Another week of GW news - August 20
H. E. Taylor
<http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2006/tt060814.gif>
2006/08/14: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) How Many Species Do I Need?
As expected the ocean heat content paper mentioned last week
has triggered serious discussion:
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/ocean-heat-content-latest-numbers/>
2006/08/16: RealClimate: Ocean heat content: latest numbers
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/08/14/more-information-on-the-geophysical-research-letters-article/>
2006/08/14: CliSci: More Information on the Geophysical Research Letters
Article "Recent Cooling of the Upper Ocean"
A study on impacts in three ranges of temperature increase,
up to 2C, from 2C to 3C, and above 3C, predicts trouble:
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uob-mfd081006.php>
2006/08/14: Eureka: More fires, droughts and floods predicted -
New warning as climate temperatures increase
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060816083231.htm>
2006/08/17: SciDaily: More Fires, Droughts And Floods Predicted
<http://www.desmogblog.com/three-degrees-of-separation-from-almost-everything>
2006/08/15: DeSmogBlog: Three Degrees of Separation -- From Almost Everything
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060814-global-warming.html>
2006/08/14: NatGeo: Small Increases in Warming Could Wreak Worldwide
Havoc, Scientists Warn
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/15/planet_heating_risks/>
2006/08/15: Register: Planet heating: how bad is bad?
A round up of models and a range of risks
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0815-05.htm>
2006/08/15: CDreams: Independent(UK): Global Warming 'Will Cause
More Forest Fires, Droughts and Floods'
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4791257.stm>
2006/08/14: BBC: Rising temperatures will increase the risk
of forest fires, droughts and flooding over the next two
centuries, UK climate scientists have warned.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1844788,00.html>
2006/08/15: Guardian(UK): Forecast puts Earth's future under
a cloud - 3C increase would bring fires, floods and famine
And speaking of floods & droughts:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Western_China_Endures_Worst_Drought_In_50_Years_999.html>
2006/08/17: TerraDaily: Western China Endures Worst Drought In 50 Years
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/5261918.stm>
2006/08/18: BBC: Chinese drought affects millions
At least 18 million people have been affected by China's worst drought
in 50 years, according to the state news agency Xinhua.
The south-western region of Chongqing has been worst hit, but areas
of Sichuan and Liaoning are also affected.
In Chongqing there has been no rain for more than 70 days, and
two-thirds of the rivers have dried up, Xinhua said.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37720/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: China Power Grids Strained by Heat, Drought
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11078>
2006/08/17: ENN: Heat, Drought Strain China's Power, Water Resources
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59501>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Drought in southwestern China worst in 50 years
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/4797415.stm>
2006/08/16: BBC: Hundreds dead in Ethiopian floods -
More than 300 people have died in southern Ethiopia
as flooding around the Omo river continues to spread.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1713756.htm>
2006/08/13: ABC(Au): Drought cripples China's water supply
Meanwhile in the hurricane wars:
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2006/08/19/china-storm.html>
2006/08/19: CBC: Death toll climbs in China from Typhoon Saomai
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Did_The_US_Suffer_The_First_Climate_Change_Exodus_999.html>
2006/08/16: TerraDaily: Did The US Suffer The First Climate Change Exodus?
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Establishing_A_Connection_Between_Global_Warming_And_Hurricane_Intensity_999.html>
2006/08/16: TerraDaily: Establishing A Connection Between Global Warming
And Hurricane Intensity
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Three_Dead_Or_Missing_As_Typhoon_Approaches_Japan_999.html>
2006/08/17: TerraDaily: Three Dead Or Missing As Typhoon Approaches Japan
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000904hurricanes_and_globa.html>
2006/08/19: Prometheus: Hurricanes and Global Warming: All You Need to Know
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/fact-fiction-and-friction/>
2006/08/18: RealClimate: Fact, Fiction, and Friction in the Hurricane Debate
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37698/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: 250,000 Katrina Evacuees Seen as 'Climate Refugees'
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11079>
2006/08/17: ENN: Thousands of Katrina Evacuees Seen as Climate Refugees
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081706EA.shtml>
2006/08/17: TruthOut: Thousands of Katrina Evacuees Seen as Climate Refugees
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,,1851742,00.html>
2006/08/17: Guardian(UK): Spike Lee turns cameras on New Orleans -
Hurricane Katrina film gets world premiere
<http://www.desmogblog.com/new-research-links-hurricanes-to-climate-change>
2006/08/16: DeSmogBlog: New Research Links Hurricanes to Climate Change
<http://www.physorg.com/news74960760.html>
2006/08/16: PhysOrg: US first nation to witness climate change exodus: study
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37675/story.htm>
2006/08/16: PlanetArk: Global Warming Affects Hurricane Intensity - US Study
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37681/story.htm>
2006/08/16: PlanetArk: Homeowners Lose Katrina Insurance Flood Case
[no coverage for flood damage]
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11067>
2006/08/16: ENN: Global Warming Affects Hurricane Intensity, U.S. Study Shows
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815160934.htm>
2006/08/15: SciDaily: Establishing A Connection Between Global Warming
And Hurricane Intensity
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1851176,00.html>
2006/08/16: Guardian(UK): Typhoon survivors claim officials understated toll
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1845049,00.html>
2006/08/15: Guardian(UK): Anger in China as typhoon death toll rises
[295 dead, 200 missing]
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081406EA.shtml>
2006/08/14: TruthOut: Global Warming Behind Killer Typhoon Season
in China: Experts
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060815-034020-9462r>
2006/08/15: UPI: Global change causing hurricanes change
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/agu-eac081506.php>
2006/08/15: Eureka: Establishing a connection between global warming
and hurricane intensity
<http://www.terradaily.com/2006/060814063655.3r7pfpz8.html>
2006/08/14: TerraDaily: Global warming behind killer typhoon season
in China: experts
<http://www.physorg.com/news74745314.html>
2006/08/14: PhysOrg: Global warming behind disastrous typhoon season in China
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=qw1155540063569B254>
2006/08/14: IOL: Typhoon season 'unusually' harsh
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37663/story.htm>
2006/08/15: PlanetArk: Typhoon Death Toll Hits 255 in China
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/4788841.stm>
2006/08/14: BBC: The death toll from [Typhoon Saomai]
China's most powerful storm in 50 years has risen
to 134, with another 163 people missing.
<http://www.physorg.com/news74778894.html>
2006/08/14: PhysOrg: Researchers probe what spawns hurricanes
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37661/story.htm>
2006/08/15: PlanetArk: ANALYSIS - Uncertainty Over Typhoons' Link
to Climate Change
The ACEX expedition to the Arctic caught some late press:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Study_Breaks_Ice_On_Ancient_Arctic_Thaw_999.html>
2006/08/17: TerraDaily: Study Breaks Ice On Ancient Arctic Thaw
<http://www.physorg.com/news74789716.html>
2006/08/14: PhysOrg: Ancient Arctic Water Cycles are Red Flags to
Future Global Warming
More GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1853768,00.html>
2006/08/19: Guardian(UK): Invasion of the warm water aliens -
Previously rare species follow plankton and fish they feed on
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34388>
2006/08/18: IPSNews: Portugal: Summer Heat and Forest Fire Hell
<http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060818/NEWS/108180051>
2006/08/18: SummitDaily: Where there's fire, there's global warming
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1718289.htm>
2006/08/18: ABC(Au): Global warming prompts need for wine reforms, says lawyer
<http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=556f019f-79f8-4055-b15d-655253f449c8&k=62825>
2006/08/17: CanWest: Arctic warming obvious to northern aboriginals
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/68125.html>
2006/08/17: Herald(UK): Global warming leading to Scottish trees migrating north
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59522>
2006/08/17: ClimateArk: Australia: Global warming 'threatens' wine regions
<http://www.physorg.com/news74917544.html>
2006/08/16: PhysOrg: Climate Change Was Major Factor in Erosion
of Alps 6 Million Years Ago
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/16/11232/4260>
2006/08/16: GristMill: The Oregon dead zone is back
<http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20060816.A06&irec=5>
2006/08/16: JakartaPost: Worsening forest fires cause haze to spread
<http://www.registerguard.com/news/2006/08/16/d1.cr.ocean.0816.p1.php?section=cityregion> 2006/08/16: RegisterGuard: Oxygen-starved sea [Oregon dead zone] yields
clues for study
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815160229.htm>
2006/08/15: SciDaily: More Carbon Dioxide May Help Some Trees Weather Ice Storms
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815162222.htm>
2006/08/15: SciDaily: Climate Change Was Major Factor In Erosion
Of Alps 6 Million Years Ago
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/08/16/arctic-ecosystem.html>
2006/08/16: CBC: Tuktoyaktuk conference focuses on Arctic Ocean changes
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uow-ccw081506.php>
2006/08/15: Eureka: Climate change was major factor in erosion
of Alps 6 million years ago
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/du-mcd081506.php>
2006/08/15: Eureka: More carbon dioxide may help some trees weather ice storms
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59424>
2006/08/14: ClimateArk: Climate changes in China
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37658/story.htm>
2006/08/15: PlanetArk: FACTBOX - Climate Change Predictions for Asia
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11049>
2006/08/14: ENN: Pacific 'Dead Zone' Said to Exceed Fears
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060812155855.htm>
2006/08/14: SciDaily: 'Dead Zone' Causing Wave Of Death Off Oregon Coast
And then there are the tropical rainforests:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060816024836.htm>
2006/08/16: SciDaily: Small-scale Logging Leads To Clear-cutting
In Brazilian Amazon
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081606EC.shtml>
2006/08/16: TruthOut: China Denies Plundering World's Rain Forests
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11058>
2006/08/15: ENN: China Denies Plundering World's Rain Forests
The prospect of rising sea levels has some preparing:
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34387>
2006/08/18: IPSNews: Rising Sea Levels Worry Floridians
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2006/08/14/sea_may_be_rising_faster_than_previously_thought/>
2006/08/14: BostonGlobe: Sea may be rising faster than previously thought
The troubling matter of falling food production & biofuel is not going away:
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37650/story.htm>
2006/08/14: PlanetArk: Ethanol, Corn Users May Deplete US Supplies By 2008
<http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/21/8383659/index.htm>
2006/08/16: CNN: Ethanol could leave the world hungry - One tankful
of the latest craze in alternative energy could feed one person for a year
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1718330.htm>
2006/08/17: ABC(Au): [Australian national action] Plan aims to tackle
climate change impact on agriculture
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1718759.htm>
2006/08/18: ABC(Au): [Australian Federal Environment Minister, Ian]
Campbell touts tree planting plan
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37721/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: Rations? Lightbulbs? How to Fight Climate Change
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37726/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: Carbon Cards: Lifeline for Planet or Big Brother?
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/story/14296592p-15149798c.html>
2006/08/15: SacBee: Shades of a global warming fix
I think that I shall never see
A greenhouse gas reduction strategy as lovely as a tree.
Carbon sequestration is in the news:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Deep_Sea_Sediments_Could_Safely_Store_Man_Made_Carbon_Dioxide_999.html>
2006/08/17: TerraDaily: Deep-Sea Sediments Could Safely Store Man-Made
Carbon Dioxide
<http://www.desmogblog.com/harvard-prof-touts-sea-floor-co2-sequestration>
2006/08/16: DeSmogBlog: Harvard Prof Touts Sea-floor CO2 Sequestration
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37677/story.htm>
2006/08/16: PlanetArk: Scientists Urge Deep -
Sea Cure [CO2 sequestration] for Climate Change
<http://www.energybulletin.net/19281.html>
2006/08/14: EnergyBulletin: Terra Preta: black is the new green
<http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=17297>
2006/08/14: TechRev: Needed: A Price on Carbon
Sequestration technology is increasingly ready
for prime time, but the required policy lags behind,
says MIT expert Howard Herzog.
Meanwhile in the journals:
<http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/cp/cpd/2/535/cpd-2-535.htm>
2006/08/18: CPD: Detecting human impacts on the flora, fauna,
and summer monsoon of Pleistocene Australia by G. H. Miller et al
<http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/bg/bgd/3/1313/bgd-3-1313.htm>
2006/08/15: BGD: Marine geochemical data assimilation in an efficient
Earth System Model of global biogeochemical cycling by A. Ridgwell et al.
<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/33/12291>
2006/08/15: PNAS: (abs) Permanent carbon dioxide storage in deep-sea
sediments by Kurt Zenz House et al.
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/08/natures-peer-review-trial-land-ice.html>
2006/08/20: JEB: Nature's Peer Review Trial: Land-ice melting causes strong
multi-century slowdown of Atlantic circulation even under 2xCO2 stabilisation
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-from-grl.html>
2006/08/18: JEB: More from GRL...[reviews back from GRL for our
revised "Comment on Frame..."]
The Pielkes continue their valiant fight for the longest URLs on the net:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/08/18/article-entitled-climatology-between-science-and-politics/>
2006/08/18: CliSci: Article entitled "Climatology Between Science and Politics"
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/08/17/plant-diversity-another-climate-metric/>
2006/08/17: CliSci: Plant diversity- Another Climate Metric
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000903is_ipcc_ar4_an_advoc.html>
2006/08/17: Prometheus: Is IPCC AR4 an Advocacy Document?
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/08/16/another-paper-on-problems-with-using-multi-decadal-surface-temperature-trends-as-a-robust-climate-chanhe-metric/>
2006/08/16: CliSci: Another Peer-Reviewed Paper on Problems With Using
Multi-Decadal Surface Temperature Trends As a Robust Climate Change Metric
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/08/15/the-next-generation-of-climate-models/> 2006/08/15: CliSci: The Next Generation of Climate Models -
Too Narrow A Perspective Presented by Cray Inc.
Not to mention the Pielke fan club:
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/08/going-off-deep-end.html>
2006/08/20: ERabett: Going off the deep end...[Pielke Jr.]
Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37703/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: Finland to Submit CO2 Emission Plan in Early Sept
<http://www.environmental-finance.com/onlinews/1708aus.htm>
2006/08/17: EnviroFin: Australian states unveil emissions trading proposal
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59543>
2006/08/17: ClimateArk: Australia: Emission trading a threat to coal
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1716230.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): Environment groups back carbon trading
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1717275.htm>
2006/08/17: ABC(Au): Farmers urged to consider national emission targets
<http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1716065.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): [Australian] States band together on pollution plan
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59487>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Kyoto CO2 market on track after software deal: UN
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37678/story.htm>
2006/08/16: PlanetArk: Kyoto CO2 Market on Track After Contract Award - UN
And on the American political front:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/18/125250/111>
2006/08/18: GristMill: Sunstein on global warming incentives
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081800984_pf.html> 2006/08/19: WaPo: We're All New Orleanians Now
<http://www.desmogblog.com/california-carbon-cap-bill-good-for-economy-too>
2006/08/18: DeSmogBlog: California carbon cap bill good for economy too
<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-08-17T171516Z_01_N17169919_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-CALIFORNIA.xml&src=rss&rpc=22>
2006/08/17: Reuters: California on brink of global warming breakthrough
California is forging ahead with the most aggressive U.S. program
to reduce global warming -- a plan that pits Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger against fellow Republican George W. Bush.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37716/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: California on Brink of Global Warming Breakthrough
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/08/pat-robertson-on-global-warming.html>
2006/08/15: SPGCC: Pat Robertson on global warming
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/08/16/EDG0UKIVJO1.DTL&type=printable>
2006/08/16: SF Gate: Yes, it is California's issue
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37676/story.htm>
2006/08/16: PlanetArk: [RGGI] US Northeast States to Act on CO2 Where Bush Won't
<http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-08-15T225643Z_01_N15423006_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENERGY-STATES-CARBON.xml&src=rss>
2006/08/16: Reuters: [RGGI] Northeast states to act on CO2 where Bush won't
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-global14aug14,1,7477953.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true>
2006/08/14: LA Times: Hostile Climate Greets Governor's Plan
to Save Earth - Environmentalists and businesses are cool
to Schwarzenegger's global warming initiative.
The Gore-apalooza is going viral:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/13/11212/5836>
2006/08/14: GristMill: Deliver an Inconvenient Truth [the viral 1K]
While on the UK political front:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1852768,00.html>
2006/08/18: Guardian(UK): Higher taxes on flights and cars in Tory plan
And in Europe:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37718/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: EU Lagging Climate Goal, Action Needed - Scientists
While in Australia:
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=auC4M6apbo4M&refer=australia>
2006/08/17: BBerg: Australian, U.S. States to Curb Emissions
as [federal] Governments Baulk
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59528>
2006/08/17: ClimateArk: [Australia] PM's global warming focus 'too narrow'
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59529>
2006/08/17: ClimateArk: Australia: [PM John] Howard attacks carbon
trading scheme
<http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20153818-949,00.html>
2006/08/17: Australian: Queensland Premier rules out emissions trade
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1716573.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): Greenhouse gas plan would cripple resources sector,
PM warns
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1716779.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): Greenhouse gas plan will lift electricity prices:
[New South Wales] Opposition
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59471>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Australia refuses to support CO2 curb
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59474>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Australia: Greenhouse scheme unavoidable, say Greens
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59475>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Australia: ACF backs carbon trading scheme
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59482>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Australia: Federal ALP backs greenhouse trade plan
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/4797339.stm>
2006/08/16: BBC: Howard rejects emissions targets
The Australian Prime Minister John Howard has hit out
at a plan backed by state leaders to introduce caps on
greenhouse gas emissions. State leaders have drafted a
"cap and trade" plan which sets emissions targets for
three polluting gases. The plan would introduce fines
for companies exceeding targets but allow low polluters
to trade emissions credits for money. Mr Howard said
the plan would harm the economy and lead to higher fuel prices.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1715997.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): Commonwealth stays clear of carbon scheme
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1715876.htm>
2006/08/16: ABC(Au): States press ahead with carbon trading plan
In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, aka 'shrub' -
the little bush, continues his plan to do absolutely nothing:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59473>
2006/08/16: ClimateArk: Canada: Ottawa's global shrug
<http://www.desmogblog.com/smug-canada-stumbles-on-climate-change>
2006/08/14: DeSmogBlog: Smug Canada Stumbles on Climate Change
Here is something for your library:
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155937810320&call_pageid=970599119419>
2006/08/19: TStar: A clear, urgent call to action on peril of global warming -
Scientist says get off fossil fuels now
[Book Review] _The Revenge of Gaia_ by James Lovelock
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200608/1719272.htm>
2006/08/20: ABC(Au): Victoria approves large new wind farm
<http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45727>
2006/08/15: REA: Million Solar Roofs Bill Heads to the Governor's Desk
<http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=45756>
2006/08/18: REA: Secretive solar start-up SolarValue AG
reveals solar grade silicon production plans through
joint venture bid for TDR - Metalurgija in Ruse, Slovenia
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/18/BUGU0KDCCV350.DTL&type=printable>
2006/08/18: SF Gate: German approach might energize solar industry -
Applied Materials enters market with acquisition in July
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/16/AR2006081601560_pf.html> 2006/08/17: WaPo: That Eerie Green Glow -
New nuclear power plants sound promising.
But what to do with the radioactive leftovers?
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/37728/story.htm>
2006/08/17: PlanetArk: Siemens to Build Wind Turbine Blade Factory in USA
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Boeing_to_Supply_Terrestrial_Solar_Cells_for_Australia_999.html>
2006/08/16: TerraDaily: Boeing to Supply Terrestrial Solar Cells for Australia
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/worlds_first_ca.php>
2006/08/16: TreeHugger: World's First Carbon-Neutral Biodiesel Plant
Coming to Idaho
<http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/08/16/afx2952909.html>
2006/08/16: Forbes: UK nuclear decommissioning costs likely to rise
beyond 70 bln stg - MPs
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/solfocus_receiv.php>
2006/08/15: TreeHugger: SolFocus Receives $25 Million in Funding [concentrators]
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=11062>
2006/08/15: ENN: World Bank Fine Tunes Clean Energy Funding Proposal
A World Bank proposal to its steering committee
to create two new funds to help developing countries
generate cleaner, more efficient power is misguided
because it backs fossil fuel projects, experts said Monday.
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/worlds_largest_4.php>
2006/08/14: TreeHugger: 6 Cents Per kWh: World's Largest Solar Project Unveiled
<http://www.greeleytrib.com/ARTICLE/20060813/NEWS/108130095>
2006/08/13: GreeleyTrib: Powered by the planet:
Heat your house for one-fourth the cost
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/OPINION05/608140301/1006/OPINION>
2006/08/14: Tallahassee: Coal decision has global impact
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Solar-power-comes-down-to-earth/2006/08/14/1155407714805.html>
2006/08/14: TheAge: Solar power comes down to earth -
Spectrolab will supply 500,000 solar cells to Australian
company Solar Systems
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59427>
2006/08/14: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Solar panels pilot
'could be rolled out to thousands of homes'
<http://www.desmogblog.com/china-goes-solar>
2006/08/14: DeSmogBlog: China goes solar
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/ethical-investors-cash-in-on-climate-change>
2006/08/16: DeSmogBlog: "Ethical" Investors Cash in on Climate Change
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155678611206&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851>
2006/08/16: TStar: Investment in 'cleantech' soars -
$87 million in energy, environment - Share of spending triples to 18 per cent
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004812.html>
2006/08/13: WorldChanging: Clean Energy on Wall Street
The betting meme sputters on:
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/08/steve-mcintyres-bet-offer.html>
2006/08/18: JEB: Steve McIntyre's bet offer
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/17/133652/848>
2006/08/17: GristMill: Peter Schweitzer, Al Gore, and hypocrisy
<http://www.desmogblog.com/atlas-sings-freds-song-a-duet-in-duplicity>
2006/08/18: DeSmogBlog: Atlas Sings Fred's Song: A Duet in Duplicity
<http://www.desmogblog.com/on-twisting-words-and-dodging-responsibility>
2006/08/18: DeSmogBlog: On Twisting Words and Dodging Responsibility
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/08/contra_science_conference_invi.php>
2006/08/18: Deltoid: Contra Science Conference invites Jaworowski
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/08/tin-foil-hat-territory.html>
2006/08/16: ERabett: Tin foil hat territory...[Pat Michaels]
<http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34363>
2006/08/16: IPSNews: Information Cleansing, Canadian Style
<http://www.desmogblog.com/canadian-climate-change-censorship-revisited>
2006/08/17: DeSmogBlog: Canadian Climate Change Censorship Revisited
<http://www.desmogblog.com/climate-chill-settles-over-fictional-straw-man>
2006/08/17: DeSmogBlog: Climate Chill Settles Over Fictional Straw Man
<http://www.desmogblog.com/hoover-institute-and-the-art-of-slander>
2006/08/17: DeSmogBlog: Hoover Institute and the art of slander
<http://www.desmogblog.com/a-climate-change-ostrich-argues-for-inaction>
2006/08/17: DeSmogBlog: A Climate Change Ostrich Argues for Inaction
<http://www.desmogblog.com/royal-society-answers-the-climate-change-skeptics-point-for-point>
2006/08/16: DeSmogBlog: Royal Society Answers the Climate Change Skeptics,
Point for Point
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/08/boudreaux_do_nothing_about_glo.php>
2006/08/16: Deltoid: Boudreaux: Do Nothing about Global Warming
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/15/bourdreaux-capitalism-climate/>
2006/08/15: TP: CEI Expert [Donald J. Boudreaux]: "The Best Policy
Regarding Global Warming Is To Neglect It"
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/08/is_pat_micheals_really_virgini.php>
2006/08/15: Deltoid: Is Pat Micheals really Virginia's State Climatologist?
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/08/who-says-pat-michaels-is-virginia.html>
2006/08/15: ERabett: Who says Pat Michaels is the Virginia State Climatologist?
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/08/rabett_vs_michaels.php>
2006/08/15: Stoat: Rabett vs Michaels
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/5085>
2006/08/15: PRWatch: Some Like It Hot
<http://www.desmogblog.com/and-the-letters-pour-in>
2006/08/14: DeSmogBlog: And the letters pour in... [to Glib&Stale re FoS]
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/08/found-in-my-in-box.html>
2006/08/13: SPGCC: Found in my in-box [A Call to Truth, Prudence, and
Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming]
There are a couple of older stories still reverberating through
the media echo chamber:
<http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/08/060810-greenland.html>
2006/08/10: NatGeo: Greenland Ice Sheet Is Melting Faster, Study Says
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/orlando_bloom.php>
2006/08/20: TreeHugger: Orlando Bloom Launches Global Cool
<http://priceofoil.org/2006/08/17/demand-global-warming-leadership-now/>
2006/08/17: OC: Demand Global Warming Leadership Now!
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1854134,00.html>
2006/08/20: Guardian(UK): A burning issue, 50 years on
<http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-on-water-vapor-feedback.html>
2006/08/19: SPGCC: More on the water vapor feedback
<http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4198680>
2006/08/17: SLTrib: Global climate picture grows sharper, worse
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081701188_pf.html> 2006/08/16: WaPo: Limiting Climate Change: The Neglected Obstacle
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/sc_afp/environmentozonelayer_060818141200>
2006/08/18: Yahoo: Protective ozone layer to remain thin for [5-15 years]
longer [in 2044 - 2065]: UN
<http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0818-wsj.html>
2006/08/18: MongaBay: More charity money going to fight global warming
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-1542-2315816-1542,00.html>
2006/08/17: Times(UK): Social revolution that may well save our planet
<http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20060828&s=post_carbon_world>
2006/08/15: Nation: Life in a Post-Carbon World
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1631>
2006/08/17: JFleck: More from Dessler
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1851659,00.html>
2006/08/17: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Now let's tackle the climate change toll
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1629>
2006/08/16: JFleck: Santa Ana Winds and Climate Change
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/08/global_warming_scientific_cont.php>
2006/08/16: Stoat: Global Warming -
Scientific Controversies in Climate Variability
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/16/opinion/main1899923.shtml>
2006/08/16: CBS: Who's Going To Halt Global Warming?
College Activists Work To Combat Climate Change
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-worst-co2-polluters-in-the-world>
2006/08/15: DeSmogBlog: The Worst CO2 Polluters in the World
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/08/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html>
2006/08/15: JEB: Everything you always wanted to know about
global biogeochemical cycling but were afraid to ask...
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081506EA.shtml>
2006/08/13: TruthOut: Against the Climate Pornographers
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59452>
2006/08/15: ClimateArk: Canada: Scientists, northerners talk at Tuk
about adapting to the changing Arctic
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=59449>
2006/08/15: ClimateArk: Are Global Warming Solutions Possible?
<http://www.prwatch.org/node/5083>
2006/08/14: PRWatch: Ben Santer Speaks
(While "Global Climate Coalition" Slinks into History)
<http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/008480.php>
2006/08/15: TLC: Global Warming Update
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/08/where-have-all-23000-year-ice-ages.html>
2006/08/13: ERabett: Where have all the 23,000 year ice ages gone...
[Milankovitch-ish]
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/08/short-and-simple-arguments-for-why-climate-can-be-predicted/>
2006/08/12: RealClimate: Short and simple arguments for
why climate can be predicted
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/8/14/1755/47825>
2006/08/14: GristMill: Dessler blogging [at SPGCC]
<http://www.grandrapids-mn.com/placed/index.php?sect_rank=1&story_id=223751>
2006/08/14: HeraldReview: Feelin' hot, hot, hot!
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://www.czc06.ca/e/program/program.html>
International Conference Arctic Change and Coastal Communities
<http://scienceatstake.com/>
Science at Stake
<http://www.marklynas.org/>
Mark Lynas (blog)
<http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default.asp>
Stop Global Warming
<http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cloudsat/main/index.html>
NASA: CloudSat
<http://www.cicero.uio.no/index_e.asp>
CICERO: Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo
<http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/ets/>
EU Carbon Trading - Kyoto Protocol - Community Transaction Log
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/>
Dr. James E. Hansen homepage
<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.climatecrisis.net/>
Climate Crisis
<http://www.itto.or.jp/live/index.jsp>
ITTO: International Tropical Timber Organization
<http://www.targetglobalwarming.org/>
TGW: Target Global Warming
<http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/sola/>
SOLA: Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
<http://www.ecord.org/exp/acex/vol302/>
IODP Proceedings - Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX)
<http://news.yahoo.com/fc/science/environment_and_nature>
Yahoo: Science - Environment & Nature
<http://www.thegreatwarming.com/>
The Great Warming [three-hour television series]
<http://davidappell.blogspot.com/>
Quark Soup
<http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/maproom/.Global/.Precipitation/SPI.html>
LDEO: Global Standardized Precipitation Index Analyses
<http://greenomics.blogspot.com/>
Oikos: Greenomics
<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>
--
"We're running the planet like a company in liquidation." -Al Gore
Global Warming: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/globalwarming.html
GW News: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/gwnews.html
GW News Archive: http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/enviro/gwna.html
H.E. Taylor http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/
Roger Coppock
> Why is the only humour about GW black humour?:
>
> <http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2006/tt060814.gif>
> 2006/08/14: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) How Many Species Do I Need?
Mass extinction is like slow death from cancer,
there is absolutely nothing funny about either
of them, Harvey. Keep up the good work. It
has been nice knowing you.
-.-. --.- Roger
Al Bedo
It is amusing that the Greenhouse Industry is peddling this total
fabrication of gw extinction though.
Since most evolution is on the order of tens of thousands of years,
most species have been through a number of glacial/stadial cycles.
Species which were highly sensitive to climate were selected out
of the gene pool long ago.
Rotting Earth
news:44e8c60c$0$34080$815e...@news.qwest.net:
This from a guy who totally lacks the ability to sort by size which is
larger: CO2 which absorbs an IR photon, or the IR photon itself.
James
environment as it always has. Hell, they will create something in a beaker
before too long. They already think that life probably exists on some moons
scattered throuout the solar syatem and know there are the basic amino acids
existing in comets. Even Antarctica has been found to have life locked up in
the ice.
"Weinstein" <wst...@autonet.com> wrote in message
news:12ehtsq...@news.supernews.com...
> Roger
>
> There isn't going to be any mass extinction.
>
> If the average world temp goes up by two or three
> degrees it will result in a change in weather patterns.
>
> Some areas will get wetter some will get dryer. Some
> agricultural areas will suffer. Some areas that have no
> agricultural use will become arable.
>
> Scientists of the paleoclimatology discipline concur from
> their studies that over history the earth. The average
> temperatures have swung at least 10 degrees C (18F) on
> many occasions.
>
> http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm
>
> If this predicted increase of 3-5 degrees is going to
> cause mass extinctions, then the numerous 10 degree swings
> should have annihilated all life on earth a long time ago.
>
> Somehow life still hangs on.
>
> There may be computer models to corelate C02 and predict the
> average world temperature accurately, but THERE ARE NO MODELS
> TO PREDICT WHAT WILL GROW, WHERE IT WILL GROW AND WHAT WILL
> BECOME EXTINCT IF THE WORLD TEMPERATURE INCREASES.
>
> Right now this is just speculation and mass hysteria...
>
>
.Nosmo King
$815e...@news.qwest.net:
> Roger Coppock wrote:
Ah, another person with no grasp of biology is heard from!
----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups
----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
.Nosmo King
news:12ehtsq...@news.supernews.com:
> Roger
>
> There isn't going to be any mass extinction.
>
> If the average world temp goes up by two or three
> degrees it will result in a change in weather patterns.
>
> Some areas will get wetter some will get dryer. Some
> agricultural areas will suffer. Some areas that have no
> agricultural use will become arable.
>
> Scientists of the paleoclimatology discipline concur from
> their studies that over history the earth. The average
> temperatures have swung at least 10 degrees C (18F) on
> many occasions.
>
> http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm
>
> If this predicted increase of 3-5 degrees is going to
> cause mass extinctions, then the numerous 10 degree swings
> should have annihilated all life on earth a long time ago.
>
> Somehow life still hangs on.
>
> There may be computer models to corelate C02 and predict the
> average world temperature accurately, but THERE ARE NO MODELS
> TO PREDICT WHAT WILL GROW, WHERE IT WILL GROW AND WHAT WILL
> BECOME EXTINCT IF THE WORLD TEMPERATURE INCREASES.
>
> Right now this is just speculation and mass hysteria...
>
>
Ah, yet another person with no grasp of biology is heard from!
Phil Hays
> There isn't going to be any mass extinction.
Mass extinctions have happened in the past. Why will there be no more in
the future?
> If the average world temp goes up by two or three degrees it will result
> in a change in weather patterns.
Yes. Double CO2 will cause this much warming. How do we stop burning
fossil fuels soon and only double CO2? That would take a very aggressive
reduction, starting fairly soon. Do you think that this is very likely?
Burning all or most of the fossil fuels seems just as likely, if not more
so. That would take CO2 up to about eight times preindustrial levels. That
would warm things up by close to 10 C, if we ignore the methane hydrates.
It is hard to see how the methane hydrates would be ignorable, in this
case.
> Scientists of the paleoclimatology discipline concur from their studies
> that over history the earth. The average temperatures have swung at
> least 10 degrees C (18F) on many occasions.
>
> http://www.scotese.com/climate.htm
>
> If this predicted increase of 3-5 degrees is going to cause mass
> extinctions, then the numerous 10 degree swings should have annihilated
> all life on earth a long time ago.
Yes, but some of these climate swings do seem to have caused mass
extinctions. For example, at 55 MYA, probably caused by a methane hydrate
event.
> Somehow life still hangs on.
Many species didn't. That is what a mass extinction is. Species that
survive a mass extinction are often small. Think about what that means.
> There may be computer models to corelate C02 and predict the average
> world temperature accurately, but THERE ARE NO MODELS TO PREDICT WHAT
> WILL GROW, WHERE IT WILL GROW AND WHAT WILL BECOME EXTINCT IF THE WORLD
> TEMPERATURE INCREASES.
Need help with the CAPS LOCK key?
> Right now this is just speculation and mass hysteria...
Geologic history is more than speculation.
--
Phil Hays