Another week of GW news - May 21
H. E. Taylor
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/el-nino-global-warming/>
2006/05/17: RealClimate: El Nino and Global Warming
Recent GHG stats in the UK are troublesome:
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/co2_scenarios_again.php>
2006/05/17: Stoat: CO2 scenarios again
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/uk_co2_again.php>
2006/05/15: Stoat: UK CO2 (again)
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1775689,00.html>
2006/05/16: Guardian(UK): New figures reveal scale of industry's impact on climate -
Five biggest polluters in UK produce more CO2 than all motorists combined
While in the hurricane wars:
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_deaths_louisiana>
2006/05/20: Yahoo: Number of Deaths From Katrina Rises [by 281 to a total of 1,577]
<http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=124364>
2006/05/19: Turkish Press: 26 Vietnamese fishermen killed by typhoon, 245 missing
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000815more_peerreviewed_d.html>
2006/05/15: Prometheus: More Peer-Reviewed Discussion on Hurricanes and Climate Change
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/eyewall.html>
2006/05/16: NASA: NASA Looks at Hurricane Cloud Tops for Windy Clues
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060516160127.htm>
2006/05/16: SciDaily: Tropical Depression: Hurricane Linked To Long-term Mental Distress
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1642150.htm>
2006/05/18: ABC(Au): 16 killed, 1 million evacuated as Typhoon Chanchu hits China
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/4990632.stm>
2006/05/17: BBC: More than 600,000 people have been evacuated
from southern China as Typhoon Chanchu surges towards the Guangdong province.
<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/060517143842.4gnmbibq.html>
2006/05/17: AFP: 620,000 evacuated in southern China as Typhoon Chanchu nears
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-05-17T163701Z_01_PEK332198_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-CHINA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22>
2006/05/17: Reuters: Tens of thousands [600,000] evacuated as typhoon [Chanchu] targets China
And glaciers are melting:
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200605/19/eng20060519_267047.html>
2006/05/19: People's Daily: Study predicts snowpack shortage for world's mountains in 21st century
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/060515-8.html>
2006/05/16: NSU: African ice will vanish in 20 years -
Geologists blame climate change for disappearing equatorial glaciers.
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060518-031845-9806r>
2006/05/18: UPI: Snowpack to diminish by 2100
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/ucl-fei051506.php>
2006/05/17: Eureka: Fabled equatorial icecaps to disappear
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/agu-fea051506.php>
2006/05/15: Eureka: Fabled equatorial African icecaps to disappear
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10463>
2006/05/16: ENN: Glaciers in Africa Expected to Disappear
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4987186.stm>
2006/05/17: BBC: Fabled ice field 'set to vanish'
A fabled tropical ice field in Africa could disappear in two decades
because of climate change, a study says. The finding comes from the
first survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains,
East Africa, often referred to as the "Mountains of the Moon".
While in near earth orbit:
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/npoess-crisis/>
2006/05/18: CSW: NPOESS weather and climate satellite crisis: Should heads roll at NOAA?
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060517185314.htm>
2006/05/18: SciDaily: Using Satellite Observations To Study
Photosynthetic Trends In Northern Circumpolar High Latitudes
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/whrc-uso051706.php>
2006/05/17: Eureka: Using satellite observations to study photosynthetic trends
in northern circumpolar high latitudes
A couple of worrisome notes about food supply have emerged:
<http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?Feed=AP&Date=20060519&ID=4162601>
2006/05/19: MSN:MC: Wheat Prices Climbing Amid Global Drought
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33268>
2006/05/17: IPSNews: Population: Global Food Supply Near the Breaking Point
More GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56558>
2006/05/21: ClimateArk: Where have all the icebergs gone?
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051506EB.shtml>
2006/05/15: TruthOut: West's Failure Over Climate Change "Will Kill 182 Million Africans"
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36442/story.htm>
2006/05/19: PlanetArk: China Faces Rising Temperatures, Shrinking Crops
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/17/220/>
2006/05/17: CliSci: Further Documentation of the Drought Threat in the Western United States
<http://getdowntoearth.blogspot.com/2006/05/proverbial-frogs-and-demand-driven.html>
2006/05/15: GDTE: Proverbial frogs and demand-driven droughts
<http://getdowntoearth.blogspot.com/2006/05/droughts-prediction-and-adaptation.html>
2006/05/17: GDTE: Droughts: prediction and adaptation
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/ns-hfd051706.php>
2006/05/17: Eureka: Himalayan forests disappearing
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060514235825.htm>
2006/05/15: SciDaily: Rays And Mild Climate Deadly For Frogs
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1774814,00.html>
2006/05/15: Guardian(UK): Meltdown fear as Arctic ice cover falls to record winter low
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1774899,00.html>
2006/05/15: Guardian(UK): Africa climate change 'could kill millions' -
Report urges poor nations to switch to clean energy
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-2182102-2,00.html>
2006/05/16: Times(UK): Tough curbs on water use as drought hits Britain
<http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/060515p.htm>
2006/05/15: CA: [link to pdf] Climate change: Hope amid the crisis?
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/sci/tech/4771399.stm>
2006/05/15: BBC: Climate change a 'deadly threat'
The Christian Aid charity has warned that 184 million people in Africa
alone could die as a result of climate change before the end of the century.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4772373.stm>
2006/05/15: BBC: First drought order for 11 years
A drought order has been granted in England and Wales
for the first time since 1995, banning the non-essential use of water.
<http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/451-500/00465_civil_discord.html>
2006/05/10: VDM: Viridian Note 00465: Civil Discord
The impact of GW on corals was played up in several ways this week:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051606EB.shtml>
2006/05/14: TruthOut: The Great Coral Reef Disaster
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uocp-crr051606.php>
2006/05/16: Eureka: Coral reef reveals history of fickle weather in the central Pacific
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uonu-gwm051506.php>
2006/05/15: Eureka: Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060517082359.htm>
2006/05/17: SciDaily: Coral Reef Reveals History Of Fickle Weather In The Central Pacific
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060515232529.htm>
2006/05/16: SciDaily: Global Warming May Have Damaged Coral Reefs Forever
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4772715.stm>
2006/05/15: BBC: Warming set to 'devastate' coral - Rising ocean temperatures
look set to cause lasting devastation to coral reef systems, a study suggests.
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/sci/tech/4994296.stm>
2006/05/18: BBC: The fair choice for climate change
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10482>
2006/05/18: ENN: Transport a Black Spot for Global Warming, U.N. Says
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.whoi.edu/mr/pr.do?id=13207>
2006/05/18: WHOI: Linking Climate Change Across Time Scales
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/current-volcanic-activity-and-climate/>
2006/05/16: RealClimate: Current volcanic activity and climate?
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060518175714.htm>
2006/05/18: SciDaily: Linking Climate Change Across Time Scales
The Pielkes continue their valiant fight for the longest URLs on the net:
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000821signs_of_change.html>
2006/05/20: Prometheus: Signs of Change? [Where's the radical realism when we need it?]
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/19/what-level-of-skill-of-multi-decadal-global-climate-predictions-was-provided-by-the-ccsp-report/>
2006/05/19: CliSci: What Level of Skill of Multi-Decadal Global Climate
Prediction Can Be Concluded From The CCSP Report
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/18/earth%e2%80%99s-radiative-energy-budget-related-to-sorce/>
2006/05/18: CliSci: The Final Meeting Information on "The Earth's Radiative Energy Budget
Related to SORCE" Conference Has Been Posted
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/16/policymakers-need-to-move-beyond-the-global-average-surface-temperature-trend-as-the-primary-climate-change-metric/>
2006/05/16: CliSci: Policymakers Need to Move Beyond the Global Average Surface
Temperature Trend as the Primary Climate Change Metric
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/15/wall-street-journal-quote-on-attribution/>
2006/05/15: CliSci: Wall Street Journal Quotes on Climate Change Attribution-
A Missed Opportunity for Balanced Reporting
The UNFCCC conference in Bonn seems to have been low key so far:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1642246.htm>
2006/05/19: ABC(Au): Australia to lead climate change talks [Kyoto 2]
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1642495.htm>
2006/05/19: ABC(Au): Climate talks criticism dismissed
[Australia's role in developing Kyoto 2]
<http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1642665.htm>
2006/05/19: ABC(Au): Australia to lead climate change deal negotiations [for Kyoto 2]
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000817a_few_reactions_to_t.html>
2006/05/17: Prometheus: A Few Reactions to the Bonn Dialogue on the FCCC
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36418/story.htm>
2006/05/18: PlanetArk: Climate Expert to Lead Talks on Extending Kyoto Deal
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10476>
2006/05/18: ENN: Climate Expert to Lead Talks on Extending Kyoto Deal
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10488>
2006/05/19: ENN: Poor States Seen Escaping Kyoto Climate Caps
Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:
<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060519/48363402.html>
2006/05/19: Novosti: Russia ready to implement Kyoto protocol this fall -
[natural resources] minister [Yury Trutnev]
<http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/18/c9777.html>
2006/05/18: NewsWire: Asia-Pacific Partnership no substitute for Kyoto Protocol
And on the emissions trading front:
<http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0519-atbc.html>
2006/05/19: MongaBay: Scientists endorse radical plan to save rainforests through emissions trading
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1775718,00.html>
2006/05/16: Guardian(UK): Explainer: European emissions trading -
In theory, only the virtuous are rewarded
Fallout from the European carbon market shakeout is still landing:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/05/21/ccarbon21.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2006/05/21/ixcity.html>
2006/05/21: Telegraph(UK): Going up in smoke -
The EU's carbon credit trading system is in crisis.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1777040,00.html>
2006/05/17: Guardian(UK): European energy groups involved in carbon trading
are manipulating the scheme for profit, not principle
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051706EB.shtml>
2006/05/17: TruthOut: EU's Gyrating CO2 Mart Teaches US About Balance
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1775682,00.html>
2006/05/16: Guardian(UK): Governments accused of giving industries permission to pollute -
Rule change needed to save credibility, say critics
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/4771871.stm>
2006/05/15: BBC: Concerns over EU carbon trading
The European Commission has questioned the effectiveness of the EU's
emissions trading scheme, the cornerstone of its climate change policy.
Under the scheme, governments set quotas for the carbon dioxide emissions
produced by 9,400 large factories and power stations in 21 member states.
Carbon permits are issued to give firms a financial incentive to invest
in clean technology and cut emissions. But the commission's report
showed that states have issued too many permits.
And on the American political front:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1643625.htm>
2006/05/21: ABC(Au): We must 'get off our butts' to stop global warming, [Bill] Clinton says
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/18/16470/9492>
2006/05/20: Gristmill: Americans and Climate Change: Scientific disconnects II
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051606EC.shtml>
2006/05/15: TruthOut: Upcoming Congressional Action on the Environment
<http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/129893>
2006/05/20: AZStarNet: History will judge Bush on global warming record
<http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/060520181445.8ud0mfkr.html>
2006/05/20: AFP: Al Gore issues global warming wake-up call
Former US vice president Al Gore issued a sharp wake-up call
over global warming at the Cannes Film Festival, warning
the earth was facing "a planetary emergency."
