Another week of GW news - July 23
H. E. Taylor
How about if we start with a smile:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/17/121225/065>
2006/07/17: GristMill: (cartoon) Proof Positive of Global Warming
In much of the northern hemisphere it is unusually warm:
<http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=430&tstamp=200607>
2006/07/23: Wunderground: The heat goes on...
<http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/07/23/heat.warming.reut/>
2006/07/23: CNN: Does heatwave prove climate change?
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/killer-heat-hits-the-north/2006/07/22/1153166632837.html>
2006/07/22: TheAge: Killer heat hits the north -
A heatwave in France has killed 21 people, including a 15-month-old baby.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1827098,00.html>
2006/07/23: Guardian(UK): 100º - get used to it --
Britain experienced its hottest July day on record
last week and forecasters say more is to come
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060722/wl_afp/europeweatherheatwave_060722164522>
2006/07/22: Yahoo: Europe sweats and soaks as storms puncture deadly heatwave
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0721-06.htm>
2006/07/22: CDreams: IPS: Global Warming, Not Just Heat Wave
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/5203802.stm>
2006/07/21: BBC: Heatwave death toll rises in US -
Severe heat across much of the US has claimed
at least 22 lives around the country, officials say.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/5203812.stm>
2006/07/21: BBC: Heatwave toll rises across France - At least 20 deaths
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/an-inconvenient-truth-and-an-intolerable-summer/>
2006/07/20: TP: An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1187005.ece>
2006/07/20: Independent(UK): Hottest July day as temperatures
top 36C to break 1911 record
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37340/story.htm>
2006/07/20: PlanetArk: Scramble to Save Lives as Heatwave Hits Europe
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/US_Simmers_As_Record_Temperatures_Reap_Transport_Chaos_999.html>
2006/07/19: TerraDaily: US Simmers As Record Temperatures Reap Transport Chaos
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1185369.ece>
2006/07/19: Independent(UK): Temperature set to hit 100 degrees -
and global warming is to blame,
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1185354.ece>
2006/07/19: Independent(UK): Are you wondering why it's so hot today?
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/5193486.stm>
2006/07/19: BBC: Heatwave breaks [UK] record for July
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/5194582.stm>
2006/07/19: BBC: Europe's heatwave claims victims -
A heatwave affecting much of Western Europe has
resulted in several deaths, health officials say.
<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/060719171709.nja9herm.html>
2006/07/19: AFP: Europe gasps as heatwave temperatures soar
<http://today.reuters.com/misc/PrinterFriendlyPopup.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-19T165309Z_01_L19665389_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-EUROPE.xml>
2006/07/19: Reuters: Scramble to save lives as heatwave hits Europe
<http://www.physorg.com/news72452728.html>
2006/07/18: PhysOrg: US simmers as record temperatures reap transport chaos
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/18/AR2006071800238_pf.html> 2006/07/18: WaPo: Britain braced for record high temperature
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58435>
2006/07/18: ClimateArk: When hot weather hits, older people most at risk
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/15053688.htm>
2006/07/17: Mercury: Heat wave broils much of nation [USA]
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Britain_Set_For_Record_Temperatures_As_Heatwave_Builds_Over_Europe_999.html>
2006/07/17: TerraDaily: Britain Set For Record Temperatures As Heatwave
Builds Over Europe
<http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/07/18/heatwave.ap/index.html>
2006/07/18: CNN: Deadly heat wave keeps grip on U.S. -
Cities move to ease health threat, conserve energy
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/5189734.stm>
2006/07/18: BBC: Roads melt as temperatures soar -
The heatwave across England continues
<http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2006/07/does_sizzling_summer_heat_gene.php>
2006/07/17: FramingScience: Does sizzling summer heat generate news attention to
GW?
Some Evidence Says Yes; Hot Weather Provides Another
Narrative Opportunity to Tell the Story of Climate Change
<http://www.desmogblog.com/north-americas-heat-wave-let-the-pr-spin-begin>
2006/07/17: DeSmogBlog: North America's heat wave: let the PR spin begin
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/French_Heatwave_Prompts_Alert_To_Stop_2003_Crisis_Recurring_999.html>
2006/07/17: TerraDaily: French Heatwave Prompts Alert
To Stop 2003 Crisis Recurring
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/16/heatwave/>
2006/07/16: TP: Nationwide heat wave.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/record-temperatures-meet-_b_25167.html>
2006/07/17: THP: Record Temperatures Meet Record Stupidity
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/5186674.stm>
2006/07/17: BBC: UK heatwave tops Spanish costas -
Temperatures in parts of England and Wales have topped
those in Spanish resorts as the hot weather continues.
And the hurricane wars are simmering:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Second_Tropical_Storm_Of_2006_Brews_Off_North_Carolina_Coast_999.html>
2006/07/18: TerraDaily: Second Tropical Storm Of 2006 Brews Off
North Carolina Coast
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Monsoon_Hits_Korean_Peninsula_Over_150_Dead_Or_Missing_999.html>
2006/07/19: TerraDaily: Monsoon Hits Korean Peninsula Over 150 Dead Or Missing
<http://www.desmogblog.com/dear-sun-sentinal-editor>
2006/07/18: DeSmogBlog: Dear Sun-Sentinel Editor [hurricanes & GW]
<http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=423&tstamp=200607>
2006/07/18: Wunderground: Tropical Storm Beryl arrives
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37329/story.htm>
2006/07/18: PlanetArk: Second Atlantic Tropical Storm of 2006 Forms
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/5185314.stm>
2006/07/17: BBC: At least 160 people are now known
to have died in southern China from tropical storm Bilis,
according to state media reports.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1822231,00.html>
2006/07/17: Guardian(UK): Thousands evacuated as [tropical] storm
[Bilis] leaves 115 dead
Meanwhile the methane burp is back:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37352/story.htm>
2006/07/21: PlanetArk: Undersea Gas Could Speed Global Warming - Study
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720103605.htm>
2006/07/20: SciDaily: Gas Escaping From Ocean Floor May Drive Global Warming
<http://www.physorg.com/news72539739.html>
2006/07/19: PhysOrg: Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uoc--gef071906.php>
2006/07/19: Eureka: Gas escaping from ocean floor may drive global warming
Japan is taking a shot at 30 year weather forecasts:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,1823436,00.html>
2006/07/19: Guardian(UK): Simulator could predict long-term weather patterns
<http://www.physorg.com/news72443008.html>
2006/07/18: PhysOrg: Japan plans 30-year supercomputer forecasts
<http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/news/gizmos/story.html?id=3bab9a87-a973-4b32-a34c-662435771486&k=96411>
2006/07/18: CanWest: Japan planning 30-year forecasts for severe weather
with supercomputer help
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/07/19/30-year-forecasts/>
2006/07/19: CliSci: Multi-decadal Climate Forecasts to Be Disseminated
While in near earth orbit:
<http://www.physorg.com/news72589183.html>
2006/07/20: PhysOrg: Launch of European climate satellite delayed
indefinitely [several weeks]
<http://www.physorg.com/news72461343.html>
2006/07/18: PhysOrg: Launch of European climate satellite delayed again
<http://www.physorg.com/news72367035.html>
2006/07/17: PhysOrg: Launch of European-backed climate satellite [MetOp] delayed
More GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/15094471.htm>
2006/07/22: MontereyHerald: Warming climate could alter weather,
farming in the Midwest
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0722-06.htm>
2006/07/22: CDreams: AP: Researchers Link Wildfires, Climate Change
<http://www.physorg.com/news72707263.html>
2006/07/18: PhysOrg: Researchers link wildfires, climate change
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1826470,00.html>
2006/07/22: Guardian(UK): Drought, gales and refugees:
what will happen as UK hots up
<http://news.com.com/2061-11204_3-6095391.html>
2006/07/19: CNet: Report warns of financial melt-down
from abrupt climate change
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060717/full/060717-3.html>
2006/07/17: NSU: Eiger loses face in massive rockfall -
Landslide raises questions over impact
of climate change on mountains.
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58448>
2006/07/18: ClimateArk: Austrians try to figure out how to save
a melting glacier
<http://www.greenpeace.org/seasia/en/news/scientists-southeast-asia-los>
2006/07/18: GPSEA: Scientists: Southeast Asia losing billions to climate change
<http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=25457>
2006/07/17: RNZI: UN report says Pacific mangroves wetlands endangered
<http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1686723.htm>
2006/07/14: ABC(Au): Faster westerlies threaten Antarctica
There is concern over declining food grain production:
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19254>
2006/07/20: UN: UN agency predicts sharp decline in world cereal stocks
<http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-07/19/content_644447.htm>
2006/07/19: ChinaDaily: Food suffers from climate changes
[says Deputy director of the State Climate Center of the
China Meteorological Bureau, Luo Yong]
<http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2006/Update55.htm>
2006/07/13: EPI: Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37334/story.htm>
2006/07/18: PlanetArk: EU Wheat Prices Rise as Heatwave Threatens Crops
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10883>
2006/07/18: ENN: Crops Wither under Stifling Heat Wave
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/5189052.stm>
2006/07/18: BBC: UN warns over Afghanistan drought
The United Nations in Afghanistan says that millions
are facing hunger this year because of drought
and that it does not have the resources to help.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1822572,00.html>
2006/07/17: Guardian(UK): Loss of mangroves threatens Pacific islands
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1588>
2006/07/16: JFleck: Water in the Desert II
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10879>
2006/07/17: ENN: Pacific Mangroves Disappearing under Rising Seas
And then there are the tropical rainforests:
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1191932.ece>
2006/07/23: Independent(UK): Amazon rainforest 'could become a desert'
And that could speed up global warming with 'incalculable consequences',
says alarming new research
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58630>
2006/07/22: ClimateArk: Amazon logging feeds hurricanes
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071806EA.shtml>
2006/07/17: TruthOut: Eating the Amazon: The Fight to Curb Corporate Destruction
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0717-07.htm>
2006/07/17: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Drought Threatens Amazon Basin
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0717-01.htm>
2006/07/17: CDreams: Independent(UK): Eating the Amazon:
The Fight to Curb Corporate Destruction
Huge soya farms financed by Cargill, the largest
privately owned company in the world, are the
rainforest's new worst enemy
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,,1822208,00.html>
2006/07/17: Guardian(UK): Drought threatens Amazon basin -
Extreme conditions felt for second year running -
Record sea temperatures and illegal logging blamed
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/15053102.htm>
2006/07/16: CCTimes: [California] Program lets forests grow longer
to combat global warming
Carbon sequestration is still in play:
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125605.300.html>
2006/07/18: NewScientist: Carbon dioxide's great underground escape in doubt
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060721175718.htm>
2006/07/23: SciDaily: El Niño Phenomenon Could Help Reforest Semi-arid Regions
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060719092407.htm>
2006/07/19: SciDaily: Small, But Mighty: Breakthrough Analysis Raises Questions
About Link Between Minute Organism And Climate
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060719085650.htm>
2006/07/19: SciDaily: Tiny Airborne Particles Found To Be
A Major Cause Of Climate Change
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Centuries_Of_Land_Use_Practices_Profoundly_Impact_Earth_System_999.html>
2006/07/18: TerraDaily: Centuries Of Land-Use Practices Profoundly Impact
Earth System
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_Explains_Puzzling_Impact_Of_Polluted_Skies_On_Climate_999.html>
2006/07/19: TerraDaily: NASA Explains Puzzling Impact Of Polluted Skies
On Climate
<http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2006/07/18/news/beyond_boulder/news1.txt>
2006/07/19: ColoradoDaily: Watching warming signs
University of Colorado biologists are installing
an alarm system atop this craggy summit, near the
Continental Divide west of Boulder, to detect intruders.
<http://www.physorg.com/news72463917.html>
2006/07/18: PhysOrg: Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/acft-tap071806.php>
2006/07/18: Eureka: Tiny airborne particles are a major cause of climate change
The local effect of atmospheric aerosols can be greater than
The Greenhouse Effect
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uomr-sbm071806.php>
2006/07/18: Eureka: Small, but mighty - Breakthrough analysis raises
questions about link between minute organism
[phytoplankton ostreococcus tauri] and climate
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060718090608.htm>
2006/07/18: SciDaily: It's 2025. Where Do Most People Live?
<http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/449/cpd-2-449.htm>
2006/07/17: CPD: Changes in terrestrial carbon storage during interglacials:
a comparison between Eemian and Holocene by G. Schurgers et al.
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58399>
2006/07/17: ClimateArk: The local effect of atmospheric aerosols
can be greater than the greenhouse effect -
Tiny Airborne Particles are a Major Cause of Climate Change
James A. continued his series on detection, attribution and estimation:
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/07/more-on-detection-attribution-and_19.html>
2006/07/19: JEB: More on detection, attribution and estimation 4: The Literature
The Pielkes continue their valiant fight for the longest URLs on the net:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/07/17/the-publication-of-forecasts/>
2006/07/17: CliSci: The Publication of Forecasts in Peer-Reviewed Papers
Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58455>
2006/07/18: ClimateArk: China, India not ready to cut emissions - UN official
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37286/story.htm>
2006/07/17: PlanetArk: Kyoto 1 Billion Tonnes Pollution Cut Seen in Doubt
The Kyoto pact's novel system for letting rich countries buy
pollution cuts from poor ones is unlikely to achieve a UN
forecast of axing more than 1 billion tonnes of greenhouse
gases, some firms implementing the scheme say.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37285/story.htm>
2006/07/17: PlanetArk: Canada Stresses Commitment to Kyoto Climate Pact
[despite proposing to miss emission reduction targets]
And on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20060721-100747-6102r>
2006/07/22: UPI: EU Emissions Trading Scheme 'a failure' [Open Europe study]
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1825736,00.html>
2006/07/21: Guardian(UK): This trade in carbon emissions won't combat
global warming
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=awS1xfKpVRs8&refer=home>
2006/07/17: BBerg: Europe Fails Kyoto Standards
as Trading Scheme Helps Polluters
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37287/story.htm>
2006/07/17: PlanetArk: Greece to Raise Carbon Allowances for 2008-12
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37288/story.htm>
2006/07/17: PlanetArk: Ireland Nudges Up Carbon Allowances for 2008-12
In Brisbane, the Earth Dialogues forum kicked off this week:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1693860.htm>
2006/07/22: ABC(Au): Conference draws world leaders to Brisbane
<http://www.bordermail.com.au/news/bm/national/336489.html>
2006/07/22: BorderMail: Climate crisis "being ignored" [Gorbachev]
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1693421.htm>
2006/07/21: ABC(Au): Gorbachev backs alternative power sources
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58618>
2006/07/22: ClimateArk: Lack of water, energy 'could cause war'
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10909>
2006/07/21: ENN: Former Soviet Leader Gorbachev Urges Australia,
U.S. to Sign Kyoto Protocol
<http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,19862340%255E911,00.html> 2006/07/21: Advertiser: 'Sign Kyoto Protocol' Gorbachev says
Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says it is important
that Australia and the United States sign up to the Kyoto Protocol.
The WMO had a conference too:
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=ar1faXQgYRRU&refer=latin_america>
2006/07/18: BBerg: Scientists to Develop Strategy to Manage Climate Risk
[WMO conference - Living with Climate Variability and Change]
And remember the G8 summit?:
<http://priceofoil.org/2006/07/16/g8-leaders-play-russian-roulette-with-climate-chaos/> 2006/07/16: OilChange: G8 Leaders Play Russian Roulette with Climate Chaos
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071706EA.shtml>
2006/07/17: TruthOut: France's Chirac Warns Mankind Faces Climate Volcano
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37281/story.htm>
2006/07/17: PlanetArk: [G8] France's Chirac Warns Mankind Faces Climate Volcano
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10876>
2006/07/17: ENN: G8 Document Shows Splits on Nuclear, Climate Issues
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58408>
2006/07/17: ClimateArk: From Group of 8, Energy Focus Is on Oil
While on the American political front:
<http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-24/1153639028230580.xml&coll=1>
2006/07/23: Nola: Survey: Warming alarms outdoorsmen
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072101376_pf.html> 2006/07/23: WaPo: Warming to the Inconvenient Facts
<http://www.physorg.com/news72711135.html>
2006/07/21: PhysOrg: Global warming disputes heat up Congress
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10911>
2006/07/21: ENN: Global Warming Disputes Heat Up Congress
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/15080776.htm>
2006/07/20: Mercury: Schwarzenegger seeking changes on bill
to cap greenhouse gases
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-greenhouse20jul20,1,7783984.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true>
2006/07/20: LA Times: Changes Sought in Emission Bill
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15071785.htm>
2006/07/19: Mercury: To fight climate change, city [Sunnyvale, CA]
takes aim at carbon dioxide
An opinion poll shows Americans are not much worried about GW:
<http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=280>
2006/07/12: Pew: Little Consensus on Global Warming Partisanship Drives Opinion
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/20/163635/227>
2006/07/22: GristMill: Some Americans worried about global warming
<http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/7/21/04955/8917>
2006/07/21: OilDrum: Energy Policy Issue Rankings and Bush's
Presidential Approval Numbers
<http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2006/07/environment-as-campaign-issue.html>
2006/07/16: QuarkSoup: Environment as a Campaign Issue
There has to be some out-of-band way to stop those
pesky scientists from speaking up:
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/nasa-budget-cutback/>
2006/07/23: CSW: Changing the mission: NASA Climate Change Science
Program budget has been cut by 22% since 2004
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/nasa-mission/>
2006/07/22: CSW: Calling Orwell: Understanding and protecting planet
Earth disappears from NASA mission statement
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/07/connecting-dots.html>
2006/07/22: AFTIC: Connecting Dots [NASA mission statement]
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/missin_statement.php>
2006/07/23: Deltoid: Missin' Statement
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58620>
2006/07/22: ClimateArk: NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0722-01.htm>
2006/07/22: CDreams: NYT: NASA’s Goals Delete Mention of Home Planet
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/22/nasa-quietly-had-its-mission-statement-changed/>
2006/07/22: TP: NASA quietly had its mission statement changed
[deleting the phrase "to understand and protect our home planet."]
You ever notice these guys don't say anything until they are retiring
or retired? Ya think that might be a systemic problem?:
<http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060722/REPOSITORY/607220313/1027/OPINION01> 2006/07/22: ConcordMonitor: Walls of denial are beginning to crumble
Sen. James Jeffords of Vermont will end four decades
in politics by introducing legislation that would force
the nation's power companies, manufacturers, automobile
drivers and others to cut emissions of carbon and other
greenhouse gases by up to 80 percent over the next
half-century, the Rutland Herald reports.
The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:
<http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,427655,00.html>
2006/07/22: DerSpiegel: Did Al Get the Science Right?
The usual oil industry flacks and dogmatic skeptics have
surfaced to denounce Al Gore's global warming movie.
But climate scientists say that, basically, he got it right.
<http://grist.org/news/muck/2006/07/19/gore-walmart/index.html>
2006/07/19: Grist: Another Shtick in the Wal-Mart -
Al Gore takes his green message to Wal-Mart headquarters
Meanwhile in the UK:
<http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/index.html>
2006/07/11: DTI: Energy Review
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/5194986.stm>
2006/07/21: BBC: Wasteful homes 'risk eco-targets'
Key environmental targets are "undeliverable" unless households
cut the amount of resources they consume, a government-
commissioned report warns. The UK's 21 million domestic
dwellings are responsible for 27% of CO2 emissions,
consume half of water supplies, and produce 8% of all waste.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1825555,00.html>
2006/07/21: Guardian(UK): Go green, Miliband tells supermarket bosses -
Government demands targets for CO2 cuts
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/5195920.stm>
2006/07/19: BBC: Labour under fire on 'green' bid
Labour has been accused of giving the impression it is
trying to tackle climate change by pledging to look
at offering everyone "carbon allowances".
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1824241,00.html>
2006/07/20: Guardian(UK): Miliband unveils carbon swipe-card plan
The environment minister, David Miliband, today unveiled
a radical plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by charging
individuals for the amount of carbon they use.
<http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2006/07/19/lords-of-climate-change/>
2006/07/19: JQuiggin: Lords of Climate Change [UK Stern Review]
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37343/story.htm>
2006/07/20: PlanetArk: Pollute Less and You Could Cash In, Britons Told
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1823853,00.html>
2006/07/19: Guardian(UK): Swipe-card plan to ration consumers' carbon use
While in New Zealand:
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3736166a13,00.html>
2006/07/19: Stuff(NZ): Kyoto pact debt falls as fuel prices rise
Higher energy costs and motorists cutting their travel
to save on soaring fuel prices have slashed estimates
of New Zealand's climate change liability by a third.
