Another week of GW news - October 15
H. E. Taylor
of the cost of climate change inaction:
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1922632,00.html
2006/10/15: Guardian(UK): Climate change is expensive. Does that help?
An influential report out this month concludes that it will be cheaper
to act on global warming now than to wait, but campaigners doubt
whether the government will respond
<http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2006/10/cheaper-option-doing-something-about.html
2006/10/14: PeakEnergy: The Cheaper Option -
Doing Something About Global Warming
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1921337,00.html
2006/10/13: Guardian(UK): Warming will cost trillions, says report -
Damage forecast to cost 8% of global GDP by 2100 -
UK 'faces droughts and floods costing billions'
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/13/13292/393
2006/10/13: GristMill: The cost of everything - Will global
warming eventually cost the world's economy $12 trillion?
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/13/climate-change-cost/
2006/10/13: TP: REPORT: The Cost of Ignoring Climate Change
Is $20 Trillion A Year
The hurricane wars are still chugging along:
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-mcquaid/an-inconvenient-debate_b_31637.html
2006/10/13: THP: An Inconvenient Debate [GW & hurricanes]
<http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003300/a003376/
GSFC:NASA: Current Tropical Sea Surface Temperatures
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1739
2006/10/13: JFleck: SST Anomalies
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/nsfc-nlt100506.php
2006/10/12: Eureka: NASA'S live tropical sea surface temperature Web
site gives climate, hurricane clues
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uow-sdm100906.php
2006/10/10: Eureka: Dust may dampen hurricane fury
Feedbacks, we have feedbacks:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012183530.htm
2006/10/13: SciDaily: Northern Bogs May Have Helped Kick-start
Past Global Warming
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoc--nbm101206.php
2006/10/12: Eureka: Northern bogs may have helped kick-start past global warming
And here is a feedback you may not have considered:
<http://www.physorg.com/news79958130.html
2006/10/13: PhysOrg: Marine life stirs ocean enough to affect climate
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/fsu-mls101306.php
2006/10/13: Eureka: Marine life stirs ocean enough to affect climate,
says FSU study
The Arctic is on a lot of people's minds:
<http://www.radio.cbc.ca/programs/quirks/archives/06-07/oct14.html
2006/10/14: CBC:Quirks&Quarks: (mp3/ogg) Quirks in the Arctic, Part 1
<http://www.physorg.com/news79728551.html
2006/10/11: PhysOrg: Global warming may melt caribou 'ice cream' [ACIA]
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101106EB.shtml
2006/10/11: TruthOut: Ecological Upheaval on the Edge of the Ice
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Shrinking_Ponds_Signal_Warmer_Dryer_Alaska_999.html
2006/10/13: TerraDaily: Shrinking Ponds Signal Warmer, Dryer Alaska
Glaciers are melting:
<http://www.physorg.com/news79894125.html
2006/10/12: PhysOrg: Group warns mountains will lose ice caps
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1892518,00.html
2006/10/11: Guardian(UK): Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt away
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1011-03.htm
2006/10/11: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Water for Millions at Risk
as Glaciers Melt away
While in near earth orbit:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Canadian_SCISAT_Satellite_Explains_2006_Ozone_Layer_Depletion_999.html
2006/10/09: TerraDaily: Canadian SCISAT Satellite Explains
2006 Ozone-Layer Depletion
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/NASA_Data_Captures_El_Nino_Return_In_The_Pacific_999.html
2006/10/09: TerraDaily: NASA Data Captures El Nino Return In The Pacific
And regarding that El Nino:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38478/story.htm
2006/10/12: PlanetArk: El Nino's Wrath Seen Muted in Asia, Sparing Crops
The impacts of GW are becoming clearer:
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061013/ap_on_sc/western_warming_1
2006/10/13: Yahoo: Expert [Jonathan Overpeck]: U.S. West becoming warmer faster
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15176444/
2006/10/16: MSNBC: Why the Frogs Are Dying
Climate change is no longer merely a matter of
numbers from a computer model. With startling swiftness,
it is reordering the natural world.
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101306EB.shtml
2006/10/13: TruthOut: Madagascar Coral Reefs Damaged
[coral bleaching caused by rising sea temperatures]
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012185917.htm
2006/10/13: SciDaily: Central American Fires Impact U.S. Air Quality And Climate
<http://www.iab.uaf.edu/news/newsreleases.php?newsrel=40
2006/10/12: UAF: Shrinking ponds signal warmer, dryer Alaska
<http://www.physorg.com/news79803590.html
2006/10/11: PhysOrg: Rising Ocean Temperatures, Pollution Have
Oysters in Hot Water
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Warming_Melting_Arctic_Forces_Native_Alaskan_Village_To_Move_999.html
2006/10/10: TerraDaily: Warming Melting Arctic Forces Native Alaskan Village To
Move
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38458/story.htm
2006/10/11: PlanetArk: US Faces Warmer-than-Normal Winter - Government
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/aps-rot092906.php
2006/10/11: Eureka: Rising ocean temperatures, pollution have oysters
in hot water
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101006EA.shtml
2006/10/10: TruthOut: Rising Seas Could Leave Millions Homeless in Asia
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Global_Warming_Will_Alter_Character_Of_The_Northeast_999.html
2006/10/10: TerraDaily: Global Warming Will Alter Character Of The Northeast
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Asia_Pacific_Faces_Global_Warming_Disaster_999.html
2006/10/10: TerraDaily: Asia-Pacific Faces Global Warming Disaster
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/ucs_climate_change.php
2006/10/09: TreeHugger: Climate Change in the U.S. Northeast: Migrating Climates
Speaking of floods & droughts:
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1733
2006/10/08: JFleck: The "Civil War Drought"
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1730
2006/10/08: JFleck: Drought in Kenya
John Fleck put up some pointers to drought info:
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1740
2006/10/14: JFleck: Defining and Measuring Drought
<http://hydrology.princeton.edu/~luo/research/FORECAST/current.php
Princeton:L.Luo: Drought Monitoring and Hydrologic Forecasting
with VIC: Current Forecast
<http://www.hydro.washington.edu/forecast/monitor/index.shtml
UWash: Experimental Surface Water Monitor for the Continental U.S.
<http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/prelim/drought/palmer.html
NOAA: U.S. Palmer Drought Indices
<http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/spi/spi.html
WRCC: Standardized Precipitation Index
<http://drought.unl.edu/
UNL: National Drought Mitigation Center
LDEO: Persistent drought in North America: a climate modeling and
paleoclimate perspective
<http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/drought/>
<http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/monitor.html>
UNL: Drought Monitor
The troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:
<http://www.gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20Feeding%20the%20World.txt
2006/10/10: GwynneDyer: How Long Can the World Feed Itself?
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/6046718.stm
2006/10/13: BBC: 'Hunger critical' in South Asia
A report released by a US-based group says South Asia
continues to face "critical" levels of hunger.
The region has the highest levels of child malnutrition
in the world, according to the International Food Policy
Research Institute. The report says the current hot spots
of hunger and under-nutrition are in South Asia and
Sub-Saharan Africa.
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0c021878-5a16-11db-8f16-0000779e2340.html
2006/10/12: FT: Grain stockpiles at lowest for 25 years
The world's stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level
in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department
of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for
global wheat and corn production. The lower forecasts were
largely attributable to the severe drought in Australia...
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1737
2006/10/11: JFleck: Drought and the Price of Wheat
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/10/mitigation-and-adaptation.html
2006/10/10: ERabett: Mitigation and Adaptation...
[another dog who did not bark moment]
<http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/09/the-commission-on-low-emissions-if-norway-can-do-it/
2006/10/10: ClimateProgress: The Norwegian Commission on
Low Emissions: If They Can Do It...
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061006072357.htm
2006/10/09: SciDaily: Alaska Study Offers Strategies To Mitigate Climate Warming
As for carbon sequestration:
<http://www.physorg.com/news79894855.html
2006/10/12: PhysOrg: U.S. tests CO2 underground storage options
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38487/story.htm
2006/10/13: PlanetArk: Norway to Build World's Biggest CO2 Capture Facility
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38413/story.htm
2006/10/09: PlanetArk: ANALYSIS - Carbon Capture: Climate Saviour?
Meanwhile in the journals:
<http://www.clim-past.net/2/131/2006/cp-2-131-2006.html
2006/10/14: CP: Equatorial insolation: from precession
harmonics to eccentricity frequencies by A. Berger et al.
<http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/923/cpd-2-923.htm
2006/10/11: CPD: The modern and glacial overturning
circulation in the Atlantic ocean in PMIP coupled
model simulations by S. L. Weber et al.
<http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/951/cpd-2-951.htm
2006/10/12: CPD: Linking glacial and future climates through
an ensemble of GCM simulations by J. C. Hargreaves et al.
<http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2006/2006GL027511.shtml
2006/10/04: AGU: ($$$) Mass balance of glaciers and ice caps:
Consensus estimates for 1961-2004 by G. Kaser et al.
<http://www.clim-past.net/2/115/2006/cp-2-115-2006.html
2006/10/10: CP: Social vulnerability to climate in the "Little Ice Age":
an example from Central Europe in the early 1770s by C. Pfister and R. Braizdil
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.physorg.com/news79791441.html
2006/10/11: PhysOrg: Natural climate change periodically wipes out
mammal species: study
<http://www.whoi.edu/mr/pr.do?id=16526
2006/10/11: WHOI: Rapid Sea Level Rise in the Arctic Ocean May Alter
Views of Human Migration
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/fsu-wc100906.php
2006/10/09: Eureka: 'Trapped wave' caused unexpected Dennis surge,
scientists say FSU
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061004180029.htm
2006/10/09: SciDaily: Evidence From Ice Age That Climate Change Can Have
A Rapid Effect On Ocean Circulation
While on the Kyoto front:
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=62030
2006/10/15: ClimateArk: Kyoto emissions targets prove difficult to meet
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38474/story.htm
2006/10/12: PlanetArk: Post-Kyoto Climate Talks May Last to 2010 - Expert
And on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/5295
2006/10/14: PRWatch: Faulty [carbon] Accounting [in Scotland]
Then there's the American political front:
<http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/2006/10/what_does_the_public_think_of.php
2006/10/13: FramingScience: What Does the Public Think of Bush on Global
Warming?
For Republicans, the Issue Polls Way Behind Flag Burning and
the Inheritance Tax in Importance; But Overall, the Public
Rates the President's Job Performance on Global Warming as Miserable
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/gordon-lautenbacher-letter/
2006/10/10: CSW: House Science Committee ranking member
seeks answers on Commerce Dept. cover-up of hurricane report
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/briefly-noted-9oct06/
2006/10/09: CSW: Briefly Noted -- Climate science and government accountability
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/vanishing-na-part1/
2006/10/08: CSW: The "Vanishing" National Climate
Change Assessment, Part 1: The Administration
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1732
2006/10/08: JFleck: Brooks on Climate, Society and "Progress"
And on the theme of religion and the environment:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/13/131139/72
2006/10/13: GristMill: U.S. Catholic Bishops on global warming
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15196924/
2006/10/10: MSNBC: Bill Moyers Q&A on religion, environment
['Is God Green?']
More than a few eyebrows raised over this:
<http://epw.senate.gov/fact.cfm?party=rep&id=264568
2006/10/11: US Senate: Nuremberg-style trials proposed
for global warming skeptics
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/12/115734/52
2006/10/12: GristMill: On climate denialists and Nuremberg
The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:
<http://greenomics.blogspot.com/2006/10/convenient-truth.html
2006/10/11: Oikos: A Convenient Truth
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106I.shtml
2006/10/11: TruthOut: "Our Mode of Development Is Neither
Sustainable Nor Replicable." [says Al Gore]
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/6043172.stm
2006/10/12: BBC: Former US presidential candidate Al Gore has won a
prestigious Quill literary award for his book An Inconvenient Truth.
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1011-01.htm
2006/10/11: CDreams: Reuters: Al Gore Wins Quill Book Prize
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/10/95845/565
2006/10/10: GristMill: An Inconvenient Truth in Dutch: Thanks Maurits!
These covers make it clear what Ross Gelbspan meant when he said
"the 'globalwarming controversy' stops at the American border":
<http://www.desmogblog.com/newsweek-alerts-almost-the-whole-world-to-global-warming
2006/10/10: DeSmogBlog: Newsweek Alerts (Almost) the Whole World
to Global Warming
While on the UK political front:
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1921453,00.html
2006/10/13: Guardian(UK): [UK] Government plans climate change law
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/6045680.stm
2006/10/12: BBC: A climate change bill which could see regular
targets put in place to cut UK carbon dioxide emissions
is being considered by the government.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1758636.htm
2006/10/09: ABC(Au): Climate change report backs Labor strategy,
says [Labor environment spokesman, Anthony] Albanese
Meanwhile in Europe:
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206H.shtml
2006/10/12: TruthOut: A Report Deems France Can Divide
Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Four
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38492/story.htm
2006/10/13: PlanetArk: EU Warns 8 States Over Late CO2 Emissions Plans
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/6044110.stm
2006/10/12: BBC: EU takes action over carbon plans
The European Commission has begun action against eight nations
that have so far failed to submit details on how they plan
to cut carbon emissions. The plans are a key part of a
Europe-wide carbon trading scheme. The eight nations that
have failed to submit their "National Allocation Plans" are:
Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Portugal,
Slovenia and Spain.
Meanwhile in Australia:
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/editorial/the-excuses-have-dried-up-8212-we-must-sign-the-kyoto-pact/2006/10/14/1160246369103.html
2006/10/15: TheAge: The excuses have dried up -
we must sign the Kyoto pact
[Australian PM] John Howard has little choice
but to review his sceptical outlook as the harsh
reality of global warming makes itself clear.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1765052.htm
2006/10/15: ABC(Au): Melbourne faces stage two water restrictions
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article1870837.ece
2006/10/14: Independent(UK): Fires and worst drought in 100 years
wake Australia up to the reality of climate change
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1763243.htm
2006/10/13: ABC(Au): [Victorian city of] Sale hears push
for climate change strategy
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1764035.htm
2006/10/13: ABC(Au): CSIRO warns of increasing bushfire threat
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1764365.htm
2006/10/13: ABC(Au): Kyoto Protocol won't solve drought crisis: Campbell
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/6046626.stm
2006/10/13: BBC: Australian PM warns on drought -
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has warned that
the country's worsening drought could hit economic growth.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759617.htm
2006/10/10: ABC(Au): Climate change overshadows state election: coal miners
Also in an Australian vein, I couldn't pass up this little rant:
<http://carbonsink.blogspot.com/2006/10/howards-new-policy-on-climate-change.html
2006/10/09: CarbonSink: Howard's new policy on climate change: Adaptation
Minster for Hypocrisy Ian Campbell today signalled what could
be the Howard government's new policy on climate change: Adaptation.
Denial is no longer credible, prevention and mitigation are too hard,
so we'll adapt. Easy! Ok, so we'll have to say ta ta to coral in the
Great Barrier Reef, snow in the Snowies, water in the Murray-Darling,
agriculture in the Riverina, wheat in the wheat belt, food, water
that kind of thing ... but hey, we're a resourceful lot us Aussies,
I'm sure we'll think of something!
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper continued doing nothing
by announcing he was going to make an announcement:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38456/story.htm
2006/10/11: PlanetArk: Canada's Harper Says Environment Plan in Works
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/10/harper-industry.html
2006/10/10: CBC: Harper set to impose 'strict' regulations
on smog producers - Conservative government will introduce
a new Clean Air Act next week
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/11/environment-ambrose.html
2006/10/11: CBC: Ambrose defends smog plan in face of criticism
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38471/story.htm
2006/10/12: PlanetArk: Canada's Harper Under Fire for Clean Air Plan
<http://www.desmogblog.com/canadian-environment-minister-bungles-carbon-credit-issue
2006/10/11: DeSmogBlog: Canadian Environment Minister Bungles Carbon Credit
Issue
A leak and much speculation is surrounding the forthcoming act:
<http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=4c3ae29e-e6c7-4b2d-b824-7e28b3009cd1&k=58364
2006/10/14: CanWest: Leaked draft suggests gaping holes in Clean Air Act
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plan to crack down on smog and fight
climate change would weaken federal powers to regulate greenhouse
gases and toxic substances such as mercury,
a leaked draft of the government's Clean Air Act suggests.
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=cfb66e2e-849e-4488-a61b-cf87bb017616&k=75859
2006/10/12: CanWest: Clash with gassy culprits inevitable -
Tory-blue Alberta is No. 1 emitter
Critics of the Tories' Clean Air Act say it fails
to set industry targets for reducing greenhouse gases.
It seems that the 'shrub' aka a little bush is planning to
use 'emmission intensity':
<http://www.desmogblog.com/harper-follows-bush-in-adopting-sham-emissions-measurement
2006/10/11: DeSmogBlog: Harper Follows Bush In Adopting Sham
Emissions Measurement
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20061011.TORIESGREEN11/TPStory/National
2006/10/11: Globe&Mail: PM plans 'intensity' alternative to Kyoto -
Blueprint wouldn't necessarily reduce emissions;
critics react with scorn
And then there are the oil sands:
<http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/10/15/2032345-sun.html
2006/10/15: TSun: Dramatic threat of global warming
<http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2006/10/12/suzuki.html
2006/10/12: CBC: Sask., Alberta worst greenhouse gas offenders: report
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=705f4dd2-2e10-4969-8b1a-d837037aad4c&k=48233
2006/10/13: CanWest: Study finds oilsands could mitigate climate change
<http://www.desmogblog.com/a-realpolitik-review-of-canadian-climate-policy-roadblocks
2006/10/12: DeSmogBlog: A Realpolitik Review of Canadian Climate
Policy Roadblocks
The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:
<http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=61979
2006/10/14: ClimateArk: New growth climate change theory [carbon tax arguments]
The movement toward ecologically based economics is glacial:
<http://www.energybulletin.net/21231.html
2006/10/09: EnergyBulletin: Today is World Overshoot Day
As for how the media handles the science of climatology:
<http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/10/the-new-york-times-and-ap-can-do-better/
2006/10/10: ClimateProgress: The New York Times and A.P. Can Do Better
The Canadian media is as partisan as any:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/harper-deserves-credit-for-clean-air-act
2006/10/12: DeSmogBlog: Harper Deserves Credit for Clean Air Act?
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pm-backs-nuclear-power/2006/10/15/1160850809820.html
2006/10/15: TheAge: PM backs nuclear power
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101206EB.shtml
2006/10/12: TruthOut: In Ontario, Making "Clean Energy" Pay
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1764171.htm
2006/10/13: ABC(Au): Work starts on nation's 'biggest' wind farm
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38497/story.htm
2006/10/13: PlanetArk: PG&E in Deal for Cow Gas to Fuel Power Plants
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-change-a-business-opportunity
2006/10/13: DeSmogBlog: Climate Change a Business Opportunity
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38475/story.htm
2006/10/12: PlanetArk: Investors Urge More Company Action on Warming
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1013/p01s01-usec.htm
2006/10/13: CSM: New combatant against global warming: insurance industry
The world's second-largest industry, worried about losses related
to climate change, offers incentives to 'go green.'
<http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/11/insuring-against-climate-change/
2006/10/11: ClimateProgress: Insuring Against Climate Change
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38457/story.htm
2006/10/11: PlanetArk: Global Warming Seen Pushing up Insurance Costs
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/10/svensmark-stumbles-into-smog-chamber.html
2006/10/13: ERabett: Svensmark stumbles into a smog chamber...
<http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-vs-dan-johnson-lawsuit-documents
2006/10/13: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball vs Dan Johnson Lawsuit - Documents
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/10/johnsons_statement_of_defence.php
2006/10/14: Deltoid: Johnson's statement of defence against Ball
<http://climateprogress.org/2006/10/13/cheers-and-jeers-to-the-san-francisco-chronicle/
2006/10/13: ClimateProgress: Cheers and Jeers to the San Francisco Chronicle
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/12/16749/965
2006/10/12: GristMill: They write emails [Morano & ilk]
<http://www.desmogblog.com/new-york-times-nails-inhofes-hysteria-mongering
2006/10/13: DeSmogBlog: New York Times Nails Inhofe's "hysteria" mongering
<http://www.desmogblog.com/nrsp-not-really-science-people
2006/10/13: DeSmogBlog: NRSP: Not Really Science People
<http://www.desmogblog.com/discredited-friends-of-science-emerge-as-the-natural-resources-stewardship-project
2006/10/13: DeSmogBlog: Discredited Friends of Science Re-emerge as
the Natural Resources Stewardship Project
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/10/new_canadian_astroturf_group.php
2006/10/13: Deltoid: New Canadian Astroturf Group
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/10/inhofes_nyt_refs.php
2006/10/13: Stoat: Inhofe's NYT refs
<http://www.desmogblog.com/inhofes-mini-me-to-face-off-among-enviromental-journalists
2006/10/12: DeSmogBlog: Inhofe's Mini-Me [Marc Morano] to Face Off
Among Enviromental Journalists
<http://www.desmogblog.com/ambiguous-scientific-statements-about-climate-are-hyped-by-those-with-a-vested-interest-in-alarm
2006/10/12: DeSmogBlog: "Ambiguous scientific statements about climate
are hyped by those with a vested interest in alarm"
<http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-change-denier-of-the-week
2006/10/12: DeSmogBlog: Climate Change Denier of the Week
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/10/global_cooling_inhofe_talking.php
2006/10/12: Stoat: Global cooling: Inhofe talking sh*t* again
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/10/11/141253/34
2006/10/11: GristMill: Attacked by Inhofe, finally
<http://www.desmogblog.com/john-ibbitson-who-may-or-may-not-have-a-clue
2006/10/11: DeSmogBlog: John Ibbitson, Who May or May Not Have a Clue
<http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-finding-new-ways-to-fudge-his-credentials
2006/10/11: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball: Finding New Ways to Fudge His Credentials
<http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute-dont-rely-on-us-for-significant-decisions
2006/10/11: DeSmogBlog: Heartland Institute: Don't Rely on Us
for Significant Decisions
<http://www.desmogblog.com/monbiot-tassc-and-the-tobacco-climate-change-cover-up
2006/10/10: DeSmogBlog: Monbiot, TASSC and the tobacco, climate change cover-up
<http://www.desmogblog.com/province-in-staunch-defence-of-the-right-to-be-wrong
2006/10/10: DeSmogBlog: Province: In Staunch Defence of the Right to be Wrong
<http://www.desmogblog.com/tim-ball-the-last-skeptic-standing
2006/10/09: DeSmogBlog: Tim Ball: the Last Skeptic Standing
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/10/build-up-of-co2-in-our-atmosphere-will.html
2006/10/09: SPGCC: The build-up of CO2 in our atmosphere will be good!
Andrew Dessler pulled an old chestnut from the PR fire:
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/10/climate-models-vs-weather-models.html
2006/10/12: SPGCC: Climate models vs weather models
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1741
2006/10/14: JFleck: Climate Forecasts vs. Weather Forecasts
There are a couple of older stories still reverberating through
the media echo chamber:
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/10/report-from-g8-meeting-on-climate_10.html
2006/10/10: SPGCC: Report from the G8 meeting on climate
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/10/virtue-of-unintended-lomborgianism-if.html
2006/10/14: ERabett: The virtue of unintended Lomborgianism
<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/10/13/carbon_blindness.php
2006/10/13: TomPaine: Carbon Blindness
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-horton/titanic-nipples_b_31657.html
2006/10/13: THP: Titanic nipples
<http://environment.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1892128,00.html
2006/10/11: Guardian(UK): Closer to the brink
<http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9843
2006/10/: SocRev: Feeling the Heat? [Monbiot interview]
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/10/uncertainties-and-risk.html
2006/10/10: ERabett: Uncertainties and risk...
<http://scienceblogs.com/loom/2006/09/26/historical_heat.php
2006/09/26: TheLoom: Historical Heat [Hansen ref]
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kuhn/coming-up-at-the-bottom-o_b_31446.html
2006/10/11: THP: Coming Up at the Bottom of the Hour: Global Warming
<http://grist.org/news/maindish/2006/10/10/gies/index.html
2006/10/10: Grist: On Your Mark, Offset, Go!
A guide to offsetting your carbon emissions
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38417/story.htm
2006/10/09: PlanetArk: All Can Play Part in Beating Global Warming - Expert
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/how-not-to-attribute-climate-change/
2006/10/10: RealClimate: How not to attribute climate change
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/10/con-allegre-ma-non-troppo/
2006/10/09: RealClimate: Con Allagre, ma non troppo
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/weather_one_degree.php
2006/10/09: TreeHugger: The Weather Channels Launches One Degree
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/the_th_intervie_21.php
2006/10/09: TreeHugger: The TH Interview: Laurie David
<http://www.globalwarmingart.com/
Global Warming Art
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/10/1000-pictures.html
2006/10/10: AFTIC: 1000 Pictures
And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
<http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/
CAN: Climate Action Network - Canada
<http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
GCC06: Global Climate Campaign2006
<http://www.campaigncc.org/
CaCC: Campaign against Climate Change
<http://climatechangeaction.blogspot.com/
CCA: Climate Change Action
Radio Ecoshock - Green Radio.
<http://www.ecoshock.org>
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/>
CTW: Carbon Trade Watch
<http://www.carbontradewatch.org/>
NODC: Publication summary of the NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, 1990-2005
<http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indpub.html>
<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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Jonathan Kirwan
<h...@despam.autobahn.mb.ca> wrote:
> <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061004180029.htm
> 2006/10/09: SciDaily: Evidence From Ice Age That Climate Change Can Have
> A Rapid Effect On Ocean Circulation
In reading this one, I was struck by the lack of any discussion of
changes in salinity that dealt with the very basic fact that growing
ice means more salt for the oceans and therefore an increased salinity
as a depending function, not necessarily a driver.
Now, I think this was about some rapid cycling (Dansgaard-Oeschger
cycles) over short times and it may be the case that this means that
ice mass changes were rather minor by comparison with the salinity
changes and that I'm wondering about something that really couldn't
have been significant in those short cycles.
Can anyone shed more light on this?
Thanks,
Jon
john fernbach
Let's hope someone is paying attention.