Another week of GW News, September 5, 2010

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.

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P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

"The difficulty in dealing with climate deniers (and the birthers and so many others) is not that they don't understand the evidence -- it's that evidence has nothing to do with their belief. The denial comes from deep-seated emotional commitments and fears, in unthinking adherence to some political ideology and, often, in a perceived financial interest in not knowing -- and they simply cannot hear rational arguments." -CK Michaelson

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Another week of GW News, September 5, 2010

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September 5, 2010

Here's a wee chuckle for ya:

There was a minister's meeting in Geneva this week. Result?

Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

The mammoth killing impact theory appears to be toast:

This BAS report on bryozoans in Antarctica raised a bit of a flurry:

The Alroy paper on the Sixth Extinction raised some comment:

The strange sad saga of James Lee:

The Pakistan floods are a monumental disaster:

And on the Bottom Line:

I've got a big grain of salt for this one:

Ron Grumbine is restarting his gentle education series:

John Cook & friends are continuing their Basic and Advanced Versions of their denial counterpoints:

Why anybody pays any attention to this guy, I don't know, but we'll see how the corporate media treats him now that his tune has changed:

One result of ClimateGate was an impulse to make data available proactively:

The IAC Report this week raised a lot of comment (with curiously divergent headlines):

Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiry:

The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

A fuel tanker ran aground in the Arctic:

That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

Greenpeace is trying to slow Cairn Energy in the Arctic:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

Late comment on the Pavlovsk Agricultural Station:

Food Riots have begun in Mozambique:

The FAO is organizing a meeting on the food crisis later this month, probably in Rome:

Companies are scrambling for advantage:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

The Atlantic was active this week with Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston and a couple tropical depressions:

The Western Pacific was also active with LionRock, Kompasu & Namtheun, although we didn't hear as much about it:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

As for GHGs:

And in the carbon cycle:

As for the temperature record:

Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:

While in the paleoclimate:

The cliff, aka tipping points, aka planetary boundaries, put in an appearance:

Abrupt Climate Change put in an appearance:

And the State of the Oceans:

Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the world's forests:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

This week in extreme weather:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are dying:

Acidification is changing the oceans:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

While on the adaptation front:

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

Sci00:

Regarding Kevin Trenberth:

Regarding Curry:

While at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

How will Carbon Labelling work?

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, this Chinese gambit has the potential of creating conflict:

The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

As for SW tools:

Among the world's religions:

And on the American political front: