Another week of GW news - August 28
H. E. Taylor
is dedicated to the population, economic and environmental problems
which confront humanity. The lede article is available here:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/082305EA.shtml>
2005/08/27: TruthOut: The Climax of Humanity
<http://www.sciam.com/>
2005/09/: SciAm: Crossroads for Planet Earth
Here's one for the 'out of the blue' department:
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/dnl-npb082505.php>
2005/08/25: Eureka: Burning asteroids may play 'more important climate role
than previously recognized' - Asteroid dust may influence weather, study finds
<http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2005/physics-astron/lidar.html>
2005/08/25: Sandia: Burning asteroids may play "more important climate role
than previously recognized"
Katrina will no doubt raise the possibility of a hurricane - GW linkage:
<http://www.physorg.com/news6057.html>
2005/08/27: PhysOrg: Hurricane Katrina reaches Category Three over Gulf
<http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp?Id=2090>
2005/08/28: CCM: The Atlantis Scenario [Katrina & New Orleans]
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/sci/tech/4176988.stm>
2005/08/23: BBC: Is extreme weather down to climate change?
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1556741,00.html>
2005/08/26: Guardian(UK): Global warming 'has doubled storm threat' -
Weather expert finds destructive power worse than models predict
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000537the_other_hockey_sti.html>
2005/08/22: Prometheus: The Other Hockey Stick [disaster losses]
Noted in passing - the temperature record:
<http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp?Id=2063>
2005/08/22: CCM: A Very Hot July
An ice-free Arctic is back in the news:
<http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2005/08/24/arctic_ocean_could_be_icefree_in_summer_within_100_years_scientists_say.html>
2005/08/24: BNN: Arctic Ocean Could Be Ice-Free in Summer Within 100 Years, Scientists Say
<http://caymannetnews.com/2005/08/907/ecocommentary.shtml>
2005/08/23: CaymanNN: When the Ice Melts - Everything Changes
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002450204_arctic24.html>
2005/08/24: STimes: No reversal seen in pace of Arctic melting
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050824081334.htm>
2005/08/24: SciDaily: Arctic Ocean Could Be Ice-free In Summer
Within 100 Years, Scientists Say
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0824-03.htm>
2005/08/24: CDreams: AP: Panel Sees Growing Melting Arctic Threat
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8601>
2005/08/24: ENN: Panel Sees Growing Threat in Melting Arctic
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/uoa-aoc082205.php>
2005/08/23: Eureka: Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer
within 100 years, scientists say
And melting glaciers:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/world/americas/4720621.stm>
2005/08/25: BBC: Peru's glaciers in retreat
<http://www.physorg.com/news5944.html>
2005/08/22: PhysOrg: The Ilulissat glacier [Greenland], a wonder of the world melting away
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1553726,00.html>
2005/08/22: Guardian(UK): Visitors rush to glimpse vanishing glaciers -
Attention turns to Alaska where climate change is transforming the landscape
And the Antarctic:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819093118.htm>
2005/08/21: SciDaily: Sea Ice May Be On Increase In The Antarctic:
A Phenomenon Due To A Lot Of 'Hot Air'?
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2005/permian.shtml>
2005/08/24: UCAR: Climate Model Links Higher Temperatures to Prehistoric Extinction
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819093452.htm>
2005/08/24: SciDaily: Volcanic Blast Location Influences Climate Reaction
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819094835.htm>
2005/08/23: SciDaily: Microbe Has Huge Role In Ocean Life, Carbon Cycle
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/08/new-thc-paper.html>
2005/08/22: Stoat: New THC paper
<http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2005/esmf.html>
2005/08/20: NASA: Field Tests Unite Weather and Climate Models
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050819093711.htm>
2005/08/22: SciDaily: Field Tests Unite Weather And Climate Models -
ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework
The impacts of GW are becoming clearer:
<http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=347436>
2005/08/28: JapanToday: Fish catches in Japan to decline by up to 70% due to global
warming
<http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=67413>
2005/08/26: Turkish Press: Europe counts human cost as floods recede, fires are quelled
<http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM4OO95QCE_index_0.html>
2005/08/23: ESA: Envisat sees smoke from Portuguese wildfires
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4182758.stm>
2005/08/25: BBC: Efforts are continuing across Europe to help thousands
of civilians affected by devastating floods which have killed at least 42 people.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4179592.stm>
2005/08/24: BBC: Floods cause havoc across Europe - Torrential rains have
caused havoc across central and eastern Europe, killing up to 34 people.
<http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=66837>
2005/08/23: Turkish Press: Fires and floods wreak havoc across Europe
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4175922.stm>
2005/08/23: BBC: Portugal wildfires out of control - Dozens of wildfires
are still raging out of control across Portugal, despite desperate
efforts to contain them.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32129/story.htm>
2005/08/22: PlanetArk: Europeans Send Fire-Fighting Help to Portugal
While on the mitigation front:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050822/full/050822-7.html>
2005/08/25: NSU: Trees don't suck up carbon dioxide as hoped -
Forests do not get a growth spurt from greenhouse gas.
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050809064251.htm>
2005/08/26: SciDaily: Study Yields Mixed Results On Potential
For Pine Trees To Store Extra Carbon Dioxide
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/whrc-stt_1082305.php>
2005/08/23: Eureka: Seeing the trees for the forest:
WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4174526.stm>
2005/08/23: BBC: El Niño data help African farmers
African farmers who use weather forecasts based on El Niño data
are likely to see an increase in crop yields, according to a new study.
And on the Kyoto front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45543>
2005/08/26: ClimateArk: U.S. CO2 market needs federal push to blossom
Then there is the American political front:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/082605EB.shtml>
2005/08/26: TruthOut: Washington to Be Sued over Global Warming
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/082405J.shtml>
2005/08/24: TruthOut: 9 States in Plan to Cut Emissions by Power Plants
<http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/aug2005/2005-08-25-02.asp>
2005/08/25: ENS: Global Warming Lawsuit Against U.S. Agencies Passes Court Test
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32192/newsDate/25-Aug-2005/story.htm>
2005/08/26: PlanetArk: Court Allows Suit Linking US Aid and Global Warming
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32179/newsDate/25-Aug-2005/story.htm>
2005/08/25: PlanetArk: Nine US States Break with Bush on Greenhouse Gases
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8609>
2005/08/25: ENN: Federal Judge Allows Global Warming Lawsuit To Go Forward
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8618>
2005/08/25: ENN: Nine U.S. States Break with Bush on Greenhouse Gases
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/08/25/BAGCVECHVJ1.DTL&type=printable>
2005/08/25: SF Gate: U.S. judge OKs suit on global warming -
Agencies' financing of overseas energy projects challenged
<http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/24/breaking-bush-secretly-undermines-state-efforts-to-curb-global-warming/>
2005/08/24: TP: Bush Secretly Undermines State Efforts to Curb Global Warming
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1555946,00.html>
2005/08/25: Guardian(UK): US states bypass Bush to tackle greenhouse gas emissions
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/4180426.stm>
2005/08/24: BBC: US states plan to cut emissions
Officials in nine north-eastern US states have reached a ground-breaking
preliminary deal to reduce power plant emissions, a US newspaper has reported.
R. Pielke Sr. set up a bit of a flurry with his CCSP resignation:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=38>
2005/08/25: ClimateScience: Summary for the media of the reasons for the resignation...
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8597>
2005/08/24: ENN: Colorado Scientist Quits Global Warming Panel
<http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050825/NEWS01/508250319/1002>
2005/08/25: Coloradoan: Professor [Roger Pielke Sr.] says reason he quit
Bush team not reported correctly
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=36>
2005/08/23: ClimateScience: Open Comment to Andy Revkin with Respect to your 23 August
2005 Article in the New York Times Regarding my Resignation from the CCSP Committee
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/science/earth/23clim.html?ei=5090&en=d01acd038ab4dcbd&ex=1282449600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print>
2005/08/23: NYT: Panelist Who Dissents on Climate Change Quits
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=33>
2005/08/22: ClimateScience: Comment on My Resignation from the CCSP Committee
"Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere- Steps for Understanding
and Reconciling Differences"
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-is-point-of-ccsp-committee_21.html>
2005/08/21: Stoat: What is the point of the CCSP Committee
"Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere-Steps for Understanding
and Reconciling Differences"?
Has anybody figured out what it will cost if we do nothing?
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45402>
2005/08/22: ClimateArk: Global warming's £10 trillion cost
Developing a new energy infrastructure may be the fundamental challenge of
the current generation:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45546>
2005/08/27: ClimateArk: Spain govt sees renewables making up 12 pct
of electricity output in 2010
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32210/story.htm>
2005/08/26: PlanetArk: Montana's Governor Eyes Coal to Solve US Fuel Costs
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45403>
2005/08/22: ClimateArk: Foolishness on fuel
Is anybody else here in Gambler's Anonymous?
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000542a_piece_of_the_actio.html>
2005/08/25: Prometheus: A Piece of the Action [betting meme]
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2005/08/bet-number-2.html>
2005/08/25: JEB: Bet number 2
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/3929>
2005/08/22: PRWatch: Hot Wager
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10155>
2005/08/24: TAP: Stop Him Before He Writes Again
Will someone please make James Schlesinger disclose his energy-industry ties
next time he writes an anti-global warming op-ed?
There are a couple of older stories still reverberating through the media echo chamber:
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/08/25/inhospitable_climate/>
2005/08/25: Boston Globe: Inhospitable climate - Political storm over
global warming swirls around a UMass professor [Raymond Bradley]
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8620>
2005/08/25: ENN: Another Blow to the Pseudo-Science of Global Warming Skeptics
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/32124/story.htm>
2005/08/22: PlanetArk: Plea to Stop Squabbles Ends Greenland Climate Talks
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8574>
2005/08/22: ENN: Plea To Stop Squabbles Ends Greenland Climate Talks
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2005/08/25/climate_model_links_higher_temperatures_to_prehistoric_extinction.html>
2005/08/25: BNN: Climate model links higher temperatures to prehistoric extinction
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=45545>
2005/08/27: ClimateArk: New Wrinkle In Carbon Cycling -
Moss and bacteria team up to recycle CH4 into CO2 for photosynthesis
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/4189792.stm>
2005/08/26: BBC: Deforestation of Amazon 'halved' -
Brazil's government has announced estimates suggesting that deforestation
of the Amazon rainforest has fallen by 50% this year.
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/?p=34>
2005/08/25: ClimateScience: What is a 'Teleconnection'?
Why are Teleconnections Important in Climate Science?
<http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug05/Glick0824.htm>
2005/08/25: DVoice: Needed: A Global Survival Movement
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1553662,00.html>
2005/08/22: Guardian(UK): Climate change: imagine a charging rhino
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000536reader_request_comm.html>
2005/08/22: Prometheus: Reader Request: Comments on Michaels and Gray
<http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/08/rss-data-now-available.html>
2005/08/25: Stoat: RSS data now available...
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming>
EPA: Global Warming
<http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/index.html>
EPA: Global Warming
<http://www.globefox.com/cacc/>
CACC: Campaign against Climate Change
<http://www.kyotoandbeyond.org/>
Kyoto and Beyond [Petition]
<http://www.climatecrisis.us/>
ClimateCrisis
<http://www.arcus.org/ARCSS/>
ARCSS: Arctic System Science Program
<http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/>
UA:ISPE: Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
<http://www.geo.arizona.edu/dgesl/publications/publications.htm>
UA:DGESL: Environmental Studies Laboratory - Publications
<http://www.esmf.ucar.edu/>
ESMF: Earth System Modeling Framework
<http://themes.eea.eu.int/issues/climate">
European Environment Agency on Climate Change
<http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/">
NOAA: Real-time, global, sea surface temperature (RTG_SST) analysis
<http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/gsf/">
NOAA: Gulf Stream Finder Project
New Scientist
<http://www.newscientist.com/news.ns>
Nature Science Update
<http://www.nature.com/news/index.html>
Science Daily
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/headlines.htm>
Eureka Alert
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pubnews.php?view=titles>
<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>
--
"People who respond most favorably to such statements are older,
less-educated males from larger households, who are not typically
active information-seekers... another possibile target is younger,
lower-income women [who are] likely to soften their support for
federal legislation after hearing new information on global warming.
These women are good targets for magazine advertisements."
-Leaked document from the National Coal Association,
on targetting strategy for a campaign to convince Americans
that global warming is not a problem. Cited by Senator Gore
in his book _Earth in the Balance_.
[Note path change]
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