Another week of GW News, October 4, 2009

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October 4, 2009

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Here's a chuckle for ya:

• 2009/09/29: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) The Climate Clock
• 2009/09/29: uComics: (cartoon - Auth) History Class: 2060...

  The Bangkok Climate Change Talks are ongoing:

• UNFCCC: Bangkok Climate Change Talks - 2009
• 2009/10/03: NYT: Only 10 Days Left For Climate Deal, U.N.'S Ban Says
• 2009/10/03: UN: Ban voices hope ahead of final leg of negotiations on climate change treaty
• 2009/10/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Opening our Books & Defending Them: US Proposes Provisions for Countries to Stand Behind Their Global Warming Commitments
• 2009/10/01: C411: Report from Bangkok: Looking for the U.S. to Act
• 2009/10/03: Nation(Th): UNFCCC optimistic as Bangkok talks reach half time
• 2009/10/03: BangkokPost: Climate talks hit hurdle -- No progress made over financial mechanisms
• 2009/10/03: IndiaTimes: EU backs US bid to corner India at climate talks
  Differences between the rich and the developing countries have turned into entrenched battle lines at the ongoing climate negotiations in Bangkok, with the EU backing the contentious proposal of the US to do away with the Kyoto Protocol -- the compact that binds industrialized nations to emission reduction targets under the UN convention. While the US, which has not signed the Kyoto Protocol, has always suggested its demise as the only way forward, the EU had so far not displayed such an inclination.
• 2009/10/03: Xinhuanet: EU nations divided on burden sharing of climate financing
• 2009/10/02: FTimes: Climate change talks fail to break impasse
  Less than 10 weeks before the nations of the world are due to meet in Copenhagen to thrash out a successor agreement to the Kyoto protocol, the differences between poor and rich nations are as wide as ever and becoming more entrenched. Some 1,500 delegates are half way through a two-week meeting in Bangkok in an attempt to break the deadlock and reduce a 180-page discussion document to a more manageable 30 pages. Delegates had hoped to build on the momentum gained in New York two weeks ago when China, Japan and India all made climate change pledges that seemed to mark a break with the acrimonious debates that had gone before. But at a stocktaking meeting on Thursday, it rapidly became apparent that the talks were still deadlocked on the big points.
• 2009/10/02: EUO: EU ups pressure on US over climate financing
• 2009/10/02: UN: Progress on latest climate negotiations mixed, top UN official says
  Progress on climate change negotiations, geared towards December's summit in Copenhagen where a new agreement on limiting greenhouse gas emissions is set to be reached, has been mixed at the latest round of talks, a top United Nations official has reported. Some 4,000 people -- including government delegates from 177 countries and representatives from the private sector and environmental organizations -- are in Bangkok, Thailand, for a two-week penultimate round of negotiations, which kicked off on Monday, ahead of the meeting in the Danish capital. Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said that he found it encouraging that strides have been made in key areas, including adaptation, technology and building developing nations' capacity to deal with global warming.
• 2009/10/01: Google:AFP: UN chief warns of 'glacial pace' in climate talks
• 2009/10/02: Xinhuanet: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urges global leaders to act for agreement in Copenhagen
• 2009/10/01: Reuters: Poor hit back at rich over new carbon emission demands
• 2009/10/02: OilChange: US Action on Climate Dismissed as "Measly"
• 2009/10/02: Reuters: Climate talks stall on targets, finance
• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): India challenges US over 'measly' climate change efforts
• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): The global north-south carbon divide
  Climate change talks must not be allowed to degenerate into a blame game: we need imaginative solutions for all economies
• 2009/10/01: UN: Time for world to act collectively on climate change to avoid catastrophe, warns Ban
• 2009/09/30: Grist: Melting the glacial pace of climate talks
• 2009/09/30: IRIN: Developing countries "left to fend for themselves" on climate change
• 2009/10/01: EarthTimes: UN's Ban and Swedish premier to push for climate deal
• 2009/10/01: COP15: Nations come forward in Bangkok
• 2009/09/30: Grist: U.N. Climate Talks Bangkok day 3: Filipino activists call for justice as Manila floods
• 2009/09/29: BostonHerald: Rich, poor nations divided over climate solutions [in Bangkok]
• 2009/09/29: Reuters: Indonesia CO2 pledge to help climate talks-greens
• 2009/09/30: EarthTimes: Philippines calls for 'deep and early' carbon emission cuts
  Bangkok - Developed countries need to implement "deep and early" carbon emissions cuts to avoid more disasters such as Tropical Storm Ketsana, which has killed 274 in Asia, the Philipine delegation at climate change talks said Wednesday.
• 2009/09/30: HotTopic: Postcard from Bangkok
• 2009/09/29: UN: Role of forests in combating global warming deserves priority at UN talks, Assembly told
• 2009/09/29: NatureTGB: 'Time almost up' for climate negotiations [says UNFCCC head, Yvo de Boer]
• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: Factbox: Key Issues On The Table At Bangkok Climate Talks
• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: "Climate Illiterate" U.S. Seen Risking Warming Inaction
• 2009/09/28: People's Daily: Bangkok's talks to lay foundation for Copenhagen conference: UN official
• 2009/09/28: Google:AFP: Pressure for climate pact grows as UN talks resume
• 2009/09/28: IPSNews: Calls for Massive Financing Kick Off Climate Change Talks
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Fate of US climate bill casts shadow over Bangkok talks
• 2009/09/28: UN: UN-backed negotiations on climate change pact pick up pace [in Bangkok]
• 2009/09/28: Grist: UNFCCC head, Yvo de Boer says time is running out as new round of talks starts up in Bangkok
• 2009/09/28: Grist: Bangkok: day one of the U.N. Climate Negotiations
• 2009/09/28: Xinhuanet: New round of UN climate change talks kicks off in Bangkok
• 2009/09/28: Thaindian: Bangkok climate meet opens amid fresh hope
• 2009/09/26: TerraDaily: UN climate talks resume [in Bangkok] without summit boost
• 2009/09/28: EarthTimes: [Bangkok] Climate change talks kick off with Copenhagen clock ticking
• 2009/09/28: CBC: UN climate talks open in Bangkok -- Nations urged to break deadlock over global warming deal

  Last week it was UNEP. This week the UK Met Office is projecting a 4C degree rise in average global temperatures in 50 years:

• 2009/09/28: MetOffice(UK): Four degrees and beyond
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18°F over most of U.S. and 27°F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years...
• 2009/09/30: NewScientist: No rainforest, no monsoon: get ready for a warmer world [4C+]
• 2009/09/29: NatureN: Climate sizzle could come soon -- UK [Hadley] researchers predict 4 °C rise within decades
• 2009/09/29: NatureCF: 4 Degrees and Beyond: To flee the sea, or not to flee?
• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: 4 Degrees Warming "Likely" Without CO2 Cuts: Study
• 2009/09/29: OBMB: Hotter, Faster: New Report Slices Decades From Warming Scenarios
• 2009/09/29: Telegraph(UK): Met Office: catastrophic climate change could happen with 50 years
• 2009/09/28: BBC: In a dramatic acceleration of forecasts for global warming, UK scientists say the global average temperature could rise by 4C (7.2F) as early as 2060
• 2009/09/28: EurActiv: Catastrophic climate change without tough targets, says report
  Global temperatures may rise by up to four degrees Celsius by the mid-2050s if current greenhouse gas emission trends continue, triggering castastrophic climate change, according to a study published today (28 September) as 190 countries gather in Bangkok to continue negotiations on a new post-Kyoto deal. The study, by the Hadley Centre at Britain's Met Office, echoed a UN report last week which found that climate changes were outpacing worst-case scenarios forecast in 2007 by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
• 2009/09/28: ABC(Au): 4 degrees warming 'likely' without carbon cuts
  Global temperatures may be 4 degrees Celsius hotter by the mid-2050s if current greenhouse gas emissions trends continue, a new [Hadley Centre] study says.
• 2009/09/28: Reuters: 4 degrees warming "likely" without CO2 cuts: [Hadley] study
• 2009/09/28: OilChange: Expect Catastrophic Warming in Your Life-Time ...
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Met Office warns of catastrophic global warming in our lifetimes
  Study says 4C rise in temperature could happen by 2060 -- Increase could threaten water supply of half world population

The Oxford conference Beyond 4 Degrees generated a measure of concern:

• 2009/10/01: SciDaily: What Could 4 Degree Warming Mean For The World?
• 2009/09/30: NatureCF: 4 Degrees and Beyond: Adaptation to what?
• 2009/09/28: NatureCF: 4 Degrees and Beyond: How soon is it coming?
• 2009/09/28: PhysOrg: What could 4 degree warming mean for the world?

  A group of international celebrities has recorded _Beds Are Burning_ for climate action:

• 2009/10/02: ABC(Au): Midnight oil gifts song lyrics to climate change campaign
  The Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garrett, believes a cover of a Midnight Oil song will help build public support for a resolution on climate change.
• 2009/10/02: ABC(Au): Lily Allen, Kofi Annan remake Beds Are Burning
• 2009/10/02: SolveClimate: Climate Movement Asks: How Can We Sleep While Our Beds Are Burning?
• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): Lily Allen and Duran Duran launch celebrity climate campaign track

  With so much going on, the Governator's Global Climate Summit got far less coverage this year:

• 2009/09/30: UNEP: Governor Schwarzenegger and United Nations Open Governors' Global Climate Summit 2 -- States Advance Efforts to Find Solutions to Global Climate Challenge, Build Green Economies
• 2009/10/02: Grist: Ahnold promises 'action' at California climate summit
• 2009/10/01: C411: Message from Governors' Summit: U.S. Must Act
• 2009/10/03: SolveClimate: Not Waiting for Copenhagen: Sub-National Leaders Forge Ahead with Climate Action [at Global Climate Summit]
• 2009/10/02: LA Times: Climate summit delegates like state's planned carbon trading market
  Governors, premiers and environmental officials from around the world attend the conference in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the United Nations.
• 2009/09/30: Grist: At Governator's climate party, EPA chief aims to calm small business worries
• 2009/10/01: SolveClimate: Governors' Global Climate Summit Opens with Eye Toward Copenhagen
• 2009/10/01: SolveClimate: Forests Loom Large at Governors' Global Climate Summit

  The UNCCD conference in Buenos Aires:

• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: UN approves more money to fight desertification [UNCCD]
• 2009/09/28: UN: Ban urges greater focus on drought, desertification in combating climate change [UNCCD]

  And another Major Emitters Forum upcoming in the UK:

• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: Britain To Host Pre-Copenhagen Climate Talks

  And on the Bottom Line:

• 2009/10/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Adapting to Global Warming: $100 Billion Says World Bank (Give or Take a Little Social Change)
• 2009/09/30: UN: Climate change safety in poorer States to cost up to $100 billion a year - World Bank
• 2009/09/30: ABC(Au): The World Bank estimates that it will cost $85 billion to $113 billion a year for developing countries to adapt to climate change
• 2009/09/29: TerraDaily: Poorer states need 'billions' for global warning: World Bank
• 2009/09/30: EarthTimes: World Bank: Climate-change adaptation to cost 75-90 billion dollars [annually from 2010 to 2050]
• 2009/09/30: BBC: $100bn a year for climate safety
  Adapting to impacts of climate change will cost $75-100bn (£47-63bn) per year in the developing world from 2010, a World Bank study concludes. The bank released preliminary findings from its new global study at the latest round of UN climate talks in Bangkok.

Wrapping up Climate Week, etc.:

• 2009/09/28: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Shifting into High Gear: Wrapping up Climate Week, G20 Outcome & on to Bangkok
• 2009/09/27: SolveClimate: G20 Communique: Support for Climate Action, but Few Details

  A curiosity of the weak solar cycle:

• 2009/09/29: NewScientist: Space radiation hits record high
• 2009/09/28: NASA: Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High -- 19% beyond anything we've seen in the past 50 years

  Regarding the Planetary Boundaries:

• 2009/09/28: GreenGrok: Living on the Edge

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2009/09/30: MGS: Assessing predictions
• 2009/10/02: Reuters: Vanishing Arctic ice shows no sign of returning
  On board Coast Guard flight above Beaufort Sea - Out in the Arctic Ocean, about 200 miles (322 km ) north of the nearest human settlement, the future of the world's climate is written in the patterns of ice patches on the water's surface. Old, "multiyear" ice -- the glue that holds the polar ice cap together and forms the Arctic's defense against encroaching warming -- is slowly disintegrating, a process that is plain to see from the air. Thick ice floes used to be kilometers (miles) wide just over a decade ago, said Jim Overland, a sea-ice expert with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who has been surveying the site since the 1990s. Now the narrow floes -- with bright-white tops and a blue underwater glow -- are just meters (yards) wide, observed Overland as he studied the patterns from the window of a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 aircraft. The dense, high-quality ice is not coming back, Overland said.
• 2009/09/30: CCP: H. Douville, GRL (2009), Stratospheric polar vortex influence on Northern Hemisphere winter climate variability
• 2009/09/30: CCP: The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking

  While in Antarctica:

• 2009/10/01: TerraDaily: NASA to resume 'Operation Ice Bridge'
  The U.S. space agency says it is ready to start a study of the Earth's southern ice-covered regions to identify changes in sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers.

The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2009/10/03: BizStd: Food prices may rise 121% by 2050 due to climate change
• 2009/09/30: FAO: 2050: Climate change will worsen the plight of the poor -- Future of agriculture and food security closely linked to climate change
• 2009/09/30: CCurrents: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
• 2009/10/02: CNN: U.S. delaying millions in aid to Somalia, U.N. says
  Washington reviewing claims that money is being diverted to militant group - U.N. estimates 60 percent of people who need aid live in militant-controlled areas - Millions could run out of food in the next few weeks, U.N. says
• 2009/10/02: Reuters: Climate change threatens Brazil's rich agriculture
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
• 2009/09/30: IFPRI: Climate Change to Increase Malnutrition, Raise Food Prices, and Lower Crop Yields
• 2009/09/29: IFPRI: Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture - Factsheet on Sub-Saharan Africa
• 2009/09/29: IFPRI: Climate change: Impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation
• 2009/09/30: NatureN: Climate change will hit developing world harvests hardest -- Report quantifies link between global warming and food security
• 2009/09/30: ABC(Au): Climate change threatens food supplies
  The head of Australia's national science organisation [CSIRO] says climate change poses extraordinary challenges to global food production in the future.
• 2009/09/30: NewScientist: Mixed blessings for world farming's future
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis [IFPRI report]
• 2009/09/29: NYT: East Africa Drought In Fifth Year, Millions Hungry
• 2009/09/29: AllAfrica: IRIN: Zimbabwe: Veld Fires Stoke Food Production Fears

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2009/09/29: EnergyBulletin: Our oily food
• 2009/09/28: IRRI: "Land grabs" for rice production due to supply threats
  Los Baños, Philippines - Recent interest in "land grabs" or the international acquisition of land to produce rice is sparked by a looming threat of inadequate rice supplies. "To put it simply, there is not enough rice to feed the world," says Dr. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI). "To meet the need and keep rice prices around US$300 a ton -- which allows poor rice farmers to make some profit yet keeps rice affordable for poor rice consumers -- we need to produce an additional 8-10 million tons of rice more than in the previous year for the next twenty years." Many countries do not have the capacity to grow enough rice on their own land to meet existing or anticipated demand. To meet their needs governments or the private sector import rice and some are exploring ways to invest in rice production or rice-growing land in other countries.

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2009/09/28: FAO: 2050 - Africa's food challenge -- Prospects good, resources abundant, policy must improve
• 2009/10/02: UN: Thousands of Ugandans return to their farms after 20 years in displaced camps - UN
• 2009/10/02: UN: UN expands food aid in flood-stricken South-East Asia to Laos
• 2009/09/16: Yahoo:AFP: Americans turn to backyard chickens for food, security
  Cindy Thomas spends a quarter of an hour a day tending four hens in her backyard that provide her with eggs she and her husband eat or sell through a ranch supply store in east central Idaho. Thomas is not a farmer and she was not raised on a farm. But the Salmon woman is one of a growing number of Americans who have turned to chickens in the face of a flagging economy, scares about the food supply and a strengthening drive to acquire locally produced food. "It's not that I'm against stuff in the grocery store but, in these times, I feel more secure if I can produce things myself," said Thomas.
• 2009/09/23: Ecologist:B&C: Africa doesn't need a green revolution. It needs agroecology
• 2009/09/30: Grist: Lester Brown speaks sense on the food/climate crisis
• 2009/09/28: BBC: Oxfam launches East Africa appeal
  Oxfam has launched an emergency appeal for £9.5m ($15m) to reach millions of starving people in Ethiopia and other East African countries. The UK-based agency says thousands of animals have already died because of a drought which is the worst in 10 years. Warning signs indicate that the lives and livelihoods of 23 million people are threatened - twice as many as the last serious crisis in 2006. Seven countries are affected, with half of those threatened living in Ethiopia. Other worst affected countries are Kenya, Somalia and Uganda, with Sudan, Djibouti and Tanzania also hit hard.

Again most of the cyclonic action was in the Western Pacific. First Ketsana:

• 2009/10/01: TerraDaily: Ketsana death toll nears 400 as new typhoon brews
• 2009/10/01: NASA: NASA 3-D Map Shows Flooding Rains of Typhoon Ketsana in Philippines
• 2009/10/01: BBC: Philippines braced for new storm [Typhoon Parma]
  [...] The overall death toll for Typhoon Ketsana across the region has risen to more than 380. The storm left at least 277 people dead in the Philippines. At least 92 were killed in Vietnam - most of them because of floodwaters or landslides - while 14 died in Cambodia. Another 10 people were reported to be missing in Laos.
• 2009/09/30: BBC: Typhoon Ketsana blasts Cambodia
  The powerful typhoon that has hit the Philippines and Vietnam with deadly force is now battering Cambodia.
• 2009/09/30: TerraDaily: Typhoon Ketsana kills 11 in Cambodia: official
• 2009/09/30: TerraDaily: Typhoon [Ketsana] kills nearly 50 in Vietnam, Cambodia
• 2009/09/30: TerraDaily: Tears and resilience at flooded Philippine hospital
• 2009/09/30: EarthTimes: Typhoon Ketsana causes flooding in southern Laos
• 2009/09/30: EarthTimes: Typhoon Ketsana leaves at least 38 dead in Vietnam
• 2009/09/30: CBC: Typhoon Ketsana batters Cambodia, Vietnam
• 2009/09/29: BBC: Typhoon [Ketsana] leaves 31 dead in Vietnam
  A powerful typhoon has struck central Vietnam, causing floods and landslides which have killed at least 31 people and forced 170,000 to flee their homes.
• 2009/09/29: UN: UN speeds assistance to Filipino children hit by tropical storm as death count climbs
• 2009/09/29: Wunderground: Typhoon Ketsana hits Vietnam; death toll in Philippines swells to 246
• 2009/09/29: EarthTimes: Tropical storm [Ketsana] kills at least 18 in Vietnam
• 2009/09/29: EarthTimes: Philippines braces for new storms as death toll hits 246
• 2009/09/29: EarthTimes: Philippine floods give global warning
• 2009/09/29: CBC: Philippines, Vietnam assess storm devastation -- Typhoon Ketsana moving toward Laos
• 2009/09/29: WpgFP: Philippine toll of dead, missing rises to 284 as new storms brew in Pacific
• 2009/09/29: BBC: Philippine flood death toll rises
  The Philippines government says 240 people are now known to have died in severe flooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana. The country has appealed for foreign aid to deal with the disaster, which has displaced more than 450,000 people. Some 374,890 people are living in makeshift shelters, three times more than previously reported.
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Philippines storm [Ketsana] death toll rises
  At least 140 people have been killed and scores are missing after tropical storm brings worst flooding for four decades
• 2009/09/28: UN: Philippines: UN dispatches disaster response official in wake of deadly storm
• 2009/09/28: Wunderground: Philippines death toll from Ketsana rises to 140; Vietnam the typhoon's next target
• 2009/09/28: EarthTimes: Toll surpasses 200 as Philippines struggles after flood - Summary
• 2009/09/28: NYT: Toll Hits 140 in Philippine Flooding
• 2009/09/28: CBC: Philippines flood death toll rises to 140
• 2009/09/28: BBC: Philippines flood crisis deepens
  The number of confirmed deaths in the worst floods in the Philippines for 40 years has risen to 86, officials say. The country's defence secretary put the number of those displaced at 435,000, nearly double previous estimates. A massive rescue operation is under way in the wake of Tropical Storm Ketsana, whose torrential rains flooded the capital Manila and nearby provinces.

Then Parma:

• 2009/10/04: CNN: 15 dead as Typhoon Parma whips Philippines
  15 dead in Philippines from Typhoon Parma, local media report - Storm heads to sea after crossing northern Philippines - Tens of thousands of Filipinos sought shelter in evacuation centers - The biggest threat was rain in areas water-logged by Typhoon Ketsana
• 2009/10/04: EarthTimes: Typhoon Parma kills 17 in Philippines
• 2009/10/04: EarthTimes: Typhoon Parma approaches Taiwan, disrupts air traffic - Summary
• 2009/10/03: CNN: Typhoon Parma slams into Philippines
  Tens of thousands of Filipinos sought shelter in evacuation centers - The biggest threat was rain in areas water-logged by Typhoon Ketsana - The country is "under the state of calamity" in preparation for Parma's landfall
• 2009/10/03: Wunderground: Typhoon Parma hits the Philippines as a Catgeory 1 typhoon
• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: Typhoon Parma batters Philippines, at least three dead
• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: Typhoon Parma batters extreme northern Philippines
• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: Taiwan issues sea warning for typhoon Parma
• 2009/10/03: CBC: 2nd storm batters northern Philippines
• 2009/10/03: BBerg: Typhoon Parma Spares Manila, Now Headed Toward Taiwan
• 2009/10/02: CNN: Filipinos preparing for worst, 'praying' for best from Parma
  Typhoon Parma bears down on Philippines on the heels of Typhoon Ketsana - "Sanitation is a huge problem" leading to various diseases, relief agency official says - Manila residents describe "panicking" residents rushing to stock up on goods - Forecasters say the worst damage may be north of Manila in the form of mudslides
• 2009/10/01: TerraDaily: New typhoon [Parma] looms as SE Asia death toll nears 400
• 2009/10/02: Wunderground: Typhoon Parma: a new disaster for Asia
• 2009/10/02: NASA: NASA's TRMM Sees Huge Typhoon Parma Bringing More Rain to the Philippines
• 2009/10/02: CBC: Philippines orders evacuation ahead of typhoon [Parma]
• 2009/10/02: BBerg: Philippines Declares 'State of Calamity' as Typhoon [Parma] Approaches
• 2009/10/01: CNN: Storm-ravaged Philippines braced for 'super typhoon' Parma
  Super Typhoon Parma set to slam into Philippines Saturday - Philippines already reeling from deadly impact of Typhoon Ketsana - Storm killed at least 246, affected 2 million, forced evacuation of 567,000. - Vietnam, Cambodia also badly affected by Ketsana; total death toll more than 300
• 2009/10/01: UNDispatch: Another Typhoon Heading for the Philippines?
• 2009/10/01: UN: UN agency widens assistance to flood survivors in Philippines
• 2009/10/01: CBC: Southeast Asia readies for Typhoon Parma

  And in the rest of the Pacific:

• 2009/10/02: Eureka: Super Typhoon Melor crossing Guam this weekend
  NASA AIRS [Atmospheric Infrared Sounder] instrument [on Aqua satellite] sees Melor's icy clouds
• 2009/10/02: NASA: It's a Boy? Tropical Depression 18-E Forms in the Eastern North Pacific
• 2009/10/02: NASA: Super Typhoon Melor Crossing Guam This Weekend

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2009/10/01: Wunderground: Super Typhoon Parma threatens the Philippines; October hurricane season outlook
• 2009/09/30: TerraDaily: Vietnam's annual typhoon toll
• 2009/09/28: LSU: Storm Killers: LSU's Earth Scan Lab Tracks Cold Water Upwellings in Gulf
  Cold water cyclones may have strong impact on hurricane intensity and activity

And in the carbon & nitrogen cycles:

• 2009/09/30: Eureka: Planet's nitrogen cycle overturned by 'tiny ammonia eater of the seas'
• 2009/09/28: AGWObserver: Papers on global carbon cycle

  Aerosols are making their presence felt:

• 2009/09/30: NatureCF: Cloudy knowledge...relationships between clouds, aerosols and precipitation...
• 2009/09/28: PhysOrg: NRL Begins Southeast Asia Study of Aerosols Linked to Global Warming

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2009/10/01: SciDaily: Ancient Rainforests Resilient To Climate Change [300 mya]
• 2009/10/01: Eureka: Algae and pollen grains provide evidence of remarkably warm period in Antarctica's history [15.7 mya]
• 2009/09/29: SciNews: Earth's 'boring billion' years blamed on sulfur-loving microbes
  A new study suggests these organisms could have kept oxygen levels low and waters toxic, stalling the evolution of complex life
• 2009/09/29: KSJT: Washington Post: Did [n]eolithic and bronze age farmers give the greenhouse effect a boost, too?

  On the ENSO front:

• 2009/09/29: SciDaily: Floundering El Ninos Make For Fickle Forecasts

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2009/10/04: Guardian(UK): Soot clouds pose threat to Himalayan glaciers -- Fumes from wood fires and from diesel engines accelerate melting, Indian scientists warn
• 2009/10/01: CCP: Peak Ice: The Dance of the Ice Sheets
• 2009/09/30: BBC: Alpine climate campaign enlists iPhone
• 2009/09/29: GreenGrok: On Thinner Ice

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2009/10/02: ITTE: Climate conference at Oxford: Two meter sea level rise unstoppable
• 2009/10/01: CCP: Stefan Rahmstorf, Pier Vellinga: No way to stop sea levels from rising
• 2009/09/30: Reuters: Two meter sea level rise unstoppable: experts
• 2009/09/30: TreeHugger: Two Meter Sea Level Rise Now Inevitable - But How Fast Will It Happen?
• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): Increase in sea levels due to global warming could lead to 'ghost states'

  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:

• 2009/10/02: SciDaily: Using Satellites To Predict Water Problems In Developing Countries
• 2009/10/01: CCP: NASA's JPL: Launch of Aquarius/SAC-D designed to provide monthly global maps of how salt concentration varies on the ocean surface - a key indicator of ocean circulation and its role in climate change, May 2010
• 2009/09/30: PhysOrg: GOCE delivering data for best gravity map ever (w/ Video)

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2009/10/04: EarthTimes: World Bank: Climate change hits poor in Africa, South Asia hardest
• 2009/10/03: NYT: Walruses Suffer Substantial Losses as Sea Ice Erodes
• 2009/10/04: Guardian(UK): Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk
  With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: 25 US National Parks Under 'Grave Threat' From Climate Change
• 2009/10/01: EarthTimes: Olive groves in Germany? Climate change may make it happen
• 2009/09/30: Reuters: Olympics-2016 Games could be the last, says Tokyo governor
• 2009/09/30: ABC(Au): New research shows climate change may result in fish becoming more aggressive and more vulnerable to predators
• 2009/09/29: BBC: Census reveals extinction threat
  Almost 10% of the World's mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish are at risk of extinction, says an Australian report. The animals face threats including habitat loss and climate change. The report comes from Australia's Biological Resources Study, a project aiming to document all of the planet's known animal and plant species. The study found that almost 1% of the World's 1.9 million classified species were threatened. This included 9.2% of major vertebrate species.
• 2009/09/28: KSJT: AP: Is it climate change that's making Minnesota's moose sick?
• 2009/09/28: TreeHugger: Half of All Animal Species Will Be Extinct in Your Lifetime, Unless Emissions Peak by 2020
• 2009/09/28: BBC: Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2009/10/02: PhysOrg: Money woes threaten Romanian protected areas
  Dwindling resources and bureaucratic hurdles are threatening to destroy Romania's protected area system - home to some of Europe's largest remaining natural forests.
• 2009/10/01: al Jazeera: Ecuador Indians clash with police
• 2009/09/29: EarthTimes: WWF: Saving forests 20 per cent of climate-change challenge - Summary

  Corals are dying:

• 2009/10/01: Eureka: Coral bleaching increases chances of coral disease

  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

• 2009/09/29: BBC: Climate migration fears 'misplaced'
  Fears of millions of "climate refugees" crossing national borders are not supported by evidence on the ground, says Cecilia Tacoli. In this week's Green Room, she says we will fail to protect the world's most vulnerable people if misconceptions about migration continue to shape policies.

Yes we have no wacky weather, but we have mudslides:

• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: Frantic search for missing after mudslides in Sicily
• 2009/10/03: BBC: The number of people killed in mudslides caused by heavy rains in southern Italy will rise to 50, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has warned
• 2009/10/03: CBC: Italy's PM predicts higher toll from mudslides
  Rescuers in Italy continued Saturday to search through the rubble for survivors of mudslides in northeastern Sicily, where at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds are homeless. Workers with bulldozers and sniffer dogs dug through the rubble in Messina and surrounding villages, where heavy rain and flowing debris have destroyed homes, cars and roads.
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: Death toll in Sicily storms climbs to at least 14 - Summary
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: Four killed as storms batter Sicily
• 2009/10/02: CBC: Sicilian mud flood kills 14
  Rivers of mud unleashed by heavy rains flooded parts of the Sicilian city of Messina, leaving at least 14 people dead and several still missing, Italian officials said Friday.

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2009/09/30: PhysOrg: Warming, heat waves projected to grow worse with large regional variability
  While long-term projections call for higher temperatures and heat waves even more intense than previously thought, considerable geographic variability is also in the forecast, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
• 2009/10/01: CCP: Auroop Ganguly: Globally averaged intensity of heat waves calculated from observations is higher and shows a more increasing trend compared to even the worst case projections from climate models
• 2009/09/28: CNN: Wildfire shuts down part of Yellowstone's main road
  The Arnica Fire has exploded in size in recent days - Park officials on Sunday closed a 20-mile section of the Grand Loop Road - Officials do not expect the blaze to be fully contained until the end of October

And speaking of floods & droughts:

• 2009/10/03: ENN: Drought Disaster looms in East Africa
• 2009/10/01: NYT: Southeast Drought Study Ties Water Shortage to Population, Not Global Warming
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: More than 130 killed as heavy rains lash southern India - Summary
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: Death toll crosses 70 after heavy rains in southern India
• 2009/10/01: Columbia:EIN: 'Killer' Southeast Drought Low on Scale, Says Study -- Others Were Far Worse; Population, Planning Are the Real Problems
• 2009/09/30: BBC: India drought 'worst since 1972'
  India suffered its weakest monsoon for nearly 40 years, the country's meteorological department says. Rainfall nationwide is 23% below average at the end of the monsoon season, making it the worst drought since 1972, officials said.
• 2009/09/30: BBC: Drying out -- Kenya's 'paradise' lake vanishes as forests fall
• 2009/09/30: NYT: Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
• 2009/09/29: CSW: "The lesson from the Atlanta flood is that many Americans are unprepared"
• 2009/09/29: TreeHugger: Scientists Warn: South Africa to Run Out of Surface Water
• 2009/09/29: EarthTimes: Flooding continues in south-eastern Spain
• 2009/09/29: BBC: Iraq's drought: Eden drying out
  The Garden of Eden is in danger of turning into a dustbowl. The legendary Eden was in Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers - the Tigris and the Euphrates. For hundreds of miles between their lower reaches there is fabulously fertile farmland.
• 2009/09/29: BBC: Life dries up in Kenya's Mau forest
  High in the hills of Kenya's Mau forest, some 20,000 families are facing eviction from their farms - accused of contributing to an ecological disaster which has crippled the country. [...] Mau forest is Kenya's largest water tower - it stores rain during the wet seasons and pumps it out during the dry months. But during the past 15 years, more than 100,000 hectares - one quarter of the protected forest reserve - have been settled and cleared. Tearing out the trees at the heart of Kenya has triggered a cascade of drought and despair in the surrounding valleys. The rivers that flow from the forest are drying up. And as they disappear, so too have Kenya's harvests, its cattle farms, its hydro-electricity, its tea industry, its lakes and even its famous wildlife parks.
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Adelaide latest victim of global water shortages
  Australia's fifth-largest city could be reliant on bottled water as early as next week as overuse and drought stretch the Murray River to its limit
• 2009/09/28: UN: Burkina Faso: UN dispatches experts to assess contamination in wake of floods
• 2009/09/28: EarthTimes: Floods isolate Spanish city of Cartagena
• 2009/09/28: EarthTimes: Floods leave 17 dead in central Vietnam [before Ketsana]

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2009/10/02: PhysOrg: How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
• 2009/10/02: TreeHugger: We Still Have A 50-50 Chance At Not Frying Ourselves, Says MIT Study
• 2009/10/02: MIT: How to limit risk of climate catastrophe
  Comprehensive analysis of the odds of climate outcomes under different policy scenarios shows significant benefits from early actions.
• 2009/10/02: BizGreen: IT industry to finalise global carbon footprinting standard -- UN-backed agency [ITU] to agree carbon measurement methodology next month

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Arguments against high-speed rail plans
• 2009/09/29: TreeHugger: China Buys 80 Very High Speed Trains (236 mph) for $4 Billion
• 2009/09/29: CBC: Global air traffic descended 1.1 per cent [yoy] in August
• 2009/09/28: PhysOrg: Aircraft emissions could influence climate change through cloud formation
• 2009/09/28: PhysOrg: Clemson researchers study energy savings with electric cars and IntelliDrive technology

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

• 2009/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Strategies for Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: New Concrete [geopolymer] Made From Coal Plant Waste Lasts 10 Times as Long
• 2009/10/01: SciDaily: 'Green' Research Results In New Geopolymer Concrete Technology
• 2009/09/30: TreeHugger: KPMB Design The "Best Tall Building in North America" For Manitoba Hydro
• 2009/09/28: TreeHugger: "Passive" Heating and Cooling Is a Misnomer. It's Active.

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2009/10/03: TreeHugger: Will Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Conflict With Mineral & Property Rights Ownership?
• 2009/09/29: SolveClimate: Will West Virgina's CCS Demo Make a Dent in 'Clean Coal's Problems?
• 2009/09/28: ABC(Au): A scientific organisation [CO2 Co-operative Research Centre (CRC)] says early results from a carbon capture trial at the Hazelwood power station have been promising

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2009/10/04: ClimateP: Nature: Ocean fertilization for geoengineering "should be abandoned"
• 2009/10/04: NewScientist: Green roofs save on carbon overheads
• 2009/09/28: FuturePundit: Cheaper To Remove CO2 From Atmosphere?
• 2009/10/01: STV:Reuters: New technologies may grab carbon right out of air
  As the world wrestles with how to cut greenhouse gas emissions, new technologies are gearing up to grab climate-warming carbon right out of the air. This is different from trapping carbon dioxide as it comes out of pollution sources like factories and power plants. This so-called air capture technology could be set up anywhere and suck carbon directly from the atmosphere.
• 2009/10/01: ABC(Au): Chemists ensure no rain on China's parade
  China's air force deployed a "magic-like" range of chemicals and technology to clear Beijing's smoggy air for a grand parade marking the 60th anniversary of Communist China, state media said.
• 2009/10/01: Reuters: China weather "magic" conjures blue sky for parade
• 2009/09/21: AlterNet: James Lovelock: Schemes to 'Reverse' Global Warming Could Lead to Disaster

  While on the adaptation front:

• 2009/10/01: SolveClimate: Global Leaders Describe Climate Change in Action, Growing Need for Adaptation

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2009/10/02: AGWObserver: Comments on McIntyre's claims on Briffa
• 2009/10/01: NERC:NORA: Mapping hydrate stability zones offshore Scotland by Ameena Camps et al.
• 2009/10/02: ACP: Error correlation between CO2 and CO as constraint for CO2 flux inversions using satellite data by H. Wang et al.
• 2009/10/01: ACP: Influence of line mixing on the retrievals of atmospheric CO2 from spectra in the 1.6 and 2.1 um regions by J.-M. Hartmann et al.
• 2009/10/01: ACP: Ship emitted NO2 in the Indian Ocean: comparison of model results with satellite data by K. Franke et al.
• 2009/10/01: ACP: Evolution of Asian aerosols during transpacific transport in INTEX-B by E. J. Dunlea et al.
• 2009/10/02: ACPD: Effects of absorbing aerosols in cloudy skies: a satellite study over the Atlantic Ocean by K. Peters et al.
• 2009/10/02: GRL: Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering by Alan Robock et al.
• 2009/09/30: CP: Glacial climate sensitivity to different states of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: results from the IPSL model by M. Kageyama et al.
• 2009/09/30: CP: Glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 change: a possible "standing volume" effect on deep-ocean carbon sequestration by L. C. Skinner
• 2009/09/30: CPD: Potential analysis reveals changing number of climate states during the last 60 kyr by V. N. Livina et al.
• 2009/09/29: TCD: Interaction between ice sheet dynamics and subglacial lake circulation: a coupled modelling approach by M. Thoma et al.
• 2009/09/30: AGWObserver: General papers on AGW
• 2009/09/28: AGWObserver: Papers on global carbon cycle
• 2009/09/28: ACPD: On retrieval of lidar extinction profiles using Two-Stream and Raman techniques by I. S. Stachlewska & C. Ritter
• 2009/09/30: ACPD: Satellite observations of long range transport of a large BrO cloud in the Arctic by M. Begoin et al.
• 2009/09/30: ACPD: Smoke injection heights from fires in North America: analysis of 5 years of satellite observations by M. Val Martin et al.
• 2009/09/30: ACPD: High resolution modeling of CO2 over Europe: implications for representation errors of satellite retrievals by D. Pillai et al.
• 2009/09/29: PNAS: [Letter$] Constraining future greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative target by Matthew H. England et al.
• 2009/09/24: GRL: (ab$) An updated Antarctic melt record through 2009 and its linkages to high-latitude and tropical climate variability by Marco Tedesco & Andrew J. Monaghan
• 2009/09/30: GRL: (ab$) Observational constraints on recent increases in the atmospheric CH4 burden by E. J. Dlugokencky et al.

  And other significant documents:

• 2009/10/02: GAO: [link to 3.1 meg pdf] Biofuels: Potential Effects and Challenges of Required Increases in Production and Use
• 2009/10/01: Arxiv: Communicating Science to the Media by Kathryn Grim
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): [link to 2 meg pdf] Help us decipher the UN's draft climate change agreement

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

• 2009/10/01: CCP: Night time artificial cloud experiment conducted to study noctilucent clouds
• 2009/09/28: JEB: Yet another comment on Schwartz
• 2009/09/28: PhysOrg: Polar Sea Ice replicated in Hamburg

  More Hansen:

• 2009/09/: EarthIsland: Dr. James Hansen [interview]
• 2009/09/29: Grist: James Hansen on Obama, climate legislation, and the scourge of coal

  And on the road to Copenhagen:

• 2009/09/30: FTimes: The environment: Beijing on big charm offensive
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): Copenhagen's climate big-hitters must not forget smaller nations
• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): It's too late to seal a global climate deal. But we need action, not Kyoto II by Jeffrey Sachs
  Climate is too complex an issue to get in one gulp. If Copenhagen can pave the way for practical steps, an agreement can wait
• 2009/09/29: OilChange: Chances of Climate Deal Are "Pie in the Sky"
• 2009/09/29: FTimes:ES: As the Copenhagen climate talks approach, the negotiating text needs a lot of negotiation
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): US inertia could scupper world climate deal in Copenhagen, says expert
  Leading climate scientist criticises Bush administration and points to general ignorance of global warming in US public polls US ignorance about the risks and reality of global warming could sink hopes of a new global deal to control greenhouse gas emissions at December's climate talks in Copenhagen, an advisor to the German government has said. Professor John Schellnhuber, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, said the US was "climate illiterate" and that the rest of the world may be forced to agree a new deal without it.
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): [link to 2 meg pdf] Help us decipher the UN's draft climate change agreement
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Copenhagen negotiating text: 200 pages to save the world?
  Draft agreement being discussed ahead of December's crucial Copenhagen summit is long, confusing and contradictory
• 2009/09/27: ClimateP: No, Copenhagen is not dead. Quite the reverse -- prospects for a global deal have never been better.
• 2009/09/25: MoJo: Is Copenhagen Dead?
• 2009/09/28: BBC: Harrabin's notes: the price of clean energy -- Will the rich pay for clean energy in poor countries?
  In his regular column, the BBC's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, draws on his experience of a quarter of a century reporting the environment to assess the impact of last week's G20 meeting on the ongoing UN climate negotiations. Clean energy - should rich nations subsidise the poor?
• 2009/09/27: CBC: Canadians talk climate change for UN
  More than 100 Canadians gathered in Calgary this weekend as part of a global consultation on climate change. Participants drafted recommendations to be presented to delegates to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. [...] The Denmark-based World Wide Views has held similar meetings around the world, helped by financial support from the City of Copenhagen, the Norwegian government and other sources on different continents.
• 2009/09/27: Guardian(UK): India can't play the victim on climate change
  Its poor may have small carbon footprints, but that is a specious excuse for not taking a global lead on the issue

While at the UN:

• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): The UN is united again by Ban Ki-moon
  On climate change, nuclear weapons and poverty, the world's nations are showing a new spirit of multilateralism
• 2009/09/29: UN: World leaders make progress on climate change and disarmament, Ban says

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2009/10/01: PlanetArk: CFTC's Chilton Backs Position Limits On Carbon Trade
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): Insiders predict China could beat US to cap-and-trade launch
• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): Brussels targets carbon trading fraud ahead of Copenhagen summit
  The European commission announced an overhaul of the EU's VAT system today in its latest attempt to prevent its much-vaunted carbon trading system being riddled by multimillion-pound fraud.
• 2009/09/29: BizInsider: Insiders predict China could beat US to cap-and-trade launch
  Senior execs in the carbon market predict China will announce plans for national emissions trading scheme at Copenhagen
• 2009/09/28: PlanetArk: NYMEX Green Exchange's New CEO Thinks Global

  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: EU eyes carbon tax to combat climate change - Summary
  Gothenburg,Sweden - European Union officials meeting in Sweden Friday broached the idea of a carbon tax to reduce the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions as a way of showing the world that it is serious about fighting climate change. "There is not a single EU member state that would question the idea that climate change is a threatening global challenge (...) in which the EU should play a leading role," Laszlo Kovacs, the EU's tax commissioner, told the bloc's finance ministers. And since the EU's existing emission trading scheme covers less than half of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the European Commission and member states are eyeing another cost-effective and market-based instrument. "That instrument could be CO2 taxation," Kovacs said.
• 2009/10/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Exxon's Tillerson: Forget Cap-and-Trade, Carbon Tax is the Answer
• 2009/09/29: EurActiv: EU mulls carbon tax to curb global warming

  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:

• 2009/09/30: EnvEcon: Another esteemed economist's views on cap and trade, carbon taxes and the double dividend
• 2009/10/01: Crikey: If not Emissions Trading, then what?
• 2009/09/29: ClimateP: Nobelist Krugman offers Climate Economics 101...
• 2009/09/27: NYT:PK: The textbook economics of cap-and-trade

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2009/10/01: EarthTimes: EU eyes permanent climate-change council with Brazil
  The European Union and Brazil want to set up a permanent high-level council to run their joint action on climate change at a summit in Stockholm next Tuesday, according to a draft declaration seen Thursday by the German Press Agency dpa. "It is in the interests of both the European Union and Brazil to deepen their bilateral cooperation to address the growing challenges of climate change as well as clean technology ... Against this background, Brazil and the EU decide to set up an EU-Brazil Council on Climate Change and Clean Technologies," the draft says. No details of its task are given in the text...
• 2009/09/30: PlanetArk: What Makes Europe Greener than the U.S.?
• 2009/09/30: EarthTimes: EU proposes 'trigger fund' for clean energy in Latin America
• 2009/09/29: EurActiv: EU, US eye green goods tax pact in climate fight
• 2009/09/28: Reuters: EU, U.S. eye green goods tax pact in climate fight
• 2009/09/29: TreeHugger: EU & US Look to Eliminate Import Tariffs on Green Goods - Try to Woo China Into Global Climate Deal

  As for GW & security:

• 2009/10/01: TerraDaily: NATO chief warns of climate change security risks
• 2009/10/01: Yahoo:AFP: NATO chief warns of climate change security risks
  Climate change has "potentially huge security implications" and NATO countries should use the alliance as a forum to address the challenges it creates, the new NATO chief said Thursday. Rising sea levels, droughts and falling food production could spark large population movements and conflict, while the melting of Arctic ice risked inflaming tensions in the region, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said.
• 2009/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: CIA Spooked About Climate Change
• 2009/09/29: CSW: Climate Security Index: Global climate disruption seen as a US national security problem

  The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world as nations scramble to deal with climate change:

• 2009/09/28: ABC(Au): Police turned out in numbers in Port Augusta on the weekend to control a small but vocal group of climate change activists protesting at the power station

  And on the American political front:

• 2009/10/04: SolveClimate: Climate Debate: Two Futures, One Choice
• 2009/10/02: C411: Best Economic Analyses: Economy Can Thrive as We Cap Carbon
• 2009/10/02: SlashDot: California Requests Stimulus Funding For Bullet Train
• 2009/10/02: CSW: 1000th US mayor signs climate agreement -- but most still aren't prepared for climate impacts
• 2009/10/01: CleanTechies:B: Big Support, Potential for Mid-Atlantic Wind Power
  An amazingly high percentage of people who live down the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard from New York to Virginia want wind turbines off their coast. Even if they can be seen from the shoreline, 67 percent support off-shore wind power, according to a new poll of coastal residents of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia . If the turbines are out of sight, the level of support goes up to an astounding 82 percent.
• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): Cents and sensibility
  US energy firms are starting to abandon climate change denial and embracing plans to regulate carbon emissions
• 2009/10/01: GreenGrok: Speaking of the Environment -- A One-Two Punch on Climate Policy
• 2009/09/30: ENS: 1,000 U.S. Mayors Have Signed Climate Protection Pledge
• 2009/09/29: JFleck: Stuff I Wrote Elsewhere: ABQ Greenhouse Update
• 2009/09/28: SF Gate: Alternate-energy scramble on across West
• 2009/09/25: Rasmussen: 29% Say Americans Selfish For Putting Economy Ahead of Global Warming

  The Chamber of Commerce saga continues to play out:

• 2009/10/03: ClimateP: Chamber of Overstated Horrors
• 2009/10/02: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Sen. Durbin Questions U.S. Chamber Chief's Role on Corporate Boards
• 2009/10/03: C411: Nike Leaves Board of U.S. Chamber -- But Keeps Membership?
• 2009/10/02: BSD: Still more companies drop the Chamber of Commerce
• 2009/10/02: NYT:CW: Do U.S. Chamber Defections Reflect New Dynamic in Climate Debate?
  Recent high-profile departures from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change may be more than a short-term, public-relations hit for the lobbying powerhouse, according to supporters of cap-and-trade legislation. Climate bill backers say the chamber's turmoil will reshape the debate on Capitol Hill. The schism in the business community, they say, is an indication that the fight over climate legislation won't be a repeat of the time-worn faceoff between greens and big business, a fight in which environmentalists are outgunned in money and influence.
• 2009/10/01: TP:WR: Around The Nation, Chambers of Commerce Promote Climate Denial
• 2009/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: GE: The US Chamber Does Not Speak for Us on Climate
• 2009/10/01: Reuters: U.S. group [CoC] urges strong patent rights in climate deal
  The United States could lose 1 million green jobs by 2020 if it gives into demands by poor countries to loosen patent protections on climate-friendly technologies, a U.S. business leader said on Wednesday. Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said U.S. manufacturers would not invest in "alternative fuels and energy-saving devices and emission-reducing technologies if somebody is going to rip it off."
• 2009/09/30: RawStory: Nike flees US Chamber of Commerce over climate debate
• 2009/09/30: SolveClimate: Nike Joins Exodus from US Chamber of Commerce Board
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Nike runs fast and loud from the incredible, shrinking U.S. Chamber Board over its global warming denial
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: Nation's largest utility [Exelon] pulls the plug on the Chamber over climate denial...
• 2009/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Nike Resigns from Chamber Board
• 2009/09/30: DeSmogBlog: NIKE Quits Chamber of Commerce Board Over Climate Rift
• 2009/09/30: WSJ:EnvCap: Just Do It: Nike, Too, Bails on Chamber of Commerce Over Climate
• 2009/09/30: TP: Nike Resigns From The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Board Of Directors Over Global Warming Disagreements
• 2009/09/29: TP: Chamber Of Commerce Rewrites History: 'We've Never Questioned The Science Behind Global Warming'
• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): US firms quit Chamber of Commerce over climate change position
  Nike and Johnson & Johnson among corporations criticising business organisation over chamber's resistance to 'cap-and-trade' legislation
• 2009/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: US Chamber Repackages Old Position in New Wrapping
• 2009/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Chamber of Denial
• 2009/09/28: DeSmogBlog: Strike Three: Exelon Leaves Chamber of Commerce Over Climate Stance
• 2009/09/29: WSJ:EnvCap: Chamber Made: Views on Climate 'Mainstream, Commonsense,' Business Lobby Says
• 2009/09/29: SolveClimate: Exelon Latest to Leave US Chamber of Commerce; Is Nike Next?
• 2009/09/28: NYT: Third Major Utility Pulls Out of Chamber
• 2009/09/29: NYT: Climate Bill Splits Exelon and U.S. Chamber
• 2009/09/29: TP:WR: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce: 'We've Never Questioned The Science Behind Global Warming'
• 2009/09/28: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Exelon Announces It is Leaving US Chamber of Commerce
• 2009/09/28: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Other Voices: US Chamber Has "Sold its soul" and [Tom] Donohue Should Resign
• 2009/09/27: BSD: Greening the Chamber: the current Board of Directors is a challenge
• 2009/09/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Out the Door: Exelon Leaves Chamber of Commerce over Climate Policy
• 2009/09/28: TP:WR: Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Denial
• 2009/09/28: TP: Nation's Largest Utility [Exelon] Leaves U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Over Climate Denial

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2009/10/02: Guardian(UK): Obama's Olympic trip to Copenhagen knocks climate talks off the podium
• 2009/10/02: WorldChanging: Why Obama Really, Really Needs to Go To Cop-15 Now
• 2009/10/02: Salon: White House lukewarm on climate change?
• 2009/09/30: Reuters: Obama says deeply committed to passing climate bill
• 2009/09/30: BBC: Obama hails Senate climate bill

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2009/10/02: ClimateP: The American Enterprise Institute compares EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to Clint Eastwood and carbon polluters to criminals
• 2009/10/01: NYT:CW: U.S. Prepares More Regulatory Moves in Case Climate Bills Stall
• 2009/09/29: GTM: DOE Stimulus Spending: $17B So Far, $30B by Year's End

  The EPA has changed regulations for greenhouse gas emissions:

• 2009/10/01: CShift: E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions in US
• 2009/10/02: AfterGutenberg: EPA Proposes Requiring Best Available Control Technologies
• 2009/10/01: BBerg: BP, Valero Among Refiners Threatened by Carbon Rules
  BP Plc and Valero Energy Corp. are among the U.S. oil refiners caught in the crosshairs of proposed new greenhouse gas regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency, an industry representative said.
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: New EPA rule will require use of best technologies to reduce greenhouse gases from large facilities when "constructed or significantly modified" -- small businesses and farms exempt
• 2009/10/01: PlanetArk: EPA To Exempt Small Business From Greenhouse Rule
• 2009/09/30: Grist: What the EPA announcement did (and did not) say
• 2009/09/30: Grist: At Governator's climate party, EPA chief aims to calm small business worries
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: Obama Gives EPA the Go-Ahead to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
• 2009/10/01: ENN: EPA Rule Will Require Permits and Use of Best Technologies to Reduce Greenhouse Gases from Large Facilities
• 2009/09/30: SolveClimate: Senate Bill Puts EPA Back in the Climate Game, and the Agency Wastes No Time Acting
• 2009/09/30: TP: EPA announces plan to regulate industrial global warming pollution.
• 2009/09/30: TP:WR: EPA Will Begin Regulating Industrial Global Warming Pollution In March, 2010
• 2009/10/01: NYT: E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  Unwilling to wait for Congress to act, the Obama administration announced on Wednesday that it was moving forward on new rules to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from hundreds of power plants and large industrial facilities. President Obama has said that he prefers a comprehensive legislative approach to regulating emissions and stemming global warming, not a piecemeal application of rules, and that he is deeply committed to passage of a climate bill this year. But he has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency to begin moving toward regulation, which could goad lawmakers into reaching an agreement. It could also provide evidence of the United States' seriousness as negotiators prepare for United Nations talks in Copenhagen in December intended to produce an international agreement to combat global warming.

The EPA is reviewing 79 mountaintop removal mining permits:

• 2009/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Kentuckians Growing More Concerned About Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• 2009/09/30: Reuters: EPA holds up coal-mining permits as firms fume
  Mining companies accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday of ignoring America's need for affordable energy and hurting workers in a poor region of the country by delaying permits for proposed surface, or "mountaintop," mines in Appalachia. The decision that all 79 pending permits must undergo additional evaluation by the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers, because they pose a potential hazard to water, threatens job security in parts of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio that depend heavily on coal mining, the miners said. But environmental groups welcomed the decision and called on the Obama administration to reverse rules that allow surface mines and to enforce clean air and water legislation.
• 2009/09/30: WVGazette:CT: EPA: All 79 [mountaintop removal] mining permits need more review
• 2009/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EPA to Conduct Scientific Assessment of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• 2009/09/25: WVGazette:CT: EPA plans major scientific review of mountaintop removal
  The Obama administration has quietly put together plans for a major scientific review of the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining

Carol Browner, the Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy director came out with some down home truth:

• 2009/10/03: EarthTimes: Obama aide [Carol Browner, director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy] concedes climate legislation won't be done by December
• 2009/10/03: TreeHugger: Browner: Climate Bill Before Copenhagen? Probably Not
• 2009/10/02: Reuters: Obama unlikely to sign climate bill ahead U.N. meet
• 2009/10/02: BBerg: Climate Bill Not Likely Law by December, Browner Says
  U.S. lawmakers aren't likely to enact climate-change legislation by the time countries meet in December to debate a new treaty aimed at controlling global warming, the White House's top energy adviser said. "Obviously, we'd like to be through the process, but that's not going to happen," Carol Browner said today at an event in Washington hosted by the Atlantic magazine. "I think we would all agree the likelihood that you'd have a bill signed by the president on comprehensive energy by the time we go in December is not likely."
• 2009/10/03: Google:AP: Obama adviser says no climate change law this year
  President Barack Obama's top energy adviser said Friday there is no way Congress will be able to pass a bill on climate change this year. "That's not going to happen," said the adviser, Carol Browner.

As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2009/10/01: HillHeat: Senate Watch, Republican Response To Kerry-Boxer: Alexander, Barrasso, Bond, Hutchison, Inhofe, Johanns, McCain, Murkowski, Roberts, Thune, Voinovich, Wicker
• 2009/10/01: Yahoo:Reuters: Senate Democrats seek to win climate moderates
• 2009/10/01: ClimateP: Feinstein endorses EPA decision: "Hopefully, this will encourage the Senate to pass a comprehensive climate change bill quickly. If it does not, the Obama Administration should be commended for having the courage to protect our environment and our Earth."
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Reid: Senate floor action before Copenhagen remains on agenda, Cantwell: "We're happy the bill is moving. That's the key thing, because we all want to put a price on carbon," Graham: "It's a start."
• 2009/10/01: PlanetArk: Fight Looms On U.S. Climate Price Controls
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Senate GOP propose 25% 'Do-Nothing' energy tax on Americans and a $4 trillion climate tax on our children
• 2009/09/30: TreeHugger: GOP Proposes American Families Pay $500 a Year to Just Let Climate Change Happen
• 2009/09/30: WaPo: Senators Ready a Bill on Greenhouse Gases -- Cuts Deeper Than House's, Carbon Offsets Cheaper
• 2009/09/30: STimes: Senate climate bill tougher than House version
  Senate Democrats are pushing for a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020...
• 2009/09/28: TP:WR: Bingaman Rejects Appeasement: Don't Add Polluter Subsidies To Clean-Energy Legislation

  The Democrats introduced the Senate climate bill --- Kerry-Boxer or CEJAPA:

• 2009/10/02: HillHeat: Robert Byrd Praises Kerry-Boxer's Support For Coal Industry
• 2009/09/30: REA: The Strategic Imperative for the U.S. Senate to Pass an Effective Energy Bill
• 2009/10/02: GreenGrok: What's Different? Waxman-Markey Vs. Kerry-Boxer Climate Bills
• 2009/10/01: Grist: 'No compromise' faction attacks climate bill
• 2009/10/02: BostonGlobe: US bill could pave way for hybrid taxi fleets -- Kerry pushes law that would give cities authority
• 2009/10/01: CPD: Ohio's manufacturing economy at heart of debate over climate change bill
• 2009/10/02: TreeHugger: Radical Green Groups Attack Al Gore and the Climate Bill
  Al Gore's harshest critics call him a leftist, tree-hugging propagandist for his efforts to bring about large scale climate action. I wonder, then, what those critics would call the green groups attacking Al Gore for not doing enough. I guess their heads would just explode. The groups in question are charging that Al Gore and the new Senate climate bill aren't tough enough on polluters, and they're doing so by dressing up like pirates, passing out fake Gore money, and hurling pies. The groups include Climate SOS, Rising Tide North America, and the Greenwash Guerrillas (they're the ones who threw pies at Thomas Friedman--everyone knows real change starts with custard). They oppose cap and trade altogether, claiming it's a corporate payoff that would reward polluters.
• 2009/10/02: WaPo: Climate Bill Would Ease Energy Costs, Senator Says
  Senate Democrats will initially devote 70 percent of the pollution allowances in their new climate measure to making it easier for people to pay their energy bills, Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Barbara Boxer said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN.
• 2009/10/02: AlterNet: New Proposed Climate Change Bill in Washington Is Simpler and More Equitable
• 2009/10/01: Time: Proposed U.S. Carbon Cuts: All Bark, No Bite?
• 2009/10/01: NatureN: US Senate gears up for climate debate -- Cap-and-trade bill largely mirrors legislation passed in the House of Representatives
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act an improvement over House bill on offsets
• 2009/10/01: PlanetArk: Climate Control Debate Heats Up In The Senate
• 2009/10/01: Grist: CEJAPA is Kerry's bill
• 2009/10/01: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Senate Climate Bill Passes 2 Billion Ton Test
• 2009/09/30: HillHeat: Sen. Rockefeller Calls Kerry-Boxer 'A Disappointing Step in the Wrong Direction'
• 2009/10/01: HillHeat: Text of Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, The Senate's Cap-and-Trade Climate Legislation
• 2009/10/01: HillHeat: Ben Nelson 'Cannot Support' Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs Act
• 2009/09/30: BBerg: Senate Climate Plan to Cut Greenhouse Emissions 20% [by 2020]
• 2009/10/01: EarthTimes: Democrats introduce climate-change bill in US Senate
• 2009/10/01: WSJ:EnvCap: Cap and Trade: Will The Senate Go For Carbon Tariffs, Too?
• 2009/10/01: OilChange: Battle Lines Drawn Over Senate Climate Bill
• 2009/09/30: HuffPo: Taking Control of Our Energy Future by Senator John Kerry (D-Mass)
• 2009/09/30: BBC: US bill 'crucial' for climate talks
  After keeping us waiting longer than a diva with a headache, potentially seminal legislation on climate change has finally made it to the floor of the US Senate. Cue bouquets from people who want the US to get intimately involved in tackling the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Cue also brickbats, though - both from industry groups that believe the Boxer-Kerry bill will scupper US competitiveness, and from green groups who see it as promising too little too late. "It's fundamental, because it's the way in which the world can get a sense of how serious the US is in tackling climate change"
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): Senate Democrats unveil climate bill calling for a 20% cut in emissions [by 2020]
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): Democrats unveil ambitious draft climate change bill to the US Senate
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act -- The details plus Obama and Gore statements
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Kerry on Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act: "For too long, Washington let Big Oil and special interests stand between us and our goals. This has hurt our economy, helped our enemies and risked our security. But the time has come to put America back in control."
• 2009/09/29: ClimateP: Kerry-Boxer clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill sharply departs from House bill with deeper 2020 pollution cut and stronger economic protection for consumers and businesses
• 2009/09/30: NRDC: Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Bill is Introduced in the Senate
• 2009/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Climate Bill: More Jobs, Less Pollution, Greater Security
  Senators John Kerry and Barbara Boxer just introduced a comprehensive clean energy and climate plan: the Clean Energy Jobs & American Power Act [CEJAPA]
• 2009/09/30: HillHeat: Friends of the Earth Issues Detailed Critque of Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
• 2009/09/30: HillHeat: Enviro and Labor Responses to Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act
• 2009/09/30: TreeHugger: Senate Climate Bill Revealed: A Quick Guide
• 2009/09/29: MNN: McCain assails Senate Democrats' climate bill
• 2009/09/29: USAToday: Senate climate bill would speed emissions reductions
  Senate legislation designed to slow global warming would reduce greenhouse gas emissions more rapidly than competing legislation passed by the House of Representatives, according to a draft bill obtained by USA TODAY. The Senate bill, scheduled to be introduced today, requires a 20% decrease in 2020 in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.
• 2009/09/30: TP:WR: Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs Act Strengthens American Power
• 2009/09/29: Grist: Boxer-Kerry climate bill coming tomorrow: what to watch for
• 2009/09/29: Grist: Pa. Rep. Doyle (D-Penn) on getting blue-collar support for a climate bill
• 2009/09/29: HillHeat: Senate Watch: Bond, Boxer, Brown, Cantwell, Carper, Corker, Inhofe, Kerry, Lincoln, Nelson, Stabenow, Udall
• 2009/09/28: CSW: CSW recommendations for Senate climate bill on preparedness, research, & climate services
• 2009/09/29: TreeHugger: The Climate Bill is Already Killing Coal Plants
• 2009/09/29: WSJ:EnvCap: Climate Bill: Boxer Draft Aims High, But Silent on Key Details

  The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2009/09/28: STimes: Al Gore was right: We can't put climate-change policy on the back burner
  The reason we're ignoring the threat of climate change is that Al Gore is right, writes columnist Paul Krugman. This truth is just too inconvenient for some powerful vested interests. The industries of the past have armies of lobbyists in place right now; the industries of the future don't.

While in the UK:

• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): Emissions reductions are misleading, says government's new science adviser
  UK's true energy footprint is twice as big as on paper, according to Professor David MacKay
• 2009/09/30: BBC: Britons creating 'more emissions'
  Greenhouse gas emissions created by Britons are probably twice as bad as figures suggest, says the government's new chief energy scientist. Professor David MacKay told the BBC that reductions in carbon dioxide emissions since 1990 are "an illusion". "Our energy footprint has decreased over the last few decades and that's largely because we've exported our industry," he said. Developing countries now made the goods that Britain buys, he added.
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): Gordon Brown's $100bn climate aid proposal is 'only first offering'
  Minister [International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander] admits that other rich countries have yet to put money on the table to finance climate compensation and adaptation
• 2009/09/30: Guardian(UK): No greenery in the political ecosystem [UK pol]

  And in Europe:

• 2009/10/02: AutoBG: France to spend 2.5 billion euros to jump start EV deployment
• 2009/10/01: EnvFin: Germany's renewables support under threat
  Germany's incoming government has signalled that it is to extend the life of nuclear power plants and tighten the country's generous renewable energy subsidy law (the EEG).
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: EU eyes carbon tax to combat climate change - Summary
  Gothenburg,Sweden - European Union officials meeting in Sweden Friday broached the idea of a carbon tax to reduce the bloc's greenhouse gas emissions as a way of showing the world that it is serious about fighting climate change. "There is not a single EU member state that would question the idea that climate change is a threatening global challenge (...) in which the EU should play a leading role," Laszlo Kovacs, the EU's tax commissioner, told the bloc's finance ministers. And since the EU's existing emission trading scheme covers less than half of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the European Commission and member states are eyeing another cost-effective and market-based instrument. "That instrument could be CO2 taxation," Kovacs said.
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: Poland leads dissent at EU finance meeting on climate change costs
• 2009/10/01: EurActiv: EU moves to tackle carbon trading fraud
  The European Commission has presented measures to fight VAT fraud in carbon permits to regain the credibility of its emissions trading scheme ahead of crunch climate talks in December.
• 2009/09/29: Reuters: US, Italy sign pact to build nuclear power stations
  The United States and Italy on Tuesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal that would enlist U.S. companies to help build a string of nuclear power stations across Italy, ending a 22-year ban by the Italian government. [...] Italy, the only Group of Eight industrialized nation without nuclear power, rejected it in a 1987 referendum after the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.
• 2009/09/29: EurActiv: EU mulls carbon tax to curb global warming
• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: Italy Must Double Renewables Capacity To Hit Target
  Italy will have to double its renewable energy capacity and invest 50 billion euros ($73.29 billion) to meet the European Union's climate change targets for 2020, chairman of Italy's renewable energy body said on Monday. EU leaders agreed in December 2008 that their countries would make 20 percent of energy from renewable sources such as wind, sun and waves by 2020 aiming to cut greenhouse gas emissions by a fifth below 1990 levels.
• 2009/09/29: PlanetArk: Spain Says Has Power To Spare, Can Phase Out Nukes
• 2009/09/28: SwissInfo: Swiss reluctant to confront glacier-less Alps
  Swiss alpine communities are aware of the importance of glaciers for tourism, water and energy, but are ill-prepared for a glacier-less future, a report has found. The study by the Swiss foundation for the protection of the countryside was presented at a two-day conference on the impact of melting glaciers on Swiss mountain regions, held at Crans-Montana in canton Valais. According to the survey, around 90 per cent of communities living near glaciers benefit from them via tourism, or meltwater used for hydropower or drinking water. But only 13 per cent of the 131 communes questioned said they had drawn up future action plans as glaciers retreat.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2009/10/02: ABC(Au): Anti-ETS campaign a 'dash for cash'
  The miners' union says a coal industry campaign launched in the Hunter Valley this week is another greedy cash grab by the big miners who will be hit by an emissions trading scheme (ETS). The Australian Coal Association warns of mine closures and mass job losses if the scheme goes ahead in its current form.
• 2009/10/02: ABC(Au): Wind farm planned near Mt Gambier
  An international renewable energy company has lodged an application to build a wind farm in the south-east of South Australia. Acciona Energy is proposing a 47-turbine wind farm near Allendale East, south of Mount Gambier.
• 2009/10/01: ABC(Au): ACTU rejects ETS 'scaremongering'
  The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has accused the National party of scaremongering, over claims an emissions trading scheme (ETS) would devastate the Latrobe Valley economy.
• 2009/10/01: Crikey: If not Emissions Trading, then what?
• 2009/09/30: ABC(Au): ETS shouldn't cost mining jobs: union
  The coal miners' union has rejected claims that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) could cost jobs in the mining industry. Anglo Coal says the scheme will take $14 billion from the local coal industry, cause 2,000 job losses and force the closure of two of the company's mines. But the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union's national president, Tony Maher, says there is no need for job losses.
• 2009/09/29: ABC(Au): Coal group pushes for ETS changes
  A coal industry lobby group has launched a major advertising campaign in Wollongong today aimed at reforming the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS).
• 2009/09/29: ABC(Au): Coal mining company Anglo-American says the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme will wipe $14 billion from the local coal industry
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Adelaide latest victim of global water shortages
  Australia's fifth-largest city could be reliant on bottled water as early as next week as overuse and drought stretch the Murray River to its limit
• 2009/09/29: ABC(Au): The Federal Opposition is pushing the Government to release more information today on the impact of an emissions trading scheme
• 2009/09/28: ABC(Au): Traders warned [by businessman John Brody] of rising power costs
• 2009/09/28: PeakEnergy: Australian Solar sector held back by foggy energy policy

  Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is fighting the 'do-nothing' faction of his own party:

• 2009/10/04: ABC(Au): Turnbull unfazed by party's climate deniers
  Federal Opposition Leader MalcomTurnbull says the fact that there are Liberals unconvinced about climate change does not mean the party should not be acting.
• 2009/10/04: ABC(Au): Abbott backs Turnbull despite climate science doubts
  Federal Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott has not denied that he recently said the argument on climate change was "absolute crap". Mr Abbott has strongly backed Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull's argument that the Coalition should negotiate with the Government on the emissions trading scheme (ETS) rather than voting against it outright.
• 2009/10/02: ABC(Au): Turnbull lashes out at 'smart-arse' backbenchers
  Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has snapped at backbenchers sniping over his emissions trading scheme stance, saying he has no time for "anonymous smart-arses". A party room showdown on emissions trading legislation is looming after Mr Turnbull issued an ultimatum to his colleagues to back his decision to negotiate amendments if they want him to continue leading the Coalition.
• 2009/10/01: ABC(Au): Turnbull puts leadership on line with challenge to rebels
  Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says "time will tell" if his leadership survives the current Coalition turmoil over emissions trading.
• 2009/10/01: EarthTimes: Australia's Liberals wrestle over carbon-trading scheme
• 2009/09/29: ABC(Au): Coalition hazy on emissions policy
  The Federal Opposition's bickering over an emissions trading scheme (ETS) continued today, with renewed doubts over whether the policy that former prime minister John Howard took to the last election was ever agreed to by the Coalition party room

And in New Zealand:

• 2009/10/01: HotTopic: How not to negotiate #1

  While in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2009/09/29: Guardian(UK): India plans to cut carbon and fuel poverty with untested nuclear power
  Prime minister Manmohan Singh announces 100-fold increase in nuclear energy output by 2050 with thorium technology
• 2009/09/29: Yahoo:AFP: Atomic future will fight climate change: Indian PM [Manmohan Singh]

  And in Japan:

• 2009/09/30: ScienceInsider: Renewable Energy Research in Focus in New Japanese Budget

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

• 2009/10/03: CanWest: Ottawa spends millions on high-ethanol vehicles that don't cut emissions
  The federal government's push to use high-level ethanol fuel in cars is doing little or nothing to cut Canada's greenhouse gas emissions nor will it, says a government briefing note prepared for Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt and obtained by Canwest News Service. Moreover, government officials have warned Raitt that giving automakers credits toward new fuel efficiency standards by making cars that can use environmentally friendly E85 fuel will not actually reduce emissions because those cars will never actually use the "green" fuel and will continue to use regular gasoline. "The point the document is making is fairly straightforward - promoting E85 has no environmental benefits," said Matthew Bramley, climate change director for the advocacy group Pembina Institute.
• 2009/09/29: AD: On global impact

  More on US-Canadian relations:

• 2009/10/03: TSun: Working with U.S. on the environment by the federal minister of the environment, Jim Prentice

  In BC, post election adjustments are ongoing:

• 2009/09/30: BCLocalNews: Councillors' carbon tax gripes fade away
  Nobody's talking about the carbon tax. Environment Minister Barry Penner made that observation Wednesday at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention, where only a year ago the imposition of North America's first tax on fossil fuels was a raging controversy among local government officials from around B.C.
• 2009/09/29: BCLocalNews: No green light on car levy

  Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:

• 2009/10/01: CleanBreak: Industry starting to jockey around Ontario market
  Since Ontario's feed-in tariff program was launched last week, and with the first applications being accepted Oct. 1, there has been a handful of announcements that suggest the new program -- despite controversy around local content rules, wind setbacks and land restrictions for solar -- is beginning to achieve its intended effect.
• 2009/10/02: CleanBreak: Solar farms in Ontario begin their 20-year harvest
• 2009/09/30: CBC: TransCanada to build $1.2B power plant in Oakville -- Will be powered by natural gas

  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2009/10/03: CBC: Greenpeace activists occupy Alberta Shell site
• 2009/10/02: TStar: Greenhouse emissions from oil sands underestimated: [GFW] Report
• 2009/10/02: CBC: Oilsands emissions underestimated, [Global Forest Watch] report claims
• 2009/10/01: CanWest: Greenpeace protesters target Alberta oilsands again -- Protesting 'global addiction to dirty oil'
• 2009/10/01: PeakEnergy: Processing tar sands with geothermal energy?
• 2009/09/30: SolveClimate: Live Feed: World Watches Activists Occupy Suncor's Tar Sands Facility
• 2009/10/01: CBC: Cenovus to build new oilsands project -- EnCana spinoff will sell $500M in assets a year
  EnCana's oil-focused spinoff company will apply for regulatory approval in mid-2010 to build a new oilsands project at Narrows Lake, Alta., the company announced Thursday. Cenovus Energy Inc.'s new project would produce between 80,000 and 100,000 barrels of oil a day. The project will be close to its Christina Lake property.
• 2009/09/30: CBC: Greenpeace blocks work at [tarsands] Suncor Alberta mine

  As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

• 2009/10/02: Rabble:WotR: Whistler first carbon neutral local government in Canada by 2010
• 2009/09/28: CBC: Baffin Bay polar bear hunt goes before hearing

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

• 2009/10/03: Guardian(UK): Face to faith -- Economic growth and climate change are like a runaway train
• 2009/09/30: OilDrum: Sustainability: Planning from a Base of Zero [petroleum usage]

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

• 2009/10/02: SciAm: Another Inconvenient Truth: The World's Growing Population Poses a Malthusian Dilemma
  Solving climate change, the Sixth Extinction and population growth... at the same time
• 2009/09/30: CCurrents: The Population Myth
• 2009/09/17: WWI: Population Growth Steady in Recent Years
  The world's population surpassed 6.8 billion in early 2009, with no significant slowing in the pace of growth in recent years. (See Figure 1.) Estimates by the United Nations Population Division indicate that humanity has been consistently gaining more than 79 million people-a population almost the size of Germany's-each year since 1999. During the 1990s, annual additions fell from nearly 90 million people to less than 80 million, feeding optimism that world population might peak not long after the middle of this century. But the recent stability of annual population increments adds to the uncertainty and when-and how-world population growth will end. (See Figure 2.)
• 2009/09/29: Economist:FE: The benefits of "population control"
• 2009/09/29: BDL: Ryan Avent Does the Intellectual Trash Pickup: Contraception, Population, and Innovation Update
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): Stop blaming the poor. It's the wally yachters who are burning the planet
  Population growth is not a problem - it's among those who consume the least. So why isn't anyone targeting the very rich?
• 2009/09/28: TreeHugger: Resource Overconsumption Not Population Growth the Real Environmental Problem: Fred Pearce

  Apocalypso anyone?

• 2009/10/04: PeakEnergy: Reasons to be optimistic for the future
• 2009/09/29: CCurrents: Systemic Collapse: The Basics

  As for how the media handles the science:

• 2009/10/03: JFleck: On Media and Bunk
• 2009/10/03: ClimateP: And the winner of the worst essay by an environmental ethicist goes to -- David Henderson. One guess who printed his op-ed.
• 2009/10/03: MTobis: Amen re the Press
• 2009/10/02: Ph&Ph: Communicating Science to the Media
• 2009/10/02: AutoBG: Fox News criticizes - and misleads viewers on - Tesla, Fisker DOE loans
• 2009/09/29: Stoat: Science by press release
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: WashPost recycles another denier WSJ op-ed, this time from coal apologist Bjorn Lomborg. Funny how two new senior Post editors came from the WSJ

  Here is something for your library:

• 2009/10/03: HotTopic: [Book Plug] What's the worst that could happen?
• 2009/10/02: NatureCF: Must-reads for Copenhagen [Book List]

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2009/10/01: AlbanyHerald: Coal plant denied hearing
  The Georgia Supreme court announced Tuesday that it will not hear the controversial case of a proposed coal plant in Early County, a decision that shocked the community and environmental groups that have continually opposed the plant. The justices voted 6-0 this week not to consider the appeal, a decision that has environmental groups troubled.
• 2009/09/29: NYT:GW: Landmark 2nd Circuit Ruling [in Conn. vs. AEP] May Open Gates for Climate Cases
• 2009/09/30: TreeHugger: First Global Warming Lawsuit [Conn. vs. AEP] Against US Polluters a Success

  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2009/10/02: ClimateP: Misleading 'energy sprawl' study pollutes climate debate. In fact, clean energy protects our land while dirty energy destroys it
• 2009/10/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Down Time: Renewable Energy and the Quest for Storage
• 2009/09/30: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Interesting Data Points for Renewables, Natural Gas in EIA Monthly Energy Review
• 2009/09/30: BizInsider: Oil Isn't Going Anywhere, And It Will Continue To Cause Problems
• 2009/09/29: Reuters: U.S. July oil demand lowest in 13 years: Govt
• 2009/09/29: Reuters: Engineering giants follow the money to green power
  A green power building spree is on the way, and much of it will be brought to you by the same people who built the nuclear and coal-fired power plants that keep the lights on now. What might strike casual observers or radical greens as odd can be explained by good business sense; with few other power plants in the works, big U.S. engineering and construction companies have heartily embraced renewable energy projects.
• 2009/09/30: NYT: Alternative Energy Projects Stumble on a Need for Water
• 2009/09/29: NewScientist: Universal link bids to solve home energy format wars
• 2009/09/29: Grist: Feed-in rates: a hard sell
• 2009/09/29: BNC: TCASE [Thinking Critically About Sustainable Energy] 2: Energy primer
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): How to Monday: How to visualise energy savings
• 2009/09/26: PKedrosky: Fisking Scientific American on Oil

  The issue of fracking contaminating groundwater keeps coming up:

• 2009/10/01: Reuters: Water worries threaten U.S. push for natural gas

  The answer my friend...:

• 2009/10/03: ERabett: It's Blowin in the Wind
• 2009/10/03: Guardian(UK): Tilting at windmills
  Malawian teenager William Kamkwamba built a generator out of a bicycle and tractor fan. Now he's lauded by environmentalists
• 2009/10/01: CleanTechies:B: Big Support, Potential for Mid-Atlantic Wind Power
  An amazingly high percentage of people who live down the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard from New York to Virginia want wind turbines off their coast. Even if they can be seen from the shoreline, 67 percent support off-shore wind power, according to a new poll of coastal residents of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia . If the turbines are out of sight, the level of support goes up to an astounding 82 percent.
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: World's Largest Wind Farm (781.5 MW) Completed in Texas by E.ON Renewables
• 2009/10/01: BBC: Malawi windmill boy [William Kamkwamba] with big fans
  The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2009/10/02: PhysOrg: German solar panel makers in trouble: federation
• 2009/10/01: Reuters: First Solar to join S&P 500, shares jump 5.7 pct
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: Sempra Energy Working on 500 MW Solar Farm Near Phoenix, Arizona
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: Solar Panel Importers to Face 70$ Million in Unexpected Fines
• 2009/09/30: KSJT: NYTimes, NPR, etc: Solar energy rising; so too are water, ecological snarls
• 2009/09/30: PlanetArk: ProLogis, Recurrent Energy Tie Up On Solar Project
• 2009/09/28: WSJ:EnvCap: Rooftop Solar: ProLogis Turns Warehouses Into Clean Energy [in Spain]

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2009/09/28: FuturePundit: Corn Ethanol Increases Soil Run-Off
• 2009/10/02: StarTrib: GAO report poses tough questions for ethanol -- Study questions need for tax incentives and urges broader look at environmental impact
• 2009/10/02: IR^2: Cellulosic Ethanol Falling Short
• 2009/10/01: Eureka: In search of wildlife-friendly biofuels -- Could native prairie grasses be the answer?
• 2009/09/29: Eureka: Is trash the solution to tackling climate change? Waste-based biofuel could cut global emissions by over 80 percent
• 2009/09/29: BYUNews: Sugar + weed killer = potential clean energy source
• 2009/09/28: Purdue: Study shows more corn for biofuels would hurt water

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2009/10/04: SciDaily: 'Trash Can' Nuclear Reactors Could Power Human Outpost On Moon Or Mars
• 2009/10/02: NBF: Hyperion Power Generation Uranium Hydride Nuclear Reactor Factories
• 2009/10/01: PhysOrg: Laser Fusion and Exawatt Lasers
  In the recent past, producing lasers with terawatt (a trillion watts) beams was impressive. Now petawatt (a thousand trillion watts, or 10^15 watts) lasers are the forefront of laser research. Some labs are even undertaking work toward achieving exawatt (10^18 watts) levels.
• 2009/09/29: Reuters: US, Italy sign pact to build nuclear power stations
  The United States and Italy on Tuesday signed a nuclear cooperation deal that would enlist U.S. companies to help build a string of nuclear power stations across Italy, ending a 22-year ban by the Italian government. [...] Italy, the only Group of Eight industrialized nation without nuclear power, rejected it in a 1987 referendum after the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine.
• 2009/09/28: TreeHugger: Ask Pablo: Is Nuclear Power Really "Carbon Neutral?"

  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2009/10/01: OilDrum: Dancing at the Edge of the Precipice - After Peak Oil
• 2009/09/29: OilDrum: Where we really stand with respect to oil and natural gas supplies?
• 2009/09/27: TPV: Do you want to know why Iran has a nuclear program?

  More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2009/10/04: PeakEnergy: Pumping Up the Grid: A Key Step to Green Energy

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2009/10/03: LA Times: $39.95 for an energy-efficient light bulb? It's a deal, says maker Lemnis Lighting
  The Pharox60 LED lasts longer and ends up saving more money, the Dutch company says. Getting people in the U.S. to buy it is the challenge. Would you pay $39.95 for a light bulb? Didn't think so. But what if it used 90% less electricity than a standard incandescent bulb, cut greenhouse gas emissions and saved you about $280 over its 25-year life span?
• 2009/09/30: SolveClimate: 2.5 Cents Per Kilowatt Hour: America's Cheapest, Cleanest Fuel 'Holds Steady'
• 2009/09/28: TreeHugger: CFL Sales Plummeting in the US--Right When they Could Help Most

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

• 2009/10/03: BBC: September drop for US car sales
  The big three US car firms all saw their sales fall in September, as they suffered a hangover from the end of the "cash for clunkers" scrappage scheme. General Motors reported the biggest decline, with its sales dropping 45% from a year earlier, while Chrysler's fell 45%, and Ford's slipped 5%. The falls came after the scrappage scheme ended on 24 August.
• 2009/10/02: AutoBG: Report: All of Europe's 15 most fuel-efficient cars get better than 56 mpg
• 2009/10/02: CBC: U.S. car sales sink in September [Ford: -5.1%, Chrysler: -42%, GM: -45% (all yoy)]
• 2009/10/02: TStar: No rebound yet for Canadian car sales
  GM, Honda hurt the worst, though Ford, Hyundai defy the trend, as overall sales continue to drop
  Auto sales in Canada have dropped for an 11th consecutive month, but the pace of decline has slowed. Sales and leases of new cars and trucks -- a key indicator of the economy's health -- slipped 3.5 per cent or more than 4,600 to 129,503 vehicles in August from the same period last year, statistics from manufacturers showed yesterday. The decrease came despite some big sales jumps by Ford, Hyundai and some smaller manufacturers.
• 2009/10/01: CBC: Ford Canada sales up 24% [yoy]
• 2009/10/01: CalcRisk: Ford reports U.S. Sept. sales fall 5.1%
• 2009/10/01: CalcRisk: Light Vehicle Sales 9.2 Million (SAAR) in September
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: Big News: France to Spend $2.2 Billion on Electric Car Charging Stations
• 2009/10/01: TreeHugger: The Green Future of Mercedes-Benz: The New Electric Smart Fortwo
• 2009/09/30: AlterNet: Americans Are Still Buying Gas-Guzzlers, But Here Are 7 Signs That the Market for Green Transport Is Exploding
• 2009/09/29: AutoBG: Average new car mpg levels hit record high in August, spurred by Cash for Clunkers
• 2009/09/28: CBC: Energy storage key to electric car plans
• 2009/09/28: CBC: Zenn to cease electric car production
  Toronto-based Zenn Motor Company has announced it will cease production of its electric car, which had been hailed as a mini-revolution in the industry. Instead, CEO Ian Clifford said the company now wants to focus on marketing its highway-capable drive system to the big car manufacturers.

Cash-for-Clunkers, aka Scrappage, Plans are being legislated and argued around the world:

• 2009/10/02: DerSpiegel: Scrapping the Scrapping Bonus -- German Car Sales Plummet in September
  For most of the year, German car makers lived in a bubble, funded by government subsidies for those who would scrap their old cars for newer, more fuel-efficient models. Now that the program has ended, car sales have halved.
• 2009/10/02: AutoBG: Italy extends its cash for clunkers program for 100,000 more vehicles
• 2009/10/02: AutoBG: Without Cash for Clunkers in September, Prius sales hold steady
• 2009/09/28: BBC: [UK] Scrappage scheme to be extended

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2009/10/02: WSJ:EnvCap: Clean-Energy Investment Still Sputtering, Analysts Say
• 2009/10/02: SolveClimate: Cleantech Investment: 3rd Quarter Sizzles, Courtesy of Washington and Solar
• 2009/09/30: DeSmogBlog: Toyota's Two-Faced Stance on Climate Change

  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:

• 2009/09/28: CNN: Risky business: insuring countries against climate catastrophe
  Report on potential economic loss for countries affected by climate changes - NGOs and insurance companies were part of [Economics of Climate Adaptation (ECA) Working Group] research group - Developing countries will be hardest hit, says report; adaptation measures proposed - Insurance plays a key role in protecting countries from severe climate events

Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:

• 2009/10/02: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for October 2nd...
• 2009/10/01: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for October 1st...
• 2009/09/30: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 30th...
• 2009/09/29: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 29...
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for September 28: G20 leaders agree to phase-out fossil fuel subsides; China sees emissions trading in next economic plan

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2009/10/04: IJI: Not political activism III: watch out, it's Wealth Transfer!!!
• 2009/10/03: TP:WR: GE's Right-Wing Media Hosts Jim Inhofe: CO2 Is Not A 'Real Pollutant'
• 2009/10/01: CShift: Slimed by 'CO2 science'
• 2009/10/01: CShift: DenialDepot on climate modelling and Pacman
• 2009/10/03: CShift: Profiles in courage: Joe Barton of the US house
• 2009/10/01: PRWatch: New Oil and Coal Fronts Greenwash Global Warming
• 2009/10/02: DeepClimate: Anatomy of a lie, part 2: Gunter to IBD to Will
• 2009/10/02: DeepClimate: Anatomy of a lie: How Marc Morano and Lorne Gunter spun Mojib Latif's remarks out of control
• 2009/10/02: BBS: Interesting articles on psychology of denial
• 2009/10/02: KSJT: Wash. Post: George Will on the global warming hoax-mistake-phantasm-etc, redux
• 2009/10/01: ClimateP: Exclusive interview with Dr. Mojib Latif, the man who confused the NY Times and New Scientist, the man who moved George Will and math-challenged Morano to extreme disinformation
• 2009/10/02: BNC: Q and A responses to climate skeptics' arguments
• 2009/10/02: TP: George Will Believes The Hottest Decade In History Shows An 'Absence Of Significant Warming'
• 2009/10/01: Guardian(UK): Cents and sensibility
  US energy firms are starting to abandon climate change denial and embracing plans to regulate carbon emissions
• 2009/10/01: ClimateP: Memo to George Will, WashPost: When you quote someone who is wrong, even if it is the NYT's Andy Revkin, then you're wrong, too
• 2009/10/01: OBMB: Epiphany: Evil Scientists Are Destroying the Planet!
• 2009/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Coal Baron Don Blankenship's Crazy Talk on Climate Change
• 2009/09/29: NRDC:SwitchBoard: A lesson in math, science, and economics for Bjorn Lomborg
• 2009/09/28: ERabett: First Krammed, then Curtined
• 2009/09/29: DeSmogBlog: CO2 is Good for Oil Barons
• 2009/09/28: DeSmogBlog: Lomborg: Argument today; "proof" tomorrow
• 2009/09/28: DeSmogBlog: NYT's Krugman: Slamming the Fantasy World of Glenn Beck
• 2009/09/28: Guardian(UK): CO2 is green: the TV advert making viewers choke
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: WashPost recycles another denier WSJ op-ed, this time from coal apologist Bjorn Lomborg. Funny how two new senior Post editors came from the WSJ
• 2009/09/28: ClimateP: Markey spokesman: "The Breakthrough Institute seems to believe, much as the Bush administration did, that technology will solve all, even without a market."
• 2009/09/27: ClimateP: Inhofe on why global warming isn't real: "God's still up there."

  The hockey stick attack redux:

• 2009/10/03: ERabett: What data? The latest Climate Audit harumph...
• 2009/10/04: DeepClimate: Climate 'auditor' Steve McIntyre: Yamal like 'crack cocaine'
• 2009/10/02: AGWObserver: Comments on McIntyre's claims on Briffa
• 2009/10/03: Deltoid: Mcintyre misunderstood somehow. Yet again.
• 2009/10/01: CShift: Are all hockey sticks made in Siberia? Real Climate weighs in
• 2009/09/30: CRU:KBriffa: The Yamal ring-width chronology of Briffa (2000)
• 2009/09/30: QuarkSoup: That Yamal Reconstruction
• 2009/09/30: QuarkSoup: Peer Review and Yamal
• 2009/10/01: QuarkSoup: Yamal Replies
• 2009/10/01: CCP: Real Climate finally kicks some butt! Yeah!!! -- Hey Ya! (mal)
• 2009/10/02: QuarkSoup: An Apology for the Yamal Accusation?
  I still think Steve McIntyre owes Keith Briffa an apology. Now he is (of course) picking through Briffa's comments, looking for inconsistencies and starting to play the victim. This whole episode has all been very unseemly
• 2009/10/01: CIP: CIP Explains It: Yamal
• 2009/10/02: BCLSB: Steve McIntyre: I Didn't Say What I Just Said, Anyone Who Says I Did Is Lying
• 2009/09/30: RealClimate: Hey Ya! (mal)
• 2009/10/01: BCLSB: Keith Briffa Strikes Back

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2009/10/01: Grist: A Walk Through the Week's Climate News -- The Climate Post: Gentlemen, start your lawsuits
• 2009/10/02: EarthTimes: Capping climate change doable with 'carbon budget,' WWF says
• 2009/10/01: CCP: Elizabeth Kolbert: Leading Causes
• 2009/10/01: NatureCF: A simple climate model to the rescue
• 2009/10/01: KSJT: San Diego Union-Tribune, SF Chronicle: A environmental two-fer. Save some butterflies, sequester some carbon...
• 2009/09/30: ClimateSight: What if the IPCC is Wrong?
• 2009/09/30: PhysOrg: Why leave it to nature? Chemistry professor wants to understand, simplify, photosynthesis
  Amid calls for transformative change in the world's energy supply, Harvard chemist Ted Betley is taking a back-to-basics approach and examining the mother of all energy supplies -- photosynthesis -- for clues to how nature runs a power plant.
• 2009/09/29: JFleck: On the Risk of Overstating
• 2009/09/29: NatureN: Instant climate model gears up -- Simulation tool gives rapid feedback on implications of policy changes
• 2009/09/29: Stoat: Cassandras of Climate?
• 2009/09/28: Maribo: Ketsana and crying wolf about climate change
• 2009/09/28: RealClimate: Decadal predictions
• 2009/09/28: EconView: Paul Krugman: Cassandras of Climate

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

• NASA: IceSat
• Monash:BParris: Responses to Questions & Objections on Climate Change
• Global Forest Watch Canada
• Wiki: Famine scales
• USPIRG: U.S. Public Interest Research Group - Global Warming
• Pembina: Ecological Fiscal Reform (EFR)
• Fire Ecology
• Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast [Draft of a textbook by David Archer]
• The Yes Men
• JIW: Jim Inhot Water
• Argo [world ocean temperature and salinity collection project]
• U.S Climate Emergency Council

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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