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/18/10180/5298>
2006/05/18: GristMill: Anti-Earth Week [US pol]
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/18/164025/798>
2006/05/19: GristMill: Americans and Climate Change: Scientific disconnects I
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10493>
2006/05/19: ENN: Gore in Movie Campaign to Protect Earth
<http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0506/328405.html>
2006/05/17: WJLA: Stars Come Out for Gore's Documentary
<http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/05/15/the_hills_climate_change.php>
2006/05/15: TomPaine: The Hill's Climate Change
Al Gore, among others, is funding an Alliance for Climate Protection:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/19/173722/433>
2006/05/19: Gristmill: The Alliance for Climate Protection: From the top down
<http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2006/05/19/gore/index.html>
2006/05/19: Grist: The Sway of the World - Gore-backed group
will spend big to convince Americans climate change is real
While on the UK political front:
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-525-2189536-525,00.html>
2006/05/21: Times(UK): It's serious - Attenborough says stop climate change
Long a sceptic, David Attenborough tells why he is now certain
the planet is warming up and issues a call to arms
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1779870,00.html>
2006/05/21: Guardian(UK): [David] Attenborough goes to war over climate
And in Canada, minority neocon PM Harper is continuing his anti-Kyoto mischief:
<http://www.physorg.com/news67399831.html>
2006/05/21: PhysOrg: Canada wants Kyoto climate-change deal scrapped: report
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1643283.htm>
2006/05/20: ABC(Au): Canada's PM expresses interest in climate change partnership
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1640452.htm>
2006/05/17: ABC(Au): Canada, others eye alternative climate pact
<http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=cd412764-ba72-4323-bf58-9f8422b9f2cf&k=85576>
2006/05/20: CanWest: Canada moves closer to anti-Kyoto group [APPCDC]
Ottawa warms to agreement giving freer hand to greenhouse-gas producing industries
<http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/05/20/1590018-cp.html>
2006/05/20: Canoe: Liberals demand environment minister recall Kyoto delegation and resign
The federal Liberals are demanding Environment Minister Rona Ambrose
recall Canada's delegation from Bonn after they said she deliberately
tried to "undermine" the Kyoto Protocol by instructing her officials
to block any consensus from moving forward on its next phase. And
Opposition environment critic Scott Brison says Ambrose herself should
resign her position as chair at Conference of the Parties because
of what he calls "her covert attempts to sabotage the development
of a binding international consensus on global warming." Brison says
Ambrose's actions are outrageous and dangerously duplicitous and could
irreparably damage Canada's reputation at the United Nations.
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060520.KYOTO20/TPStory/Environment>
2006/05/20: Globe&Mail: Ottawa now wants Kyoto deal scrapped - Voluntary climate-change
pact preferred with easier targets, leaked paper reveals
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060520-122521-5440r>
2006/05/20: UPI: Canada wants cutback to environment rules
<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=4470fea8-8f09-4e06-80b7-801f2e9116df&k=77828>
2006/05/19: CanWest: Harper hints Canada poised to join Kyoto rival [APPCDC]
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/19/134518/983>
2006/05/19: GristMill: Canada opts for empty symbolism
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1775320,00.html>
2006/05/15: Guardian(UK): Emission failure - Canada's less than
enthusiastic efforts to meet its climate change commitments
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1641942.htm>
2006/05/18: ABC(Au): [Australian Federal Environment Minister, Ian] Campbell
talks up Canadian climate change deal [APPCDC] membership
Meanwhile in the blogosphere, Eli & Roger had a spat:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/banned-in-boulder.html>
2006/05/20: ERabett: Banned in Boulder....
As for how media handles the science, FoxNews has a special:
<http://www.newshounds.us/2006/05/19/cavuto_touts_fox_special_as_the_definitive_piece_on_global_warming.php>
2006/05/19: NH: Cavuto Touts Fox Special as the "Definitive Piece" on Global Warming
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4815>
2006/05/19: SotD: Hey, FOX - Google Much?
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/19/16714/3165>
2006/05/19: GristMill: Fox to balance previous accuracy with inaccuracy
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/16/fox-news-channel-documentary-on-global-warming-to-air/>
2006/05/16: CliSci: Fox News Channel Documentary on Global Warming to Air
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000818fox_news_documentary.html>
2006/05/18: Prometheus: Fox News [climate change] Documentary
People are wondering about GW & PR:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/20/212741/461>
2006/05/20: GristMill: Framing climate change
<http://www.desmogblog.com/scientists-climate-change-messaging-anything-but-clear>
2006/05/20: DeSmogBlog: Scientists' Climate Change Messaging Anything But Clear
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/inconvient-truth-and-conventional.html>
2006/05/20: ERabett: An Inconvient Truth and the Conventional Wisdom
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/051906EA.shtml>
2006/05/19: TruthOut: Ankelohe and Beyond: Communicating Climate Change
<http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0520-25.htm>
2006/05/20: CDreams:NYT: Turned Off by Global Warming
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-gore-never-campaigned-on-global.html>
2006/05/18: FramingScience: Why Gore never campaigned on Global Warming:
And Why His New Method of "Disintermediation" Might Work
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joel-makower/why-arent-americans-ver_b_21300.html>
2006/05/19: THP: Why Aren't Americans 'Very Worried' About the Climate?
