Another Week of GW News, April 26, 2009

By illconsidered on April 27, 2009.

Sipping from the internet firehose...

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Another week of Climate Disruption News

April 26, 2009

Chuckle, Top Stories:CARB-LCFS, Indigenous Peoples' Summit, EGU, G8 Meetings, Major Economies Forum, Methane
Melting Arctic, Geopolitics, Antarctica, Weight, Kash4Klunkers, Aerosols, Earth Day, Sol, Abruptness
Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Food Production
Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Ozone, Paleoclimate, Sea Levels
Impacts, Forests, Corals, Climate Refugees, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts
Mitigation, Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering
Journals, Misc. Science
Kyoto-2, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
Politics:International, Security, America, Obama, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Scenarios, Books
Energy, Wind, Solar, Coal, Biofuel, Nukes, Peak Oil, Grid, Cars, Business, Greenwashing, Joe's Lists
Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

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"I know this sounds cynical. But politicians implementing a carbon tax face a great risk that unscrupulous political opponents will mislead the public by claiming we can reduce emissions without taxing gasoline, conveniently failing to mention that their cap-and-trade alternative should have the same upward effect on its price for the same emissions reductions." -Dr. Marc Jaccard.

Another Week of GW News, April 26, 2009

Sipping from the internet firehose...

Another week of Climate Disruption News

April 26, 2009

Laughter can be so cynical:

The California Air Resources Board [CARB] passed a Low Carbon Fuel Standard [LCFS] likely setting a pattern for the rest of the States with implications ricocheting all the way to the tarsands:

The Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change went down in Anchorage:

The EGU annual meeting went down in Vienna this week:

G8 environment ministers (officials?) held a meeting in Sicily:

G8 agriculture ministers also met:

There is a Major Economies Forum meeting coming up in Washington:

A report that there was no methane burp 12,000 years ago reassured nobody:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

Being overweight tends to increase one's carbon footprint:

Several countries are still toying with Cash for Clunkers:

More on aerosols:

Thank Gaia that malarkey is over:

Has it been established that (fewer sunspots == cooler)?

Milankovitch plus Abrupt Climate Change equals ?

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

No hurricanes, but lots of related chatter:

As for GHGs:

And the carbon cycle:

The ozone layer is slow to recover:

While in the paleoclimate:

Sea levels are rising:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

As for the coral reefs:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

The US Midwest got zapped:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

As for floods & droughts:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

And on the Kyoto-2 front:

While at the UN:

As for carbon trading:

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:

Meanwhile on the international political front:

As for GW & security:

And on the American political front:

A note on RGGI:

The Obama chatter is nonstop:

The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

As for what is going on in Congress:

The Republicans seem to be having difficulty formulating a sensible climate change policy:

Minority Leader John Boehner made some particularly uninformed comments:

And 'Smokey Joe' Barton (R-Tx) revealed his ignorance while questioning Energy Secretary Steven Chu:

The Gore-apalooza took off this week with a Congressional appearance:

While in the UK:

British cops are more interested in protecting the established carbon order than dealing with the climate change problem:

The Labour government introduced a 'green' budget based on the 'clean coal' fantasy:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

How can you tell New Zealand has a conservative government?

While in China:

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

Canada's emissions are steadily accumulating:

The Sierra Club has sued the Harper government for bypassing environmental law:

In BC, election wrangling is keeping everyone entertained:

Saskatchewan says it can't afford to be green:

Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

Alberta and Ottawa are edgy about the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard:

And then there is the miscellaneous Canadiana:

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:

World building scenarios-R-us: