climate march 2011

--text posts are at the blistered orb--

(more updates were added March 5)

EVENTS

US Midwest: rain and snowmelt trigger flooding 3.1.
San Francisco: record low follows record snow 2.28.
Bolivia: floods and landslides 2.27.
US New England: more snow, floods, storms 2.25.
Illinois, Chicago: more record snow 2.25.
US Midwest: more snow, more cold 2.18.
Alaska: climate change now visible in national parks 2.14.
Oklahoma: record lows 2.10.
Oklahoma: yet another blizzard 2.9.
Australia: floods, cyclone stress Great Barrier reef 2.10.
Australia: downunder GHG rise due to mining boom 2.9.
Australia: flood, cyclone hits national economy 2.8.
Australia: more torrential downpours 2.5.
Texas: winter storm causes water shortage 2.7.
Georgia: coldest winter ever 2.8.
Mexico: cold snap paralyzes Ciudad Juarez 2.4.Mexico: zoo animals freeze to death 2.5.
China: severe northern drought, crops wither, prices rise 2.3.

TRENDS

World food prices set yet another record 3.2.
Extreme food prices will stay 2.24.
US crop boom not enough to rebuild supplies 2.24.
India thousands protest high food prices in Delhi 2.23.
Bad cotton harvest pushes global clothing prices up 2.14.
the new scramble for African crop land 2.10.Amazon drought exhales more CO2 than US in a year 2.7.
Global food crisis: "droughts, floods, and food" (P Krugman) 2.6.
Global: effects of windblown material now being felt 1.6.
Record warmth in 2010 despite cooling influences 1.4.

ATTRIBUTION

Forscher geben Menschheit Schuld an Flutkatastrophen 17.2.
AMERICAN DISENLIGHTENMENT

oligarchs: the Koch prank 2.28.
oligarchs: the plutocrats' coup d'etat 2.28.
oligarchs: why isn't Wall Street in jail 2.17.
Wisconsin: authoritarian tactics 2.28.
Wisconsin: "mad as hell" (R Nader) 2.26.
Wisconsin: the Koch whore (Daily Beast transcript) 2.23.
GOP: Repub spending plan would cost 700k jobs 2.28.
media: Fox lies 2.24.
media: Fox flips union-busting poll results 2.23.
EPA scales back emission rules 2.24.
American decline in a new world 2.24.
budget "choice b/w bad and worse" (A Huffington) 2.23.
GOP: House Repubs want to cut funds to UN IPCC 2.21.
GOP: House Repubs want to cut funds to EPA 2.9.military budget "on the wrong side of history" 2.21.
Detroit to close half its schools 2.21.
GOP: Senate dumbs down on clean energy 2.18.
budget: if only Washington had a brain (T Engelhardt) 2.17.
Florida: governor rejects high speed funding 2.16.
Montana: Repub bill would 'embrace' global warming 2.18.
GOP: "eat the future" (P Krugman) 2.13.
military spending (Economist) 2.10.
energy: new drilling techniques open new shale gas fields 2.9.
bad food makes dumb kids 2.8.
cognition: when a country goes insane 2.21.cognition: we're all mad here 2.12.
cognition: why don't gringos believe in global warming? 2.8.
cognition: repub critic calls high speed rail 'insane' 2.8.
GOP: Repubs defend incandescent light bulbs 2.4.cognition: Fox contrives global warming 'debate' 2.3.
obesity worsens at fastest pace among rich nations 2.3.
driving: car pools are disappearing 1.28.

GLOBAL EVOLUTION

France to scrap tax cuts for the rich 3.2.
UK reveals second phase of high speed rail plan 2.28.
climate art: the drama of climate change 2.27.
food future: crisis prevention 2.17.
World's most livable cities in 2011 2.21.
USF earns sustainability gold award 2.7.no more immunity for Bush--abroad, at least 2.8.
Bush ducks Swiss torture charges 2.7.
Bush trip to Switzerland axed over torture protest fears 2.6.

MITIGATION

Renewable energy beats coal on price 2.27.
Volcanic energy channeled in Iceland 2.27.
Gas price taxes: world wide comparison 2.25.
Meat: one more reason to close factory farms 2.25.
Agriculture: biodiverse ecological farming 2.23.
Black Carbon: climate change in black and white 2.17.
Spain: solar power tower 2.15.
Smart buildings: soaking up the sun to squeeze bills to zero 2.14.
US: new battle over GHG emissions 2.10.
Indonesia: palm oil deal to save forests and carbon 2.8.
EU: Copenhagen winter bicycling 1.5.

CLIMATE ESSAYS

P Popham "the price of food at the heart of revolution" 27 Feb
M Parenti "profit pathology and disposable planet" 27 Feb
D Roberts "gargantuan challenge to shift to green energy" 11 Feb
D Roberts "are we in a clean energy race with China?" 10 Feb
N Chomsky "how climate became a 'liberal hoax'" 9 FebR Anderson "the year in review, climatically" 9 Feb

CLIMATE NEOLOGISM

"Copenhagenize"

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ANNOUNCEMENT

sixty-nine months left.