Another week of GW news - January 14, 2007

Black humour is better than no humour?:

        <http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2007/db070114.gif>  
        2007/01/14: uComics: (cartoon - Trudeau) Dr. Nathan Null

        <http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2007/tt070108.gif>  
        2007/01/08: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Arctic Press Conference...

        <http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/08/the-simpsons-tackle-global-w...>  
        2007/01/08: C&L: (link to video) The Simpsons Tackle Global Warming

A moment of silence, please:

        <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/12/scientists-to-move-world_n_3...>  
        2007/01/12: HuffPo: Scientists To Move World's "Doomsday Clock"
        Forward To Reflect "Worsening Nuclear, Climate Threats"...

The big story of the week has to be Europe's proposed new energy plan:

        <http://europa.eu/press_room/presspacks/energy/index_en.htm>  
        Europa: All Energy package documents (some pdfs, some html)

        <http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/07/29&form...>  
        2007/01/10: Europa: Commission proposes an integrated energy and climate change package to cut emissions for the 21st Century

        <http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2007/1/11/18461/1862>  
        2007/01/11: EuroTrib: Revisiting the EU Energy Plan - and its coverage

        <http://www.viridiandesign.org/2007/01/viridian-note-00486-energy-poli...>  
        2007/01/11: VDM: Viridian Note 00486 Energy Policy for Europe

        <http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2172>  
        2007/01/13: OilDrum: Revisiting the EU Energy Plan - and its coverage

        <http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/2169>  
        2007/01/12: OilDrum: A New Energy Policy for Europe

        <http://www.desmogblog.com/eu-vows-stiffest-cuts-ever-20-below-1990-le...>  
        2007/01/11: DeSmogBlog: EU Vows Stiffest Cuts Ever -- 20% Below 1990 Levels by 2020

        <http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Climate_Protection_Tops_EU_Plan_999...>  
        2007/01/10: TerraDaily: Climate Protection Tops EU Plan

        <http://consciousearth.blogspot.com/2007/01/eu-plans-post-industrial-r...>  
        2007/01/10: ConsciousEarth: EU Plans "Post-Industrial" Revolution

        <http://www.euractiv.com/en/environment/brussels-biofuels-push-met-sce...>  
        2007/01/12: EurActiv: Brussels biofuels push met with sceptism
        Plans to increase biofuel contribution to 10% of EU transport fuel
        by 2020 have been criticised by environmental NGOs, who increasingly
        believe that the promotion of biofuels may actually cause more harm than good.

        <http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2007/2007-01-10-03.asp>  
        2007/01/10: ENS: EU Plans Steep Emissions Cuts to Avert Climate Disaster

        <http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s1825164.htm>  
        2007/01/11: ABC(Au): European Commission urges major greenhouse gas cuts

        <http://www.climateark.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=66677>  
        2007/01/12: ClimateArk: EU to impose tougher carbon emission limits

        <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/12/nmoto...>  
        2007/01/12: Telegraph(UK): 4x4s to be priced off the road
        Gas-guzzling sports cars, 4x4s and people carriers could be
        priced off the road within five years after a crackdown
        on carbon emissions to be announced
        by the European Commission this month.

        <http://priceofoil.org/2007/01/12/eu-targets-gas-guzzlers/>  
        2007/01/12: OilChange: EU Targets Gas Guzzlers

        <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/6257327.stm>  
        2007/01/12: BBC: EU plans attack on car emissions -
        The cost of gas-guzzling cars could soar in five years'
        time under plans from the European Commission.

        <http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1987172,00.html>  
        2007/01/10: Guardian(UK): Call for 20% EU cut in greenhouse gas emissions

        <http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1987599,00.html>  
        2007/01/11: Guardian(UK): EU warns of global climate chaos -
        Report forecasts wars, famine and migration -
        Strategy aims for world's first low-carbon economy

        <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1824799.htm>  
        2007/01/11: ABC(Au): European Commission launches new energy strategy

        <http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn10933.html>  
        2007/01/10: NewScientist: European energy plan targets big carbon cuts

        <http://www.desmogblog.com/eu-shudders-at-prospect-of-future-warming>  
        2007/01/10: DeSmogBlog: EU Shudders at Prospect of Future Warming

        <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2305238,00.html>  
        2007/01/10: DeutscheWelle: EU Study Warns of Catastrophe if Global Warming Not Curbed

        <http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=2007011...>  
        2007/01/10: UPI: Analysis: Climate protection tops EU plan

        <http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,458932,00.html>  
        2007/01/10: DerSpiegel: Brussels Bows to Global Warming
        Arid deserts in Spain, winters with no snow and fewer tourists in
        the Mediterranean. All that will happen if the world doesn't act,
        the EU said on Wednesday. Its new energy strategy plans emission
        cuts of up to 20 percent. Europe is wondering where its energy
        will come from in the future. The climate change report issued
        by the European Commission on Wednesday is uncompromising. Should
        average temperatures in Europe climb more than 2 degrees Celsius,
        eco-systems will be devastated, the continent's agriculture will
        radically change, its wildlife will be destroyed and tens of
        thousands of people will die.

        <http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=12450&channel=0>  
        2007/01/10: Edie: Clean energy will take off 'too late' if trends continue
        Carbon emissions cuts will come too late to avert 'runaway' climate change
        if current policy trends continue in Europe and across the world according
        to the EU's World Energy Technology Outlook, published this week.

        <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2305545,00.html>  
        2007/01/10: DeutscheWelle: EU Unveils Major New Energy Policy
        The European Commission unveiled sweeping plans Wednesday
        to diversify EU energy sources, slash carbon emissions
        by 20 percent and enforce rules for fuel competition.