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004439.html>
2006/05/16: WorldChanging: Why Aren't Americans 'Very Worried' About the Climate?
And for your film & video enjoyment:
<http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/19/an_inconvenient_trut.html>
2006/05/19: BoingBoing: An Inconvenient Truth
<http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/21-05-2006/80688-cannes-0>
2006/05/21: Pravda: Al Gore promotes global warming movie in Cannes
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008841.php>
2006/05/18: TWM: A Cinematic Silent Spring....[Al Gore's global warming movie, _An Inconvenient Truth_]
While in the ongoing theme of forcing government action via litigation:
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002996980_globalwarm16m.html>
2006/05/16: STimes: Legal battle to get feds to act on global warming -
Seattle's big role in fight on global warming
Developing a new energy infrastructure is the fundamental challenge of
the current generation:
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1779588,00.html>
2006/05/21: Guardian(UK): Brazil leads field in alternative fuel race
<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,,1779860,00.html>
2006/05/21: Guardian(UK): The nuclear power debate - handle with care
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56559>
2006/05/21: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Don't rush to nuclear power, warns Blair's environment adviser
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1779469,00.html>
2006/05/20: Guardian(UK): Meanwhile, another unfashionable fuel is ready for comeback - Coal
<http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/05/production_of_c.html>
2006/05/17: GCC: Production of Canadian Crude to Nearly Double
[to 4.9 million bpd] by 2020 Due to Oil Sands
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/20/81137/8150>
2006/05/20: Gristmill: Tar sands fever
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004462.html>
2006/05/20: WorldChanging: XsunX Transparent Photovoltaics
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1640262.htm>
2006/05/17: ABC(Au): Blair puts nuclear power on agenda
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10486>
2006/05/19: ENN: U.S. States, Investors Attack Exxon on Global Warming
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/politics/4988886.stm>
2006/05/17: BBC: Nuclear energy is not the "sole answer" to meeting UK energy needs
but failing to consider it would be a "dereliction of duty", Tony Blair has said.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/4988740.stm>
2006/05/17: BBC: [UK Press Review] Papers ponder Blair's nuclear plans
In the States a major report on Energy is being hailed:
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/18/62733/6577>
2006/05/18: DailyKOS: (555k html) Energize America -
Achieving U.S. Energy Security by 2020 (Draft Five)
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/18/17431/3301>
2006/05/18: GristMill: Energize America
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.greencarcongress.com/2006/05/investor_group_.html>
2006/05/20: GCC: Investor Group Pushes Automakers for Action on Climate Change
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56537>
2006/05/20: ClimateArk: Automakers Drop Lawsuit on New York's Emissions Rule
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/thank-you-for-smoking-national-post>
2006/05/18: DeSmogBlog: Thank You For Smoking, National Post
<http://mediamatters.org/items/200605170011>
2006/05/17: MediaMatters: Appearing on Hannity & Colmes, global warming skeptic
[Pat] Michaels falsely suggested Gore endorsed exaggerating threat posed by global warming
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/pat_michaels_goes_quote_mining.php>
2006/05/20: Deltoid: Pat Michaels goes quote mining
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/economist_wants_slice_of_ipcc.php>
2006/05/15: Stoat: Economist [D. Henderson] wants slice of IPCC pie...
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/19/152057/235>
2006/05/19: GristMill: Ford and CEI
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/correction_1.php>
2006/05/18: Deltoid: Correction [Kiwis, denial, BS (part 2)]
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/owen_mcshane_goes_quote_mining.php>
2006/05/17: Deltoid: Owen McShane goes quote mining [Kiwis, denial, BS]
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/richard_lindzen_claims_global.php>
2006/05/15: Deltoid: Richard Lindzen claims global warming stopped in 1998
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004455.html>
2006/05/19: WorldChanging: The Carbon Empire Strikes Back
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/17/94659/7231>
2006/05/17: GristMill: And so it begins [carbon lobby PR]
<http://www.enn.com/aff.html?id=1295>
2006/05/16: ENN: New Study Points to an Inconvenient Truth about Global Warming [NCPA]
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008842.php>
2006/05/18: TWM: Some like it hot...
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/17/global-warming-looks-good/>
2006/05/17: TP: CEI Founder [Fred Smith] on Global Warming: "It Looks Pretty Good
-- We're Moving To A More Benign Planet."
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/18/new-ads-funded-by-big-oil-portray-global-warming-science-as-smear-campaign-against-carbon-dioxide/>
2006/05/18: TP: New Ads Funded by Big Oil Portray Global Warming Science as Smear Campaign Against
Carbon Dioxide
<http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7450.html>
2006/05/18: TCR: The great anti-carbon dioxide conspiracy
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/17/attack-on-gore/>
2006/05/17: TP: Big Oil Launches Attack On Al Gore
The CEI released a series of ads this week to general gales of laughter:
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/20/climate-scientist-to-cei/>
2006/05/20: TP: Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My Research
<http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/05/feel_the_power_.html>
2006/05/20: BDL: Feel the Power of the Competitive Enterprise Institute...
<http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2006/05/carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you.html>
2006/05/19: PeakEnergy: Carbon Dioxide Is Good for You
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/05/we_call_it_life.php>
2006/05/20: CCM: "We Call it Life"
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4812>
2006/05/18: SotD: CEI's 'Crude' Attack on Global Warming Film
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/linking_and_laughing.php>
2006/05/19: Deltoid: Linking and Laughing [carbon lobby PR]
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/co2_we_call_it_life.php>
2006/05/18: Deltoid: "CO2: We call it life"
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/thank-you-for-emitting/>
2006/05/18: RealClimate: Thank you for emitting [carbon lobby PR]
<http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008840.php>
2006/05/18: TWM: We call it....Well, What do we call it?....[CO2 ads]
<http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060419_big_oil_gore/>
2006/05/17: TruthDig: Big Oil Launches Attack on Al Gore
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200605/19/eng20060519_267091.html>
2006/05/19: People's Daily: China facing rising temperature
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/solving-climate-change-and-budget.html>
2006/05/20: ERabett: Solving the climate change and budget problem in one go...
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/ipcc-review-part-2/>
2006/05/15: CSW: Open U.S. Review of IPCC draft report is a good thing
-- Part 2: Press coverage
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/good-sea-level-rise-mapping-tool.html>
2006/05/16: AFTIC: A Good Sea Level Rise Mapping Tool
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/wsj_on_attribution.php>
2006/05/14: Deltoid: WSJ on Attribution
<http://www.energybulletin.net/16019.html>
2006/05/18: EnergyBulletin: Letter to NY Times science editor: peak oil and global warming
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/05/15/polar-bears.html>
2006/05/15: CBC: Polar bear worries unproven, expert says
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://environment.yale.edu/climate/>
The Yale Project on Climate Change
<http://www.greencarcongress.com/>
GCC: Green Car Congress
<http://getdowntoearth.blogspot.com/>
GDTE: Get Down To Earth
<http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/index.html>
NOAA:GFDL: Tom Knutson's Home Page
<http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tk/glob_warm_hurr.html>
2006/01/: NOAA:GFDL: Global Warming and Hurricanes
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/>
FS: Framing Science
<http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/>
California Climate Change Portal
<http://gpm.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html>
GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement
<http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/>
2006/04/: EGU: European Geosciences Union
<http://www.occc.ch/index_e.html>
OCCC: Swiss Advisory Body on Climate Change
<http://www.globalwarmingtimes.com/>
GWTimes: Global Warming Times
<http://www.climatewire.org/>
ClimateWire
<http://www.peopleandplanet.net/>
P&P: People & Planet
<http://www.defra.gov.uk/science/news/bas/default.htm>
Scientist On Ice
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/>
Dr. James E. Hansen homepage
<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>
--
"How could I look my grandchildren in the eye and say I knew about
this [global warming] and I did nothing?" -David Attenborough
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H.E. Taylor http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/