Another week of GW news - March 5
H. E. Taylor
<http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2006/tt060228.gif>
2006/02/28: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) The Most Dramatic Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony Ever
Well the big story of the week has to be the GRACE results
showing declining a mass balance in Antarctica:
<http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/>
GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
<http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/86.html>
2006/03/02: UC: Antarctic Ice Sheet Losing Mass, According To CU-Boulder Study
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/antarctica-20060302.html>
2006/03/02: NASA: NASA [GRACE] Mission Detects Significant Antarctic Ice Mass Loss
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060227/full/060227-10.html>
2006/03/02: NSU: Antarctica is shrinking -
Gravity survey [GRACE] shows overall loss in ice.
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=267>
2006/03/02: RealClimate: The Greenland Ice
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030306EB.shtml>
2006/03/03: TruthOut: Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases
<http://www.energybulletin.net/13404.html>
2006/03/04: EnergyBulletin: Antarctic ice sheet decline startles scientists
<http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=322682006>
2006/03/03: Scotman: Antarctic ice sheet is melting at rate of 36 cubic miles a year, says
study
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1583224.htm>
2006/03/03: ABC(Au): Antarctic ice sheet melting fast: scientists.
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/03/grace_puzzle.php>
2006/03/03: Stoat: GRACE puzzle
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53394>
2006/03/03: ClimateArk: Antarctic ice sheet is shrinking
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53386>
2006/03/03: ClimateArk: Antarctic ice sheet losing mass
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060302180504.htm>
2006/03/02: SciDaily: Antarctic Ice Sheet Losing Mass, Says University Of Colorado Study
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0303-01.htm>
2006/03/03: CDreams: Independent(UK): Melting Antarctic Raising Sea Levels
<http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/3/3/124317/2560>
2006/03/03: OilDrum: Antarctic Melting
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030201712_pf.html>
2006/03/03: WashPost: Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Rapidly -
New Study Warns Of Rising Sea Levels
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1722582,00.html>
2006/03/03: Guardian(UK): Antarctic ice sheet decline startles scientists
<http://www.physorg.com/news11356.html>
2006/03/02: PhysOrg: Antarctic ice sheet in 'significant decline': study
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/uoca-ais022806.php>
2006/03/02: Eureka: Antarctic ice sheet losing mass, says University of Colorado study
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4767296.stm>
2006/03/02: BBC: Antarctica losing ice to oceans - A new space-based
study of Antarctica shows its ice sheet is shrinking.
A paper supporting the Lakes Aggasiz & Ojibway flood 8.kya has triggered a fair bit of comment:
<http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0510095103v1>
2006/01/13: PNAS: (abs) Consistent simulations of multiple proxy
responses to an abrupt climate change event by A.N. LeGrande et al.
<http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/news/20060228/>
2006/02/28: GISS: Scientists Confirm Historic Massive Flood in Climate Change
<http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/legrande_01/>
2006/01/: GISS: Modelling an Abrupt Climate Change
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/abrupt_change.html>
2006/02/28: NASA: Scientists Confirm Historic Massive Flood [8,200 years ago] in Climate Change
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060228180303.htm>
2006/02/28: SciDaily: Scientists Confirm Historic Massive Flood In Climate Change
<http://www.physorg.com/news11277.html>
2006/02/28: PhysOrg: Scientists confirm historic massive flood in climate change
A paper in the Ruddiman mold has come out proposing that the Little Ice Age was triggered
by the Black Death decimating the European population, changing land use & hence CO2 levels:
<http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/05-06/mar04.html> 2006/03/04: CBC:Q&Q: (mp3/ogg)
Plague and the Little Ice Age Dr. Thomas van Hoof interview
Sustainable Fossil Fuels Dr. Mark Jaccard interview
Question of the Week: Heat from Cities
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4755328.stm>
2006/02/27: BBC: Europe's chill linked to disease
Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by
the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.
