Another week of GW news - May 14
H. E. Taylor
<http://washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060511-110534-5777r>
2006/05/12: WaTi: Yes Men pull Halliburton hoax
Halliburton Co. fell victim this week to a group of pranksters
pushing a "SurvivaBall" to save corporate executives from the
effects of global warming. Members of the Yes Men, a group of
environmental and corporate ethics activists, gave a presentation
at a trade conference pretending to be Halliburton executives
touting large inflatable suits that provide corporate managers
safety from global warming.
<http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com>
The Halliburton SurvivaBall
And this one liner is notable:
<http://ajc.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Remove+global+warming+blinders&expire=&urlID=18162196&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ajc.com%2Fopinion%2Fcontent%2Fopinion%2Fstories%2F0508edwarm.html&partnerID=557> 2006/05/09: AJC: Remove global warming blinders
If the scientific "debate" over global warming was reduced
to a game of strip poker, the Bush administration would be
wearing its boxer shorts right now.
Recent GHG statistics are not encouraging:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36303/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far Above Target
<http://www.terradaily.com/2006/060509214003.2ysl9fgl.html>
2006/05/09: TerraDaily: China, India lead 15-percent rise in CO2 emissions: World Bank
<http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/8653.asp>
2006/05/10: IndiaDaily: China and India helped to drive up global
greenhouse gas emissions by 15 pct between 1992 and 2002: World Bank
The hurricane wars are building up:
<http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060513&hn=33095>
2006/05/13: Zaman: Typhoon in the Philippines Kills 23
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36308/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: China Expecting Hot and Stormy Summer [9 Typhoons] - Report
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uov-mh050906.php>
2006/05/10: Eureka: Monster hurricanes - Study [Patrick Michaels]
questions linkage between severe hurricanes and global warming
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-10T121108Z_01_N09274567_RTRUKOC_0_US-WEATHER-NEWYORK.xml&src=rss&rpc=22>
2006/05/10: Reuters: New York warned to prepare for hurricanes
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36290/story.htm>
2006/05/10: PlanetArk: New York Warned to Prepare for Hurricanes
<http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2006/05/absurdity-of-denying-global-warmings.html>
2006/05/05: BSD: The absurdity of denying global warming's connection to Katrina
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/sci/tech/4751577.stm>
2006/05/08: BBC: Storm debate swirls ahead of season
With the start of the Atlantic hurricane season less than a month away,
and the coastal United States and Caribbean braced for another sequence
of powerful storms, debate continues to roil over whether human activity
is intensifying these weather events.
<http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060508/hurricanes_atlantic_060508/20060508?hub=Canada&s_name=>
2006/05/08: CTV: Hurricanes and their aftermath could threaten Canada's
East Coast this season - Major hurricane season brewing in the Atlantic
You've gotta love it when you see these sort of duelling headlines:
<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/hurricane_pla.html>
2006/05/08: Discovery: Experts See Weaker 2006 Hurricane Season
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36263/story.htm>
2006/05/08: PlanetArk: Caribbean in for Another Bad Hurricane Season
There are reports of record pollution in the Arctic:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060512101931.htm>
2006/05/12: SciDaily: Record Air Pollution Above The Arctic
<http://www.awi.de/AWI/Presse/PM/pm06-1.hj/060511ArcticSmog-e.html>
2006/05/11: AWI: Record air pollution above the Arctic
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060510231739.htm>
2006/05/10: SciDaily: Pollutant Haze Heats The Arctic
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uou-phh051006.php>
2006/05/10: Eureka: Pollutant haze heats the Arctic - University of
Utah study reveals another contributor to polar warming
John Fleck has been thinking about ENSO:
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1487>
2006/05/11: JFleck: ENSO Forecast [considerable uncertainty in the outlook
for the last half of the year]
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1484>
2006/05/09: JFleck: ENSO's Predictive Value
Climate as a factor in extinction events looms large:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002092_pf.html>
2006/05/11: WaPo: Climate Is Cited as Key to Extinctions
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36295/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Climate Killed Off Mammoths, Not Humans - Scientist
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10431>
2006/05/11: ENN: Climate -- Not Humans -- Killed off Mammoths, Research Suggests
<http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-10T184512Z_01_L10609712_RTRUKOC_0_US-SCIENCE-EXTINCTION.xml&src=rss&rpc=22>
2006/05/10: Reuters: Climate, not humans, said to have killed off mammoths
Eli Rabett has pointed out a good site for sea level change info and there is a neat toy:
<http://users.rcn.com/jtitus/>
JTitus: Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise: America Starts to Prepare [many links]
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/sea-level-rise-central-james-titus-was.html>
2006/05/11: ERabett: Sea-level Rise Central
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1635400.htm>
2006/05/10: ABC(Au): NT coastal residents urged to prepare for sea level rises
<http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/4/134914/0087>
2006/05/04: DailyKOS: Global Warming: Want to see if your house will be flooded?
<http://blog.firetree.net/2006/03/02/sea-level-rise-on-google-maps/>
2006/05/02: Firetree: Sea Level Rise on Google Maps
<http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2006/5/4/133915/9452>
2006/05/07: EuroTrib: Global Warming: Want to see if your house will be flooded?
There is still some chatter about the 'leaked' IPCC AR4:
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/usg-ipcc-wg1-review/>
2006/05/09: CSW: Open U.S. review of IPCC draft report is a good thing,
despite criticism -- Part 1
<http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=EDCLIMATEREPORT-05-10-06>
2006/05/10: SHNS: White House mischief on new [IPCC] climate report
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/what-should-ipcc-do.html>
2006/05/07: ERabett: What should the IPCC do.....
And the CCSP:
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/report_reconciles_atmospheric.php>
2006/05/08: Stoat: "Report Reconciles Atmospheric Temperature Trends" [CCSP]
A couple of late reports on Tibetan glaciers:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050806EA.shtml>
2006/05/07: TruthOut: Ice-Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert
<http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ominous-signals-from-top-of-the-world/10236-11.html>
2006/05/12: IBNLive: Climate change on top of the world
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0507-05.htm>
2006/05/07: CDreams:Independent(UK): Ice-Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert -
Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia
as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up
More GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,19123931%255E1702,00.html>
2006/05/13: SundayTimes(Au): Fish facing uncertain future
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56247>
2006/05/13: ClimateArk: India: Heat wave: Rising temperatures rage forest fires
<http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0605130085221054.htm>
2006/05/13: IRNA: Heatwave claims 57 lives in Pakistan in six days
<http://www.fona.de/de/4_serviceangebote/nachrichten/index.php?we_objectID=4004&n=060512_Global_Warming_Threatens_Planet_s_Biodiversity>
2006/05/12: Fona: Global Warming Threatens Planet’s Biodiversity
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/4758845.stm>
2006/05/10: BBC: Pakistan leader warns of drought
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1633571.htm>
2006/05/08: ABC(Au): Indian heatwave kills 53
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36277/story.htm>
2006/05/09: PlanetArk: Drought Threatens Pakistan, Reservoirs Run Low
<http://www.arabnews.com/?article=81942>
2006/05/09: ArabNews: Heat Wave Claims 33 Lives in Central Punjab
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146865814554&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467>
2006/05/06: TStar: Climate change alters the gray jay's habitat -
Fewer and fewer in southern end of their range
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025505.700-no-winner-in-future-climate-league.html>
2006/05/08: NewScientist: No winner in future climate league
<http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1633527.htm>
2006/05/08: ABC(Au): (transcript) Climate change could cut farming land: research
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1769826,00.html>
2006/05/08: Guardian(UK): What will happen if Britain becomes 3C warmer?
<http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/index.cfm?uNewsID=67580>
2006/05/10: WWF: Witnessing climate change in Russia's Far East
<http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2006-074>
2006/05/09: NASA: Tibet Provides Passage for Chemicals to Reach the Stratosphere
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56029>
2006/05/08: ClimateArk: Landmark lakes treaty may be reworked -
The water quality of the Great Lakes faces new challenges
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10408>
2006/05/08: ENN: Power Shortages Force Blackouts
in India's Sweltering Capital; Water Supply Hit
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2006/2006-05-09-06.asp>
2006/05/09: ENS: European Cities Pledge to Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36291/story.htm>
2006/05/10: PlanetArk: US Group to Make Power Conservation a Commodity
<http://www.physorg.com/news66382045.html>
2006/05/09: PhysOrg: Copying nature could save us energy, study shows
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56047>
2006/05/09: ClimateArk: US group [Sterling Planet] to make power conservation a commodity
The Pielkes continue their valiant fight for the longest URLs on the net:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/12/are-the-ocean-sea-surface-temperatures-above-average-almost-everywhere/>
2006/05/12: CliSci: Are the Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures Above Average Almost Everywhere?
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/11/uncertainty-identified-in-gcms-with-respect-to-albedos/>
2006/05/11: CliSci: Uncertainty Identified in GCMs With Respect to Predicting Global Albedos
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/10/more-on-the-relative-importance-of-the-radiative-forcing-of-co2/>
2006/05/10: CliSci: More on the Relative Importance of the Radiative Forcing of CO2
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000812a_bizarro_gcc_and_th.html>
2006/05/10: Prometheus: A Bizarro GCC and The Public Opinion Myth, Again
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/09/andy-refkin-article/>
2006/05/09: CliSci: Why Has Global Warming Become The Focus Of The Environmental Movement?
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/08/evidence-of-unrecognized-complexity-in-the-direct-aerosol-climate-forcing/>
2006/05/08: CliSci: Evidence of Unrecognized Complexity in the Direct Aerosol Climate Forcing
While on the Kyoto front:
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12748783.htm>
2006/05/12: Reuters: What is the Kyoto Protocol?
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36298/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Kyoto Gives Poor Countries US$2.7 Billion Boost
Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56256>
2006/05/14: ClimateArk: Japan rated as No. 1 buyer of carbon credits
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36320/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: Norway's CO2 Emissions Dip in 2005
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/8714875e-e08a-11da-9e82-0000779e2340.html>
2006/05/11: FT: EU 'needs to report carbon emissions quarterly' [says WB]
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36301/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Carbon Market Grows 10 Fold, Needs Openness -- World Bank
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36275/story.htm>
2006/05/09: PlanetArk: Kyoto Carbon Trading on Track, UN Body Says
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36261/story.htm>
2006/05/08: PlanetArk: Finland 2005 Emissions Below Quota, Official Says
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36259/story.htm>
2006/05/08: PlanetArk: Spain Likely to Tighten CO2 Emissions in 2008-12
The European carbon market shakeout is still playing out:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56258>
2006/05/14: ClimateArk: EC threat to sue on emissions -
UK Government on collision course with Brussels over carbon trading
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1774067,00.html>
2006/05/13: Guardian(UK): Five British firms to sue EC over CO2 allowances as price falls
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1954165>
2006/05/12: ABC(US): German C02 emissions below quota, carbon prices dive
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2017415,00.html>
2006/05/12: Deutsche Welle: Carbon Emissions Traders Carefully Optimistic in Cologne
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36274/story.htm>
2006/05/09: PlanetArk: EU Carbon Market Likely in Surplus, Bearish - Barcap
And on the American political front:
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/wu-gao/>
2006/05/09: CSW: Rep. David Wu requests GAO investigation of
science manipulation and censorship
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56257>
2006/05/14: ClimateArk: The Great Coral Reef disaster -
US admits for first time that global warming is killing reefs -
and will now be legally obliged to protect them
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15885.html>
2006/05/13: EnergyBulletin: Reason and light
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=1945893&page=1>
2006/05/12: ABC(US): Al Gore Emerging -- Presidency Secondary to Global Warming?
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/movies/article/0,2792,DRMN_23_4692137,00.html>
2006/05/12: RMN: Gore hopes global-warming documentary turns heads
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/magazine/4757165.stm>
2006/05/10: BBC: What would Jesus drive?
Church leaders are calling for more action on climate change,
but how would Jesus get about if he embarked on his travels today?
<http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/story.html?id=2bbe60e7-4dcd-4c35-8a17-febc0e29e020&k=9340>
2006/05/10: CanWest: Al Gore campaigns for his global warming movie An Inconvenient Truth
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/9/123040/2285>
2006/05/09: GristMill: Al Revere - A conversation with Al Gore about his new movie
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36282/story.htm>
2006/05/09: PlanetArk: EPA Still Looking at Easing Summer Gasoline Rules
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56020>
2006/05/08: ClimateArk: Gore says Inconvenient Truth reveals crisis, opportunity
And then there is the war:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050901502_pf.html>
2006/05/10: WaPo: It's Only $300 Billion -
If We Can Fund the War in Iraq, Why Can't We Fund the Kyoto Protocol?
<http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/2006/05/problems-with-comparing-kyoto-and-iraq.html>
2006/05/11: BSD: The problems with comparing Kyoto and Iraq War costs
While on the UK political front:
<http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=714642006>
2006/05/13: Scotsman: Backbencher's climate bill beats the filibusters
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1772787,00.html>
2006/05/11: Guardian(UK): Flood warning over house building
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/10/nbeck10.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/10/ixuknews.html>
2006/05/10: Telegraph(UK): Challenge of climate change to be
[new UK Foreign Secretary, Margaret] Beckett's top priority
And in Asia:
<http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=731>
2006/05/11: Scripps: Pollution, Greenhouse Gases and Climate Clash in South Asia
Meanwhile Australia:
<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=99697>
2006/05/10: NineMSN: [Australian Treasurer, Peter] Costello shuns climate change challenge
<http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1635209.htm>
2006/05/10: ABC(Au): Budget fails to tackle climate change, green groups say
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1633753.htm>
2006/05/09: ABC(Au): Climate change altered water plan [says Queensland Premier, Peter Beattie]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56017>
2006/05/08: ClimateArk: Australia: A pat and a warning on global warming
Otherwise, Australia and South Africa have negotiated and signed a
climate change deal although the details are not yet out:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1636388.htm>
2006/05/11: ABC(Au): Australia, South Africa sign climate change deal
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56191>
2006/05/12: ClimateArk: Australia, South Africa sign climate pact
While in New Zealand:
<http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/713013>
2006/05/12: TVNZ: Call to reinstate carbon tax
A UNFCCC conference opens tomorrow in Bonn:
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=712792006>
2006/05/12: Scotsman: 190 nations seek to bridge policy gaps on climate
And in Canada, the controversy on Tory energy minister Rona Ambrose
at the Bonn COP continues to grow:
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147470610787&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795>
2006/05/13: TStar: Ambrose out of place
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=54c674ea-230b-45b9-9bbe-267621582826&k=21837>
2006/05/12: CanWest: Anti-Kyoto Ambrose says targets impossible
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060511.ENVIRONMENT11/TPStory/National>
2006/05/11: Globe&Mail: [Canadian Env Min, Rona] Ambrose urged to resign post at climate talks
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36304/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Canada Must Quit as Chair of Kyoto Process - Greens
While people have taken to calling Canadian PM Harper, 'shrub' aka a little bush:
<http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/05/12/canada.kyoto.reut/>
2006/05/12: CNN: Canada wants less stringent Kyoto accord -
PM Stephen Harper's government says it won't meet targets
for the Kyoto Protocol's first phase.
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060511.wxweather11/BNStory/National/home>
2006/05/11: Globe&Mail: [Env Canada] Forecasters predict hotter-than-normal summer
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060511.weastprov0511/BNStory/National/home>
2006/05/11: Globe&Mail: [Canadian] Regional accord on climate action urged
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10434>
2006/05/11: ENN: Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Far [35%] above Target
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1147125012034&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795>
2006/05/09: TStar: Ontario's link to Kyoto
Apocalypso anyone?:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56016>
2006/05/08: ClimateArk: Australia: Heat's on if we're to avoid doomsday scenario
As for how media handles the science:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/12/abc-news-and-bias-in-climate-science/>
2006/05/12: CliSci: ABC(US) News and Bias in Climate Science
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/10/132045/599>
2006/05/10: GristMill: Climate coverage in the NYT
Here is something for your library:
<http://sev.prnewswire.com/books/20060509/SFTU04009052006-1.html>
2006/05/10: PRNewsWire: Launch of the 'Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change' Book in the US
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56048>
2006/05/09: ClimateArk: UK, US Climate Scientists Urge Action on Global Warming
'Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change' Book Launched in U.S.; A Call for Immediate Emissions Reductions
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uoia-ipt050306.php>
2006/05/09: Eureka: Illinois professor [Michael Schlesinger] to address global
warming at book [_Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change_] launching
And for your film & video enjoyment:
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/truth-and-al-gore/>
2006/05/10: RealClimate: Al Gore's movie
Then there is the tricky/touchy/difficult question of the economic system & global warming:
<http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10240§ionID=57>
2006/05/12: ZMag: From A Dying Planet - The Media's Aversion
To Addressing The Juggernaut of Economic 'Growth'
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2006/05/10/pgreen10.xml&sSheet=/property/2006/05/10/ixptop12.html>
2006/05/10: Telegraph(UK): Saving the planet, at no cost to creature comforts
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/269186_warming05.html>
2006/05/05: SeattlePI: What cost climate change?
State team will try to assess the pros and cons
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/next-wave-of-tax-reforms-should-be-green/2006/05/07/1146940410090.html> 2006/05/08: TheAge: Next wave of tax reforms should be green -
It's high time for measures that encourage energy efficiency and
make polluters pay the full cost of their damage
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36260/story.htm>
2006/05/08: PlanetArk: Costs Still Deter Drivers From Going Green
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.realcities.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/14513542.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_business_monday>
2006/05/14: MiamiHerald: Turning sludge into black gold - Canada's oil sands
may quench the world's thirst for energy, but for a steep price
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56221>
2006/05/13: ClimateArk: Ethanol, biodiesel eats into US corn stockpiles
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1636839.htm>
2006/05/12: ABC(Au): MRET [Mandatory Renewable Energy Target] policy 'stills wind farm plans'
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101967_pf.html>
2006/05/12: WaPo: Offshore Wind Farm Is Approved -
Plant Off Texas Coast to Be Biggest Of Its Kind in U.S.
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Millions-of-dollars-in-windfarms-at-risk/2006/05/12/1146940699724.html> 2006/05/12: TheAge: [Au] Shelved windfarms 'commercial decisions'
<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12695962.htm>
2006/05/12: Reuters: New UK environment minister [David Miliband] says nuclear an option
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36325/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: Ballard Watching Canada's Support for Fuel Cells
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36321/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: World Bank "Flooded" with Ethanol Fund Requests
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36332/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: Pacific Ethanol Says to Build Oregon Fuel Plant
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36324/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: UK Company Says How Much Biofuels Save CO2 Output
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0512/p08s01-comv.htm>
2006/05/12: CSM: Corn lobby's tall tale of [ethanol] a gas substitute
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36305/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: ADM to Build 275-Million Gallon Ethanol Facility
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36300/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: Crop Shortages Could Curb European Biofuel Growth
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36307/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: EU Biodiesel Output Seen Growing 20 Pct a Year
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36306/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: New Coal Technology Could Help Climate - US Expert
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10433>
2006/05/11: ENN: House [of Representatives] Sets Up Prizes for Hydrogen Fuel Technology
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060510094138.htm>
2006/05/10: SciDaily: Experiments Examine Hydrogen-production Benefits Of Clean Coal Burning
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/4797>
2006/05/11: PRWatch: Spinning (and Unspinning) Nuclear Power Worldwide
<http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/avery051006.htm>
2006/05/10: CFP: Do We Need Ethanol More Than Topsoil?
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36288/story.htm>
2006/05/10: PlanetArk: Thirst For 'Green' Fuels Propels US Soyoil
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/8/20270/89817>
2006/05/09: GristMill: Archer Daniels Midland [the 'Exxon of Corn'] taps an oil exec as CEO
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5809047,00.html>
2006/05/09: Guardian(UK): Nuclear power 'not needed' for UK
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/4753915.stm>
2006/05/09: BBC: First casualty of new wind policy -
A wind farm proposed for Caithness has become the first scheme to lose
out to Highland Council's new guidelines on renewable energy.
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56051>
2006/05/09: ClimateArk: It's in the air: Euro-wide wind farms network plan is mooted
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56049>
2006/05/09: ClimateArk: Norway: Solar group REC shines on debut
<http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16777&ch=biztech>
2006/05/08: TechRev: Hydrogen Reality Check
<http://www.upi.com/Energy/view.php?StoryID=20060508-045612-4430r>
2006/05/08: UPI: Nigeria announces major solar project
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56025>
2006/05/08: ClimateArk: Australia: WWF boss to push N-power at meeting
The outspoken chief of environment group WWF Australia has gone to London
to lobby the international organisation to overturn its anti-nuclear stance.
