Climate august 2010

-- text posts are at the blistered orb --

CLIMATE EVENTS
England experiences exceptionally dry summer 8.31.
Pacific hot spells shifting as predicted 8.29.
Caribbean hurricane Earl is approaching 8.28.
Louisiana hurricane Katrina five year memorial service 8.28.
... The Big Uneasy--Harry Shearer's new film
Bolivia antarctic cold snap empties Bolivian rivers of fish 8.27.
Russia fires cost 300 billion $ in forest loss 8.27.Pakistan flood catastrophe aftermath 8.27.
China mudslides obliterate city district (photo) 8.20.World rising temps reduce plant ability to absorb carbon 8.20.
Arctic sea ice melting 2010: day 229 8.19.
Southeast Asia unprecedented coral bleaching underway 7.29.
Japan summer heat wave blamed for 66 deaths 7.27.
Ireland summer droughts to become the norm 7.1.Ireland hottest summer in 130 years 6.25.
Florida MRSA can be caught at the beach 2.13.

GAIA TRENDS

we've gone into the ecological red on August 21 8.23.
diseases you can catch in the warming oceans 8.22.
food crisis: the foundation is crumbling 8.19.
agricultural economist warns of new food crisis 8.19.
giant ocean garbage patches: currently not growing 8.20.
global warming is driving lizards to extinction 5.13.
GULF OIL

... engineers to remove temporary cap over well 8.27.
... after outcry, oil data inches into the open 8.20.
... BP struggles to swap out blowout preventer 8.19.
...giant plume of droplets 'missed' by official account 8.19.
... Gulf oil plume is not breaking down fast 8.19.
... we have yet to come face to face with biggest cost of spill 8.17.
... how badly have we screwed up the Gulf ecosystem? 8.5.
CLIMATE SCIENCE

(bad news--another positive feedback loop found:
the hotter it gets, the less CO2 gets fixed by plants)
M Zhao reduction in terrestrial net primary production 2000-2009
Science 329 (2010): 940-943

(warmer ocean temps plus shifting currents equal dead zones)
V Gewin oceanography: dead in the water
Nature 466 (2010): 812-814

(sea water pH to drop close to the pH of distilled water by 2100)
D Bernie influence of mitigation policy on ocean acidification
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010) L15704
...see also geoscience: ocean acid control Nature 466 (2010) 905

(gulf oil will spread into northwest atlantic within six months)
M Maltrud long-term fate of oil from Deepwater Horizon incident
Environmental Research Letters 5 (2010) 035301

(New Orleans's 'recovery' is a harbinger of how climate change
will drive a thicker wedge between the haves and the have-nots)
J Mutter disasters widen the rich-poor gap
Nature 466 (2010): 1042

(for the first time we can quantify future climate refugees)
D Biello climate change may mean more Mexican immigration
Scientific American July (2010)
...see also
S Feng climate change, crop yields, and Mexico-US migration
Proceedings of the Nat'l Academy of Sciences 107 (2010) 14257-62

(annual data sets with summaries, just published)
NOAA state of the climate in 2009
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 91 (2010)
... the data portal is here... the upshot (ch 2, p. 29):
... ... 2009 transition from La Nina to El Nino dominated anomalies
... ... 2009 ranked in the top 10 warmest years globally
... ... 2009 about 0.1 C warmer than 2008
... ... 2009 is 19th consecutive year that glaciers have lost mass

(reefs are reeling from extensive bleaching in Indian Ocean/SE Asia)
D Normile hard summer for corals kindles fears for survival of reefs
Science 329 (2010): 1001

(late Eocene research suggests Antarctic ice shield may not hold)
S Peters large-scale glaciation and deglaciation of Antarctica
Geology 38 (2010): 723-726

climate skeptic B Lomborg now warns of climate change 8.31.
toxic pollutants linked to tar sands mining 8.30.
RealClimate science update 8.20.

CLIMATE POLICY

UN IPCC chair Pachauri urged to step down 8.31.
UN review finds flaws in Climate Panel structure 8.30.
US climate bill dies in Senate 8.30.Mongolian cabinet meets in desert, to call attention to climate 8.29.
Germany wants to extend nuclear power 10-15 years 8.29.
US wants China and India to drill for "clean" shale gas 8.27.
China builds base to drill for deep-sea methane clathrates 8.27.
Australia's politicians have failed its people on climate change 8.25.
CLIMATE MITIGATION

Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rig 8.31.
US nuclear industry takes new path for new plants 8.31.
New York City biking boom (and backlash) 8.30.
UN cap-and-trade is beginning to raise concerns 8.29.
US levees, dams, rails are deteriorating 8.28.
deep-freezing coral cells, for re-breeding after climate change 8.19.

CLIMATE PHILOSOPHY

New Scientist interviews S Zizek on Living in End Times 8.31.
R Irwin, ed. Climate and Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2010)

CLIMATE DENIERS / AMERICAN DISENLIGHTENMENT

US fed housing finance agency opposes home-greening program 8.27.
Texas opposes federal global warming 'power grab' 8.25.
US: building a nation of know-nothings 8.25.

CLIMATE ESSAYS
D Biello 'gray literature': how much IPCC reform is needed? 8.30.
N Oreskes/E Conway climate deniers--merchants of doubt 8.25.
T Homer-Dixon disaster at the top of the world 8.22.
R Edroso right-wingers and Ayn Rand 8.20.
K. Harrington energy machismo vs. solar panels 8.20.
E Kain why to invest in high-speed rail in the US 8.20.
B Moench criminal neglect of future generations 8.19.
T Goeghegan why you'd be healthier and wealthier in Germany 8.17.
B McKibben hot as hell & not going to take it anymore 8.5.
A Smith / A Flores disaster politics 7.15.

CLIMATE TEXT REVIEWS

Julian Cribb The Coming Famine
Mori Art Museum Rethinking the Japanese Perception of Nature

BEST GLOBAL WARMING QUOTE

Global average surface temperatures during the last three decades have been progressively warmer than all earlier decades, making 2000-2009 (the 2000s) the warmest decade in the instrumental record.
NOAA state of the climate 2009 ch 2 p 29

BEST CIVIL EVOLUTION NEWS

report says public transportation makes you skinny 8.20.


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Climate july 2010

--text posts are at the blistered orb--

CLIMATE EVENTS

Arctic lowest sea ice extent ever, for month of June 7.6.
Greenland huge ice island calves off glacier 8.11.
Global wheat supply forecast cut 8.12.
Russia ban on grain exports begins 8.19.
Russia probably thousands killed in Moscow by heat 8.17.Russia lashed by storm after heatwave 8.16.
Russia reduces grain harvest forecast 8.9.
Russia hottest summer on record 7.29.
China suffers more heat and rainstorms (August) 8.14.
China floods affect twenty-nine provinces (July) 8.5.
China floods affect nine provinces (June) 6.20.Pakistan the race to save the country's agriculture 8.17.
Pakistan heat spikes to new record at 128 F / 53 C 8.12.
Pakistan floods worst disaster in national history 8.10.
India fatal cloudburst kills 150 in driest place on Earth 8.17.
Niger extreme drought worsens 8.12.Ghana 10 mio affected by drought and famine 7.5.
Ghana head meteo: false alarm; no drought this year 4.14.
Ghana warned to face drought this year 4.14.
Germany floods, again 8.16.
Indonesia reefs die at record rates due to warming seas 8.18.Indonesia tropical mountain glaciers gone by end of the decade 8.16.
Southeast Asia world's "coral triangle" now bleaching out 7.27.
GULF OIL

...BP cover-up of true size of spill continues 8.17.
...70-79 percent of oil spilled is still in water 8.17. (see also here)
...oil lurking beneath surface, settling in Panhandle Canyon 8.17....Gulf sea food not tested for dispersant 8.16.
...freedom of spill research threatened 7.28.
GAIA TRENDS

How the heatwave in Russia is connected to floods in Pakistan 8.12.
WMO warns: unprecedented series of climate events 8.11.
WMO ties Pakistan floods to climate change 8.18.UN warns: mass extinction now worst since 62 mio yrs ago 8.16.

CLIMATE SCIENCE

(three options how to mitigate risks of runaway events)
C Kousky responding to the threat of climate mega-catastrophes
Harvard, Kennedy School of Government 19 Oct 2010

(mangrove forests disappear ever faster)C Giri status and distribution of mangrove forests of the world
Global Ecology & Biogeography 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00584.x

(warming-related cold snaps thwart plant adaptation)
A Jalili climate change, cold waves, and brakes on plant migration
Global Ecology & Biogeography 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00553.x

(mammoths went extinct because of global warming)
J Allen last glacial vegetation in northern Eurasia
Quaternary Science Reviews 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.05.031

(China's soot worsens global warming)
M Ramana warming influenced by the ratio of black carbon
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 542-543

(positive feedbacks via nitrogen et al worsen climate change)
A Arneth terrestrial biogeochemical feedbacks in the climate system
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 525-543

(gulf oil isn't gone; it's hovering in the deep)
R Kerr a lot of oil on the loose, not so much to be found
Science 329 (2010): 734-735

(Science special issue on scaling up alternative energy)
Editorial getting better to get bigger (links to papers)
Science 329 (2010): 779

(combination punch could fell rainforests -- cf. New Scientist)
G Asner combined effects of climate and land-use change on the future of humid tropical forests
Conservation Letters doi 10.1111/j.1755-263x.2010.00133x

CLIMATE POLICY

US biggest expansion of coal (!) power in 2 decades 8.17.US Wisconsin Republican to stop high speed rail 8.18.
US Republicans derail cap-and-trade bill 8.5.

CLIMATE MITIGATION

Toyota hybrids lead German enviro ranking 8.18.
German solar city (Freiburg) creates 4 x energy it uses 8.16.
China surges ahead with renewable energy 8.5.
Kyoto targets are impossible to verify 8.13.

CLIMATE DENIERS / AMERICAN DISENLIGHTENMENT

... a list of corrupt Republican assholes courtesy of The Grist,
supplemented by Politico

California: Carly Fiorina (R)
Colorado: Ken Buck (R)
Connecticut: Linda MacMahon (R)
Florida 1: Marco Rubio (R)
Florida 2: Rick Scott (R)
Kentucky: Rand Paul (R)
Massachussetts: Charlie Baker (R)
Nevada: Sharron Angle (R)
New Mexico 1: Steve Pearce (R)
New Mexico 2: Susana Martinez (R)
Oklahoma: Jim Inhofe (R)
Pennsylvania: Pat Toomey (R)
Washington: Dino Rossi (R)
Wisconsin: Ron Johnson (R)

BEST GLOBAL WARMING QUOTE

Coal and oil--the real "Axis of Evil" 'in the United States today--present a major challenge in the context of climate change.

D Kennedy (editor emeritus) "Beyond Petroleum?"
Science 329 (2010): 727


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Climate june 2010

--edited by Mad Hun 10/18/10--

New Text Unbalanced and Kyoto Negotiations Stalled
Climate Negotiations at Risk

BONN, Germany - Today at the UN climate negotiations in Bonn, countries responded to a new draft text document released late Thursday night.

At a press conference held by NGOs from across the world in response to the new text and developments in the Kyoto Protocl negotiations, Martin Khor, Director of the South Centre, an intergovernmental think-tank of developing countries, said:

"The text has become even more imbalanced towards developed country interests. It leaves out many important points that the old text included. This affects the balance. This text removes the equity principle from the most important elements of the climate regime. It is a step backward."

Antje von Broock a climate campaigner with Friends of the Earth added:

"This new text is an invitation for the European Union to show leadership again on climate. This text shows a real drift away from the principles, values and rules of the agreed international climate change legal framework. Developing countries have been clear on how that drift can stop: a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. That's not in the text. Friends of the Earth is asking the EU to put it there and reclaim the mantle of 'climate leader."

Mohamed Adow, program officer at Christian Aid said:

"Developed countries have a two faced approach to the Kyoto Protocol and are condemning it to death. This text reflects a real imbalance, there is no room for concerns about equity or justice. If negotiations continue in this direction there will be no international climate law worth talking about and that would condemn millions of people, particularly in Africa, to unsurvivable food and water shortages."

Raman Mehta, of Action Aid (India) said:

"The suspension of the Kyoto Protocol negotiations today by Japan and Russia is a real threat to the lives of the poor and vulnerable. They are clearly acting in concert with the US, which continues to reject the need for substantially legal binding emission cuts. Without those binding cuts millions of people in the developing world will suffer a climate catastrophe that they have not caused. The US must stop undermining the Kyoto Protocol and the EU must bring Russia and Japan into a new commitment period with strong, effective, just and science-based emission cuts."GULF OIL
BP liews about amount of spill 6.08
Obama insists BP stay in charge 5.27
BP uses dispersants 5.20Obama finally claims responsibility...6.08
CLIMATE MITIGATION

washing carbon out of the air 6.11

CLIMATE EVENTS

Germany torrential rains cause nationwide alert 6.04
Poland freak flood kills 21 people 5.29
Hungary a month of continuous rainfall 6.05
India heatwave kills hundreds 5.30
Korea biggest snowfall in modern history 6.01
China floods kill 53 in the south 6.05
China 9 more people die from landslide 6.14
West Africa and Ghana face 100 year drought 4.20
Guatemala over 100 people die in flood and landslide 6.02
CLIMATE POLICY

UN says eating less meet can curb climate change 6.02China 'not very optimistic' on lowering carbon emissions 6.03

Climate may 2010

--text posts are at the climate blog--


CLIMATE EVENTS
Tanzania/Congo: Lake Tanganyika warming fast 5.15.
Oklahoma/Kansas: nineteen tornadoes hit at once 5.11.
Germany: let it snow! 5.7.
Tennessee record floods kill 10 in Nashville 5.6.
Tennessee floods overwhelm Cumberland river region 5.3.
Mississippi killer storm 5.2.

