Another Week of GW News, August 24, 2008

By illconsidered on August 25, 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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August 24, 2008

Top Stories:Ghana, Melting Arctic, Polar Bears, Arctic Geopolitics, Grumbine, World Water Week
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites
Impacts, Forests, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Adaptation
Journals, Misc. Science, Hanson, Pielke
UN, Carbon Trade International Politics, Security
Politics: America, Britain, Europe, Australia, Japan, Peru, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Books, Courts, An International Environmental Court?
Energy, High Cost Impacts, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Efficiency, Cars, Business, Greenwashing
Carbon Lobby, The Usual, Useful Links
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Another Week of GW News, August 24, 2008

Sipping from the internet firehose...

August 24, 2008

Here's a wee touch of black humour:

The UNFCCC met again this week in Accra, Ghana:

The Arctic melt continues to get a lot of attention:

Polar bears have put in an appearance:

As for the geopolitics of the Arctic resources:

Rob Grumbine continues his education project:

And Tamino and Mashey and...:

Late coverage of the World Water Week conference in Stockholm:

The food crisis remains a top story:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

Iselle, Julio, Fay & Nuri blew around. First Fay:

In the Pacific, Nuri slammed the Philippines, Hong Kong and then China:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And the temperature record:

While in the paleoclimate:

While on the el NiÃ±o/la NiÃ±a [ENSO] front:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

As for wild fires:

As for hydrological cycle disruption [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

As for transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

More Hanson:

The Pielke fan clubbe put in another appearance:

Meanwhile at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

While on the international political front:

As for GW & security:

And on the American political front:

One hears a lot about the campaigns, not much about their climate & energy policies:

While in the UK:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

And in Japan:

And Peru:

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

With rumours of an election in the air, the Liberal Green Shift carbon tax plan is shaping up to be a major issue:

The tricky & difficult question of the tar sands looms:

And Quebec has a nuclear issue:

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:

Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

Here's a suggestion to starch a GHG polluter's shorts:

Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

As for the impacts of high energy costs:

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

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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