Another Week of GW News, November 25, 2007

By illconsidered on November 26, 2007.

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, Australian Election, Canada at the Commonwealth Conference, Bali, East Asian Summit, OPEC
Melting Arctic, SPM, GHG Record, Oxfam, Milankovitch
Hurricanes, Mitag, Sidr, ENSO, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Satellites, DSCOVR
Impacts, Forests, Corals, Desertification, Wildfires, Floods & Droughts, Food Production
Mitigation, Transportation, Building, Geoengineering
Journals, Misc. Science, Free Science, Obituary
Kyoto, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Optimal Carbon Reduction Strategy
International Politics, Security, America, Britain, Europe, Australia, China, Canada
Ecological Economics, IPAT, Apocalypso, Media, Revkin, Video, Courts
Energy, 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, November 25, 2007

Sipping from the internet firehose...

It's always nice to start with a wee chuckle:

Ted Glick has now been fasting 79+ days:

Kyoto denier, John Howard lost the Australian election:

Canada cut an ignominous figure at the Kampala Commonwealth conference:

Interest is rising in the upcoming Bali conference:

ASEAN and a couple other Asian countries at the East Asian Summit [EAS] signed a weak climate pact:

OPEC set up a climate fund at their meeting:

A lot of people are keeping an eye on the Arctic:

Late comment on the IPCC SPM:

GHGs have hit a new high:

Oxfam has released a report on the weather changes insurers have noticed:

Tamino is starting a tutorial series on Milankovitch cycles:

Late comment on Pryns & Rayner:

In the hurricane wars, Mitag is slamming the Phillipines:

And Bangladesh is dealing with the aftermath of Sidr:

While in other cyclone-hurricane news:

And on the ENSO front:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

While in near earth orbit:

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

More GW impacts are being seen:

And then there are the forests:

Corals are dying:

Desertification looms as a threat:

We have heatwaves and wild fires:

And speaking of floods & droughts:

The troubling matter of falling food production is not going away:

Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Consider transportation & GHG production:

While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

Meanwhile in the journals:

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

Further on free science publishing:

Obituary note:

Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

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:

As for GW & security:

And on the American political front:

The Lieberman-Warner bill is still crawling toward its veto:

Noting the US Thanksgiving holiday:

An oddity at the Smithsonian:

Some editors had advice for the Bush administration:

The 2008 campaign is not lighting any fires:

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

While in the UK:

UK PM Gordon Brown has entered "what he says vs. what he does" territory:

The Brown Government has revealed plans for a third Heathrow runway:

And in Europe:

Meanwhile in Australia:

While in China:

In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper continues his do-nothing mischief, this time for the international stage:

And Harper doesn't like to be reminded how poorly he is acting:

But "the rules of the road have been lodged":

Can you say inadequate?

The BC climate plan continues to evolve:

CBC's Quirk & Quarks did an hour long special on the Canadian climate in 2050:

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:

Regarding that Revkin 'centrism' spat:

And for your film & video enjoyment:

Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

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:

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: