Another week of GW news - April 30
H. E. Taylor
von Storch's 'hockey stick' reconstruction error. The RealClimate article
is worth checking:
<http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/312/5773/529b>
2006/04/30: SciMag: Comment on "Reconstructing Past Climate from
Noisy Data" by Eugene R. Wahl et al.
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/a-correction-with-repercussions/>
2006/04/27: RealClimate: A Mistake with Repercussions
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004372.html>
2006/04/28: WorldChanging: Oops, Sorry About That: Climate Change
is Real, After All
This report on SSTs might give you pause:
<http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/4/28/295/09986>
2006/04/28: OilDrum: Checking in on Sea Surface Temperatures
Elsewhere in the hurricane wars:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-scientists-shred-hurricane-skeptic-grays-citing-of-inhofe-crichton> 2006/04/27: DeSmogBlog: Climate
Scientists Shred Hurricane Skeptic Gray's Citing of Inhofe, Crichton
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/04/gray-on-agw/>
2006/04/26: RealClimate: [William] Gray and Muddy Thinking about
Global Warming
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36138/story.htm>
2006/04/26: PlanetArk: Key Facts About the Indian Monsoon
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/4941168.stm>
2006/04/25: BBC: Darwin spared by Cyclone Monica
A tropical cyclone predicted to be one of the worst to hit
Australia
has been downgraded [to Cat 2], bringing relief to the city of
Darwin,
thought to be in its path.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36134/story.htm>
2006/04/26: PlanetArk: Global Warming Behind Record 2005 Storms -
Experts
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10326>
2006/04/25: ENN: Global Warming Behind Record 2005 Storms, U.S.
Expert Says
<http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/04/25/global.warming.hurricanes.reut/index.html?section=cnn_latest>
2006/04/25: CNN: Experts: Global warming behind 2005 hurricanes
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000793climate_and_societal.html> 2006/04/24: Prometheus: Climate and
Societal Factors in Future Tropical Cyclone
Damages in the ABI Reports
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/04/cyclone_monica_heading_for_dar.php>
2006/04/24: Deltoid: Cyclone Monica heading for Darwin
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/hurricane_landfall.html>
2006/04/24: NASA: NASA Data Combined to Improve Hurricane
Landfall Forecasts
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060424181112.htm>
2006/04/24: SciDaily: NASA Data Combined To Improve Hurricane
Landfall Forecasts
Glaciers are melting:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55726>
2006/04/28: ClimateArk: Tanzania: The woes of Kilimanjaro
The fabled glaciers on Tanzania's majestic mountain will soon be
gone.
Its forests are disappearing, too. For local farmers, this could
mean
disaster. For the rest of us, it's another unbearable loss
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10339>
2006/04/26: ENN: Shrinking Alpine Glacier Points to Snowless
Future for Swiss Mountain Resorts
Meanwhile in Antarctica icebergs are crashing:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55758>
2006/04/29: ClimateArk: Antarctic on thin ice
C-16, a vast mass of ice measuring 55km 19km, smashed away the
eastern-most
tip of the Drygalski Tongue to create another ocean-roaming
behemoth,
a 13km 11km iceberg dubbed C-25.
While in near earth orbit:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060428141731.htm>
2006/04/28: SciDaily: Scientists Fly High To Unlock The Puzzle Of
Global Air Quality
<http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cryosat/SEM1OKOFGLE_0.html>
2006/04/28: ESA: Climate Change students help CryoSat-2 Arctic
campaign
<http://www.unh.edu/news/news_releases/2006/april/ds_060427nasa.html>
2006/04/27: UNH: UNH Scientists Continue To Fly High As NASA
Unlocks The Puzzle Of Global Air Quality
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/gert_study.html>
2006/04/26: NASA: NASA dis-assembles and re-assembles Tropical
Storm Gert
Cloudsat and Calipso finally got off the ground:
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/main/index.html>
NASA: CloudSat
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-16.html>
2006/04/28: NSU: Cloud satellites finally see clear skies -
Successful launch should prove to be a boon for climate research.
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060428094830.htm>
2006/04/28: SciDaily: NASA Launches Satellites For Weather,
Climate, Air Quality Studies
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4944058.stm>
2006/04/28: BBC: Spacecraft [Cloudsat and Calipso] seek climate
clarity
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/04/28/satellites-weather060428.html>
2006/04/28: CBC: NASA launches 2 climate satellites [NASA's
CloudSat and Calipso]
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/news/cloudsat-20060428.html>
2006/04/28: NASA: NASA Launches Satellites for Weather, Climate,
Air Quality Studies
More impacts of GW are being seen:
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1474>
2006/04/29: JFleck: In Praise of Benny Peiser [GW impacts]
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/04/0428_060428_fire.html>
2006/04/28: NatGeo: Explosive Wildfire Season Predicted for U.S.
West, South
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146261011487&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467>
2006/04/29: TStar: Climate change threatens sugar bush - Sugar
maple range creeping northward
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/sci/tech/4947346.stm>
2006/04/27: BBC: West must take Africa's climate burden
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060428095849.htm>
2006/04/28: SciDaily: Coral Reef Resilience: Better Feeders
Survive Bleaching
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1471>
2006/04/27: JFleck: On Changing Drought
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-6.html>
2006/04/26: NSU: Corals go fishing to survive -
Catching dinner could save some corals from climate doom
<http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=2806&language=1>
2006/04/27: SciDevNet: Ancient trees reveal climate change in
Pakistan -
Northern Pakistan has had a dramatic increase in snowfall since
the Industrial Revolution
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060424/full/060424-13.html>
2006/04/28: NSU: Danube bursts its banks - Should we expect more
flooding in Europe?
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/uob-cc2042706.php>
2006/04/27: Eureka: Climate change: 20th century the wettest in
Pakistan for 1,000 years -
Human cause likely
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060427093814.htm>
2006/04/27: SciDaily: Climate Change: 20th Century The Wettest In
Pakistan For 1,000 Years
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1467>
2006/04/25: JFleck: Drought in the Models
<http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=1884312&page=1>
2006/04/26: ABC(US): Around the World, Warmer Temperatures Mean
More Infections -
Malaria, Lyme Disease and Even Rare Shellfish Disease Spreading
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1882385>
2006/04/24: ABC(US): Spanish summers could be 5-7 degrees hotter
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4931722.stm>
2006/04/24: BBC: Report charts changing UK plants
The UK's plant species have experienced dramatic changes over the
past 18 years
in the conditions under which they grow, according to a new
report.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1759922,00.html>
2006/04/24: Guardian(UK): Climate change forces plants to search
for better places
to live - Orchid and fern species move north and west
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36102/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: Chinese Province Suffers Worst Drought in
55 Years
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36098/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: Global Warming Hits Canada's Remotest
Arctic Lands
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10320>
2006/04/24: ENN: Scientists Say Rising Temperatures Threaten
Repeat of Caribbean Coral Death
And then there are the tropical rainforests:
<http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/04/the_truth_about_rainforests_1.php?page=all&p=y>
2006/04/27: SeedMag: Rainforests: Carbon Sink or Carbon Source?
Could tropical forests soon contribute to global warming?
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55623>
2006/04/26: ClimateArk: Australia: Kicking carbon can be simple
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/4947198.stm>
2006/04/26: BBC: 'Cut emissions' food trade urged -
The food industry in England has been urged to reduce carbon
emissions and waste to cut environmental damage.
The Pielkes continue their campaign:
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000798al_gores_bad_start_.html>
2006/04/28: Prometheus: Al Gore’s Bad Start and What Just Ain’t
So
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/04/27/what-fraction-of-global-warming-is-due-to-the-radiative-forcing-of-increased-atmospheric-concentrations-of-co2/>
2006/04/27: CliSci: What Fraction of Global Warming is Due to the
Radiative Forcing
of Increased Atmospheric Concentrations of CO2?
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/04/25/204/>
2006/04/25: CliSci: An Earlier Paper on the Role of Regional Land
Surface Change and
Regional Aerosol Emissions As First-Order Climate Forcings
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000792conflicted_about_con.html>
2006/04/23: Prometheus: Conflicted about Conflicts of Interest?
A 30 country poll has found people becoming increasingly concerned about
GW & effects:
<http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemID=11703>
2006/04/29: AngusReid: World Aware of Global Warming Threat
<http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/187.php?nid=&id=&pnt=187&lb=hmpg1>
2006/04/25: WPO: 30-Country Poll Finds Worldwide Consensus That
Climate Change is a Serious Problem
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/2006/04/world-opinion-about-global-warming.html>
2006/04/25: FramingScience: World opinion about global warming:
Americans, Kenyans,
S. Africans, Nigerians, and Chinese Most Skeptical About
Seriousness of Problem
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/2006/04/gallup-trends-concern-about.html>
2006/04/24: FramingScience: Gallup Trends: Concern About the
Environment and
About Global Warming Rebounds from Five Year Decline
The APPCDC had a largely unreported meeting late last week:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36100/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: US Looks to Private Sector to Fix
Greenhouse Pollution
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10316>
2006/04/24: ENN: [APPCDC] U.S. Taps Private Sector to Fix
Greenhouse Pollution
<http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-04-23T142618Z_01_N21391376_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-GREENHOUSE.xml>
2006/04/23: Reuters: US looks to private sector to fix greenhouse
pollution
While on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200604242141/2848b674>
2006/04/24: RadioNZ: Forestry industry calling for national
carbon market
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36103/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: Czechs See No Big Cuts in CO2 Permits
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36108/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: EU Emissions Scheme [Carbon Trading] Faces
Key Test After First Year
Also on emissions trading, EU countries easily met their carbon reduction
targets
this week and the market took a beating as a result:
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/603874f6-d653-11da-8b3a-0000779e2340.html>
2006/04/28: FT: Carbon trade on trial
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36175/story.htm>
2006/04/28: PlanetArk: CO2 Market on Brink as Price Continues to
Slide
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27571156.htm>
2006/04/27: Reuters: European carbon market rattled as prices
dive
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36156/story.htm>
2006/04/27: PlanetArk: Lax EU Emissions Targets Put Carbon
[prices] Into Freefall
And on the American political front:
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12535460/>
2006/04/29: MSNBC: "At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day" -
Al Gore on why America-and even George Bush-is close to a tipping
point on global warming.
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042806EB.shtml>
2006/04/28: TruthOut: Ten States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060427/cm_thenation/380389>
2006/04/28: Yahoo: Gore Goes Hollywood
<http://www.physorg.com/news65452048.html>
2006/04/28: PhysOrg: 10 states sue US to regulate greenhouse
gases
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55724>
2006/04/28: ClimateArk: 10 States Sue E.P.A. on Emissions
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10353>
2006/04/28: ENN: Ten States, DC Sue EPA over Power Plant
Emissions
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36170/story.htm>
2006/04/28: PlanetArk: Ten States, DC Sue EPA Over Power Plant
Emissions
<http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3299388,00.html>
2006/04/27: NewsMiner: US Senate Commerce Committee's
subcommittee on global climate change debate -
Akasofu: Global warming causes not proven
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/4/24/125821/375>
2006/04/24: GristMill: Global warming consensus [among
Republicans]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55531>
2006/04/23: ClimateArk: Carmakers sue Vermont over emission
standards
Vermont is a target of carmakers who say some states are
overstepping their bounds
by limiting the amount of pollution that new cars sold within
their borders can produce.
The dispute will ultimately decide whether consumers see higher
prices for cars and
could affect how greenhouse gases are regulated nationwide, say
lawyers and experts.
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55559>
2006/04/24: ClimateArk: Bush Faces Dissent From Republicans on
Climate Change
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55534>
2006/04/23: ClimateArk: California's Energy Strategy Holds
Lessons for Bush
<http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Politics/story?id=1879785&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312>
2006/04/24: ABC(US): Will Arnold Be Back After '06?
Schwarzenegger
on Global Warming, Immigration and Pumping Up the Polls
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aiUC2JB2UcGA>
2006/04/24: BBerg: Bush Faces Growing Dissent From Republicans on
Climate Change
While on the UK political front:
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15387.html>
2006/04/28: EnergyBulletin: Senior parliamentarian [Sir Walter
Menzies Campbell] calls for action,
global treaty on climate change
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/4937380.stm>
2006/04/24: BBC: Cameron to target car emissions - Conservative
leader David Cameron
is to commit his party to reducing carbon emissions from cars by
nearly a third.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1759529,00.html>
2006/04/23: Guardian(UK): So now green is the new blue - and also
the new red
Gordon Brown and David Cameron are both pretending we can save
the planet
at no cost to our carbon-crunching lifestyles
Also in the UK, the energy review is roiling in the background:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4948052.stm>
2006/04/27: BBC: Ministers bullish on biomass fuel
The UK government says energy from crops, trees and waste can
play a key role
in meeting targets on renewable power and cutting CO2 emissions.
Energy Minister
Malcolm Wicks believes the sector is vital if the goal of
renewable power
providing 20% of UK electricity by 2020 is to be achieved.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36133/story.htm>
2006/04/26: PlanetArk: UK Car Emissions Drop - Industry Group
[Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55561>
2006/04/24: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Tories target polluting
cars
Meanwhile in Australia:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55710>
2006/04/27: ClimateArk: Australia: People in greenhouses should
turn up the heat -
In the world of climate change, Australia is a small player with
a big responsibility
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55672>
2006/04/27: ClimateArk: Australia: Banks 'contribute to global
warming'
In Canada, the minority Conservative government is getting a lot of flak:
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0429-06.htm>
2006/04/29: CDreams:IPS: Canada Backpedals on Kyoto Promises
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33056>
2006/04/29: IPSNews: Canada Backpedals on Kyoto Promises
Canada's new Conservative government recently cut 40 percent of
the budget for state-run programmes to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions.
<http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=17451>
2006/04/27: GeorgiaStraight: David Suzuki turns up the heat on
[Canadian PM] Harper
<http://www.desmogblog.com/harper-government-mulls-c-o-p-out>
2006/04/26: DeSmogBlog: Harper Government Mulls C.O.P. Out
<http://www.desmogblog.com/ottawa-drifting-toward-aniti-kyoto-group>
2006/04/26: DeSmogBlog: Ottawa Drifting Toward Anti-Kyoto Group
<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=58ed6579-3804-4d46-a90a-367745693d66&k=23190>
2006/04/26: CanWest: Gov't looking at joining U.S. led Kyoto
rival -
Agreement not legally binding, doesn't set caps on carbon
emissions
<http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2006/04/26/1551131-sun.html>
2006/04/26: Canoe: Minister [Rona Ambrose] pushes 'Kyoto-lite'
idea
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36128/story.htm>
2006/04/26: PlanetArk: Canada Backs Breakaway Six-Nation Climate
Group
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10334>
2006/04/26: ENN: Canada Backs Breakaway Six-Nation Climate Group
[APPCDC]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55568>
2006/04/24: ClimateArk: Canada: Team up on warming
<http://www.desmogblog.com/a-tart-counterpoint-to-ibbitsons-irrelevance>
2006/04/25: DeSmogBlog: A Tart Counterpoint to [Globe&Mail
columnist John] Ibbitson's Irrelevance
As for how media handles climate science:
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/2006/04/climate-change-in-your-face-revkin.html>
2006/04/25: FramingScience: Climate change in your face?
Revkin Criticizes Some Recent Media Coverage for Being Overly
Alarming
Here is something for your library:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/04/26/book-review/>
2006/04/26: CliSci: Review of A Book on Land Use Change Effects -
_Global Environmental Change and Land Use_ by H. Dolman et al
And for your film & video enjoyment:
<http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29332>
2006/04/29: TPMCafe: Movie Review: An Inconvenient Truth
Developing a new energy infrastructure is the fundamental challenge of
the current generation:
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004371.html>
2006/04/28: WorldChanging: H2PIA - The World's First Hydrogen
City
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/04/29/cmener29.xml&menuId=244&sSheet=/money/2006/04/29/ixperson.html>
2006/04/29: Telegraph(UK): Wind is blowing the right way for
alternative power
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/042706EA.shtml>
2006/04/27: TruthOut: Gorbachev Urges G8 to Back Solar Power, Not
Oil or Nuclear
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1626093.htm>
2006/04/28: ABC(Au): The Victorian Government will take Federal
Court action
in a bid to overturn a decision to stop a wind farm development
in south Gippsland.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36174/story.htm>
2006/04/28: PlanetArk: Britain Unveils Plans to Boost Biomass
Sector
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1763506,00.html>
2006/04/28: Guardian(UK): ScottishPower gets go-ahead for
Europe's biggest onshore windfarm
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36157/story.htm>
2006/04/27: PlanetArk: EU Biodiesel Output up 65 Pct in 2005 -
EBB [European Biodiesel Board]
<http://english.people.com.cn/200604/27/eng20060427_261577.html>
2006/04/27: People's Daily: Nation pins high hopes on green
alternatives
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042602460_pf.html>
2006/04/27: WaPo: Warming Up to Nuclear Power - Energy Source
Gets Another Look
As Fuel Costs Reach New Heights
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0427/p02s02-usec.htm>
2006/04/27: CSM: With oil at $70 a barrel, firms try coal, shale,
even turkeys
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36155/story.htm>
2006/04/27: PlanetArk: Cape Cod Debates First US Offshore Wind
Farm
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36162/story.htm>
2006/04/27: PlanetArk: World's Biggest Solar Farm Planned for New
Mexico
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/business/story/14248416p-15065750c.html>
2006/04/27: SacBee: [California Energy Commission] Web site touts
solar power
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/4951236.stm>
2006/04/27: BBC: Massive wind farm gets approval
Plans to build Europe's largest onshore wind farm on a vast
stretch of moorland
south of Glasgow have been approved by the Scottish Executive.
Scottish Power
said its Ł300m Whitelee project should be completed by 2009. With
140 turbines,
it will generate 322 megawatts of electricity - enough to power
nearly every
house in Glasgow.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1624633.htm>
2006/04/27: ABC(Au): Wind farms in doubt as Govt 'plays politics'
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12441463/site/newsweek/>
2006/04/25: MSNBC: The Truth About Sugar - The buzz says a
dizzying price spike
is all about sugar for biofuels. But the reality is more
complicated.
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15311.html>
2006/04/26: EnergyBulletin: FAO sees major shift to bioenergy
"The gradual move away from oil has begun. Over the next 15 to 20
years
we may see biofuels providing a full 25 percent of the world’s
energy needs,"
Alexander Müller, the new Assistant Director-General for the
Sustainable
Development Department of FAO said here.
<http://www.cicero.uio.no/webnews.asp?id=10639&lang=en>
2006/04/24: Cicerone: Critics assail World Bank's emphasis on
fossil fuels
<http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/politics/detail/Call_to_invest_in_renewable_energy_sources.html?siteSect=111&sid=6651419&cKey=1145802185000>
2006/04/23: SwissInfo: Call to invest in renewable energy sources
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55526>
2006/04/23: ClimateArk: Brace for $100-a-barrel oil - and the
sacrifices
required to put in place a national policy for energy
alternatives
<http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/8857>
2006/04/23: UPI: California has its own energy strategy
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36106/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: World Bank Urges New Breed of Clean Energy
Funding
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36105/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: Sweden Goes for Green as Nordics Mull
Energy Future
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36111/story.htm>
2006/04/24: PlanetArk: World May Turn Back Clock for Liquid Coal
Future
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15281.html>
2006/04/23: EnergyBulletin: BP's chief scientist on the energy
future
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060424.RGREEN24/TPStory/Business>
2006/04/24: Globe&Mail: Stores jumping on eco-bandwagon -
Retailers find that going green can also apply to their bottom
lines
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55530>
2006/04/23: ClimateArk: Global warming real threat, insurer warns
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/why-trust-science-its-way-too-controversial>
2006/04/27: DeSmogBlog: Why trust science? It's way too
controversial! [old Doonesbury cartoon]
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/04/curates_egg_from_the_bbc.php>
2006/04/24: Deltoid: Curate's egg from the BBC
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/04/more_junk_from_milloy.php>
2006/04/24: Stoat: More junk from Milloy
<http://www.desmogblog.com/why-are-there-so-few-friends-of-science>
2006/04/24: DeSmogBlog: Why Are There So Few "Friends of
Science"?
<http://www.desmogblog.com/when-does-scientific-quibbling-become-unethical-lying>
2006/04/24: DeSmogBlog: When Does Scientific Quibbling Become
Unethical Lying?