In the hurricane wars:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35440/story.htm>
2006/03/03: PlanetArk: Next Hurricane Season Could Match 2005, or Worse - UN
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/climate_and_hurricanes_an_idea.php>
2006/02/28: CCM: Climate and Hurricanes: An Idea With a History
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/02/hurricanes_update.php>
2006/02/27: Stoat: Hurricanes update
Recent GHG statistics are not encouraging:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35336/story.htm>
2006/02/28: PlanetArk: US Greenhouse Gases Rose 1.7 Percent in 2004 - EPA
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9966>
2006/02/28: ENN: U.S. Greenhouse Gas Growth Rate Rose in 2004, Says EPA
In Alaska, organizers of the Iditarod race have to divert the race to a route
with enough snow:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35437/story.htm>
2006/03/03: PlanetArk: Warmer Temperatures Complicate Alaska's Iditarod
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9995>
2006/03/03: ENN: Warmer Temperatures Complicate Alaska's Iditarod
[organizers divert the race to a route with enough snow]
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
<http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN06/wn030306.html>
2006/03/03: BobPark: #3) Global Melting: Measurements show it happening top to bottom
<http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM7BLMVGJE_index_0.html>
2006/02/28: ESA: Four years on, Envisat hailed for its contribution to Earth science
The IODP has reported retrieving coral samples which will provide another
climate proxy:
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/IODP_Scientists_Acquire_Treasure_Trove_Of_Climate_Records_Off_Tahiti_Coast.html>
2006/03/03: TerraDaily: IODP Scientists Acquire Treasure Trove Of Climate Records Off Tahiti
Coast
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060302091955.htm>
2006/03/03: SciDaily: 'Treasure Trove' Of Climate Records Off Tahiti Coast:
Coral Fossil Sampling To Document History Of Paleoclimatic Change
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-03/iodp-isa030106.php>
2006/03/02: Eureka: IODP scientists acquire 'treasure trove' of climate
records off Tahiti coast Investigators retrieve textbook-quality coral
fossil sampling to document history of paleoclimatic change
James has a new paper out:
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/03/new-improved-estimate-of-climate.html>
2006/03/03: JEB: A new improved estimate of climate sensitivity!?
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/03/climate-sensitivity-is-3c.html>
2006/03/02: JEB: Climate sensitivity is 3C
A new study of the Antarctic circumpolar current is just beginning:
<http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/media/2006/feb/Southern_ocean.html>
2006/02/27: UNSW: Huge, wet and mysterious: new climate study
probes the world's largest ocean current
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060301093222.htm>
2006/03/02: SciDaily: Huge, Wet And Mysterious: New Climate Study Probes
The World's Largest Ocean Current [Antarctic Circumpolar Current]
The impacts of GW are becoming clearer:
<http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32358>
2006/03/02: IPSNews: Africa: Warming Threatens Key Water Sources
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,1724086,00.html>
2006/03/05: Guardian(UK): UN pleads for food as drought grips Kenya
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53421>
2006/03/04: ClimateArk: Global Warming May Dry Up Africa's Rivers, Study Suggests
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4769978.stm>
2006/03/03: BBC: Africa could face more droughts
Africa could be faced with 25% less water by the end of the century
because of global warming, scientists have warned.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1722475,00.html>
2006/03/03: Guardian(UK): Forecast shows Africa to face river crisis
<http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,395014,00.html>
2006/03/02: DerSpiegel: The Polar Bears' Last Stand
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35395/story.htm>
2006/03/02: PlanetArk: Drought Slashes Tanzania's Power Generation
<http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060302/D8G369303.html>
2006/03/01: AP: Record-Breaking Heat, Wind Fuel Okla. Fire
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1720718,00.html>
2006/03/02: Guardian(UK): The worsening drought in southern England has led
the government to allow a water company to install compulsory meters for the first time
<http://hildemollerknag.blogspot.com/2006/02/climate-change-in-canada.html>
2006/02/28: LVeR: Climate Change in Canada
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/28/AR2006022801772_pf.html>
2006/03/01: WashPost: 'Rapid Warming' Spreads Havoc in Canada's Forests -
Tiny Beetles Destroying Pines
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35337/story.htm>
2006/02/28: PlanetArk: Fickle Rains Play Havoc with Rural Morocco
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1718518,00.html>
2006/02/27: Guardian(UK): We can't turn back tide:
National Trust plans retreat in face of climate change
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17627>
2006/02/27: UN: Situation in drought-stricken region of Ethiopia continues to deteriorate - UN
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35316/story.htm>
2006/02/27: PlanetArk: Drought-Hit Britain May Face Water Rationing
And then there are the tropical rainforests:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4761276.stm>
2006/03/01: BBC: PNG rainforest 'in grave danger'
The natural forests of Papua New Guinea are in danger of being wiped out
because of illegal logging, according to a conservation organisation [Forest Trends].
If you want to get an astronomer going, start talking about 'light pollution'.
Now it seems they may have another bugaboo:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4755996.stm>
2006/03/02: BBC: Telescopes 'worthless' by 2050
Ground-based astronomy could be impossible in 40 years because of
pollution from aircraft exhaust trails and climate change, an expert says.
The acidification of the oceans story is still reverberating through
the media echo chamber:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106EB.shtml>
2006/03/01: TruthOut: The Fate of the Ocean
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0226-06.htm>
2006/02/26: CDreams: Times(UK): Acid Seas Kill Off Coral Reefs
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35366/story.htm>
2006/03/01: PlanetArk: China Promises to Push Back Spreading Deserts
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060301090431.htm>
2006/03/01: SciDaily: Amazonian Terra Preta Can Transform Poor Soil
Into Fertile [slash & char]
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1719546,00.html>
2006/02/28: Guardian(UK): China fights to hold back sands -
Campaign to plant 12bn trees claims first victory
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060302003032.htm>
2006/03/01: SciDaily: Fossil Wood Gives Vital Clues To Ancient Climates
<http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/pressreleases/20060302-hycom.html>
2006/02/17: RSMAS: Forecasting the Seas [HYCOM: HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model]
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9967>
2006/02/28: ENN: Ocean Scientists Enlist Cruise Ships to Collect Data
<http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2006/060228.Niyogi.storms.html>
2006/02/28: Purdue: New research forecasts better weather forecasts
<http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2006/02/nparticle-64m-4pw-fkd>
2006/02/24: UL: Secrets of the Deep May Hold Clue to Ancient [420 mya] Global Warming
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/02/060224103556.htm>
2006/02/26: SciDaily: Secrets Of The Deep May Hold Clue To Ancient Global Warming
Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17697>
2006/03/03: UN: Compliance body set up for Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gases
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35391/story.htm>
2006/03/02: PlanetArk: China's Waste Could be Treasure for Kyoto Scheme
The draft Fourth Assessment Report [FAR] has leaked from the IPCC:
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/03/ipcc_leaked_already.php>
2006/03/01: CCM: IPCC Leaked Already?
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000733politics_and_the_ipc.html>
2006/03/01: Prometheus: Politics and the IPCC, Again
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/03/wild_ipcc_excitement.php>
2006/03/01: Stoat: Wild IPCC excitement!
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4761804.stm>
2006/03/01: BBC: Consensus grows on climate change
The global scientific body on climate change [IPCC] will report soon
that only greenhouse gas emissions can explain freak weather patterns.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1719606,00.html>
2006/02/28: Guardian(UK): Climate scientists issue dire warning
A draft of the next influential Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
report will tell politicians that scientists are now unable to place a reliable
upper limit on how quickly the atmosphere will warm as carbon dioxide levels increase.
The G8 is setting up a monitoring group:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35315/story.htm>
2006/02/27: PlanetArk: World Lawmakers [G8 parliamentarians] Set Up
Global Warming Monitor Group
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9957>
2006/02/27: ENN: World Lawmakers Set up Global Warming Monitor Group
While on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53463>
2006/03/05: ClimateArk: Carbon credits: India to emerge as a big player
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35363/story.htm>
2006/03/01: PlanetArk: Global Greenhouse Gas Trade Soared in 2005 - Study
And on the American political front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53415>
2006/03/04: ClimateArk: 12 states appeal emissions decision -
Challenge to EPA refusal to regulate greenhouse gases
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/03/will_global_warming_go_to_the.php>
2006/03/03: CCM: Will Global Warming go to the Supreme Court?
<http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2006/02/28/news/mtregional/znews06.txt>
2006/03/01: Missoulian: Climate panel to be named soon
Gov. Brian Schweitzer's call for people to serve on a new state committee
examining climate change has drawn a stunning response...a state administrator says.
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/energy_policy/000731senators_seeking_res.html>
2006/02/28: Prometheus: Senators Seeking Response to Climate Change White Paper
And in the UK:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1722025,00.html>
2006/03/02: Guardian(UK): Scientists attack plans to close climate change research centres
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1721467,00.html>
2006/03/02: Guardian(UK): MPs take their turn to woo green activists
George Monbiot wrote a polemic on the effects of modern aviation and kicked off
a very British bit of letter writing & comment:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/030106EA.shtml>
2006/03/01: TruthOut: Flying Is Dying
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1723328,00.html>
2006/03/04: Guardian(UK): All the organic broccoli in the world won't be enough to save the
planet
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1724033,00.html>
2006/03/05: Guardian(UK): How you can make a difference
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1723922,00.html>
2006/03/05: Guardian(UK): So how are we getting on at saving the planet? Could do better
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1723803,00.html>
2006/03/05: Guardian(UK): Can our way of living really save the planet?
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1723124,00.html>
2006/03/04: Guardian(UK): Cost of tourism - Oops, we helped ruin the planet
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1722618,00.html>
2006/03/03: Guardian(UK): Stop this war on tourism - Flying doesn't kill.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1721160,00.html>
2006/03/02: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Monbiot misses the point on planes
<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=9814>
2006/03/01: ZMag: We Are All Killers Until We Stop Flying
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1719730,00.html>
2006/02/28: Guardian(UK): For the sake of the world's poor,
we must keep the wealthy at home
<http://www.energybulletin.net/13237.html>
2006/02/28: EnergyBulletin: Air travel: For the sake of the world's poor,
we must keep the wealthy at home
Meanwhile in Europe:
<http://euobserver.com/9/21037>
2006/03/03: EUO: WWF bashes EU on endangered species and climate change
And in Australia:
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1584364.htm>
2006/03/05: ABC(Au): Major parties not planning for climate change: Milne
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1583317.htm>
2006/03/03: ABC(Au): Rann pledges 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions [by 2050]
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200602/s1579610.htm>
2006/02/27: ABC(Au): Free TV reverses climate change ad ban
Apocalypso anyone?:
<http://www.energybulletin.net/13278.html>
2006/03/01: EnergyBulletin: So, how do you get your mind off the methane clathrates?
<http://www.arabnews.com/?article=78568>
2006/03/01: ArabNews: Climate Change: Scientists Issue Dire Warning
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/022806EA.shtml>
2006/02/28: TruthOut: Climate Scientists Issue Dire Warning
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/02/guardian-unlimited-climate-scientists.html>
2006/02/28: JEB: Guardian Unlimited: Climate scientists issue dire warning
<http://www.terradaily.com/reports/British_Defense_Secretary_Warns_Of_Looming_Water_Wars.html>
2006/02/28: TerraDaily: British Defense Secretary Warns Of Looming Water Wars
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3585048a7693,00.html>
2006/02/27: Stuff(NZ): Climate change forecast getting worse
Whole hordes of people are unhappy with the state of science reporting:
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/03/science_sensationalism/>
2006/03/03: Register: Science reporting in sensationalism shocker!
Daily Mail takes a whipping
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4771154.stm>
2006/03/03: BBC: Media 'sensationalising science'
A report by the Social Market Foundation (SMF), an independent research
group, has accused the UK media of sensationalising science.
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/03/what-should-journalists-do.html>
2006/03/02: JEB: What should journalists do?
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/03/02/153/>
2006/03/02: CliSci: Irresponsible Reporting of Climate Science
<http://www.desmogblog.com/abcs-bill-blakemore-on-mutual-therapy-for-climate-journalists>
2006/02/28: DeSmogBlog: ABC's Bill Blakemore on "Mutual Therapy" for Climate Journalists
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/2/28/115959/059>
2006/02/28: GristMill: The loneliness of the long distance ... reporter
Here is something for your library:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53414>
2006/03/04: ClimateArk: At war with our planet [Book Review]
_The Weather Makers: How We are Changing the Climate and What It Means
for Life on Earth_ by Tim Flannery
<http://www.energybulletin.net/13322.html>
2006/03/03: EnergyBulletin: Help yourselves [4 Book Reviews]
Ecological Ethics: An Introduction, by Patrick Curry
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis, by Jeremy Leggett
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back -
And How We Can Still Save Humanity, by James Lovelock
State of the World 2006: The Challenge of Global Sustainability, edited by Linda Starke
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/books/27masl.html?ei=5090&en=8415b625fd205562&ex=1298696400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print>
2006/02/28: NYT: Twin Paths to the Conclusion Climatic Change Is Real
[Book Reviews] 'The Weather Makers' by Tim Flannery &
'The Winds of Change' by Eugene Linden
And while you're at it, here is something to consider:
<http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2006/03/01/PropagandaNovel/>
2006/03/01: Tyee: Here Comes the 'Propaganda Novel' -
Product placement taken to a new literary level.
For your film & video enjoyment:
<http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/cabletv/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002114933>
2006/03/02: MediaWeek: Gore Asks for Ad Time to Fight Global Warming
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53460>
2006/03/05: ClimateArk: Even with our clouds, solar water heaters are a viable option
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53466>
2006/03/05: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: A wind farm too far
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=53419>
2006/03/04: ClimateArk: US says CO2 injection could quadruple oil reserves
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/cumbria/4765884.stm>
2006/03/02: BBC: Giant wind farm plan thrown out - Plans to create England's
largest wind farm in Cumbria have been rejected by the government.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/renewable/Story/0,,1721294,00.html>
2006/03/02: Guardian(UK): Portugal powers ahead as wind champion -
Massive new project to harness Atlantic gales
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/35376/story.htm>
2006/03/01: PlanetArk: [US agribusiness giant] Cargill Takes Stake in UK's Greenergy Biofuels
The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
<http://www.desmogblog.com/tapping-the-power-of-the-corporate-elite>
2006/03/02: DeSmogBlog: Tapping the Power of the Corporate Elite -
[Outgoing CEO at Alcan, Travis] Engen on climate change
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the pressure:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/business/4765906.stm>
2006/03/02: BBC: Hurricanes hit Swiss Re profits
Profits at reinsurer Swiss Re have suffered a 40% drop in the wake
of the damage caused in the US by 2005's devastating hurricane season.
Net profits fell to 1.45bn Swiss francs ($1.1bn; £634m) for the full year,
as the company was forced to pay out three billion francs in disaster claims.
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://images.ucomics.com/comics/db/2006/db060305.gif>
2006/03/05: uComics: (cartoon - Trudeau) ScienceMan - Dr. Nathan Null
<http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/03/its-really-thin-bench-over-there-at.html>
2006/03/05: RabettRun: It's a really thin bench over there at Denial Central....
<http://www.electronsoup.net/?q=node/268>
2006/03/05: ElectronSoup: Miranda Devine: 'What do greenies and terrorists have in common?'
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/03/why_does_miranda_devine_hate_s.php>
2006/03/05: Deltoid: Why does Miranda Devine hate Science?
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/03/miranda_devine_garbage_in_garba.php>
2006/03/04: Deltoid: Miranda Devine: Garbage In, Garbage Out
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/john_marburger_is_getting_real.php>
2006/02/28: CCM: John Marburger on the Defensive
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/02/nas_panel_deja_vu.php>
2006/02/27: Deltoid: NAS Panel deja vu [McKitrick, obfuscation etc]
Coby is continuing his series of "How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic" articles:
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-to-talk-to-global-warming-sceptic.html>
2006/02/19: AFTIC: How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/03/we-cant-even-predict-weather-next-week.html>
2006/03/02: AFTIC: We Can't Even Predict the Weather Next Week
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/warming-due-to-urban-heat-island.html>
2006/02/27: AFTIC: Warming Due to Urban Heat Island Effect
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/volcanos-emit-more-co2.html>
2006/02/27: AFTIC: Volcanos Emit More CO2
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/02/there-is-no-consensus.html>
2006/02/26: AFTIC: There is no Consensus
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/02/is_it_global_warming_or_just_weird/>
2006/03/02: BostonGlobe: Is it global warming, or just weird?
Temperatures baffle plants and people
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/03/full_disclosure.php>
2006/03/03: CCM: Full Disclosure
<http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMBFVMVGJE_planet_0.html>
2006/03/03: ESA: Envisat altimeter watches Pacific for cold tongue of La Niña
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/03/frogblog.html>
2006/03/02: JEB: Frogblog [amphibian extinctions]
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/2/28/123212/912>
2006/02/28: GristMill: The hobgoblin of little minds
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/02/28/what-is-global-warming/>
2006/02/28: CliSci: What is Global Warming?
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/02/warming_and_storming_my_new_pr.php>
2006/02/27: CCM: Warming and Storming: My New Project
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-future-is-real-lets-keep-it-cool>
2006/02/28: DeSmogBlog: The Future is Real; Let's Keep it Cool
<http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2006/02/behind-curve-how-weve-consistently.html>
2006/02/27: ResourceInsights: Behind the Curve:
How We've Consistently Underestimated Global Warming
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/02/von_storch_in_the_blogosphere.php>
2006/02/27: Stoat: von Storch in the blogosphere
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/>
GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment
<http://www.sierraclub.org/globalwarming/>
SierraClub: Global Warming and Clean Energy
<http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~mw/>
GFDL: Mike Winton (homepage)
<http://jebin08.blogspot.com/>
GoS: Grains of Sand - Observations from a strange planet
Columbia: Dr. James E. Hansen [web page]
<http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/>
<http://dup.esrin.esa.it/projects/summaryp43.asp>
ESA: GLOBCARBON - Global Land Products for Carbon Model Assimilation
<http://www.cdproject.net/index.asp>
CDP: The Carbon Disclosure Project
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle>
Wiki: Carbon cycle
<http://www.environmental-action.org/blog/>
EAB: Environmental Action Blog
<http://www.carbontradewatch.org/>
Carbon Trade Watch
<http://www.desmogblog.com/>
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science
<http://scientificactivist.blogspot.com/>
SciAct: The Scientific Activist: Reporting from the Crossroads of Science and Politics
<http://www.earthfuture.com/climate/>
Earth Future - Climate & Energy
<http://www.scienceblog.com>
ScienceBlog
<http://www.christiansandclimate.org/>
Evangelical Climate Initiative
<http://www.thegreatwarming.com/>
The Great Warming
<http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/index.shtml>
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
<http://www.climateprediction.net/>
Climate Prediction Net
<http://bbc.cpdn.org/>
BBC Climate Change Experiment
<http://www.atmos.berkeley.edu/>
Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center
<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>
--
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