Another Week of GW News, July 15, 2012

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 An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk(which includes some quotations), An overview of my writing is available here.

-het

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

I notice moyhu has set up a monster index to old AWoGWN on AFTIC.

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Another Week of GW News, July 15, 2012

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

Another Week of Anthropocene Antics

Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years

July 15, 2012

We are definitely back in the black humour zone:

And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

Looking back at Rio+20:

Looking ahead to COP18 and future international climate negotiations:

The Resource 2012 forum went down in the UK this week:

In Cairns, Australia, the International Coral Reef Symposium grabbed a few headlines:

The State of the Climate 2011 report with the Peterson et al. paper drew a lot of attention:

Another weird mass death:

John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:

A note on theFukushima disaster:

Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

Post Fukushima, nuclear policies are in flux around the world:

The Arctic melt continues to garner attention:

As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:

While in Antarctica:

The food crisis is ongoing:

The state of the world's fisheries is a concern:

Food Prices are still problematic:

The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

Regarding the genetic modification of food:

Regarding labelling GM food:

And how are we going to feed 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion?

In the warm waters of the Eastern Pacific, three cyclones spun up one after the other:

While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

And on the Monsoon front:

As for GHGs:

And the temperature record:

Note the BBC's annoying re-use of URLs:

What's up with the Jet Streams?

While in the paleoclimate:

In the attribution debate:

And on the ENSO front:

Dealing with uncertainties:

And the State of the Oceans:

What's new on the extinction front?

What's new in proxies?

You may not believe it, but it seems that DSCOVR [Deep Space Climate Observatory] is in play once again:

And in other satellite news:

More GW impacts are being seen:

Climate refugees are becoming an issue:

Desertification looms as a threat:

Freak Weather just isn't very Freaky any more:

This week in the New Normal -- extreme weather:

As for heatwaves and wild fires:

Corals are a bellwether of the ocean's health:

Glaciers are melting:

Sea levels are rising:

These global warming deluges are becoming all too frequent:

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

First, stop subsidizing fossil fuelsSecond, put a price on carbonAnd elsewhere on the mitigation front:

Can cities take up the slack when nations shirk their responsibilities?

Consider transportation & GHG production:

As for carbon sequestration:

What's new in conservation?

Meanwhile in the journals:

And other significant documents:

As for miscellaneous science:

What's new in models?

What developments in the ongoing struggle for Free Science?

Regarding Mann:

Regarding Ehrlich:

Regarding Wegman:

Meanwhile at the UN:

And on the carbon trading front:

The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

On the international political front, tensions continue as the empire leans on Iran:

South China Sea tension persists:

In the global competition for Rare Earths and other natural resources:

As the EU-ETS is applied to airlines, we will see who is serious about reducing carbon emissions:

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

What are the activists up to?

Polls! We have polls!

Regarding Water Politics and Business:

And on the groundwater front:

Regarding science education:

A note on the Fukushima disaster:

First, stop subsidizing fossil fuels
Second, put a price on carbon
And elsewhere on the mitigation front: