Another week of GW news - May 7
H. E. Taylor
as many GCMs predicted it would:
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060501/full/060501-5.html>
2006/05/03: NSU: Global warming weakens Pacific winds [Walker Circulation] -
Dwindling circulation could worsen El Niño effect.
<http://scienceatstake.com/screens/blogPage/viewBlog/sw_viewBlog.php?idTheme=13&idContribution=96>
2006/05/07: SaS: "As We’re Going to the Future, the Average Circulation
in the Atmosphere Will Probably Weaken" [Gabriel Vecchi interview]
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1631069.htm>
2006/05/04: ABC(Au): Global warming weakens air currents [Walker circulation]
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1767125,00.html>
2006/05/04: Guardian(UK): Trade winds weaken with global warming
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/4/84429/19261>
2006/05/04: GristMill: The period of consequences [Walker circulation changes]
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/04/MNG8CIKISS1.DTL&type=printable>
2006/05/04: SF Gate: Trade winds' slowdown backs warming theory
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36219/story.htm>
2006/05/04: PlanetArk: Global Warming Weakens Vast Pacific Climate System
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060503171511.htm>
2006/05/03: SciDaily: Slowdown In Tropical Pacific Flow Pinned On Climate Change
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10389>
2006/05/04: ENN: Global Warming Weakens Vast Pacific Climate System
<http://www.physorg.com/news65895995.html>
2006/05/03: PhysOrg: Slowdown in Tropical Pacific Flow [Walker Circulation]
Pinned on Climate Change
<http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/03-05-2006/79799-Global-warming-0>
2006/05/03: Pravda: Global warming weakens Pacific Ocean wind pattern [Walker Circulation]
<http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/pressreleases/20060503-walker.html>
2006/05/03: RSMAS: Man-Made Climate Change - New study identifies human
contribution to atmosphere [Walker] circulation changes
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/ncfa-sit050106.php>
2006/05/03: Eureka: Slowdown in tropical Pacific flow
[Walker Circulation] pinned on climate change
In the USA, the CCSP report has been released:
<http://climatescience.gov/Library/pressreleases/pressrelease2may2006.htm>
2006/05/03: CliSci(Gov): Report Reconciles Atmospheric Temperature Trends -
First of 21 reports from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
<http://bobpark.physics.umd.edu/WN06/wn050506.html>
2006/05/05: BobPark: #4) Climate Change: Federal study resolves dispute over warming.
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050306EA.shtml>
2006/05/03: TruthOut: Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/bushs-climate-change-view-challenged/2006/05/04/1146335865591.html>
2006/05/05: TheAge: Bush's climate change view challenged
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/04/wclim04.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/04/ixworld.html>
2006/05/04: Telegraph(UK): US scientists reject Bush scepticism over global warming
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/3/71158/19964>
2006/05/03: GristMill: [CCSP] If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ...
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/02/ccsp-report-published/>
2006/05/03: CliSci: First CCSP Report Published With Further Evidence That It Is Biased
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201677_pf.html>
2006/05/03: WaPo: Study Reconciles Data in Measuring Climate Change
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10382>
2006/05/03: ENN: Global Warming Differences Resolved with Corrections in Readings [CCSP]
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/science/03climate.html?ei=5090&en=c4eeb36efd0a312e&ex=1304308800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print>
2006/05/03: NYT: Federal Study Finds Accord on Warming
<http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/7303.html>
2006/05/03: TCR: Another study for Bush to ignore on global warming
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4969772.stm>
2006/05/03: BBC: 'Clear' human impact on climate
A scientific report commissioned by the US government has concluded
there is "clear evidence" of climate change caused by human activities.
The report, from the federal Climate Change Science Program, said trends
seen over the last 50 years "cannot be explained by natural processes alone".
The media has noticed that the draft 2007 IPCC Fourth report is easily available:
<http://julesandjames.blogspot.com/2006/05/leak-of-ipcc-ar4.html>
2006/05/07: JEB: "Leak" of IPCC AR4
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/ipcc-draft-no-comment/>
2006/05/04: RealClimate: IPCC draft: No comment
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-2164140-3,00.html>
2006/05/04: Times(UK): 3C hotter. Earth's danger point.