        <http://priceofoil.org/2007/01/10/climate-change-will-devastate-eu/>  
        2007/01/10: OilChange: Climate Change Will Devastate EU

        <http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/070110180928.pxih5jaz.html>  
        2007/01/10: AFP: EU unveils vast energy plan to diversify supplies, protect environment

        <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/6247199.stm>  
        2007/01/10: BBC: EU plans 'industrial revolution'
        The European Commission has urged its members to sign up
        to an unprecedented common energy policy, unveiling a plan
        to diversify the bloc's energy sources. Commission chief
        Jose Manuel Barroso said it was time for a
        "post-industrial revolution" which would see Europe slash
        greenhouse gases by 20% by 2020. But political as well as
        environmental concerns should spur change, he noted.
        EU vulnerability as an oil importer was thrown into sharp
        relief this week when Russia's row with Belarus hit supplies.

        <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/6248227.stm>  
        2007/01/10: BBC: Inefficient and expensive energy firms
        will face legal action over their behaviour, the European
        Commission's competition office has warned.

        <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/6246385.stm>  
        2007/01/10: BBC: New EU path on climate and energy
        The European Commission is due to unveil a wide-ranging
        set of proposals on energy and climate issues. It will
        include targets on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
        increasing use of renewables, and measures to free competition
        among energy providers. The Commission aims to set a global
        benchmark for reducing emissions when Kyoto Protocol targets
        expire in 2012. The package of measures will have to be
        approved by European governments before it can come into force.

        <http://www.desmogblog.com/eu-plans-bold-cut-in-carbon-emissions-un-ur...>  
        2007/01/09: DeSmogBlog: EU plans bold cut in carbon emissions; UN urged to widen Kyoto

        <http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39739/story.htm>  
        2007/01/09: PlanetArk: EU to Propose 20 Percent Emissions Cut by 2020 - Official

        <http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39730/story.htm>  
        2007/01/09: PlanetArk: EU to Make New Climate Change Commitment with Cuts

        <http://manufacturing.net/article/CA6405179.html>  
        2007/01/08: ManufacturingNet: Leaked EU Report Notes Push To Renewable Fuels

        <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b048c9b4-9e80-11db-ac03-0000779e2340.html>  
        2007/01/08: FTimes: Washington faces challenge over climate
        [from European Commission president, Jose Manuel Barroso]

It's official. 2006 was the warmest year on record for USA, Scotland...:

        <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR200...>  
        2007/01/10: WaPo: Climate Experts Worry as 2006 Is Hottest Year on Record in U.S.

        <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070110124403.htm>  
        2007/01/10: SciDaily: NOAA Reports 2006 Warmest Year On Record For U.S.

        <http://www.desmogblog.com/2006-fifth-warmest-year-on-record>  
        2007/01/12: DeSmogBlog: 2006 Fifth Warmest Year on Record

        <http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=60...>  
        2007/01/10: Wunderground: 2006: warmest year on record in the U.S.

        <http://www.physorg.com/news87575865.html>  
        2007/01/09: PhysOrg: Warm December Pushes 2006 to Record Year

        <http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=newsOne&storyID=2...>  
        2007/01/09: Reuters: 2006 warmest on record in United States: NOAA

        <http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/s2772.htm>  
        2007/01/09: NOAA: NOAA reports 2006 warmest year on record for U.S.

        <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/6242019.stm>  
        2007/01/09: BBC: New weather record made in 2006 -
        Last year was the warmest on record in Scotland,
        the Met Office has
...

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Dr. Gordon McBean - No doubt now about global warming - [CanWest News]
News Type: Event - Seeded on Mon Jan 15, 2007

Article Source: canada.com
global-warming, dewpoints, regional-climate-change, snowmelt-runoff
Seeded by npat

"Dr. Gordon McBean, chair of policy in the Institute for Catastrophic
Loss Reduction at Western Ontario University, predicted a
highlyanticipated report to be released next month in Paris would
highlight how human activity is heating up the planet much faster than
experts had previously expected."

[...]

"We can see it on the basis of what's happening in southern Canada as
opposed to just a global basis," McBean said. "We can actually say the
smoking gun is there at a regional level, rather than just a global
level."

[...]

As a Senior Hydrologist at NOAA's - National Weather Service - North
Center River Forecast Center - located in Chanhassen, Minnesota, I not
only said we could see climate change was happening in the Upper
Midwest (regional climate change), I also showed that climate change
was well underway in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin (links to my
Sept-Oct, 2003 work are included below). Unfortunately, I worked under
the supervision of arrogant chief meteorologists and retired Airforce
generals, thus my work was not allowed public visibility and pooh
poohed by NWS directors and NOAA administrators in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Eventually NWS removed me from public service (July of 2005), after I
had served 29 years and 5 months of what I viewed as outstanding public
service. What has really been going on at NOAA and NOAA NWS?
Are the leaders guilty of criminal activity to the people of the U.S.
and world environment? What do you think?

U.S. Newswire Press Release (30 Oct. 2003)

and

Earlier in the Year Snowmelt Runoff and Increasing Dewpoints for Rivers
in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota:  by Patrick J. Neuman, Snow
Hydrologist
September 11, 2003

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateArchive/message/4094

http://www.mnforsustain.org/climate_snowmelt_dewpoints_minnesota_neum...

Published to:
Groups: Minnesota Newsviners, RightsVine, Climate Change,
WildlifeLandscapes

http://npat1.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/15/521670-dr-gordon-mcbean-no...

Pat Neuman - Now at NewsVine.com
http://npat1.newsvine.com/

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