Another Week of GW News, January 06, 2008

By illconsidered on January 7, 2008.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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Another Week of GW News, January 06, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

More evidence GW humour is black humour:

The big story of the week has to be oil passing US$100/barrel:

A report that carbon uptake is dimished by warming raised much comment:

End of the year wrapup & look-ahead to the new year stories:

An article on Arctic warming mechanisms tickled the denyosphere & caught some flak:

Regarding the state of Arctic sea ice:

And the North Atlantic warming:

The NOAA has invited public comment on their Revised USCCSP Research Plan:

It seems there is an "Earth Hour" PR campaign forthcoming:

Late comment on Hansen's 350ppm thesis:

And in other Hansen news:

Late comment on Bali:

It was fairly quiet on the hurricane front:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile on the moon:

And on the sun:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Corals are dying:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

As for wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

In some parts of Australia the drought has broken:

While others think another tack is appropriate:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And the troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

As for transportation & GHG production:

The electric airplane got a little buzz:

While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

Meanwhile in the journals:

Before we get into politics, there was some science done:

A lot of people took note of Bert Bolin's passing:

And on the emissions trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

Here's a link between the antiwar & GW crowds:

And on the American political front:

California sued the EPA over denying their GHG waiver:

The 2008 campaign is not making much climate news:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

In the UK, there is some serious wrangling over energy:

Watching what Gordon does versus what Gordon says:

While in Europe:

In Germany, several cities have introduced a GHG labelling program for cars:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in China:

While in Japan:

In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:

Electric vehicles are being tied up in red-tape rather than supported:

BC is wrestling with its new carbon reduction plan:

The tricky difficult question of the tar sands looms:

The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:

Apocalypso anyone?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

An article by Peter Baker in the Post was soundly excoriated:

The NYT editorial on GW politics generated some comment:

Here is something for your library:

Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:

Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

Biofuel bickering abounds:

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:

Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

Habibullah Abdusamatov has another global cooling prediction:

The Inhofe gang is still getting laughs: