Another Week of GW News, December 16, 2007

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Live and direct from the laugh, it's funny, damnit department:

• 2007/10/14: WaPo: (cartoon - Toles) Half Earth Catalog
• 2007/12/12: NewsWire: Media Advisory - Santa, Elves to be arrested for delivering coal to 24 Sussex - Scolds Harper for North Pole meltdown and global warming

  Because of the amount of material, I have moved the Bali Blather into a separate post.

• Bali Blather - Week 2

  Pachauri & Gore gave their Nobel Acceptance speeches this week:

• 2007/12/11: DerSpiegel: Time to Act on Climate Change - Gore Urges Bold Moves in Nobel Speech
• 2007/12/11: CChange: Why Al Gore's Nobel speech rates just a "B"
• 2007/12/12: NEN: Gore at Oslo
• 2007/12/11: CCurrents: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• 2007/12/10: HuffPo: Read Al Gore's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• 2007/12/10: CNN: Gore to U.S., China: Fix climate or else
  Gore: U.S., China must "stop using the other's behavior as an excuse" - Climate change is "a threat to the survival of our civilization," Gore says - Prize awarded as nations meet to discuss successor to Kyoto accord - U.N. scientist shares honor with Gore for spreading awareness of global warming
• 2007/12/11: TruthOut: Gore Urges Bold Moves in Nobel Speech
• 2007/12/10: AlGore: [text &/ video] Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• 2007/12/11: OilChange: "The future is knocking at our door right now"
• 2007/12/11: People's Daily: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony held in Oslo
• 2007/12/10: ClimateP: Al Gore's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• 2007/12/10: TruthOut: Al Gore Sees Hope in "People Power"
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Humanity 'waging war' on earth: Gore
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: 'For this purpose, we will rise, and we will act' - Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
• 2007/12/10: HillHeat: Al Gore Accepts Nobel Peace Prize
• 2007/12/10: CSW: IPCC Chairman Pachauri and Al Gore Nobel lectures: Climate change and government accountability
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Nobel winners say science must transcend borders
  Scientists must break through the boundaries between disciplines and nations to find solutions to some of the great unanswered questions, some of 2007's Nobel prize winners said on Friday
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Nobel Winner Gore: "Make Peace With The Planet"
• 2007/12/10: Yahoo: Gore gets Nobel, warns of ominous threat
• 2007/12/09: Yahoo: U.N. climate chief says science clear, move on
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: HuffPo: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by Al Gore
• 2007/12/10: ThinkP: Al Gore's Nobel Speech: Rumors Of My Demise Were Greatly Exaggerated
• 2007/12/10: BBC: Gore climate plea to US and China
  Former US Vice-President Al Gore has urged the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, the US and China, to work together on climate change. Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Mr Gore referred to climate change as a "planetary emergency". He said he hoped for a positive outcome from the UN climate talks in Bali
• 2007/12/10: CBC: Gore picks up Nobel, calls for 'boldest' moves from China, U.S.
• 2007/12/10: AFP: Gore urges US, China to join efforts to save feverish planet
• 2007/12/10: G&M: 'Make peace with the planet,' Al Gore urges
  Climate campaigner Al Gore collected the Nobel Peace Prize on Monday and said it was time to stop waging war on the earth and make peace with the planet
• 2007/12/10: AP: Gore Gets Nobel, Warns of Ominous Threat

  The Red Cross/Crescent released a report on the increasing rate of extreme weather incidents:

• 2007/12/14: SMH: Warming causes more disasters [IFRC]
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): Global warming causing record disasters: report
  The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) says global warming caused a record number of natural disasters across the world in 2007, up nearly 20 per cent from a year earlier. "As of 10 October 2007, the Federation had already recorded 410 disasters, 56 per cent of which were weather-related, which is consistent with the trend of rising numbers of climate change-related disasters," the IFRC said in its World Disasters Report. In 2006, the IFRC recorded 427 natural disasters, a rise of 70 per cent in the two years since 2004. Over the last 10 years, the number of natural disasters rose by 40 per cent from the previous decade, while the number of deaths caused by disasters doubled to 1.2 million people from 600,000, the report said.

Live & direct from the popemobile:

• 2007/12/15: Guardian(UK): Bad science - Twisting the Pope's words on climate change
• 2007/12/12: Deltoid: Simon Caldwell is a liar
• 2007/12/12: BCLSB: Spinning The Pope On Climate Change
• 2007/12/12: Wonkette: The Pope Sucks - Pope Benedict XVI...calling global warming fears nothing but "scare-mongering"

  Meanwhile, here is a chilling phrase to watch for:

• 2007/12/11: QuarkSoup: "adaptation apartheid"

  A surprising report on aerosol distribution blew in:

• 2007/12/14: SciDaily: Tiny Dust Particles From Asian Deserts Common Over Western United States
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Asian desert dust found over western United States
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Tiny dust particles from Asian deserts common over western United States

  I am reminded of that 19th century official who said science was over cause we already know everything important:

• 2007/12/12: ClimateP: Time to shut down the IPCC?

  Several stories about the Arctic were prominent. First the melt:

• 2007/12/14: TreeHugger: Arctic: Ice-Free by 2013?
• 2007/12/12: CDreams: AP: Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
• 2007/12/14: SMH: Arctic ice pack melting at record rate
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Without insulating ice, Arctic waters warm 5 C
• 2007/12/12: ClimateP: An ice-free Arctic by 2013?
• 2007/12/12: TruthOut: Ominous Arctic Melt Worries Experts
• 2007/12/13: ABC(Au): Arctic ice melt worse than predicted: scientists
• 2007/12/12: KSJT: Olio of news on a melting Arctic. Iceless summer sea by 2013? Greenland's moulins gushing
• 2007/12/12: ThinkP: Arctic summers may be ice-free by 2013
• 2007/12/12: Eureka: Without its insulating ice cap, Arctic surface waters warm to as much as 5 C above average
• 2007/12/12: BBC: Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'
  Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss
• 2007/12/11: CNN: Scientist: 'Arctic is screaming'
  Record melt seen all over the Arctic in 2007 - Scientists worry global warming has passed an ominous tipping point - What happens in the Arctic has implications for the rest of the world
• 2007/12/12: PhysOrg: Without its insulating ice cap, Arctic surface waters warm to as much as 5 C above average

  Secondly, Greenland is melting quickly:

• 2007/12/14: KSJT: LiveScience: Under Greenland, a thin stretch of crust may be helping the melt
• 2007/12/12: ERabett: There'll be a hot time in Greenland this time
• 2007/12/12: TreeHugger: Greenland Ice Melting at Record Rate
• 2007/12/12: SciDaily: Greenland Melt Accelerating, According To Climate Scientist
• 2007/12/12: OSU: Earth's heat adds to climate change to melt Greenland ice
• 2007/12/12: ADN: As ice melts, so do records - Watershed Year: Events in Greenland, at sea called ominous
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Greenland melt accelerating, according to CU-Boulder study
• 2007/12/11: TerraDaily: Current Melting Of Greenland Ice Mimics 1920s-1940s Event
• 2007/12/11: ENN: Greenland ice sheet melting at record rate
• 2007/12/11: Eureka: Greenland melt accelerating, according to CU-Boulder study
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Greenland ice sheet melting at record rate
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Greenland ice sheet melting at record rate
  Top climate scientist Konrad Steffen says the Greenland ice sheet melted at a record rate this year, the largest ever since satellite measurements began in 1979
• 2007/12/10: OSU: Current melting of Greenland's ice mimics 1920s-1940s event

  Thirdly, observations of Arctic mud reveals patterns:

• 2007/12/13: TerraDaily: Arctic Expeditions Find Giant Mud Waves And Glacier Tracks
• 2007/12/12: OSU: Arctic expeditions find giant mud waves, glacier tracks

  That ice measuring Arctic trek has been postponed for a year:

• 2007/12/14: ENN: Arctic explorers postpone sea ice study [for a year]

  And then there was the usual Arctic fare:

• 2007/12/12: DotEarth: Arctic Update: Resilient Bears, Shrinking Ice
• 2007/12/13: KSJT: More today on Arctic warm-up and related climate change science news
• 2007/12/13: NatureTGB: Arctic ice -- never say die
• 2007/12/12: FergusB: Did someone stir the Martini?
• 2007/12/11: TerraDaily: Norway's Arctic islands at their hottest since Viking era: scientists
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles in Sediments
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Norway's Arctic islands at their hottest since Viking era: scientists

  The AGU held their yearly conference:

• 2007/12/15: RealClimate: Rolling up the circus tent: Dispatch #7 [AGU]
• 2007/12/13: CNet: Global warming worry: Accelerating pace of change [AGU]
• 2007/12/14: NatureCF: AGU meeting: Jim Hansen bites back
• 2007/12/14: NatureCF: AGU meeting: The outlook for the Arctic
• 2007/12/14: NatureCF: AGU meeting: What the president's science advisor says about climate change
• 2007/12/14: RealClimate: Live (almost) from AGU - Dispatch #6
• 2007/12/12: CSW: A climate scientist in the "reality-based community" finds science advisor Marburger talk "scary"
• 2007/12/13: RealClimate: Notes from The Gathering #5: Arctic sea ice: is it tipped yet?
• 2007/12/13: RealClimate: Live (almost) from AGU - Dispatch #4
• 2007/12/12: RealClimate: Hot off the projector #3: Atmospheric CO2 to 800 kyr ago
• 2007/12/12: RealClimate: Live (almost) from AGU - Dispatch #2
• 2007/12/11: KSJT: Lots of Ink: News from the American Geophysical Union Meeting
• 2007/12/11: RealClimate: Live (almost) from AGU - Dispatch #1
• 2007/12/12: CSW: A climate scientist in the "reality-based community" finds science advisor Marburger talk "scary"
• 2007/12/12: QuarkSoup: Marburger Speech at AGU
  [...] Someone at Bali said the mood is, they are standing around the bed of the Bush Administration, waiting for it to finally die. You can see why.

China and India have reported massive finds of methane clathrates off their coasts:

• 2007/12/13: DerSpiegel: Warning signs on the ocean floor - China and India Exploit Icy Energy Reserves
  China and India have reported massive finds of frozen methane gas off their coasts, which they hope will satisfy their energy needs. But environmentalists fear that tapping these resources could have adverse effects on the world climate.
• Wiki: Clathrate gun hypothesis

  And a report that we are going to see more moisture in the northern hemisphere:

• 2007/12/13: SciDaily: Rising Carbon Dioxide Signals Wetter Storms For Northern Hemisphere, Study Says
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Rising CO2 signals wetter storms for Northern Hemisphere
• 2007/12/11: Eureka: Rising CO2 signals wetter storms for Northern Hemisphere, says CU-Boulder study
• 2007/12/10: KSJT: San Antonio Express-News: Think South Texas weather is wild now? Just wait --- (for more global warming)
• 2007/12/10: NewScientist: Stormy weather ahead for US

  Late Coverage of the Bali Declaration:

• 2007/12/14: MongaBay: Scientists: cut emissions now to avoid climate tipping point
• 2007/12/09: MTobis: And So Say All of Us [Bali Declaration]

  Late Coverage of the CCPI:

• 2007/12/15: TreeHugger: Climate Performance [Index] Watch 2008 Released In Bali
• 2007/12/13: ClimateP: Germany's Watch on the World

  Late Coverage of that McKinsey & Co. report:

• 2007/12/09: WorldChanging: US CO2 reduction: the first 40% is cheap

  A December surprise called Olga showed up:

• 2007/12/14: UN: After second deadly storm [Olga] strikes Dominican Republic, UN relief agencies step in
• 2007/12/14: TerraDaily: Tropical Storm Olga's death toll in Caribbean reaches 25
• 2007/12/13: Wunderground: Olga: deadliest December tropical storm ever; Northeast U.S. braces for storms
• 2007/12/12: ClimateP: Hurricane season not quite over yet
• 2007/12/12: BBC: Caribbean hit by tropical storm
  Tropical storm Olga, a rare December cyclone, has caused major floods and landslides in the Caribbean, killing at least eight people, officials say. Hardest-hit was the Dominican Republic, where at least seven died and thousands were forced to flee their homes. One person died in Puerto Rico. The storm slammed into the region on Tuesday - 10 days after the official end of the Atlantic hurricane season
• 2007/12/12: Intersection:CCM: Tropical Storm Olga: The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season Weirdness Continues
• 2007/12/12: Wunderground: Olga falling apart; big 'Noreaster coming Sunday
• 2007/12/12: Eureka: Climate's remote control on hurricanes
  Scientists determine that natural climate changes can intensify hurricanes more efficiently than global warming
• 2007/12/11: CNN: Olga becomes a tropical storm
  Top sustained winds reach 60 mph - Olga is expected to stay over land during the next 24 hours - Up to 10 inches of rain are possible over Hispaniola, forecasters warn - The Atlantic hurricane season officially ended November 30
• 2007/12/11: DotEarth: December Surprise: Sub-Tropical Storm Olga
• 2007/12/11: Wunderground: Olga pounds Puerto Rico; major 'Noreaster coming Sunday
• 2007/12/11: Wunderground: A rare December named storm for the Atlantic: Olga
• 2007/12/11: ENN: Subtropical storm Olga forms in Caribbean
• 2007/12/10: NOAA: Subtropical Storm OLGA Public Advisory
• 2007/12/10: Wunderground: Puerto Rico braces for a December surprise: 94L
• 2007/12/10: Wunderground: Hurricane season not over?

  And in other hurricane news:

• 2007/12/11: SciDaily: Smaller Storms Drop Larger Overall Rainfall In Hurricane Season
• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: Smaller Storms Drop Larger Overall Rainfall In Hurricane Season
• 2007/12/09: Eureka: Smaller storms drop larger overall rainfall in hurricane season

  Meanwhile GHGs are still going up:

• 2007/12/16: NYT:PK: Carbon dioxide blogging
• 2007/12/10: Eureka: Nitrous oxide from ocean microbes

  And in the carbon cycle:

• 2007/12/11: NewScientist: Peatland destruction is releasing vast amounts of CO2
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: New [C&N cycle] model revises estimates of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake
• 2007/12/11: UIUC: New [C&N cycle] model revises estimates of terrestrial carbon dioxide uptake
• 2007/12/10: Eureka: Greenhouse gas from English streams
• 2007/12/10: Eureka: Climate gas could disrupt food chain

  As for the temperature record:

• 2007/12/13: UN: Past decade the warmest ever, says UN meteorological agency [WMO]
• 2007/12/14: NatureCF: How hot was 2007?
• 2007/12/13: CNN: Scientists take 2007's temperature
  Annual temperature for 2007 in U.S. is expected to be near 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit - March and August were the second warmest in more than 100 years - Temperatures worldwide were also in record territory
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): 11 hottest years were in last 13: UK Met Office
• 2007/12/14: TerraDaily: Another Warm Year As Bali Conference Ends
• 2007/12/14: OilChange: Reasons to Act 1: Decade Hottest on Record
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): UK heading for second hottest year on record
• 2007/12/13: ENN: All 11 hottest years were in last 13: UK Met Office
• 2007/12/13: ENN: 2007 among top 7 warmest years: WMO
• 2007/12/13: SciDaily: Top 11 Warmest Years On Record Have All Been In Last 13 Years
• 2007/12/11: ClimateP: NASA: 2007 Second Warmest Year Ever, with Record Warmth Likely by 2010
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Globe continues to warm: WMO
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: 1998-2007 warmest decade, UN agency [WMO] says at climate meet
• 2007/12/13: NatureTGB: How hot was 2007?
• 2007/12/13: BBC: 2007 data confirms warming trend - 2007 has been one of the warmest years since 1850, despite the cooling influence of La Nina conditions
• 2007/12/13: Reuters: All 11 hottest years were in last 13: UK Met Office

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2007/12/10: McClatchyDC: Greenland ice melts at record rate, scientists find
• 2007/12/14: People's Daily: Survey: Glaciers in west China shrink 7 to 18% in five years

  Here's one of those "Now isn't that odd" observations:

• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: New Tibetan Ice Cores Missing A-Bomb Blast Markers; Suggest Himalayan Ice Fields Haven't Grown In Last 50 Years
• 2007/12/11: OSU: New Tibetan ice cores missing a-bomb blast markers; Suggest Himalayan ice fields haven't grown in last 50 years

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2007/12/11: TreeHugger: Rising Seas, Falling Villas

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2007/12/14: PhysOrg: Canada launches satellite [Radarsat-2] on Russian rocket
• 2007/12/13: CBC: Canadian satellite [Radarsat-2] set to keep an eye on Arctic
• 2007/12/12: PhysOrg: NASA Satellites Help Lift Cloud of Uncertainty on Climate Change

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

• 2007/12/14: BobPark: What's New? #2) Energy bill: Senate Democrats capitulate. #5) DSCOVR: "The Whole Earth comes into focus."

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2007/12/16: SMH: Thousands of walruses killed as sea ice melts
  Thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in huge numbers, it was revealed yesterday. Many of the youngest and weakest animals, mostly calves born in the spring, were crushed. Scientists blamed the mass deaths on global warming.
• 2007/12/15: ENN: Chinese Researchers: Climate Change 'Boosts Plant Health In China'
• 2007/12/14: Yahoo: As ice thins, so does Canada's polar bear population
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Namibia's poor 'will be hit hard' by climate change
• 2007/12/12: ENN: Climate change drying up Western Rockies
• 2007/12/12: Eureka: Global climate change: The impact of El Niño on Galápagos marine iguanas
• 2007/12/12: NYT: Poor Hit Hardest by Climate Change
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): The winds of climate change
  Bangladesh has always suffered more than its share of natural disasters, but the recent cyclone is only part of worsening climatic instability that is threatening ordinary people's ability to survive
• 2007/12/10: Reuters: High clouds show effects of climate change: study
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: Bird by bird - A third of avian species on land could disappear this century as a result of climate change
• 2007/12/11: SciDaily: World's Protected Areas Threatened By Climate Change, New Study Shows
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: Declining water levels in the Great Lakes may signal global warming
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Tropical birds need emergency help against climate change: report
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: New study shows world's protected areas threatened by climate change
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: Indonesia Begins Plan to Save Orangutans [by protecting tropical jungle habitat from logging, mining and palm oil plantations]

  It looks like we might have another photogenic icon species:

• 2007/12/15: SciDaily: Penguins In Peril As Climate Warms
• 2007/12/11: NatureTGB: Penguins and global warming
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Penguin population hit by global warming
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): Bleak future for Antarctic penguins, report warns

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2007/12/14: TreeHugger: World Bank Plan Aims to Reduce Deforestation and Forest Degradation
• 2007/12/11: TerraDaily: 160-million-dollar plan to save forests launched at Bali talks
• 2007/12/12: NEN: The riddle of the forests
• 2007/12/10: CCurrents: Forests Could Cool or Cook The Planet
• 2007/12/10: TruthOut: Norway to Spend Billions on Preserving Rainforests
• 2007/12/09: TerraDaily: Norway gives 375 million euros a year to halt deforestation
  Norway will spend three billion kroner a year to help prevent deforestation in developing countries, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday
• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: New Report On Deforestation Reveals Problems Of Forest Carbon Payment Schemes
• 2007/12/10: TreeHugger: Costa Rica Plants 5 Million Trees to Combat Climate Change

  Corals are dying:

• 2007/12/14: NatureTGB: Coral reefs are on the ropes
• 2007/12/14: TruthOut: Acidic Seas May Kill 98 Percent of World's Reefs by 2050
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): Reef survival hinges on emissions cuts, green group says
• 2007/12/14: TerraDaily: Immediate Action Needed To Save Corals From Climate Change
• 2007/12/14: ENN: Immediate action needed to save corals from climate change
• 2007/12/14: SciDaily: Global Warming Is Destroying Coral Reefs, Major Study Warns
• 2007/12/14: Eureka: Coral reefs unlikely to survive in acid oceans
• 2007/12/14: OilChange: Reasons to Act 2: Coral Reefs Will Die Before 2050
• 2007/12/14: CDreams: Guardian(UK): Acidic Seas May Kill 98% of World's Reefs by 2050
• 2007/12/14: Guardian(UK): Acidic seas may kill 98% of world's reefs by 2050
• 2007/12/14: JQuiggin: The future of coral reefs, if any
• 2007/12/13: QuarkSoup: Death to Corals
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Acid seas huge threat to coral reefs: study
• 2007/12/13: Eureka: It's official: The carbon crisis is lethal for coral reefs
• 2007/12/13: Eureka: Immediate action needed to save corals from climate change
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Barrier Reef could be gone within 30 years: study
• 2007/12/13: DotEarth: Carbon Dioxide Is Double Threat to Reefs
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Immediate action needed to save corals from climate change
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Coral Reefs Unlikely to Survive in Acid Oceans

  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2007/12/15: CBC: Eastern Canada braces for major storm - Warnings issued for Ontario, Quebec, N.B., N.S., N.L.
• 2007/12/13: AP: Deadly Winter Storm Hits Northeast
• 2007/12/13: WSWS: Ice storm leaves half million without power in Central US
• 2007/12/11: CNN: Massive 'ice-maker' stops Heartland cold
  Ice cuts power to about a million homes and businesses - Number of deaths blamed on storm rises to 24 - Ice, sleet, snow force schools to close throughout Iowa, Wisconsin - Oklahoma utility predicts week to 10 days before many will regain electricity
• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: At least 11 dead as ice storm sweeps central US
• 2007/12/11: Reuters: Ice storm wreaks havoc in Midwest
• 2007/12/10: BBC: Ice storm in US claims 14 lives
• 2007/12/10: Reuters: Ice storm leaves 533,000 without power
• 2007/12/10: AP: Ice Storm Causes Blackouts, 15 Deaths
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Fourteen dead as ice storm sweeps U.S. Plains

  And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2007/12/15: CanWest: China says it will run short of water by 2030
  Global warming will make drought an increasingly serious threat, Beijing warns
• 2007/12/13: EnergyBulletin: Agriculture: the price of adaptation
• 2007/12/12: TerraDaily: Grim harvest for Australian farmers
  Ask Stephen Lander what is helping Australian farmers survive the worst drought in living memory and he smiles before revealing the secret: "An understanding bank manager." "You will find that 80 to 90 percent of farmers are all living on borrowed money," he explains at the hot and dusty property he has worked for decades in the baking dry central west of New South Wales. As the worst drought in a century grips much of the country, the nation's 130,000 farmers are bearing the brunt of the impact as their hopes for an income again die as their crops fail
• 2007/12/13: DailyGreen: No Solution to Drought in Sight: Atlanta Water Czar
• 2007/12/13: AngryBear: Southeast water update
• 2007/12/09: JFleck: And Then It Rained [Aus]

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2007/12/14: GristMill: Time for some rehab - Agriculture is drunk on corn-based ethanol
• 2007/12/12: WaPo: Food vs. Fuel
• 2007/12/10: AutoBG: Economist (magazine) figures a tank of ethanol = food for a year

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

• 2007/12/14: CasaubonsBook: The Price of Things
• 2007/12/13: TreeHugger: Is Zero-Carbon Farming Even Possible?
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Moss is a super model for feeding the hungry - One of the simplest plants on the planet could help scientists create crops to survive the ravages of drought
• 2007/12/11: Reuters: Hungers global hotspots
  Countries where violence persists and populations live in fear. People in Hunger's Global Hotspots don't know what tomorrow will bring and they often have to rely on WFP for their next meal
• 2007/12/12: CCurrents: Growing Food When The Oil Runs out
• 2007/12/11: FTimes: Concerns over food inflation as harvests fail
  The global economy is facing a second wave of food inflation after the US agriculture department on Tuesday warned of significant falls in stocks of corn, wheat and soyabean and heavy demand. Officials forecast US wheat stocks would shrink to their lowest level in 60 years, dropping from 312m bushels to 280m by the end of the 2007-08 crop year
• 2007/12/10: Eureka: Food source threatened by carbon dioxide

  This report makes me wonder what is going on in China:

• 2007/12/12: ChinaDaily: Cities told to keep [10-day] food, oil reserves

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2007/12/13: ENN: Fund targets emissions cuts in peatlands conservation

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2007/12/13: EnvFin: LA port to restrict emissions from ships, trains and trucks
• 2007/12/14: Stuff(NZ): Sustainable transport drives strategy update
• 2007/12/13: AutoBG: International Transport Forum asks why use expensive biofuels?

  While in the endless quest for sustainable building codes:

• 2007/12/12: TreeHugger: Spain Leading the Way with Eco-Friendly Home Plan
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: Greening public housing - green retrofits of NYC public housing
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Spain unveils green home plan to beat global warming

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2007/12/15: HeraldSun: Carbon's rocky road
  Carbon projects to bury CO2 are caught between a rock and a hard place as the concluding Bali climate change talks keep them dangling...
• 2007/12/12: CBC: Regina firm goes global to fight global warming [CCS tech]
• 2007/12/11: NEN: Sequestration research promising

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2007/12/12: Yahoo: A big chill for global warming
• 2007/12/12: CSM: A big chill for global warming - A techno-fix to quickly cool the planet needs research in light of new data that climate change is coming fast
• 2007/12/11: BBC: Hold back the geo-engineering tide
  Projects that add nutrients to the world's oceans in order to create algal blooms that will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere are scientifically unsound, argues Kristina Gjerde, high seas policy advisor to the World Conservation Union. In this week's Green Room, she calls on delegates at the UN climate conference to halt schemes that could do more harm than good

While on the adaptation front:

• 2007/12/11: TreeHugger: The Importance Of Climate Change Adaptation

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2007/12/14: ACPD: Validation of ACE-FTS v2.2 methane profiles from the upper troposphere to lower mesosphere by M. De Maziare et al.
• 2007/12/13: ACPD: Aerosol distribution over Europe: a model evaluation study with detailed aerosol microphysics by B. Langmann et al.
• 2007/12/13: ACPD: Total Observed Organic Carbon (TOOC): A synthesis of North American observations by C. L. Heald et al.
• 2007/11/: UKCIP: (114k - pdf) Climate Digest
• 2000/06/05: USNavy: Modeling Recent Climate Variability in the Arctic Ocean by W. Maslowski et al.
• 2007/12/11: ACP: Balloon-borne radiometer measurements of Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude stratospheric HNO3 profiles spanning 12 years by M. Toohey et al.
• 2007/12/10: ACPD: Representativeness and climatology of carbon monoxide and ozone at the global GAW station Mt. Kenya in equatorial Africa by S. Henne et al.
• 2007/12/10: ACPD: Measurement of the water vapour vertical profile and of the Earth's outgoing far infrared flux by L. Palchetti et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Rapid diversification and dispersal during periods of global warming by plethodontid salamanders by David R. Vieites et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Observational evidence for volcanic impact on sea level and the global water cycle by A. Grinsted et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Changes in severe thunderstorm environment frequency during the 21st century caused by anthropogenically enhanced global radiative forcing by Robert J. Trapp et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Global fish production and climate change by K. M. Brander
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Global food security under climate change by Josef Schmidhuber & Francesco N. Tubiello
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Climate change impacts on forestry by Andrei P. Kirilenko & Roger A. Sedjo
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Adapting agriculture to climate change by S. Mark Howden et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Crop and pasture response to climate change by Francesco N. Tubiello et al.
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: The impact of climate change on smallholder and subsistence agriculture by John F. Morton
• 2007/12/11: PNAS: Climate change and the adequacy of food and timber in the 21st century by William E. Easterling
• 2007/12/10: GRL: (ab$) Reduction in temporal and spatial extent of the Indian summer monsoon by K. V. Ramesh & P. Goswami

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

• 2007/12/13: SciNow: Remote Lake May Be Treasure Trove of Climate Data [AGU]
  The sediments at the bottom of the lake in Northen Quebec's Pingualuit Crater hold unmatched clues to North America's climate record.
• 2007/12/11: UArk: Arctic Impact Crater Lake Reveals Interglacial Cycles in Sediments
• 2007/12/11: SciDaily: Scientists Develop New Measure Of 'Socioclimactic' Risk
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: Scientists develop new measure of 'socioclimactic' risk
• 2007/12/09: BSD: A paper I need to read [Climate agreements based on responsibility for global warming: Periodic updating, policy choices, and regional costs by Rive, N et al.]
• 2007/12/10: JFleck: Is India's Monsoon Declining?
• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: New Research May Lead To Better Climate Models For Global Warming, El Nino
• 2007/12/10: OSU: West Antarctica to be covered with scientific instruments; Network to keep watch through the dark polar night

  Thomas Crowley piped up with a trenchant comment:

• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): In the short term, there'll be no major action against climate change
  To tackle global warming we need a shift in attitudes unprecedented in peace time, says Thomas Crowley

A mercifully singular report from the PFC:

• 2007/12/11: Stoat: Misrepresented

  Meanwhile on the Kyoto front:

• 2007/12/11: NatureN: Kyoto Protocol turns 10 in Bali - Talk of targets overshadows birthday celebrations
• 2007/12/11: AFP: Kyoto's 10th birthday marred by problems in forging new pact

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2007/12/15: SMH: Bali's business bonanza
• 2007/12/11: CarbonFin: EC climate package could trigger EUA price jump - analyst
• 2007/12/11: TruthOut: Who Pays for Carbon on "Made in China" Labels?
• 2007/12/10: ENN: IETA [International Emissions Trading Association] says 2007 carbon market could hit $70 billion

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2007/12/13: HoustonChronicle: Bloomberg: Carbon Tax Better Than Trades
  New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, at a U.N. climate conference drawing hundreds of emissions traders, said Thursday the growing carbon cap-and-trade industry is vulnerable to "special interests, corruption, inefficiencies," and should be replaced by straight carbon taxes.
• 2007/12/11: EUO: Nobel laureates propose global CO2 tax

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

• 2007/12/15: ERabett: Rabett's Simple Plan for Saving the World
• 2007/12/16: NYT: A Carbon Cap That Starts in Washington
• 2007/12/15: EconView: Carbon Consumption Caps
• 2007/12/15: AutoBG: Carbon Catalog update, now it's twice as good
  The Carbon Catalog website opened up back in September and since then has gotten about twice as informative, doubling the amount of data available on carbon offset organizations.
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Probing Question: What are carbon offsets?
• 2007/12/10: EnvEcon: Carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2007/12/12: HuffPo: This Earth Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us
  We're locked in an existential game of "chicken" with China, each nation daring the other not to take its foot off the gas pedal as we careen towards catastrophe. We don't want to change the way we live, and the Chinese want to live the way we do, too. Unfortunately, the limitations of our finite world make that a mathematical impossibility.
• 2007/12/12: AutoBG: European biodiesel manufacturers against US biodiesel imports (again) ["subsidized dumping"]
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: My country, right or ... wait, no, that's definitely wrong - US and EU demand import-tariff reductions on stuff that they export

  As for GW & security:

• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: Climate change could lead to conflict, instability: UN report
• 2007/12/10: ENN: World needs robust climate pact for security: study [by German Advisory Council on Global Change]
• 2007/12/10: Yahoo: Climate change could lead to conflict, instability: UN report
• 2007/12/10: Hindu: Climate change could heighten tensions and trigger conflicts worldwide...

  The lower levels of government vs the upper?

• 2007/12/12: Yahoo: Europe's cities take the lead on cutting emissions
• 2007/12/12: Yahoo: Our view on energy mandates: States wean from fossil fuels, so why can't Washington?
• 2007/12/12: CSM: Europe's cities take the lead on cutting emissions
  Outpacing global efforts, they've set targets even more ambitious than those on the table at this week's climate talks in Bali

Here's one for the conspiracy buffs:

• 2007/12/12: GRC: Weather Warfare: Beware the US military's experiments with climatic warfare - 'Climatic warfare' has been excluded from the agenda on climate change

  And on the American political front:

• 2007/12/15: ERabett: Bali Rants
• 2007/12/12: SeattlePI: Global Warming: Melting delusions
• 2007/12/14: ClimateP: The War on Hanukkah
• 2007/12/14: GristMill: Australians R Us! No country in the world is more like the U.S., so where's our national climate-change leader?
• 2007/12/14: NEN: Michigan Governor [Jennifer Granholm] talks green jobs
• 2007/12/13: EnvFin: Carbon emissions influence credit quality in US - S&P
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): Kerry blasts Bush for resisting Bali climate goals
• 2007/12/10: MTobis: Do Politicians Understand Science at All?
• 2007/12/11: DeSmogBlog: Bali: Obama "Objection" Looks Like Defence of Status Quo
• 2007/12/11: NEN: Florida to fight over new energy
• 2007/12/10: ClimateP: The fools on the Hill: Greed versus Green
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: What gets measured gets fixed [Calif/US pol]
• 2007/12/10: inel: No thanks to Connaughton and BushCo
• 2007/12/10: WarmingLaw: "Grandstanding" on Climate Change
• 2007/12/10: WarmingLaw: Tea Leaves: An Endangered EPA Finding
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Kerry sells Democrats' green message in Bali

  Some White House aides bluntly stated Bush wasn't going to do anything on climate:

• 2007/12/12: TruthOut: Hard Choices on Climate Can Wait for Next President, Aides Indicate
• 2007/12/12: WaPo: Hard Choices on Climate Can Wait for Next President, Aides Indicate
  U.S. officials at U.N. climate negotiations here said Tuesday that they would not embrace any overall binding goals for cutting global greenhouse gas emissions before President Bush leaves office, essentially putting off specific U.S. commitments until a new administration assumes power in 2009, according to several participants

The energy & climate bills in Congress:

• 2007/12/15: AutoBG: How corn ethanol will fare under new energy bill
• 2007/12/15: PeakEnergy: 2008 Energy Bill: The Senate Must Have a Sense of Humour
• 2007/12/14: REA: Energy Bill Update: Senate Approves Compromise Legislation
• 2007/12/14: TruthOut: Senate Energy Bill: First Skirmish Over US Greenhouse-Gas Regulation
• 2007/12/14: TruthOut: Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes
• 2007/12/13: TruthOut: Senate Republicans Block Energy Bill
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): US Senate approves tough new fuel efficiency laws
• 2007/12/14: GristMill: Annals of irritants, part three -- Louisiana's Sen. Landrieu votes against party, for Big Oil
• 2007/12/14: GristMill: Annals of irritants, part two -- Arlen Specter proclaims importance of fighting climate change in Bali; votes against it in D.C.
• 2007/12/13: GristMill: Annals of irritants -- Feinstein agrees with Big Auto about federal fuel efficiency standards
• 2007/12/14: HillHeat: White House-Approved Energy Bill Passes Senate 86-8
• 2007/12/14: WarmingLaw: More Preemptive War (and More to Come)
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Big Oil's Negative Drumbeat [about renewables] Falling on Deaf Ears
• 2007/12/13: ENN: Senate oks energy bill to cut vehicle fuel use
• 2007/12/14: NEN: Senate passes old energy bill
• 2007/12/14: SF Gate: Senate energy bill: Tough fuel standards in, renewable package out
• 2007/12/14: CSM: Senate energy bill: first skirmish over US greenhouse-gas regulation
  This week's Senate battle over the energy bill heralds a longer fight on climate change, some analysts say.
• 2007/12/14: NYT: Industry Flexes Muscle, Weaker Energy Bill Passes
• 2007/12/13: HillHeat: Energy Bill Filibustered By One Vote: Reid To Drop Oil-for-Renewable Tax Package
• 2007/12/13: GristMill: Senate Republican minority blocks energy bill
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: Now it's the CAFE standards - Yet more energy bill woes
• 2007/12/12: Yahoo: Senate energy bill calls Bush's bluff on veto
• 2007/12/13: Yahoo: Senate Republicans block energy bill
• 2007/12/13: AutoBG: Senate Democrats trying to modify energy bill to get it passed
• 2007/12/13: AutoBG: Third times a charm? Second vote on energy bill comes up 1 vote short
• 2007/12/13: AngryBear: Energy control - the current energy bill
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: Corn ethanol to the max - Bush to ethanol industry: don't worry, you're gonna get your fat mandate
• 2007/12/12: WarmingLaw: What They Want, And What It Will Cost Us
• 2007/12/12: HillHeat: Reid Announces New Energy Bill Compromise, Drops RES [Renewable Energy Standard]
• 2007/12/12: WarmingLaw: About That Veto Threat...
• 2007/12/12: NEN: Lobbying attack on new energy [bills]
• 2007/12/12: WaPo: [Reworked] Senate Energy Bill Drops Utility Rules, Keeps Most of Tax Package
• 2007/12/12: NYT: Veto of Energy Measure Is Raised as a Possibility
• 2007/12/11: HillHeat: EE News Interviews ex-NRDC Lieberman Staffer David McIntosh on Bill Prospects
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: What are the most important elements in a climate bill? On Lieberman-Warner, long-term emissions targets, and picking a trajectory
• 2007/12/10: DeSmogBlog: U.S. Energy Industry Lobbies for Bush Do-Nothing Plan
• 2007/12/10: NEN: Senate steps up to cap-and-trade

  The House Oversight Committee approved a report on White House manipulation of science:

• 2007/12/12: CSW: House Oversight approves report on political interference with climate science communication
• 2007/12/12: CSW: House Oversight Committee report contradicts NOAA Administrator Lautenbacher's testimony
• 2007/12/11: CSW: CSW director: White House under Clinton-Gore "was not at war with the mainstream science community"
• 2007/12/12: DeSmogBlog: The Waxman Cometh
• 2007/12/12: CSM: Study finds White House manipulation on climate science
• 2007/12/11: ABC(US): Max Mayfield: 'No One Forced Me to Say Anything' - Former Hurricane Center Director Contradicts Democrats' Political Pressure Claims
• 2007/12/11: TCR: The "systematic effort to manipulate climate change science"
• 2007/12/11: ClimateP: The sad state of Bush's science advice
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: The White House has systematically tried to manipulate climate change science and minimize the dangers of global warming...
• 2007/12/11: inel: Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science
• 2007/12/12: GWWatch: Bush systematically mislead US on climate change
• 2007/12/10: CSW: House Oversight report on administration political interference with climate change science
• 2007/12/10: Tamino: Bush censors climate science
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: Tampering with the science - Henry Waxman weighs in on Bush admin. efforts to suppress climate science
• 2007/12/10: HillHeat: Draft Oversight Report: Systematic White House Climate Change Censorship
• 2007/12/10: ERabett: Documenting the Atrocities [House Oversight Committee]
• 2007/12/10: BCLSB: Surprising No One...[Oversight committee report]
• 2007/12/10: DeSmogBlog: White House Press Secretary Fumbles on Climate Science Censorship Report
• 2007/12/10: DeSmogBlog: Congress Committee Releases In-Depth Report on White House Climate Science Manipulation
• 2007/12/10: ENN: Democrats' report [House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]: White House misleads on climate
• 2007/12/10: HouseOversight: Report Describes Systematic White House Effort to Manipulate Climate Change Science
• 2007/12/10: ThinkP: White House's manipulation of climate science

  The automakers lost (again) in California [see also Courts below]:

• 2007/12/13: TruthOut: Federal Judge Upholds Law on Emissions in California
• 2007/12/13: CDreams: LA Times: Judge Says California Can Regulate Greenhouse Gases From Cars
• 2007/12/12: USAToday: California wins right to regulate vehicles' emissions
• 2007/12/12: AutoBG: Carmakers' lawsuit thrown out, judge rules California can regulate tailpipe emissions

  The 2008 campaign is not making much climate news:

• 2007/12/13: ABC(US): GOP Candidates Debate Climate Change - John McCain Highlights Moderate Position on Climate Change at GOP Debate
• 2007/12/12: ThinkP: Thompson On Whether Global Warming Is A Threat: "I'm Not Going To Answer"
• 2007/12/11: ThinkP: Huckabee And Thompson: Global Warming Is "Overblown"
• 2007/12/09: ClimateP: Giuliani opposes Congressional fuel economy deal
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: Coal lover to skip climate forum - Rudy Giuliani's ties to dirty energy and efforts to kill the Senate energy bill

  It will be interesting to see if this proposal goes anywhere:

• 2007/12/10: Intersection:CCM: Call for a Presidential Science Debate

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2007/12/16: ClimateP: Gore greens his Tennessee home
• 2007/12/14: GristMill: A little Al for the rest of us - Blogging from Al Gore's speech in Bali
• 2007/12/14: TWM: Al Gore and the presidency...
• 2007/12/11: GristMill: Al Gore is so wrong - There is no comparison between Chinese and American GHG emissions
• 2007/12/11: GristMill: Gore will not serve under any future administration

  While in the UK:

• 2007/12/09: inel: Climate change service and march --- and a voice far-off shouts "Rubbish!"

  The UK has a new chief scientist [John Beddington]:

• 2007/12/13: Guardian(UK): Science chief calls for green technologies
  The government must develop green technologies, such as clean-burning coal and renewable energy sources, to combat the worst effects of climate change, the incoming chief science adviser told an influential group of MPs yesterday. Professor John Beddington, who will take over from Sir David King as the government's chief scientist in January, said there was now a global acceptance that climate change was a serious threat and urged ministers to explore technological fixes to lessen its impact
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Developing green technologies vital, says new chief scientist

  And apparently the UK CO2 record is in the eye of the beholder:

• 2007/12/12: NatureCF: International roaming of the UK carbon footprint [UK 19% above 1990 levels or down 15%?]
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Coming clean on emissions
• 2007/12/10: Guardian(UK): UK's official CO2 figures an illusion - study -- Report reveals Britain's hidden CO2 emissions
  Britain is responsible for hundreds of millions more tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions than official figures admit, according to a new report that undermines UK claims to lead the world on action against global warming. The analysis says pollution from aviation, shipping, overseas trade and tourism, which are not measured in the official figures, means that UK carbon consumption has risen significantly over the past decade, and that the government's claims to have tackled global warming are an "illusion"
• 2007/12/10: Telegraph(UK): UK's greenhouse gas emissions 'up by a fifth' [over the past two decades]

  Labour has made the challenging proposal to switch to all renewables by 2020:

• 2007/12/12: WorldChanging: UK Completely Powered by Renewables by 2020?
• 2007/12/11: KSJT: Lots of (UK) Ink: Brit Energy Sec'y sees HUGE increase in wind energy. Even some greens don't buy it
• 2007/12/10: DerSpiegel: Turbines in the Thames - UK to Expand Offshore Wind Power
• 2007/12/10: BBC: All UK homes could be powered by offshore wind farms by 2020 as part of the fight against climate change, under plans unveiled by John Hutton

  And in Europe:

• 2007/12/11: DerSpiegel: Wishful Thinking on Bali - Merkel's Climate Change Vision Doomed to Fail
• 2007/12/09: GristMill: Why do they hate FreedomCar? French government charges fees to new owners of gas-guzzling vehicles
• 2007/12/10: Guardian(UK): Electrolux urges EU to offer cash for buyers of green white goods [fridges, washing machines & dishwashers]

  James Hansen wrote to the British PM & the German Chancellor regarding coal plants::

• 2007/12/14: BBC: The renowned climate scientist Dr James Hansen says the UK and Germany must resist new coal-fired power stations.
• 2007/12/10: ClimateP: Hansen letter to Brown and Merkel
• 2007/12/09: GristMill: Dear Prime Minister, Dear Chancellor - A letter from James Hansen pleads for action on coal-fired power plants

  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2007/12/16: ABC(Au): Time to roll up sleeves on climate change: Rudd
• 2007/12/16: SMH: Global acts, local issues
• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Tasmanian wind company [Roaring 40s] happy with Kyoto signing
• 2007/12/15: ABC(Au): Aust urged to take lead role in climate change talks [by ACF Australian Conservation Foundation]
• 2007/12/14: SMH: Defining steps in a global dawning
• 2007/12/13: TheAge: Climate change action at what political price?
  "Action to tackle climate change will not be easy. It will require tough choices. And some of these will come at a political price," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told the UN conference, perhaps prophetically. Right now Mr Rudd has a choice in Bali, but so far he has hesitated to make it. The choice is clear: either he embraces critical wording in the draft Bali deal recognising the scientific imperative for developed countries to lead the way in making deep cuts in their emissions by 2020, or he does not. The European Union and much of the developing world have embraced the draft wording. Why? Because it sends a strong signal that the advanced, innovative economies of the world will drive forward the technological revolution that will ultimately be crucial in combating devastating climate change. But as a prime minister in office for just 10 days, supporting these words is a very tough choice for Mr Rudd. He is well aware the US strongly opposes the draft. So does Canada, and probably Japan as well
• 2007/12/12: GWWatch: Rudd the Ratifier clarifys Australia's Kyoto intentions
• 2007/12/12: GWWatch: Singapore PM has a go at Howard's climate policies
• 2007/12/12: ENN: Australia's PM hands over Kyoto papers in Bali
• 2007/12/12: SMH: PM warms to big emission cuts
• 2007/12/12: SMH: Science is clear, but Rudd still hesitates
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): [Queensland Premier Anna] Bligh appoints new climate change council
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Tasmanian teacher kayaks for climate change
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Gold Coast to go carbon neutral by 2020
• 2007/12/12: ABC(Au): Opposition calls on Rudd to end deforestation
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Rudd stands firm on emissions target announcement
• 2007/12/10: SMH: Carbon scheme achievable: economist
  Australia's commitment to set up a carbon-trading scheme by 2010 is achievable but will take a lot of work in a short period of time, economist Ross Garnaut says
• 2007/12/11: SMH: Decision on targets to wait
  The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has refused to speed up a decision on Australia's 2020 greenhouse target, despite it being one of the things organisers of international talks in Bali most want an agreement on
• 2007/12/10: ABC(Au): [Aussia PM kevin] Rudd needs to set specific CO2 targets: [Greens leader, Bob] Brown

  And in India:

• 2007/12/12: GP-India: Is India hiding behind the poor? A new report from Greenpeace on climate injustice

  While in China:

• 2007/12/16: NYT: As China Goes, So Goes Global Warming
• 2007/12/16: AngryBear: China, Rostow, Global Warming, the West
• 2007/12/13: TruthOut: The Last Empire: China's Pollution Problem Goes Global - Can the world survive China's headlong rush to emulate the American way of life?
• 2007/12/12: ISN: The Malthusian energy-trap - The modern crisis of sustainability has echoes of one two hundred years ago - but this time China may prove pioneer not laggard...
• 2007/12/13: SMH: China 'ups fuel output to ensure supply'
  China has reiterated that it is boosting fuel production to meet strong domestic demand and cushion the blow of higher prices on its economy

And in Japan:

• 2007/12/14: ENN: Japan Plans Tax Benefits on Green Auto Fuels
  Japan plans to reduce the tax on prices of "green" auto fuels and make free of duty imports of the plant-origin gasoline additive ETBE, both effective from April, to meet Tokyo's commitments to make more use of such fuels.

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

• 2007/12/15: VideoVox: Canada Will Pay a High Price For Stephen Harper's Mis-Leadership
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: Prairie Sun Setting on Tory Climate Policies
• 2007/12/13: TGBeaver: Harperco has made it: Now a "Minion"...
• 2007/12/12: TStar: Chrétien points finger at Martin over Kyoto - ex-PM says `we lost four years' to meet emission targets
• 2007/12/11: CBC: Ottawa's hard stance at Bali a 'recipe for failure': Dion
• 2007/12/10: G&M: McGuinty blasts Ottawa's stand on climate change
  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has added his voice to the chorus of Canadians who demonstrated across the country this weekend demanding Ottawa live up to its Kyoto commitments to curb greenhouse-gas emissions

An early indication of the Conservatives' intent came from their choice of delegates:

• 2007/12/10: BCLSB: Not Even Pretending Anymore - Ottawa has decided to allow an oil company and several business executives to join the official delegation...
• 2007/12/10: DeSmogBlog: Bali: Canada Puts Energy Before Environment in Delegation
• 2007/12/10: ScottDiatribe: A bit of honesty from Baird and the Cons perhaps?
• 2007/12/10: G&M: Business gets a voice on Canadian delegation at Bali
  After banishing environmentalists and opposition MPs from Canada's delegation to the Bali climate conference, Ottawa has decided to allow an oil company and several business executives to join the official delegation

The Harper government's behaviour at Bali came in for much criticism:

• 2007/12/14: Far-n-Wide: Bring Them Home - Is it over yet? Probably the most embarrassing display on the international stage, in Canadian history...
• 2007/12/14: GStraight: PM harms Canada's green cred at Bali summit
• 2007/12/12: DeSmogBlog: Bali: Leaked Canadian Documents Show Same Old Spin
• 2007/12/04: CBC: Canada flounders on issue of climate change
• 2007/12/12: CanWest: Canada will try to stop declaration on greenhouse gas reduction
• 2007/12/11: Rabble: Climate crime and duplicity - For the Harper government global warming is a business opportunity not an urgent issue of mutual survival
• 2007/12/12: Far-n-Wide: Leading The World - Canada's cumulative "fossil of the day" award score
• 2007/12/12: CanWest: Canadians should be ashamed of our government's actions in Bali
  We're one of the world's Top 10 polluters, yet we try to undermine the climate talks
• 2007/12/10: Maribo: The Canadian Principles
• 2007/12/10: G&M: Tories aim to undermine Bali talks, group [CAN] alleges
• 2007/12/10: TMoS: We're Hypocrites or Maybe Just Harpocrites

  A Canadian security goof threatened environmentalists inappropriately:

• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: Bali: Canadian Security Threatens Enviros with Indonesian Jail
• 2007/12/13: CanWest: Canada's chief of security calls police on protesters
  'He was quite aggressive,' B.C. woman says of official who also stopped two MPs
• 2007/12/12: CanWest: Canadian protesters upset with treatment at climate change summit in Bali
  A youth delegation protesting the Harper government's climate change policies say that a Canadian representative intimidated them on Wednesday with a warning about Indonesian prisons to get them away from a news conference held by Environment Minister John Baird

Baird used the Bali set to make a couple of announcements:

• 2007/12/12: G&M: 'We're getting tough': Baird
  Canada's big polluting businesses have six months to report on their greenhouse gas emissions and will be slapped with binding reduction targets sometime next year, Environment Minister John Baird announced Wednesday. He used an international climate change summit where Canada has faced frequent criticism to deliver his long-awaited emissions timetable. Mr. Baird has given 700 big polluters six months to report on their greenhouse gas levels. He wants the data by May 31 and will use it to impose targets on those companies starting later in the year
• 2007/12/12: TMoS: Framing Global Warming
• 2007/12/10: Far-n-Wide: Damage Control [$85.9 million]
• 2007/12/10: CBC: Baird pledges $86M to help Canadians adapt to climate change
• 2007/12/10: G&M: Baird announces $85.9-million for climate change
  Environment Minister John Bair has announced money Monday to help Canadian communities deal with the effects of climate change

Canadian Environment Minister John Baird is developing his own fan club:

• 2007/12/16: Impolitical: "For most of the conference Environment Minister John Baird disgraced us all"
• 2007/12/15: Far-n-Wide: Is This Guy For Real? [Baird]
• 2007/12/15: Canoe: Environment minister [John Baird] regrets climate deal
  Canada helped gut some of the substance from a world climate-change deal and then expressed regret Saturday when the final agreement was ultimately watered down even more than it had hoped.
• 2007/12/13: JCherniak: John Baird is a Fossil
• 2007/12/11: DeSmogBlog: Canadian Environment Minister Baird Has a Case of the Bali Bumbles
• 2007/12/12: TMoS: Baird - Enviro Confidence Man
• 2007/12/11: ZaphodsHeads: Baird continues to embarrass Canada
• 2007/12/11: CanWest: Baird attacks green groups - Environment minister says their work is a 'failure'

  Quebec is adopting California's emissions standards:

• 2007/12/13: AutoBG: Quebec says "oui" to California's emissions standards
• 2007/12/13: CanWest: Baird blase about Quebec's emissions plan
• 2007/12/12: CBC: Quebec to adopt tough California-style emissions controls
  Quebec will become the first Canadian province to adopt California's stringent auto-emissions standards in a move hailed as part of a domino effect toward greener cars. Environment Minister Line Beauchamp made the announcement early Wednesday atà the UN climate-change summit in Indonesia as a group of environmentalists looked on and applauded. At least four other Canadian provinces are considering a similar plan, and Quebec described its step as part of a historic march toward cleaner cars across North America

The BC forest industry is reporting a 62% emission reduction:

• 2007/12/12: CanWest: Emissions reduced by 62 per cent, report says
  The pulp and paper sector has driven down its greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing by 62 per cent since 1990, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report on the state of the industry in B.C.

The tricky question of the tar sands looms:

• 2007/12/10: OilChange: "The Biggest Evironmental Crime in History"
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: Independent(UK): BP's Project in Alberta: A License to Wreak Environmental Havoc
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: Independent(UK): BP Set To Commit "The Biggest Environmental Crime in History"
• 2007/12/10: Independent(UK): 'The biggest environmental crime in history' [BP in tarsands]
• 2007/12/10: CDreams: BostonGlobe: The Pipeline Dream Lurking in Canada's Wild

  Late coverage of that NHLPA story:

• 2007/12/14: TreeHugger: One Small Step for the NHLPA

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

• 2007/12/12: Xinhuanet: World Bank chief says climate action can work for development
• 2007/12/11: GristMill: It is easy being green - Michael Gelobter argues that the hair-shirtists need to give it a rest
• 2007/12/11: C411: The Real Cost of Climate Policy
• 2007/12/11: EnvEcon: Preventing Climate Change: Would you rather pay $5,600 today or $31 per year for the next 200 years?
• 2007/12/11: PEF: Who bears responsiblity for climate change?

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

• 2007/12/10: ABC(Au): Put carbon tax on babies: academic
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: Parents should pay climate change tax on extra kids: expert

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2007/12/14: Stuff(NZ): Bags packed for doomsday
• 2007/12/11: CDreams: Grist: Beyond the Point of No Return - It's too late to stop climate change -- so what do we do now?
• 2007/12/12: ZMag: Beyond the point of no return
• 2007/12/12: FP: Seven Questions: Planning for a Climate Catastrophe
• 2007/12/10: GristMill: Beyond the point of no return - It's too late to stop climate change, argues Ross Gelbspan -- so what do we do now?
• 2007/12/10: BBC: Climate change goal 'unreachable'
  In public, climate scientists and European politicians are generally optimistic that rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures can be curbed. In private, some are less sanguine; but there has been a widespread unwritten code of optimism to avoid being accused of scaremongering or creating despair. Now, science advisors to two governments with claims to leadership in global climate politics, Germany and the UK, have told BBC News it is unlikely that levels of greenhouse gases can be kept low enough to avoid a projected temperature rise of 2C (3.6F). Professors Sir David King and John Schellnhuber say the world is more than 50% likely to experience dangerous levels of climate change. They believe politicians have been too slow to cut emissions. Current science suggests that above 2C, billions of people will face water shortages, the world's food supplies could be threatened and widespread extinction could be triggered

As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2007/12/14: DotEarth: Media Mania for a "Front-Page Thought" on Climate
• 2007/12/12: CJR: Climate Goes Prime-Time with Couric - CBS candidate interviews lack substance, but the time slot's hard to beat
• 2007/12/13: DotEarth: Pressing Murdoch on The [WallStreet] Journal's Climate Views
• 2007/12/12: Atmoz: Top 10 Peeves about Global Warming, Climate, and Weather
• 2007/12/10: ICGA: CNN compares Al Gore to Jerry Lewis
• 2007/12/11: GristMill: Is the competence of CBS News overblown? Presidential candidates answer dumb question about global warming

  Well, there's no mistaking what David thinks about framing:

• 2007/12/15: QuarkSoup: "Framing" Science...I can't think of a worse idea.

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2007/12/13: WarmingLaw: A Foreign Embarrassment
• 2007/12/13: WarmingLaw: The Power of Mass v. EPA
• 2007/12/14: WarmingLaw: Return of the Patch?
• 2007/12/13: WarmingLaw: Sewing Up the Patchwork Quilt [Calif Automakers]
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: Automakers Lose California Global Warming Lawsuit - A Short-Lived Victory?
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Judge rejects automaker suit over California emissions limits
• 2007/12/13: NYT: Federal Judge Upholds Law on Emissions in California
• 2007/12/12: WarmingLaw: The Auto Industry Loses in Court. Again.
• 2007/12/12: C411: California Judge Rebukes Automakers
• 2007/12/12: ENN: California greenhouse gas law may stand: judge
  California's landmark law requiring cuts in greenhouse gas emissions may stand, a federal court judge in Fresno, California ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments by car makers that federal law should preempt the state's effort. A spokesman for the auto industry, which had argued that California's law is unconstitutional, said an appeal is uncertain. "We're still reviewing the decision and a decision on whether or not to appeal hasn't been made yet," said Charles Territo, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers

The betting meme rolls on:

• 2007/12/13: Stoat: Shrubbery?

  Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:

• 2007/12/12: FuturePundit: Genetically Engineered Organisms To Convert Cellulose To Diesel
• 2007/12/12: FuturePundit: Electricity Dynamic Pricing Spreads
• 2007/12/15: PeakEnergy: Big Oil lets the sun set on renewables
• 2007/12/15: TEB: Ausra [Inc.] Building First U.S. Production Facility for Thermal Solar
• 2007/12/15: ZMag: Stop taking it out of the ground
• 2007/12/15: SMH: Baseload power sits at the core of energy debate
• 2007/12/14: EnergyDaily: Bulgaria forced to import electricity after semi-closure of nuclear plant
• 2007/12/14: NEN: The power of new energy: UN Report
• 2007/12/11: CDreams: Guardian(UK): The Real Answer to Climate Change Is to Leave Fossil Fuels in the Ground
• 2007/12/13: ENN: California scientists create new standard for cleaner transportation fuels [Low Carbon Fuel Standard]
• 2007/12/13: ClimateP: California looks for yet more clean energy
• 2007/12/: ES&T: No new coal
  A safe future requires a much greater percentage of energy conservation, efficiency, and renewables in the global energy mix
• 2007/12/13: PhysOrg: Light Source Lasts 12 Years - No Electricity Needed [tritium glow]
• 2007/12/12: KSJT: Nashua Telegraph: A good place to try to tap tidal power. The Bay of Fundy
• 2007/12/12: NatureN: Oil-eating bacteria make light work of heavy fuel - Unpicking the route by which microbes produce methane could help to boost the process
• 2007/12/12: BBC: A greener way to recover methane - Oil reservoirs could have an environmental make-over with the help of bacteria
• 2007/12/11: EnergyDaily: Xcel Energy Announces Renewable Energy Project Selections
• 2007/12/12: ENN: U.S. still hooked on oil in 2030, but renewables rise
• 2007/12/12: Guardian(UK): Shell plans to take on greener tinge by growing algae [after dropping solar]
• 2007/12/11: ABC(Au): Shell moves to make diesel fuel from algae
• 2007/12/11: PhysOrg: Wind Turbines Produce 'Green' Energy -- and Airflow Mysteries
• 2007/12/11: DeSmogBlog: Job Security Unstable? Renewable Energy is Looking for Employees
• 2007/12/11: NEN: Ocean energy pro & con
• 2007/12/11: SMH: Consumers will be forced to get smart with energy use
  Every household and business in [NSW] the state will be fitted with "smart meters" that tell people how much greenhouse gas they are using at half-hourly intervals, the State Government announced yesterday
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): Big Oil lets sun set on renewables - Shell has quietly shed most of its solar power, while BP is buying into dirty tar sands
• 2007/12/10: KSJT: NYTimes: Yet another stab at an old idea: wave energy
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: Wind power explored off California's coast
• 2007/12/11: Guardian(UK): The real answer to climate change is to leave fossil fuels in the ground [Monbiot]
• 2007/12/10: EnergyDaily: Sunshine To Petrol Project Seeks Fuel From Thin Air
• 2007/12/10: Eureka: Methane from microbes: a fuel for the future

  Meanwhile among the solar afficionados:

• 2007/12/15: ENN: California Town [Clovis] Goes Solar, Collectively
• 2007/12/13: ENN: The Largest Solar Electric System in New England
• 2007/12/11: EnergyDaily: Recurrent Energy Closes 200 Million Dollar Staged Solar Project Fund With Morgan Stanley
• 2007/12/11: EnergyDaily: Solar Energy To Power Pumping Station For Geothermal Plant
• 2007/12/12: TreeHugger: Shell Bails On Old Solar Business: Is It Good News Or Bad?
• 2007/12/11: Forbes: European Solar Power Keeps Spending
• 2007/12/11: OilChange: Shell Sells Solar Businesses
• 2007/12/10: MSNBC: Why did solar energy lose its flare? Underutilized alternative source could curb bad gases [silicon shortage]
• 2007/12/10: NEN: Huge solar plant: First aid for local energy

  The arithmetic of coal carbon is striking home:

• 2007/12/11: GristMill: Pity West Virginia - The backlash against coal has not made it to the halls of power in WV
• 2007/12/11: TreeHugger: Coal: Our Nation's Workhorse

  This would be funny if they weren't completely serious:

• 2007/12/13: GristMill: I do not think that word means what you think it means
  Forest Service objects to Va. 'clean coal' plant that would be one of state's biggest polluters..."It would be one of the biggest polluters in the state, though Dominion refers to it as a 'clean coal' plant."

Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2007/12/15: SciDaily: Carbon Dioxide Expelled From Peatland When Natural Swamp Forest Is Converted To Oil Palm
• 2007/12/14: TruthOut: Biofuels Scarce on Bali Menu
• 2007/12/14: TruthOut: [French] Senators Demand European Moratorium on Biofuel
• 2007/12/14: EnergyDaily: Masada [Resource Group] Team To Produce Ethanol From Municipal Solid Waste In The Dominican Republic
• 2007/12/13: TreeHugger: What Your Mother Didn't Tell You About Biomass
• 2007/12/13: C4: Nobel scientist in biofuel warning
  A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has warned that switching from fossil fuels to biofuels could do the planet more harm than good. Prof Paul Crutzen calculated the global warming effects of the fertiliser needed to grow energy crops like biodiesel and bioethanol were much worse than has been estimated. He believes a larger proportion than thought of the nitrogen in fertilisers is converted into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, New Scientist magazine reported. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has suggested that 1-2% of nitrogen added to fields becomes nitrous oxide. But Prof Crutzen and his colleagues calculated the true figure was closer to 3-5% - enough to negate the savings in carbon dioxide emissions made by switching from fossil fuels
• 2007/12/12: AutoBG: China investing in something worse than bad ethanol: methanol
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: 'Decision-makers' rank GHG abatement technologies - Guess which type of energy comes in last in a recent poll [biofuel]
• 2007/12/12: AutoBG: Most ethanol plants in the US built in economically depressed areas
• 2007/12/10: EnergyDaily: Climate survey pooh-poohs biofuels
• 2007/12/11: AutoBG: Pacific Ethanol, Inc. Suspends Construction of Imperial Valley Ethanol Project
• 2007/12/11: BBC: Low faith in biofuels for climate
  Decision-makers in the climate change field have little faith in biofuels as a low-carbon technology, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) says. Unveiled at the UN climate convention meeting in Bali, its survey suggests professionals have more confidence in bicycles than in biofuels

The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2007/12/14: ABC(Au): Geldof calls for more nuke power plants
  Anti-poverty campaigner Bob Geldof has joined the global warming debate with a call for the rapid expansion of nuclear power, describing renewable energy as a "Mickey Mouse" answer to the climate crisis
• 2007/12/13: PlanetArk: Nuclear Power's "Green" Credentials Under Fire

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2007/12/11: BWeek: IEA exec says oil supply crunch looms
• 2007/12/09: TheDay: We Know We'll Run Out --- the Big Question Is 'When?'

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2007/12/16: PeakEnergy: Fuel Efficiency: Every Little Bit Helps
• 2007/12/14: EnergyDaily: Innovation Is Essential To Increasing Energy Efficiency And Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:

• 2007/12/16: PeakEnergy: The Air Car - A Breath Of Fresh Air Or A Waste Of Breath?
• 2007/12/14: PeakEnergy: Jump Starting Electric Car Production With Lithium Ion Batteries
• 2007/12/12: TEB: Noted in Passing: Toshiba SCiB Battery
• 2007/12/11: DeSmogBlog: Automakers Respond Brilliantly to Incentives
• 2007/12/09: Google:AFP: German battery could jump-start electric car production
• 2007/12/10: TruthOut: Hybrids Post Strong US Sales in November
• 2007/12/10: PhysOrg: German battery could jump-start electric car production
• 2007/12/10: ABC(Au): Car makers pledge support for Bali climate talks
  The chief executives of 13 automobile companies pledged their support for UN climate talks in Bali in a letter published in The Financial Times on Monday. [...] The chief executives of BMW Group, Porsche, DAF Trucks, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Daimler, Renault, Fiat Group, Scania, Ford, Volkswagen, General Motors, Volvo and MAN signed the letter

The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2007/12/13: EnvFin: Asian equity investors face higher climate risk

  Meanwhile in the greenwashing chronicles:

• 2007/12/12: PRWatch: Energy Companies' Gallons of Greenwash
• 2007/12/12: WarmingLaw: How to Greenwash, by Rodney Slater

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2007/12/16: PhysOrg: Small group of US experts insist global warming not man-made
• 2007/12/14: GristMill: [Dessler] It's debate time! Climate skeptic steps up
• 2007/12/14: FergusB: "Not all scientists support mitigation" shock!
• 2007/12/14: Stoat: The official nutters list!
• 2007/12/14: DeSmogBlog: 100 discredited, self-interested and/or deluded "scientists" question climate change
• 2007/12/14: DeSmogBlog: Skeptics Display an Exquisite Sense of Timing!
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: Singer's Deniers Misrepresenting New Climatology Journal Article [link real climate tropical tropo]
• 2007/12/13: Yahoo: Climate skeptics say debate stifled
• 2007/12/13: Deltoid: A picture is worth a thousand words
• 2007/12/12: QuarkSoup: Crisp Words
• 2007/12/12: Tamino: Denial?
• 2007/12/12: Stoat: Convection in the Antarctic Ice Sheet Leading to a Surge of the Ice Sheet and Possibly to a New Ice Age?
• 2007/12/12: RealClimate: Tropical tropospheric trends [Christy]
• 2007/12/11: Eureka: New study increases concerns about climate model reliability [Christy]
• 2007/12/12: ZMag: Political Science Masquerading As Climate Science [Lomborg]
• 2007/12/11: BCLSB: Deniapalooza!! Climate Skeptics Plan Alternative WingDing In New York, March 2008
• 2007/12/11: DeSmogBlog: Urgently needed: A Reality Czech!
• 2007/12/11: PlanetArk: Freedom, Not Climate, is Under Threat - Czech Leader
  The movement against global warming has turned into a new religion, an ideology that threatens to undermine freedom and the world's economic and social order, Czech President Vaclav Klaus said on Monday
• 2007/12/10: Deltoid: You, too, can be a distinguished climate scientist
• 2007/12/10: Stoat: Tropical trends

  Then there was the usual news and commentary:

• 2007/12/16: TheAge: The scarcest resource humanity has is time
• 2007/12/16: DailyIndia: How women can combat global warming - snub men in Ferraris!
• 2007/12/15: PeakEnergy: Failure of Networked Systems
  [...] the idea that the energy, food and financial networks (with the financial network providing the control and feedback function for the others) are now linked
• 2007/12/14: TreeHugger: Mario Molina Calls for Climate Action from Developing Countries...
• 2007/12/13: DeSmogBlog: Research: The New Economics of Global Warming
• 2007/12/14: VoxEU: What is the top priority on climate change?
  No climate-change strategy will work unless it is consistent with developing countries' continued growth. So curbing emissions requires cheaper clean energy than is currently available. And that requires innovation
• 2007/12/12: inel: By our responses we are defined
• 2007/12/12: MTobis: Something Nice About Economists
• 2007/12/12: MTobis: Cato Dude Replies
• 2007/12/12: GristMill: On science vs. economics - Cato's Jerry Taylor responds to Michael Tobis
• 2007/12/13: EconView: Kenneth Arrow: The Case for Cutting Emissions
• 2007/12/12: VoxEU: Climate change negotiations PLC?
  A new climate change prediction market has been launched. Here are the details on motivation and participation.
• 2007/11/29: OtF: Futurism and its Discontents
• 2007/12/09: RI: The pathos of Derrick Jensen
• 2007/12/13: Guardian(UK): Carbon myths - Recycling and banning plastic bags are all very well, but they won't save the planet.
• 2007/12/12: TreeHugger: Nary A "Very Good" In Climate Action
• 2007/12/12: ENN: U.N. aims to provide carbon neutral example
• 2007/12/12: SF Gate: Proposal for center to coordinate energy, climate change research
• 2007/12/11: CCurrents: Who Should Pilot Spaceship Earth?
• 2007/12/11: FergusB: More on the wind, by popular demand
• 2007/12/10: TerraDaily: Analysis: Can agriculture save Africa?
• 2007/12/11: Eureka: New carbon calculator conserves forests - Benefiting local people, species and the global climate
• 2007/12/10: Atmoz: Does it rain less on the weekend?
• 2007/12/10: DotEarth: Peace and Climate and Prizes
• 2007/12/10: RealClimate: Are Temperature Trends affected by Economic Activity (II)?
• 2007/12/10: DeSmogBlog: UK, German science chiefs: "dangerous warming" is inevitable

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

• EnviroMedia
• CCA: Climate Change Action
• Carbon Catalog - Carbon Offset Directory
• Wiki: Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event
• Wiki: Permian-Triassic extinction event
• 2007/12/: IISD: Earth Negotiations Bulletins [Day by day reports in English, French & Spanish]
• ACT for the Earth
• CIRES: Konrad Steffen Research Group
• Ecological Economics
• CDIAC: Trends: Carbon Dioxide Emissions
• REN21: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century

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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