Another Week of GW News, April 20, 2008

By illconsidered on April 21, 2008.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H.E.Taylor. Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup

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Top Stories:Food Crisis, Do Nothing Speech, Paris
Greenland, Ward Hunt, Antarctic Salinity, Stern, EGU, Jet Streams, Vulcan
Hurricanes, Emanuel, GHGs, Temperatures, Carbon Cycle, Feedbacks, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR
Impacts, Plankton, Forests, Corals, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration
Journals, Misc. Science, Hansen
Kyoto, Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, India, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Video, Betting
Energy, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

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Another Week of GW News, April 20, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

It's always nice to start with a larf:

The food crisis is still front and centre this week:

George W. plans to do nothing for 17 years:

Another Major Economies conference went down in Paris this week:

A paper on Greenland drew disparate commentary:

Also in the Arctic, the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has fractured:

Otherwise in the Arctic:

Scientists have measured unusually high fresh water proportions in Antarctic oceans:

Nicholas Stern says he underestimated the impacts of GW:

The EGU conference in Vienna didn't get a lot of coverage:

There is a report the jet streams are shifting northward:

Another paper threw doubt on the imputed climate and cosmic ray link:

Late coverage of Vulcan:

Neoguri slapped Southern China as the hurricane wars warmed up:

Dr. Kerry Emanuel published a nuanced paper on hurricanes and global warming which got twisted every which way:

Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

I thought this happened last year.:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Yes we have feedbacks:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

The campaign to uncover DSCOVR [Deep Space Climate Observatory] rolls on:

More GW impacts are being seen:

It's been a week for phytoplankton:

And then there are the world's forests:

Corals are dying:

As for wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

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

Consider transportation & GHGs in the future:

While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

On the sequestration front, the WWF, among others, has supported a CCS plan down under to great outcry:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

More on Hansen:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

And on the Kyoto-2 front:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

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

On the international political front, there was a G8 meeting in Tokyo:

And on the American political front:

Eighteen state Governor's had a meeting in Yale:

The EPA came in for more pounding:

In Kansas, Governor Sebelius vetoed another coal bill:

One hears a lot about the campaign(s), not much about climate:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

The forecast in India:

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

BC is still wrestling with its climate policy:

I wonder if Elections Canada will investigate this too:

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

IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:

Apocalypso anyone?

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

A noxious little NPR piece kicked off a teacup tempest:

And for your film & video enjoyment:

The betting meme rolls on:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

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:

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

Then there was the usual news and commentary:

And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:

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