And in Australia:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58540>
2006/07/20: ClimateArk: Australia: Govt announces renewable energy grants
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58492>
2006/07/19: ClimateArk: Australia: Eyes wide shut on the issue of the century
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1689418.htm>
2006/07/18: ABC(Au): MP fears greenhouse plan to drive away industry
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1690331.htm>
2006/07/19: ABC(Au): ACT needs 'commitment' on greenhouse strategy
<http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,19815333-5001028,00.html>
2006/07/17: News(Au): Howard attacked on coal stand
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Protesters-jeer-PM-at-business-lunch/2006/07/17/1152988454801.html>
2006/07/17: TheAge: Protesters jeer PM [John Howard] at business lunch --
Australia can be energy superpower: PM
While minority neocon PM Harper in Canada is continuing his mischief:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/pm-harpers-fishing-buddy-behind-kyoto-attack-group>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: PM Harper's fishing buddy behind Kyoto attack group
<http://www.desmogblog.com/long-time-alberta-reformer-a-friends-of-science-booster>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: Long-time Alberta Reformer, a Friends of Science Booster
<http://www.desmogblog.com/orwells-ghosts-loose-in-the-federal-bureaucracy>
2006/07/19: DeSmogBlog: Orwell's Ghosts Loose in the [Canadian] Federal
Bureaucracy [references to Kyoto, climate change removed]
Also in Canada, the greenhouse mafia is gunning for Kyoto:
<http://torontosun.com/Comment/Commentary/2006/07/22/1698080.html>
2006/07/23: TSun: Kyoto was always full of hot air
And this I will believe when I see it:
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/all_canadian_ho.php#perma>
2006/07/18: TreeHugger: All Canadian Homes to be Zero-Energy Homes by 2030?
The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1691055.htm>
2006/07/19: ABC(Au): Climate change expert urges industry tax on pollution
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/17/152930/785>
2006/07/17: GristMill: A "simple remedy" for global warming [Stiglitz]
The movement toward ecologically based economics is glacial:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1826413,00.html>
2006/07/22: Guardian(UK): Big Idea - The true cost of everything we do
[EcoEcon internalizing externalities]
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004704.html>
2006/07/19: WorldChanging: CanadaChanging: Ecological Fiscal Reform
Yes we have no wacky weather, except:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/5202482.stm>
2006/07/21: BBC: 'Hundreds dead' in N Korea floods
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1826495,00.html>
2006/07/22: Guardian(UK): Hundreds dead or missing in North Korean floods
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37331/story.htm>
2006/07/18: PlanetArk: Heavy Rains Hit Two Koreas, Some 130 Dead
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/uk_solar_suppli.php#perma>
2006/07/23: TreeHugger: UK Solar Supplier [Solar Century] Angry
Over Government Report
<http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/review/index.html>
2006/07/11: DTI: Energy Review
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=58640>
2006/07/23: ClimateArk: Spain bets on fair winds for energy lift
<http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/top_news/detail/Green_petrol_fuels_heated_debate.html?siteSect=106&sid=6913514&cKey=1153495208000>
2006/07/21: SwissInfo: Green petrol [E85] fuels heated debate
<http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16949058&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6>
2006/07/21: HeraldStandard: Coal-burning power plants could increase
global warming emissions
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200607/1693519.htm?southeastnsw>
2006/07/21: ABC(Au): Federal Govt 'stifling' wind farm plans
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37344/story.htm>
2006/07/20: PlanetArk: Rising Biofuel Use to Drive Up Crop Prices - Goldman
<http://www.desmogblog.com/heritage-institute-goes-nuclear>
2006/07/19: DeSmogBlog: Heritage Foundation goes nuclear
<http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17054>
2006/07/19: TechRev: The Dirty Secret
Better technologies exist for extracting coal,
a major source of carbon dioxide emissions.
The challenge is getting people to adopt them.
<http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HG20Cb01.html>
2006/07/20: Asia Times: Weaning China away from coal
<http://www.newenergyreport.org/019670.html>
2006/07/19: NER: Biodiversity key to sustainable biofuel according to
University of Minn. researcher's findings
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34022>
2006/07/19: IPSNews: Transforming the Northern Landscape
[strip mining Alberta's oil sands]
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/66144.html>
2006/07/19: Herald(UK): Deep water windfarm ‘key to EU energy plans’
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/state-gives-green-flag-to-128turbine-wind-farm/2006/07/18/1153166383318.html>
2006/07/19: The Age: [Victoria] State gives green flag to 128-turbine wind farm
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/5194780.stm>
2006/07/19: BBC: France imports power in heatwave
France has urged firms to use less electricity as a heatwave
across Europe triggers high demand for power supplies.
<http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/business/userobject1ai2186893.html>
2006/07/18: ShanghaiDaily: Scramble for wind power market heats up
<http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1041582006>
2006/07/18: Scotsman: Green energy firm on verge of collapse due
to lack of orders
<http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,19829201-5005961,00.html>
2006/07/18: HeraldSun(Au): Spanish company to build $400m wind farm
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10887>
2006/07/18: ENN: Greenland Opens New Round of Concessions for Oil
Exploration in Fragile Arctic
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10885>
2006/07/18: ENN: Average Fuel Economy Showed No Improvement in U.S. This Year
<http://www.desmogblog.com/uks-gaurdian-debate-is-over-skeptics-go-nuclear>
2006/07/17: DeSmogBlog: UK's Guardian: debate is over, skeptics go nuclear
<http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45445>
2006/07/17: REA: All Energy for Europe Could Come from Concentrating Solar Power
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/17/92735/2081>
2006/07/17: GristMill: Concentrated solar
<http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20060716-073433-6961r>
2006/07/16: UPI: Merger means solar power at fossil prices [using concentrators]
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/07/17/ccruth17.xml>
2006/07/17: Telegraph(UK): Nuclear power in from the cold as energy gap looms
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/fords_climate_s.php#perma>
2006/07/20: TreeHugger: Ford's Climate Strategy
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13923649/>
2006/07/19: MSNBC: GM orders new focus on fuel efficiency
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/5196020.stm>
2006/07/19: BBC: Ford calls for emissions 'choice'
Carbon pricing at consumer level could become a useful tool
to reduce emissions of harmful carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere, according to the head of Ford of Europe.
"Global warming is one of the greatest challenges facing
mankind," Lewis Booth, executive vice president of Ford
of Europe and Premiere Automotive Group, said. "The truth
is that we're all part of the problem, and we must accept
that we must all be part of the solution."
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1822930,00.html>
2006/07/18: Guardian(UK): Ford puts £1bn behind UK research in drive
to cut carbon emissions
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/22/11360/0466>
2006/07/23: GristMill: A chat with Andy Revkin about Inhofe's attack
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1594>
2006/07/22: JFleck: Mann and Dahmer?
<http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2006/07/what-peisers-up-to.html>
2006/07/20: BSD: What Peiser's up to
<http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2006/07/peggy-noonan-on-global-warming-blaming.html>
2006/07/20: AngryBear: Peggy Noonan on Global Warming: Blaming Scientists
for Her Own Ignorance
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/21/inhofe-gore/>
2006/07/21: TP: Sen. Inhofe: "Gore Is Full of Crap,"
"All Recent Science -- Confirms This Thing Is A Hoax"
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/07/laugh-or-cry.html>
2006/07/21: AFTIC: Laugh or Cry - James "Global Warming is a Hoax" Inhofe
is not a satiric cartoon character after all
<http://www.desmogblog.com/a-quantitative-media-review-of-the-national-posts-climate-change-coverage>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: A Quantitative Media Review of
the National Post's Climate Change Coverage
<http://www.desmogblog.com/more-bumpf-on-balling>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: More Bumpf on Balling
<http://www.desmogblog.com/white-house-environmental-chief-launches-stealth-attack-on-climate-science>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: White House Environmental Chief [James Connaughton]
Launches Stealth Attack on Climate Science
<http://www.desmogblog.com/comedians-didnt-work-bring-in-the-air-force>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: Comedians didn't work, bring in the Air Force!
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/blame-the-scientists/>
2006/07/20: TP: Noonan: If Global Warming Is Real, Blame The Scientists
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/20/white-houses-doctoring-of-climate-reports/>
2006/07/20: TP: White House's doctoring of climate reports
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-inconvenient-truth-about-robert-c-balling>
2006/07/20: DeSmogBlog: The Inconvenient Truth about Robert C. Balling
<http://www.desmogblog.com/here-comes-the-sun-yet-again>
2006/07/20: DeSmogBlog: Here Comes the Sun -- Yet Again!
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/deja_clue_three.php>
2006/07/20: Deltoid: Deja Clue Three
<http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2006/07/standup-meltdown.html>
2006/07/19: MObjectivist: Standup Meltdown
<http://www.desmogblog.com/friends-of-science>
DeSmogBlog: Friends of Science
<http://www.desmogblog.com/compiled-info-on-the-friends-of-science>
2006/07/19: DeSmogBlog: Compiled Info on the Friends of Science
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/the_australians_war_on_science.php>
2006/07/19: Deltoid: The Australian's War on Science
<http://www.rabble.ca/news_full_story.shtml?x=51352>
2006/07/18: Rabble: Resistance ferocious in war of world's big issue
The anti-environmental insurgency is a fierce thing that has kept
the U.S. government in its thrall, making it alter and suppress
the conclusions of its own scientists.
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/the_creationist_consensus_on_g.php>
2006/07/18: Deltoid: The Creationist consensus on global warming
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4970>
2006/07/15: PRWatch: Hot and Bored - bashing climate researcher Michael Mann
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/18/energy-committee-propaganda/>
2006/07/18: TP: House Energy Committee Commissions
Political Propaganda Attacking Global Warming Science
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1822938,00.html>
2006/07/18: Guardian(UK): The climate-change deniers have now
gone nuclear. When the rightwing tradition of bad science comes
onside, it's time to look seriously at other energy technologies
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/opinion/15051403.htm>
2006/07/17: CCTimes: Global warming is a fact, despite letter-writer's views
<http://www.desmogblog.com/manufacturer-associations-legacy-of-spin>
2006/07/17: DeSmogBlog: Manufacturer Association's legacy of spin
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/deja_clue.php>
2006/07/17: Deltoid: Deja Clue [deniers dissing AIC]
Real Climate did a piece on the Wegman hearing & others had things to say as well:
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/07/the-missing-piece-at-the-wegman-hearing/>
2006/07/20: RealClimate: The missing piece at the Wegman hearing
<http://www.desmogblog.com/a-hockey-stick-that-cant-keep-its-tip-up>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: A Hockey Stick that Can't Keep its Tip Up
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/07/who_is_wegman.php>
2006/07/18: Stoat: Who is Wegman?
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/07/hockey_stick_hockey_stick_hock.php>
2006/07/17: Deltoid: Hockey Stick Hockey Stick Hockey Stick
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/07/the_hockey_stick_debate_as_a_f.php>
2006/07/17: CCM: The Hockey Stick Debate as a Form of Torture
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.viridiandesign.org/2006/07/viridian-note-00469-those-world.html>
2006/07/22: VDM: Viridian Note 00469: Those World-Killing Chinese
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1692951.htm>
2006/07/21: ABC(Au): Ozone hole found to affect ocean food supply
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1693813.htm>
2006/07/22: ABC(Au): Climate change could have killed ancient city.
[Angkor, Cambodia]
<http://www.zerofootprint.net/about/news.asp?id=10119>
2006/06/12: ZFP: Launching Zerofootprint Offsets
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/07/von_ss_testimony.php>
2006/07/19: Stoat: von S's testimony
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-weather-just-might-be-related-to-climate-after-all>
2006/07/19: DeSmogBlog: The Weather Just Might Be Related to Climate After All
<http://www.desmogblog.com/great-comment-in-the-contracostatimes>
2006/07/17: DeSmogBlog: Great Comment in the ContraCostaTimes
"Since the overwhelming majority of climate scientists
(greater than 99 percent) hold these as verified facts,
then you should accept anthropogenic global warming as
reasonable, logical, scientific fact." -Edward D. Kukla Jr.
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/7/17/124944/718>
2006/07/17: GristMill: Early warning system set up to detect global warming
<http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060716/NEWS/107160053>
2006/07/16: SummitDaily: Early warning system set up to detect global warming
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/the_canary_proj.php#perma>
2006/07/17: TreeHugger: The Canary Project: What Global Warming Looks Like
<http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2006/07/17/news/01climate.txt>
2006/07/17: VoSD: Caught Downstream: Warming World Brings Water Trouble
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004713.html>
2006/07/22: WorldChanging: CanadaChanging: DeSmog Blog
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-desmogblog-is-canadachanging>
2006/07/21: DeSmogBlog: The DeSmogBlog is CanadaChanging
<http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/truecosteconomics/>
True Cost Economics
<http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GlobalWarming2.php>
2006/07/18: ISIS: Global Warming Is Happening
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/07/introducing-rc-forum/>
2006/07/18: RealClimate: Introducing RC forum
<http://www.canary-project.org/index.html>
The Canary Project
<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>
--
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how not to fool ourselves." -Richard Feynman
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time.. global warming, pollution, ozone, bla bla bla..
Don't you know that, with Dr. Strangelove Jr. in the White House, soon
all of this won't be relevant?
On the plus side however - your kids and mine - should they be around -
can only engage each other in WW IV with sticks, bones, and foul
language.