10/02: ESA: MetOp launch postponed
El Niño has put in a reappearance:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061006072300.htm>
2006/10/07: SciDaily: NASA Data Captures El Niño's Return In The Pacific
<http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/index.html>
2006/10/05: NOAA: El Niño/Southern Oscillation - Diagnostic Discussion -
Synopsis: El Niño conditions are likely to continue into early 2007.
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nsfc-ndc100506.php>
2006/10/05: Eureka: NASA data captures El Niño's return in the Pacific
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1754762.htm>
2006/10/03: ABC(Au): Chances of avoiding El Nino nil, climate centre says
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/2/95540/0235>
2006/10/02: GristMill: A chat with climatologist Bill Patzert
on global warming, super El Ninos, and ultra La Ninas
The ozone hole is apparently record size:
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1886733,00.html>
2006/10/03: Guardian(UK): Low temperatures increase ozone loss
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002215000.htm>
2006/10/03: SciDaily: Record Ozone Loss During 2006 Over South Pole
<http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMQBOKKKSE_planet_0.html>
2006/10/02: ESA: Record ozone loss during 2006 over South Pole
Southeast Asians slash and burn the tropical rainforest:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Haze_From_Indonesia_Fires_Chokes_Region_Spreads_Across_Pacific_999.html>
2006/10/05: TerraDaily: Haze From Indonesia Fires Chokes Region,
Spreads Across Pacific
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11390>
2006/10/06: ENN: Malaysia's Air Worsens as Haze Spreads
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38366/story.htm>
2006/10/03: PlanetArk: Smoke Haze Hangs Over Singapore as Indonesian Fires Rage
The impacts of GW are becoming clearer:
<http://www.physorg.com/news79367189.html>
2006/10/06: PhysOrg: Global warming challenge to French winegrowers
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoaf-aso100506.php>
2006/10/05: Eureka: Alaska study offers strategies to mitigate climate warming
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10404255>
2006/10/04: NZHerald: Global warming will threaten millions
say climate scientists
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1887096,00.html>
2006/10/04: Guardian(UK): Study warns of stark costs of failing
to counter climate change as leaders meet
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/srs--rtw100406.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Rising temperatures will lead
to loss of trout habitat in the southern Appalachians
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/dr-aft100406.php>
2006/10/04: Eureka: Alaskans feel the heat of global warming
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38372/story.htm>
2006/10/03: PlanetArk: Cut Emissions Now or Pay, UK Tells Climate Talks
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38341/story.htm>
2006/10/02: PlanetArk: Climate Report Seen Setting Out Scary Scenarios
Whatever the reason, this kind of thing makes me nervous:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061002/full/061002-1.html>
2006/10/02: NSU: Where have all the aspen gone?
The mysterious death of these trees in the western United States
The troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:
<http://grist.org/comments/food/2006/10/04/globalwarming/index.html>
2006/10/04: Grist: Heat and Serve -
Can industrial agriculture withstand climate change?
And speaking of floods & droughts:
<http://getdowntoearth.blogspot.com/2006/10/insufficient-water-to-meet-needs.html>
2006/10/06: GDTE: Insufficient water to meet needs
<http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/04/the-century-of-drought/>
2006/10/04: ClimateProgress: The Century of Drought
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/oct2006/2006-10-05-01.asp>
2006/10/05: ENS: Global Warming Could Spread Extreme Drought
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=61638>
2006/10/06: ClimateArk: Western Warming Warning -
Climate change will worsen droughts, wildfires
and die-offs in the region, a [NWF] report says.
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1715>
2006/10/03: JFleck: Bad Drought Reporting: A Visual Aid
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1004-02.htm>
2006/10/04: CDreams: Independent(UK): The Century of Drought
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1786829.ece>
2006/10/04: Independent(UK): The century of drought
One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100,
say climate experts in the most dire warning yet
of the effects of global warming
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38368/story.htm>
2006/10/03: PlanetArk: Spain Logs Second Year of Drought
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1889830,00.html>
2006/10/07: Guardian(UK): Can planting trees really give you
a clear carbon conscience?
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=61502>
2006/10/03: ClimateArk: Cutting emissions without an economic slow-down
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/dutch_bank_intr.php>
2006/10/02: TreeHugger: Dutch Bank Introduces "Climate Credit Card"
<http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20060929-120130-4800r>
2006/10/02: UPI: Analysis: Climate action 'boosts economy'
And on the carbon sequestration front:
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=61668>
2006/10/06: ClimateArk: Carbon capture: climate saviour?
