Another week of GW news - January 29
H. E. Taylor
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2006/01/25: Onion: Nation's Snowmen March Against Global Warming
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2006/01/24: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) The Coal Mine is the Canary
The temperatures are rising:
<http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/>
2006//: NASA:GISS: Global Temperature Trends: 2005 Summation
<http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=121862006>
2006/01/25: Scotsman: Greenhouse gases blamed for making 2005 hottest year to date
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34662/story.htm>
2006/01/25: PlanetArk: 2005 Was Warmest Year on Record - NASA
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9736>
2006/01/25: ENN: NASA Says 2005 Was Warmest Year on Record
<http://www.physorg.com/news10179.html>
2006/01/24: PhysOrg: 2005 was the warmest year in a century
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/2005_warmest.html>
2006/01/24: NASA: 2005 Was the Warmest Year in a Century
There is a million year ice core from Antarctica:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060123/full/060123-3.html>
2006/01/23: NSU: Ice core shows its age -
A second Antarctic sample excites climatologists
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34666/story.htm>
2006/01/25: PlanetArk: Japanese Drill for Climate Clues in Antarctic Ice
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1554508.htm>
2006/01/24: ABC(Au): Researchers dig up million-year-old ice
<http://www.physorg.com/news10171.html>
2006/01/24: PhysOrg: Japanese scientists dig up million-year-old ice
The interaction of aerosols and albedo is back:
<http://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/060124_earth_albedo.html>
2006/01/24: LScience: Baffled Scientists Say Less Sunlight Reaching Earth
<http://www.physorg.com/news10143.html>
2006/01/23: PhysOrg: Solar physicists report paradox: Less sunlight, but temps rise
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/njio-nsp012306.php>
2006/01/23: Eureka: NJIT solar physicists report paradox: Less sunlight, but temps rise
The Max Planck Society's rebuttal/correction of many journalist's reaction
to the 'methane from plants' story is still around:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060125082122.htm>
2006/01/26: SciDaily: Global Warming - The Blame Is Not With The Plants
Rising sea levels are back:
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9762>
2006/01/27: ENN: Global Warming May Cause Sea Levels to Rise 34 Centimeters by 2100
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4651876.stm>
2006/01/26: BBC: Sea level rise 'is accelerating' - Global sea levels could rise
by about 30cm during this century if current trends continue, a study warns.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34614/story.htm>
2006/01/23: PlanetArk: Dutch Seek to Defend Coastal Resorts from Sea Rise
There is another indicator of (relatively) rapid change in the Arctic:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060123/full/060123-10.html>
2006/01/26: NSU: Alaskan tundra thaws in warming world -
Arctic puddles point to melting ice, but their effect is hard to predict.
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2006/01/dynamical-amplification-of-polar.html>
2006/01/23: Stoat: Dynamical amplification of polar warming
Elsewhere in 'tipping point' style news:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801021_pf.html>
2006/01/28: WashPost: Debate on Climate Shifts to Issue of Irreparable Change
Some Experts on Global Warming Foresee 'Tipping Point' When It Is Too Late to Act
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0126/p16s01-stss.htm>
2006/01/26: CSM: Earth could warm up fast
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012606EB.shtml>
2006/01/26: TruthOut: Earth Could Warm Up Fast
William has a good article on GHGs & the IPCC:
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2006/01/co2-and-sres.html>
2006/01/27: Stoat: CO2 and SRES
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/teia-tnl012506.php>
2006/01/25: Eureka: Two new lakes found beneath Antarctic ice sheet
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060126142830.htm>
2006/01/26: SciDaily: NASA Satellites Yield Best-ever Antarctic Maps
Isn't it interesting how a simple matter of fact can get twisted?
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2006/01/fun-with-hurricane-trends.html>
2006/01/28: Stoat: Fun with hurricane trends?
There is a debate starting about the amphibian extinctions:
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9727>
2006/01/24: ENN: Warming Probably Not Killing Arizona Frogs
Yet more GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1695804,00.html>
2006/01/27: Guardian(UK): Satellite picture shows Africa's dying lake
[In the past four decades the lake has shrivelled from 23,000 sq km to just 900 sq km]
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,1694974,00.html>
2006/01/26: Guardian(UK): Germany's oaks 'could die out'
The state of Amazonian deforestation is not all bleak, if you believe this:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060126200147.htm>
2006/01/27: SciDaily: Satellites Show Amazon Parks, Indigenous Reserves Stop Forest
Clearing
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/whrc-ssa012506.php>
2006/01/25: Eureka: Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest
clearing
And that MEA report is still echoing around:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012506EB.shtml>
2006/01/25: TruthOut: Planet Earth, Year 2050 [MEA]
<http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/31222/>
2006/01/25: AlterNet: Planet Earth, Year 2050 [MEA]
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9725>
2006/01/24: ENN: U.S. Greenhouse Operators Find Green Roof Niche
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2006/seeding.shtml>
2006/01/26: UCAR: Wyoming Cloud Seeding Experiment Begins This Month
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060125082518.htm>
2006/01/25: SciDaily: Europe's Largest Climate Change Experiment Launched
<http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/crave.html>
2006/01/23: NASA: NASA to Fly Into 'Portal' to the Stratosphere
Gee, who ever would have expected the cabon lobby to misrepresent the finances:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012406EB.shtml>
2006/01/23: TruthOut: Studies Support Emissions Plans -
Two independent analyses say an effort, opposed by business,
to cut greenhouse gases could be beneficial for California's economy.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-climate23jan23,0,7558541.story?coll=la-news-science> 2006/01/23: LA Times: [California] Studies Support Emissions Plans
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/23/133052/617>
2006/01/23: GristMill: Green saves green[$]
And on the American political front:
<http://grist.org/news/muck/2006/01/26/romney/index.html>
2006/01/26: Grist: Mass Backward - Mass. lawmakers pushing
to join [RGGI] climate pact, despite Romney's objections
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012101067_pf.html>
2006/01/23: WashPost: 'Blue' States Tackling Energy On Their Own -
Federal Efficiency Rules Fall Short, Some Say
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/23/122157/659>
2006/01/23: GristMill: State-level energy policy
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-pope/commitment-issues_b_14328.html>
2006/01/23: THP: Commitment Issues [Feds vs states EPA issues]
There has been a minor press explosion over NASA trying to muzzle Jim Hansen:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/science/earth/29climate.html?ei=5094&en=0a858f5230677507&hp=&ex=1138510800&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print>
2006/01/28: NYT: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0129-01.htm>
2006/01/29: CDreams: NYT: Climate Expert Says NASA Tried to Silence Him
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1697616,00.html>
2006/01/29: Guardian(UK): Top Nasa climate scientist [James Hansen] 'censored'
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1343>
2006/01/28: JFleck: Trying to Shut up Hansen
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_pielke_jr_r/000697let_jim_hansen_speak.html>
2006/01/28: Prometheus: Let Jim Hansen Speak
<http://www.physorg.com/news10349.html>
2006/01/29: PhysOrg: NASA climate expert says US tried to silence him
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/28/163210/534>
2006/01/28: GristMill: And this is why they are going to hell [Hansen, Bush etc]
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1557504.htm>
2006/01/29: ABC(Au): Claims US gagging climate expert
And Al Gore is getting a lot of publicity over his book and movie:
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0127-05.htm>
2006/01/27: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Al Gore, the Movie, a Festival Hit
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012606EA.shtml>
2006/01/27: TruthOut: Al Gore, Sundance's Leading Man - "An Inconvenient Truth"
documents his efforts to raise alarm on effects of global warming.
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9752>
2006/01/27: ENN: Gore Campaigns at Sundance with Global-Warming Documentary
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1695976,00.html>
2006/01/27: Guardian(UK): Al Gore, the movie, a festival hit [_An Inconvenient Truth_]
<http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=6556>
2006/01/: Sundance: An Inconvenient Truth
The heart of Davis Guggenheim's film is this elegant multimedia lecture itself,
where Gore indisputably correlates CO2 emissions with exponentially rising
temperatures, already responsible for dramatic climactic shifts like ice-cap
melting, drought, and rising sea levels.
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9733>
2006/01/25: ENN: Al Gore to Publish Book on Global Warming in April
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-01-24T174509Z_01_N24233070_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-GORE.xml&rpc=22>
2006/01/24: Reuters: Gore to publish book on global warming
While in the UK, another voice (this time not flogging a book) is talking about a dieoff:
<http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=132492006>
2006/01/27: Scotsman: Nightmare vision of a world 200 years on
One of Britain's leading environmentalists [Crispin Tickell] will today sound
a doomsday warning to the world: humanity's very existence is
under threat from climate change and, even if we survive, the population
will crash to about a third of its current level.
Meanwhile in China:
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/HA24Ad01.html>
2006/01/24: Asia Times: China's mixed smoke signals [Kyoto & APPCDC]
And in Australia:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1555959.htm>
2006/01/27: ABC(Au): [Australian Governor-General, Michael Jeffery] G-G
calls for action on global warming
I suppose I need a 'how the media handles the science of climatology' section now:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/29/03617/7788>
2006/01/29: GristMill: Good climate-change journalism: Revkin edition
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/29/04446/4268>
2006/01/29: GristMill: Good climate-change journalism: Eilperin edition
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/29/12232/3626>
2006/01/29: GristMill: Good climate-change journalism: Kay edition
There was more on wacky weather:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4651182.stm>
2006/01/26: BBC: Bitterly cold weather affecting much of Central and
Eastern Europe has claimed the lives at least 60 more people.
<http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=105071>
2006/01/25: Turkish Press: Europe's deadly freeze covers Acropolis in snow
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1553665.htm>
2006/01/24: ABC(Au): 2005 marked by 'extreme' climate: UN agency [WMO]
<http://uk.news.yahoo.com/23012006/323/eastern-europe-freezes-killer-cold.html>
2006/01/23: Yahoo: Eastern Europe freezes in killer cold
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/4651562.stm>
2006/01/27: BBC: Car firms 'blocking green fuel'
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060123/full/060123-13.html>
2006/01/26: NSU: Biofuels get mixed review - Ethanol does well on efficiency,
but only so-so for the environment.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1556951.htm>
2006/01/27: ABC(Au): Experts support push for ethanol
<http://www.physorg.com/news10331.html>
2006/01/27: PhysOrg: Scientists set sights on biomass to reduce fossil fuel dependence
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9759>
2006/01/27: ENN: Ethanol Could Reduce Fossil Fuel Need, Study Shows
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4404>
2006/01/26: PRWatch: A New Nuke Sell: Reprocessing
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1696075,00.html>
2006/01/27: Guardian(UK): Green fuel 'not enough' to cut transport pollution
<http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8639>
2006/01/26: NewScientist: US may overturn nuclear fuel reprocessing ban
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/26/14939/7676>
2006/01/26: GristMill: Big Oil suppressing biofuels? Obama thinks so.
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uoc--ecr012306.php>
2006/01/26: Eureka: Ethanol can replace gasoline with big energy savings,
comparable impact on greenhouse gases
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1694542,00.html>
2006/01/26: Guardian(UK): Could your lawn keep your home warm?
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1694771,00.html>
2006/01/25: Guardian(UK): 'Sea power could provide 20% of UK electricity'
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/25/nuclear_energy_poll/>
2006/01/25: Register: Europeans don't much like nuclear energy -
Solar and wind popular options, survey shows
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34669/story.htm>
2006/01/25: PlanetArk: Italy to Present Energy Crisis Paper to G7, Ecofin
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4645452.stm>
2006/01/25: BBC: Sea energy 'could help power UK'
Wave and tidal power can provide a fifth of the UK's electricity needs,
according to a new report.
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9724>
2006/01/24: ENN: UK Launches Energy Review in Face of Global Warming
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/34642/story.htm>
2006/01/24: PlanetArk: UK Launches Energy Review in Face of Global Warming
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1692253,00.html>
2006/01/22: Guardian(UK): Blair warned on 'rush for nuclear'
Meanwhile in the carbon lobby, Steve Milloy took a hit this week:
<http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/01/fox_news_more_j.html>
2006/01/28: BDL: Fox News: More Junk Journalism
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/01/the_big_shill.php>
2006/01/27: Deltoid: The Big Shill
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4405>
2006/01/26: PRWatch: Steven Milloy, the Usual Suspect in Paid-For Punditry
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/1/26/91559/7253>
2006/01/26: GristMill: Steven Milloy and Fox News
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_pielke_jr_r/000695hypotheses_about_ipc.html>
2006/01/27: Prometheus: Hypotheses about IPCC and Peer Review
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1338>
2006/01/25: JFleck: Listening to the Economists
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9756>
2006/01/27: ENN: Climate Change Has Unexpected Effects
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/26/climate-model-problems-in-representing-near-surface-temperatures-at-night/>
2006/01/26: CliSci: Climate Model Problems in Representing Near-Surface Temperatures at
Night
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/uom-omm012306.php>
2006/01/25: Eureka: Of mice, men, trees and the global carbon cycle
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/01/probability-prediction-and_24.html>
2006/01/24: JEB: Probability, prediction and verification IV: More on Bayesian vs
frequentist uncertainty
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/22/the-need-to-assess-uncertainty-in-climate-models/>
2006/01/22: CliSci: The Need to Better Assess Uncertainty in Climate Models
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/01/23/why-there-is-a-warm-bias-in-the-existing-analyses-of-the-global-average-surface-temperature/>
2006/01/23: CliSci: Why there is a Warm Bias in the Existing Analyses of the Global
Average Surface Temperature
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/author_pielke_jr_r/000684big_knob_critique_re.html>
2006/01/23: Prometheus: Big Knob Critique Response
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
Columbia: Dr. James E. Hansen [web page]
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/>
LiveScience
<http://www.livescience.com/>
Radio Ecoshock - Green Radio.
<http://www.ecoshock.org>
OrganicMatter - Blogging the environment
<http://www.organicmatter.net/>
GCI: Global Commons Institute
<http://www.gci.org.uk/>
EDGAR: Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research
<http://arch.rivm.nl/env/int/coredata/edgar/>
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>
<regards>
-het
PS.
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<http://tinyurl.com/9zyom>
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<http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&scoring=d&as_ugroup=sci.environment&as_usubject=%22Another+week+of+GW+news%22&&safe=off>
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over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it bursts, or
we can be the generation that stabilizes population, eradicates poverty,
and stabilizes climate. Historians will record the choice,
but it is ours to make." -Lester Brown: Plan B - Rescuing a Planet
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