<http://www.desmogblog.com/never-believe-a-source-with-truth-in-its-name>
2006/04/23: DeSmogBlog: Never Believe a Source with "Truth" in
its Name
Peter Gleick has a challenge for the greenhouse mafia:
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10343>
2006/04/27: ENN: "Say You're Sorry"
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1624893.htm>
2006/04/27: ABC(Au): Climate research paints mixed picture
<http://www.betterhumans.com/blogs/dry_observer/archive/2006/04/26/6524.aspx>
2006/04/26: BetterHumans: Global Warming -- An Immediate Problem
<http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/jeremy_leggett/2006/04/going_zero_on_carbon_it_can_be.html.printer.friendly>
2006/04/28: Guardian(UK): Going zero on carbon: it can be done by
Jeremy Leggett
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55705>
2006/04/27: ClimateArk: 10 States Sue EPA Over Global Warming
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1464>
2006/04/24: JFleck: More on My Newest Obsession
<http://grist.org/advice/ask/2006/04/26/vapor/index.html>
2006/04/26: Grist: The Vapor Chase - On water vapor and climate
change
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/green.html>
2006/04/26: Wired: The Next Green Revolution - How technology is
leading
environmentalism out of the anti-business, anti-consumer
wilderness.
<http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2006/04/v-for-vendetta.html>
2006/04/26: PeakEnergy: V For Vendetta
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15290.html>
2006/04/26: EnergyBulletin: Scientist Jerry Mahlman: straight
talk on climate change.
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/04/advocates-and-vested-interests.html>
2006/04/23: AFTIC: Advocates and Vested Interests
<http://grist.org/advice/ask/2006/04/24/greenhouse/index.html>
2006/04/24: Grist: This Old Greenhouse - On the greenhouse effect
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/4/24/12216/4542>
2006/04/24: GristMill: Where to look for responses to climate
change: environmental secession?
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/4/24/164937/859>
2006/04/24: GristMill: The global warming dilemma
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060424/cm_usatoday/isgodanenvironmentalist>
2006/04/24: Yahoo: Is God an environmentalist?
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55523>
2006/04/23: ClimateArk: Michigan: Global warming hitting home --
and the future looks warmer yet
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55571>
2006/04/24: ClimateArk: Indonesia told to brace for climate
change
<http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/04/state_of_the_planet.php>
2006/04/24: SeedMag: State of the Planet
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/main/index.html>
NASA: CloudSat
<http://www.newsolarhomes.ca.gov/>
California's New Solar Homes Partnership
<http://www.cicero.uio.no/index_e.asp>
CICERO: Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research - Oslo
<http://www.campaigncc.org/local.shtml>
CACC: Campaign against Climate Change
<http://www.esf.org/esf_article.php?activity=1&article=85&domain=3>
EPICA: European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica
<http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/projects/stardex/>
CRU: STARDEX - Statistical and Regional dynamical Downscaling
of Extremes for European regions
<http://www.desmogblog.com/>
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the air on climate change
<http://risingtide.org.uk/>
Rising Tide (UK) - Taking Action on the Root Causes of Climate
Change
<http://www.ume.maine.edu/iceage/Research/projects/Greenland/home.htm>
CCI: Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet using precision GPS
measurements
<http://web.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/agasea/>
UTexas: AGASEA: Airborne geophysical survey of the Amundsen Sea
Embayment, Antarctica
<http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com/>
Climate Change Action
<http://climatejustice.blogspot.com/>
Climate Justice Now!
<http://www.climateimc.org/>
Climate IMC
<http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/info/>
CRU: Climatic Research Unit - Information Sheets
<http://home.badc.rl.ac.uk/lawrence/blog>
Bryan's Blog [Bryan Lawrence]
<regards>
-het
PS.
You can access the previous postings of this series at:
<http://tinyurl.com/9zyom>
which should open to:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?num=100&scoring=d&as_ugroup=sci.environment&as_usubject=%22Another+week+of+GW+news%22&&safe=off>
--
"We are living in the midst of an ecological catastrophe every bit
as tragic as that of the slaughter of the buffalo and the passenger
pigeon. Wherever one looks there are governmental policies that
are equally blind, economic rationales equally compelling. All
memory is convulsed in an upheaval of violence. There is a fire
burning over the Earth, taking with it plants and animals, cultures,
languages, ancient skills and visionary wisdom. Quelling this flame
and reinventing the poetry of diversity is the most important
challenge of our time." -Wade Davis in The Cloud Leopard
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