<http://www.uky.edu/KGS/announce/carbondioxide.htm>
2006/09/26: UKY: Study Finds Plenty of Carbon Dioxide Storage
Capacity Underground in Kentucky
The influence of the web [and generically any new medium]
on the peer review system has come up for discussion:
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061002/ap_on_sc/peer_review_science>
2006/10/01: Yahoo: Web journals threaten peer-review system
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/10/alternatives-to-peer-review_05.html>
2006/10/05: SPGCC: Alternatives to peer review
Not to mention publishing priorities:
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1717>
2006/10/04: JFleck: The Nature (mag) Problem
Meanwhile in the journals:
<http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abstracts/2005/ShindellFaluvegiBS.html>
2005//: GISS: An emissions-based view of climate forcing by methane
and tropospheric ozone. by Shindell, D.T. et al.
<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/40/14690>
2006/10/03: PNAS: A theory for the atmospheric energy spectrum: Depth-
limited temperature anomalies at the tropopause by R. Tulloch and K. S. Smith
<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/40/14653>
2006/10/03: PNAS: Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina:
A research perspective by R. W. Kates et al.
Meetings, we have meetings:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/flat-earthers-absent-from-g8-climate-change-talks>
2006/10/05: DeSmogBlog: "Flat Earthers" absent from G8 climate change talks
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/5408798.stm>
2006/10/05: BBC: Mixed outcomes at climate talks
Climate talks between the world's top 20 polluters
have ended with an unusual level of agreement on the
urgent need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions. But
delegates at the Mexico talks also stressed the massive
gap between the politics and science of climate change.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/5398784.stm>
2006/10/02: BBC: Top 20 polluters gather in Mexico
[for the Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Change,
Clean Energy and Sustainable Development]
Ministers from the world's top 20 polluting nations
are gathering in Mexico for talks on climate change.
Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:
<http://grist.org/comments/dispatches/2006/10/03/levitin/index.html>
2006/10/03: Grist: Beyond Kyoto - A dispatch from
a forward-looking climate conference in Germany
Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.environmental-finance.com/onlinews/0510mon.htm>
2006/10/05: EnvFin: UK calls for expanded carbon market
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38398/story.htm>
2006/10/06: PlanetArk: UK Favours Carbon Trading Over Jet Fuel Tax
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38397/story.htm>
2006/10/06: PlanetArk: UK Sees EU-Wide Carbon Capture Incentive from 2008
<http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1005-33.htm>
2006/10/05: CDreams: Europe's New Enclosure: The Sky -
Slicing up the Earth's Atmosphere for Corporate Profit
A main focus of ire was the European Trading System,
in which governments issue tradable carbon emission
permits to polluting industries. The European governments
that set up the system are doing two huge things wrong:
first, they're handing out too many permits,
and second, they're giving them free to polluters,
who then raise prices and reap windfall profits.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38393/story.htm>
2006/10/06: PlanetArk: Canada Says Won't Rush to Set Emissions Targets
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/record_1_billio.php>
2006/10/03: TreeHugger: Record $1 Billion Emissions Reduction
Purchase Made in China
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38365/story.htm>
2006/10/03: PlanetArk: EU Seeks Second Chance for Carbon Market from 2008
The European Union's executive will try in the coming weeks
to revive its floundering carbon trading scheme from 2008,
after a miscalculation on targets last year capsized
its concept of driving emissions cuts.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38347/story.htm>
2006/10/02: PlanetArk: Canada Emissions Trading Plan Awaits Ottawa Policy
The Montreal Exchange could start its planned emissions trading by
year-end if the federal government soon brings in the required
environmental framework, President and Chief Executive
Luc Bertrand said.
<regards>
-het
PS.
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<http://tinyurl.com/9zyom>
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PPS.
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[s.e,t.e,a.g-w]
--
"The global challenge can be simply stated: To reach sustainability,
humanity must increase the consumption levels of the world's poor,
while at the same time reducing humanity's total ecological
footprint. There must be technological advance, and personal change,
and longer planning horizons. There must be greater respect, caring,
and sharing across political boundaries. This will take decades
to achieve even under the best of circumstances. No modern political
party has garnered broad support for such a program, certainly not
among the the rich and powerful, who could make room for growth
among the poor by reducing their own footprints. Meanwhile, the
global footprint get larger every day."
-Meadows et al., Limits to Growth, page xv
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