Now scientists say it is going to happen
<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=57&ItemID=10204>
2006/05/04: ZMag: Global Warming Fastest For 20,000 Years
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/us_govt_leaks_ipcc_report.php>
2006/05/04: Stoat: US govt leaks IPCC report
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55925>
2006/05/04: ClimateArk: Global warming fastest for 20,000 years - and it is mankind's fault
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0504-08.htm>
2006/05/04: CDreams:Independent(UK): Global Warming Fastest for 20,000 Years -
and it is Mankind's Fault
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1766892,00.html>
2006/05/04: Guardian(UK): Secrecy breach by US officials steals thunder
of climate change report - Draft findings posted on internet months early
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/climate_change/000804the_next_ipcc_consen.html>
2006/05/03: Prometheus: The Next IPCC Consensus?
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55798>
2006/05/01: ClimateArk: UN acknowledges climate change [IPCC WG1 - FAR commentary]
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/UN-acknowledges-climate-change/2006/05/01/1146335637765.html>
2006/05/01: TheAge: UN acknowledges climate change
While in the hurricane wars:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36248/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: As Hurricanes Loom, Many in Florida Keys Flee
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36246/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: Flash Floods Kill 18 in Cyclone-Hit Myanmar - Report
<http://www.redding.com/redd/nw_science_tech/article/0,2232,REDD_17538_4667193,00.html>
2006/05/01: Redding: Ocean warmer in hurricane-breeding zone, study finds
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36228/story.htm>
2006/05/04: PlanetArk: Hurricane Destruction Powers Global Warming Debate
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36227/story.htm>
2006/05/04: PlanetArk: Facts on Debate About Hurricanes and Global Warming
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/05/the_more_things_change.php>
2006/05/03: CCM: The More Things Change...[GW & hurricanes]
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060502223749.htm>
2006/05/03: SciDaily: Experiment On Monsoon Season Rainfall Lives Up To Its 'Name'
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55852>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: Hurricane destruction powers global warming debate
<http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/rainfall_name.html>
2006/05/02: NASA: Experiment on Monsoon Season Rainfall Lives Up
to its 'Name' [North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)]
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/disasters/000800klotzbach_on_trends_.html>
2006/05/01: Prometheus: Klotzbach on Trends in Global Tropical Cyclone Intensity 1986-2005
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36191/story.htm>
2006/05/01: PlanetArk: Cyclone Mala Kills Two, Causes Damage in Myanmar
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36181/story.htm>
2006/05/01: PlanetArk: Bangladesh on Alert as Cyclone Gathers Strength
<http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/01-05-2006/79701-Myanmar-0>
2006/05/01: Pravda: 4 killed, 31 injured by Cyclone [Mala] in Myanmar
And then there are La Nina/El Nino:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060505120655.htm>
2006/05/05: SciDaily: La Nina Will Have No Effect On 2006 Atlantic Hurricanes
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36243/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: La Nina Shouldn't Affect Atlantic Hurricanes - NASA
<http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2006/lanina_effect.html>
2006/05/04: NASA: La Nina Will Have No Effect on 2006 Atlantic Hurricanes
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36214/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: After La Nina, Philippines Braces for Rainy Season
Recent GHG statistics are not encouraging:
<http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/aggi/>
2006//: NOAA: The NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI)
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36210/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: Greenhouse Gases Showed Steady Rise in 2005
<http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-05-01-greenhouse-gases-rising_x.htm>
2006/05/01: USAToday: Federal scientists report that Earth's greenhouse gases are continuing to rise
<http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200605/02/eng20060502_262662.html>
2006/05/02: People's Daily: U.S. agency says world's greenhouse gas emission still rising
<http://www.physorg.com/news65805300.html>
2006/05/02: PhysOrg: Greenhouse gas emissions increased in 2005: US study
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55842>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: Greenhouse gases increase in 2005 [says NOAA]
<http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/01/greenhouse.gases.ap/>
2006/05/01: CNN: NOAA: Greenhouse gases continue to rise
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10371>
2006/05/02: ENN: Greenhouse Gases Showed Steady Rise in 2005
And glaciers are melting:
<http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article362549.ece>
2006/05/07: 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
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4954546.stm>
2006/05/05: BBC: Everest weather's ups and downs
Already experiencing melting glaciers and a receding snowline,
the Everest region of Nepal has seen some unusual weather patterns these past few months.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36209/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: China's "Roof of the World" Glaciers Melting Fast
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10381>
2006/05/03: ENN: China's 'Roof of the World' Glaciers Melting Fast
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1766224,00.html>
2006/05/03: Guardian(UK): Global warming melting glaciers at roof of
world [China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55850>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: Global warming concerns in region of China
China's official news agency says global warming is causing glaciers
in the country's western plateau to melt at a rate of seven-percent per-year
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/02/content_4501227.htm>
2006/05/02: Xinhuanet: Global warming melting "roof of the world" glacier
Professor Dong Guangrong with the Chinese Academy of Sciences is calling for world
attention to the environmental deterioration of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau caused
by global warming. He has discovered that the "roof of the world" glacier, accounting
for 47 percent of China's total glacier coverage, is shrinking at a rate of
seven percent annually.
There are other oddities over Tibet as well:
<http://www.physorg.com/news65940791.html>
2006/05/04: PhysOrg: Giant ozone hole may be forming over Tibet, experts warn
Speaking of ozone:
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10394>
2006/05/04: ENN: Ozone Layer Shows Signs of Recovery, Scientists Claim
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060504070523.htm>
2006/05/04: SciDaily: Ozone Recovering, But Unlikely To Stabilize
At Pre-1980 Levels, Says Study
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/uoca-orb050106.php>
2006/05/03: Eureka: Ozone recovering, but unlikely to stabilize
at pre-1980 levels, says study
Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36189/story.htm>
2006/05/01: PlanetArk: NASA Launches Climate Satellites [CloudSat and CALIPSO]
Sea level changes is always good to raise a few eyebrows:
<http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d4a4f320-fadc-4b5c-ba18-b0c5556c3b81&k=90457>
2006/05/05: CanWest: Just wait, says Sierra Club, you too may be under water -
Environmental group shows what could happen if the icecaps melt and the oceans rise
<http://www.sierraclub.ca/bc/media/item.shtml?x=798>
2006/05/05: Sierra(Ca): New map shows much of Lower Mainland under water after climate change
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1766956,00.html>
2006/05/04: Guardian(UK): An elemental battle - with only one winner [rising UK sea levels]
More GW impacts are being seen:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56006>
2006/05/07: ClimateArk: Great Lakes will slow pace of global warming effects in Michigan
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1632170.htm>
2006/05/06: ABC(Au): Climate change could shift rainfall line
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19024114-30417,00.html>
2006/05/05: Australian: Seabirds in hot water: study
Great Barrier Reef-dwelling seabirds are in hot water because of a dramatic
rise in sea temperatures along the Queensland coast, a new study has found.
<http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=18360>
2006/05/04: UN: Poor will feel greatest impact of climate change,
scientist [R.K. Pachauri, IPCC Chair] tells UN commission
<http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=674972006>
2006/05/05: Scotsman: 400 million face famine as pollution pushes up temperatures
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050401931_pf.html>
2006/05/05: WaPo: Climate Change Drives Disease To New Territory -
Viruses Moving North to Areas Unprepared for Them, Experts Say
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10397>
2006/05/05: ENN: U.S. to Protect Two Coral Species as Caribbean Warms
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1482>
2006/05/03: JFleck: Snowpack and Groundwater
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55951>
2006/05/04: ClimateArk: Warming threatens famine, drought
<http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/?p=1478>
2006/05/01: JFleck: Drought in the West
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060502224311.htm>
2006/05/03: SciDaily: Study Reveals How Plants Respond To Elevated Carbon Dioxide
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/05/03/birds-caterpillars060503.html>
2006/05/03: CBC: Climate change forces migratory birds to fall behind in feeding
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004381.html>
2006/05/02: WorldChanging: Wilderness in a Warming World
<http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060501/full/060501-2.html>
2006/05/02: NSU: Polar bears sink deeper into danger - Global menace
of climate change and pollution add to local hunting concerns.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1628646.htm>
2006/05/02: ABC(Au): Climate change may shift Goyder's Line [marking the
250 millimetre rainfall area from the Eyre Peninsula around to the Riverland]
<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,2020-37-2160509-8308,00.html>
2006/05/02: Times(UK): Market forces put brake on gas-guzzlers
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/01/drought-history-in-the-rocky-mountain-west/>
2006/05/01: CliSci: Drought History in the Rocky Mountain West
And then there are the tropical rainforests:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050106EB.shtml>
2006/04/29: TruthOut: Forests in Southeast Asia Fall to Prosperity's Ax
Climate change may be off the hook for some extinctions:
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060505084954.htm>
2006/05/05: SciDaily: Man May Have Caused Pre-historic Extinctions
Elsewhere on the mitigation front:
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1768150,00.html>
2006/05/05: Guardian(UK): [British] Plan to limit supermarkets' CO2 emissions
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55913>
2006/05/03: ClimateArk: Australia: Power sector can slash emissions [40% by 2030]: study
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36215/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: Dutch Utilities to Get Tighter CO2 Limits - Official
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1629164.htm>
2006/05/03: ABC(Au): Cut greenhouse emissions for 43c a week
<http://www.basqueresearch.com/berria_irakurri.asp?Gelaxka=1_1&hizk=I&Berri_Kod=958>
2006/05/02: BasqueResearch: Climatic change and environmental functions of forests
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060501230918.htm>
2006/05/01: SciDaily: Plants' Role In Global Warming Re-examined In Science Paper
<http://www.physorg.com/news65714777.html>
2006/05/01: PhysOrg: Scientists re-examine plants' role in global warming
<http://www.ornl.gov/info/press_releases/get_press_release.cfm?ReleaseNumber=mr20060501-01>
2006/05/01: ORNL: Plants' role in global warming re-examined in ORNL Science paper
And carbon sequestration got a mention:
<http://www.physorg.com/news65969938.html>
2006/05/04: PhysOrg: Japan to capture CO2 at Australian power plant in world first: report
Before we get into politics, there was some science done:
<http://www.physorg.com/news66060296.html>
2006/05/05: PhysOrg: New Evidence of Early Glacial Development -
History of Antarctic Ice Sheet Revised
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/model_projections_of_the_north.php>
2006/05/04: Stoat: Model projections of the North Atlantic thermohaline
circulation for the 21st century assessed by observations
The Pielkes continue their valiant fight for the longest URLs on the net:
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/05/co2h2o/>
2006/05/05: CliSci: Relative Roles of CO2 and Water Vapor in Radiative Forcing
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/04/improtant-meeting-in-india-that-reported-on-the-complexity-of-climate-science/>
2006/05/04: CliSci: Important Meeting In India That Reported on the Complexity of Climate Science
<http://climatesci.atmos.colostate.edu/2006/05/02/what-is-the-value-of-multi-decadal-regional-climate-predictions/>
2006/05/03: CliSci: Can Regional Vulnerability Be Accurately Assessed By Using Multi-Decadal Global
Model Predictions?
In a touch of irony, the Canadian (Tory) minority government
energy minister (Rona Ambrose) is scheduled to host the upcoming Bonn COP:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55834>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: Canada to play merely "ceremonial" role at key climate negotiations
Canada's role in UN negotiations on climate change appears to be shrinking in response
to the Conservative government's mixed messages about the Kyoto Protocol. Environment
Minister Rona Ambrose will officially serve as president of the UN Kyoto talks to take place
May 15-26 in Bonn, but her role will be much reduced from that played by former environment
minister Stephane Dion at the last round of Kyoto talks in Montreal. Unlike Dion,
who spent a year rallying support for the Montreal climate conference last year and
personally led the talks, Ambrose is expected to play an insignificant role
in practical terms. "The role of the president of the COP
(Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol) is . . . largely ceremonial," said John Hay,
spokesman for United Nations Climate Change Secretariat in Geneva.
"The president makes some administrative decisions, but these are process-related and
not highly political. In Bonn, Minister Ambrose will open the proceedings and chair
a bureau meeting. She is scheduled to leave the same day."
Meanwhile on the emissions trading front:
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36242/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: Chicago Climate Market Books First Europe CO2 Deal
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36244/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: Czechs to Propose 100 Million Tonnes Per Year CO2 Cap
<http://euobserver.com/19/21505>
2006/05/04: EUO: EU tries to stop C02 credits market crash
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36222/story.htm>
2006/05/04: PlanetArk: Carbon Slide Will Not Halt Kyoto Projects - UN
<http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1917650>
2006/05/03: ABC(US): [European] Carbon slide will not halt Kyoto projects: UN
<http://www.euractiv.com/en/sustainability/crashing-carbon-prices-puts-eu-climate-policy-test/article-154873>
2006/05/02: EurActiv: Crashing carbon prices puts EU climate policy to the test
Reports that six EU countries had emitted far less CO2 than anticipated sent
carbon prices plummeting last week. Attention now turns to the EU's next round
of emission allocation plans due on 30 June.
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55859>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: [EU] Pollution reports hurt CO2 emissions market
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4961320.stm>
2006/05/01: BBC: £1bn windfall for carbon trade firms
Power firms could make a £1bn windfall profit from
the EU Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme, BBC News has learned.
The windfall is likely because many firms have benefited from
increases in electricity prices brought about by the scheme
without needing to make any extra investment in return.
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36186/story.htm>
2006/05/01: PlanetArk: CO2 Price Crash Signals Tougher EU Pollution Goals
And on the American political front:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=56010>
2006/05/07: ClimateArk: Gore invites 250 to view his global warming documentary -
He says he's failed to point out dangers
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/4/155719/6397>
2006/05/04: GristMill: Climate crisis and the 2008 election [Wesley Clark]
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36229/story.htm>
2006/05/04: PlanetArk: US States Sue Bush Over Fuel Efficiency
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/05/noaa_credit_where_credit_is_du.php>
2006/05/03: CCM: NOAA: Credit Where Credit Is Due
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050206EA.shtml>
2006/05/03: TruthOut: 10 States, in Challenge to US, Plan Suit to Force Better Mileage Rules for SUVs
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55907>
2006/05/03: ClimateArk: 'Ozone Al' for president in 2008? The heat is on
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10383>
2006/05/03: ENN: Ten States Sue Federal Government for Tighter Gas Mileage Requirements
<http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042906A.shtml>
2006/04/28: TruthOut: "At Some Point, Reality Has Its Day"
<http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/archives/2006/05/soaring_on_the.html>
2006/05/02: PNT: Soaring on the Hindenburg
<http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/archives/2006/05/required_readin.html>
2006/05/01: PNT: Required reading [Colbert transcript]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55840>
2006/05/02: ClimateArk: 10 States, in Challenge to U.S., Plan Suit to Force Better Mileage
Rules for S.U.V.'s
<http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tt/2006/tt060501.gif>
2006/05/01: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Political Climate Change
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002965973_gore02m.html>
2006/05/02: STimes: Campaign on climate gives Gore a new voice
While on the UK political front:
<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/conservatives/comment/0,,1765565,00.html>
2006/05/02: Guardian(UK): Last word - You think you're green?
Don't make me laugh [UK Conservative PR]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55795>
2006/05/01: ClimateArk: United Kingdom: Public backs law to enforce cuts in emissions
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36194/story.htm>
2006/05/01: PlanetArk: Majority of Britons Want New Environmental Law
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/4962218.stm>
2006/05/01: BBC: Three quarters 'back climate law'
Three quarters of the UK population would support a new law aimed at
combating climate change, according to a survey by Friends of the Earth.
Some 1,233 people were asked if they would back a law requiring annual
reductions in UK CO2 emissions. While 75% said they would, 5% said they
would not, with 19% of respondents saying they did not know.
Meanwhile in Australia:
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55950>
2006/05/04: ClimateArk: Australia: Climate change causes backflips
In Canada, the Tory minority government's agenda is pulling away from their rhetoric:
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/05/energuide05052006.html>
2006/05/05: CBC: Energy-saving programs lose funding
<http://canadaclimate.blogspot.com/2006/05/canada-climate-change-day.html>
2006/05/04: CC: Canada Climate Change Day
<http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/05/why_oh_why_cant.html>
2006/05/03: BDL: [Harper & Kyoto] Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press
Corps? (Yet Another Washington Post Edition)
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55961>
2006/05/04: ClimateArk: Canada: Kyoto Protocol no one-night stand
Any doubts that the Tory government wants Kyoto ejected from the matrimonial bed
were put to rest on Tuesday, when Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveiled his first
budget. Kyoto wasn't even mentioned and most spending related to climate change
research was gutted. The government's so-called environmental plan occupied one
paragraph in the entire budget document.
<http://www.straightgoods.ca/ViewFeature6.cfm?REF=282>
2006/05/02: StraightGoods: Canada backpedals on Kyoto promises -
Emission control budget cut by 40 percent
<http://renegadetimes.blogspot.com/2006/05/climate-change-day.html>
2006/05/01: RTimes: Climate Change Day
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/3/121222/4162>
2006/05/03: GristMill: O' Canada, where have you gone?
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=4aaaf378-3faa-478b-ac28-37001d476b47>
2006/05/03: CanWest: $1 billion to be cut from climate change to fund 'made-in-Canada'
solution - Greenpeace spokesman calls budget a 'made-in-U.S. catastrophe'
<http://www.herald.ns.ca/News/501093.html>
2006/05/03: ChronicleHerald: Kyoto funds will be shifted to tax credits for public transit users
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201774_pf.html>
2006/05/03: WaPo: Canada Alters Course on Kyoto -
Budget Slashes Funding Devoted to Goals of Emissions Pact
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/05/02/environment-budget060502.html>
2006/05/02: CBC: Tories shift climate change funding to transit
Apocalypso anyone?:
<http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/05/doomsday_scenarios.php?page=all&p=y>
2006/05/05: SeedMag: Doomsday Scenarios - What will happen to the Earth
if we don't change our polluting ways?
This wacky weather seems a little early in the year to me:
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060506/sc_afp/indiaweather_060506144543>
2006/05/06: Yahoo: Sunstroke kills 33 as India blisters in heat wave
<http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060507&hn=32880>
2006/05/07: Zaman: Hot Weather Kills 47 in India
As for how the media handles climatology:
<http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/archives/disasters/000802really_really_real.html>
2006/05/01: Prometheus: Really, Really, Really Bad Reporting
<http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/03/global-warming-myths/>
2006/05/03: TP: Washington Post Perpetuates Myth of Scientific Debate
About Basic Facts of Global Warming
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10370>
2006/05/02: ENN: On Beyond Organic: How Journalists Report Environmental Issues
According to Nina Utne, between 1993 and 2003, not a single peer reviewed article published
in a scientific journal cast doubt on global warming. However, over a similar 10-year period,
more than 53 percent of mainstream news articles covering the topic did.
So, where's the disconnect between scientific fact, media coverage and readership interest?
Here is something for your library:
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/05/my-review-of-books/>
2006/05/05: RealClimate: MY Review of Books -
_The Winds of Change_ by Eugene Linden,
_Field Notes from a Catastrophe_ by Elizabeth Kolbert,
_The Weather Makers_ by Tim Flannery
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050206EB.shtml>
2006/05/01: TruthOut: Debate on Global Warming Helps Produce a Brisk Seller
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55815>
2006/05/01: ClimateArk: Canada: Debate on Global Warming Helps Produce a Brisk
Seller [_Hotter Than Hell_ by Mark Tushingham]
And for your film & video enjoyment:
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004384.html>
2006/05/03: WorldChanging: An Inconvenient Truth
<http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004388.html>
2006/05/04: WorldChanging: Interview: Davis Guggenheim and An Inconvenient Truth
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-drobny/an-inconvenient-truthchi_b_20369.html>
2006/05/04: THP: An Inconvenient Truth-Chicago Screening
Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:
<http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050506EA.shtml>
2006/05/07: TruthOut: Fueling Our Future
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1146865816236&call_pageid=970599119419>
2006/05/07: TStar: It's the climate, stupid
Building hybrid cars is missing the point, says this year's Donner Prize winner.
Global warming is killing the planet, and only clean energy systems can save us
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/living/health/14523075.htm>
2006/05/07: Mercury: New day for solar power - Sierra Club report
spurs Bay Area cities to lower fees on installations
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060507/BUSINESS01/605070343>
2006/05/07: ToledoBlade: Critics doubt benefit of ethanol gas blend -
Demand for corn-based E85 grows
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12650264/>
2006/05/05: MSNBC: Alternative energy index to launch
<http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/050692.html>
2006/05/: HarvardMag: Fueling Our Future
Climate warming is accelerating as energy use soars.
Nuclear power won't close the gap.
We need to learn to live with coal. Here's one elaborate engineering solution.
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060505114855.htm>
2006/05/05: SciDaily: Carnegie Mellon Researchers Say Use Of Switchgrass
Could Solve Energy Woes
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1631521.htm>
2006/05/05: ABC(Au): Politicians at odds over Denmark wind farm
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36250/story.htm>
2006/05/05: PlanetArk: Quebec Plans C$25 Billion Boost to Hydro, Wind Power
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10398>
2006/05/05: ENN: Grid Operator Urges Congress Not to Block Wind Farm Proposal
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laurie-david/below-the-belt-new-indu_b_20393.html>
2006/05/05: THP: Below the Belt - New Industry Ads Use Kids to Pimp Coal
<http://www.physorg.com/news65971653.html>
2006/05/04: PhysOrg: Researchers say use of switchgrass could solve energy woes
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12613761/>
2006/05/04: MSNBC: Wind industry giant invests in U.S. -
Iberdrola buying U.S. company, looking at China project
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55953>
2006/05/04: ClimateArk: Australia: End debate on N-power: Flannery
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/02/AR2006050201484_pf.html>
2006/05/03: WaPo: Dishonest Energy Debate
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36216/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: Germany Sets Quotas for Biofuel in Fuel from 2007
<http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36217/story.htm>
2006/05/03: PlanetArk: Cape Wind Offshore Developer Sees "Uphill Fight"
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/14470921.htm?source=rss&channel=aberdeennews_news>
2006/05/02: CentreDaily: Difficult road for ethanol in Brazil - Lessons could have
impact in United States - "Here is the classic dilemma of biofuels," said Tad Patzek,
geoengineering professor and biofuels expert at the University of California at Berkeley.
"They fight for space in the environment, they fight food production and they fight
consumption trends. They are not the answer to the energy crisis."
<http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/oped/ci_3775175>
2006/05/02: IBA: Hydrogen no magic bullet for energy woes
<http://www.cbc.ca/cp/business/060501/b050182.html>
2006/05/01: CBC: Alberta's heavy oil industry should pay for huge fresh-water use: report
<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10373>
2006/05/02: ENN: Portland: Buses Start Using Clean-Burning Fuel [compressed natural gas]
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55811>
2006/05/01: ClimateArk: Ethanol's Promise
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060501.RIOGEN01/TPStory/Business>
2006/05/01: Globe&Mail: Goldman Sachs sees green in biofuel firm -
Investment bank taking stake in Iogen, a leader in cellulose ethanol technology
<http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=55812>
2006/05/01: ClimateArk: Australia: Nuclear no cure for climate change, scientists warn
<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0501-05.htm>
2006/05/01: CDreams:SF Chronicle: Hydrogen Fuel Far from Ready for Prime Time
<http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/01/gorbysun.shtml>
2006/05/01: MosNews: Gorbachev Calls G8 to Invest in Solar Energy
Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/29/AR2006042901364_pf.html>
2006/04/30: WaPo: Insurers Retreat From Coasts -
Katrina Losses May Force More Costs on Taxpayers
The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/steve_milloy_the_biggest_loser.php>
2006/05/06: Deltoid: Steve Milloy: the biggest loser
<http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2006/05/an_unsound_article_on_sound_sc.php>
2006/05/05: CCM: An Unsound Article on "Sound Science"
<http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/4/6266/72279>
2006/05/04: DailyKOS: Weird Science [denial PR]
<http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2006/05/02/PaidtoDenyGlobalWarming/print.html>
2006/05/02: TheTyee: The Global Warming Denial Lobby -
The people out to 'poison the debate on climate change.'
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/zombie_lurch.php>
2006/05/03: Deltoid: Zombie Lurch [denial]
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/yet_another_pointless_pile_of.php>
2006/05/03: Stoat: Yet another pointless pile of septics
<http://www.desmogblog.com/the-global-warming-denial-lobby>
2006/05/03: DeSmogBlog: The Global Warming Denial Lobby
<http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2006/05/tim_ball_down_in_the_quote_min.php>
2006/05/02: Deltoid: Tim Ball, Down in the Quote Mine [denial]
<http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/2006/05/the_von_s_affair.php>
2006/05/01: Stoat: The von S affair
And some courageous spirits are still trying to teach those who
will not to know what science is about:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/magazine/4950876.stm>
2006/04/28: BBC: Believe it or not: The battle over certainty
The thought uppermost in my mind was how odd it is that non-scientists
think of science as being about certainties and absolute truth. Whereas
scientists are actually quite tentative - they simply try to arrive at
the best fit between the experimental findings so far and a general principle.
Coby Beck is continuing his excellent "How to Talk to a Global Warming Sceptic" series:
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/consensus-or-collusion.html>
2006/05/05: AFTIC: Consensus or Collusion?
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/finally-proof-positive.html>
2006/05/05: AFTIC: Finally, Proof Positive!
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/antarctic-sea-ice-is-increasing.html>
2006/05/03: AFTIC: Antarctic Sea Ice Is Increasing
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/there-is-no-evidence.html>
2006/05/02: AFTIC: There is No Evidence
<http://illconsidered.blogspot.com/2006/05/aerosols-should-mean-more-warming-in.html>
2006/05/01: AFTIC: Aerosols Should Mean More Warming in the South
Then there was the usual news and commentary:
<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/5/4/153649/8646>
2006/05/04: GristMill: Have Some Class: Curbing global warming
<http://www.antara.co.id/en/seenws/?id=12140>
2006/05/04: Antara: Greenpeace urges ADB to stop funding fossil fuel projects
<http://framing-science.blogspot.com/2006/05/flooding-metaphor-dramatizing-impacts.html>
2006/05/04: FramingScience: The Flooding Metaphor: Dramatizing the Impacts of Global Warming
<http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2006/05/waterworld.html>
2006/05/02: PeakEnergy: Waterworld - a Dutch solution for global warming
And here are a couple of sites which you may find interesting &/ useful:
<http://canadaclimate.blogspot.com/>
Canada Climate Change Protest
<http://www.climatescience.gov/>
US Climate Change Science Program
<http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccgg/index.html>
NOAA: GMD Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group [CCGG]
<http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/aggi/>
2006//: NOAA: The NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI)
<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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