Greg Bourne flew out on Friday, a day after he rocked the environment movement
by declaring Australia was "destined" to expand uranium mining.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36265/story.htm>
2006/05/08: PlanetArk: UK Ethanol Future Seen Tied to Incentives
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
<http://www.viridiandesign.org/notes/451-500/00464_florida_is_becoming_uninsurable.html>
2006/05/08: VDM: Viridian Note 00464: Florida Is Becoming Uninsurable
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/columnists/story.html?id=4d0d323d-5809-456e-bbc9-c5bb092e391b>
2006/05/12: CanWest: Emissions trading: a recipe for waste
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/daniel_son_is_an_editorial_int.php>
2006/05/11: Deltoid: Daniel Son is an editorial intern for Townhall.com
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/another-shill-the-media-s_b_20759.html>
2006/05/10: THP: Another Shill the Media Should Ignore: Pat Michaels
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Common%2FMGArticle%2FPrintVersion&c=MGArticle&cid=1137835975697&image=timesdispatch80x60.gif&oasDN=timesdispatch.com&oasPN=%21news>
2006/05/10: TimesDispatch: Report: Don't blame storms on warming - U.Va. researcher
[Patrick J. Michaels] says temperature isn't only factor for hurricanes
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/you_too_can_be_a_leading_clima.php>
2006/05/09: Deltoid: You, too, can be a leading climate scientist
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36276/story.htm>
2006/05/09: PlanetArk: Daimler Rejects Chrysler Emissions Criticism
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004425.html>
2006/05/13: WorldChanging: Greener Miles: Embedded Energy, Life-Cycle Assessments and Greenwashing
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56249>
2006/05/14: ClimateArk: Greening Up With the Joneses
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20060514TDY10001.htm>
2006/05/13: Yomiuri: China forcing world to rethink its economic future
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/12/151039/672>
2006/05/12: GristMill: Carbon offsets and guilt
<http://www.energybulletin.net/15865.html>
2006/05/13: EnergyBulletin: Media alert: notes from a dying planet
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/05/ho-hum.html>
2006/05/12: JEB: Ho hum [rejection (without review) by Nature of an attempted comment on Hegerl et al]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56172>
2006/05/12: ClimateArk: Scientists Explain How They Attribute Climate-Change Data
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36319/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: Climate Change Evidence Stronger - World Bank's Chief Scientist, Robert Watson
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36318/story.htm>
2006/05/12: PlanetArk: Investors Urge World Bank to Focus Beyond Kyoto
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060512105032.htm>
2006/05/12: SciDaily: Pollution, Greenhouse Gases And Climate Clash In South Asia
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/co2_from_cement.php>
2006/05/12: Stoat: CO2 from cement?
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1949983>
2006/05/11: ABC(US): Climate change evidence stronger: scientist [WB Chief Scientist Robert Watson]
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36299/story.htm>
2006/05/11: PlanetArk: China, India are Fast-Growing Polluters - World Bank
<http://grist.org/advice/ask/2006/05/10/action/index.html>
2006/05/10: Grist: You Can Count on You - On global warming and you
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/05/always-rtfr.html>
2006/05/07: ERabett: Always RTFR....
<http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1633237.htm>
2006/05/08: ABC(Au): (transcript) Flannery resigns from South Australia Museum
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p13s01-stss.htm>
2006/05/08: CSM: Cloud scientists plumb some cirrus mysteries
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/ets/>
EU Carbon Trading - Kyoto Protocol - Community Transaction Log
<http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/anmlies.html>
Forty-one Anomalies of Water
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/>
Dr. James E. Hansen homepage
<http://backseatdriving.blogspot.com/>
BSD
<http://www.atmos.berkeley.edu/ifgroup/home.html>
Carbon-Climate Interactions Group
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/hottopics/climatechange/>
BBC: Climate Change
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/>
AFTIC: A Few Things Ill Considered
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/>
Eli Rabett
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/>
FramingScience
<http://www.thecarbontrust.co.uk/>
Carbon Trust
<http://www.carbonmap.co.uk/>
Carbon Trust: UK Carbon Map
<http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/>
GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
<http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/>
UIUC: Cryosphere Today
<http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/>
CSW: Climate Science Watch
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/>
ABC(US): GlobalWarming
<http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/>
Fight Global Warming - Environmental Defense [GW ads]
<http://exxposeexxon.org/>
Exxpose Exxon
<http://exxonsecrets.org/>
Exxon Secrets
<http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/>
UA:DGESL: Department of Geosciences Environmental Studies Laboratory
<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>
PPS.
<http://canadaclimate.blogspot.com/>
Canada Climate Change Protest
--
"You might think of a roller coaster riding the (Milankovitch) orbital
rails, with Heinrich-Bond bungee jumping off the roller coaster while
playing with a Dansgaard-Oeschger yo-yo." -Richard B. Alley [describing
global climate over last million years in _Two Mile Time Machine_]
Global Warming: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/globalwarming.html
GW News: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/gwnews.html
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