GULF OIL
... oil forms deep sea plume; biggest spill in US history 5.14.
... BP flow rate lies reflects badly on gov oversight 5.14.... Purdue U scientist: spill 14 x larger than thought 5.14.
... Florida St U scientist: spill 5 x larger than thought 5.13.
... US Republicans block effort to make oil company pay 5.13.
... Mississippi: tar balls wash up on beaches 5.13.
... Louisiana: tar balls wash up on beaches 5.12.... Alabama: tar balls wash up on offshore islands 5.12.
... aerial and underwater footage of spill 5.12.
... spill measures now 100 x 120 miles 5.11.... NYT editorial: the oil industry doesn't step up 5.11.
... Mississippi: dead dolphins wash up on coast 5.11.
... containment dome fails to stop gusher 5.10.
... background info from Daily Grist 5.7.
... dispersant may make oil spill more toxic 5.5.
... oil arrives at Chandeleur islands 5.4.... sea food industry hangs in the balance 5.4.
... oil comes ashore in Louisiana 4.30.
... oil well gushing out 42,000 gallons oil per day 4.26.

see also:

Containing and cleaning up the deepwater oil rig disaster
Scientific American (May 2010) special report

GAIA TRENDS

Global warming drives lizards to extinction 5.12.
China is becoming world leader in green technologies 5.6.
US Bienentod alarmiert amerik. Landwirte 5.3.
US colony collapse disorder continues and worsens 5.2.

CLIMATE SCIENCE
(climate scientists speak out against political threats)
100s of authors: climate change and the integrity of science
Science 328 (2010): 689-690
see also news report 5.6.

Earth could become too hot for humans 5.4.

(quiet sun has regional effects only, won't help with warming)
M Lockwood are cold winters in Europe with low solar activity?
Environmental Research Letters 5 (2010) 024001

(more vapor + more heat = more high cold; more CO2 = less rain)
M Previdi radiative feedbacks on global precipitation
Environmental Research Letters 5 (2010)

(it'll go up 0.6-1.8 m if IPCCs conservative models are followed)
S Jevrejeva how will sea level rise with climate forcing by 2100?
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010) L07703

(Atlantic's way warmer now, half natural oscillation, half our doing)
C Wang is warmer N Atlantic related to CO2 and climate change?
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010) L08707

(more airborne nitrogen winds up in soil, helps to lock down carbon)
I Janssens less forest soil respiration b/c of nitrogen deposition
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 315-322

(climate change may cause 1/5 of plants & animals to go extinct)
M LePage lost lizards validate grim extinction predictions
New Scientist 13 May 2010

(economic analysis, risk analysis, and really bad climate change)
C Costello bounded uncertainty and climate change economics
PNAS 107 (2010): 8101-8110

CLIMATE POLICY

US federal push for solar technology 5.14.
US climate bill won't achieve 350 goal 5.13.
US senate gets climate bill, modified by oil spill 5.12.
US climate bill ("American power act"): the key points 5.12.
EU climate commissioner seeks 30 percent carbon cuts 5.11.
US climate bill loses Republican support 5.7.
EU Bonn climate meeting 'ice broken' 5.4.
US climate bill could be harmed by Gulf spill 5.1.
US interior dept approves first offshore wind farm 4.28.

COP-15 FOLLOW UP

The Copenhagen failure: China sinks consensus (video protocol) 5.3.

CLIMATE MITIGATION

US emit 7% less CO2 in 2009 5.6.
US Cape Cod project crucial for American wind industry 4.26.

THE BIG PICTURE

UNPFII report: Christian doctrine fueled dehumanization 5.3.
H Wasserman as we die for BP, military rots in the wrong gulf 5.12.
B Berry oil spill not this year's only disaster 5.10.
E v Thadden Oelpest zum Anfassen 5.7.
R Kennedy sex, lies, and oil spills 5.6.
H Wasserman the triple curse of the corporate climate bill 5.3.
P Krugman drilling, disaster, denial 5.2.
C Pope drill baby drill -- or whoops, spill baby spill? 4.30.
J Hiskes worst week ever brought to you by the fossil industry 4.30.

THE NATION'S PERSPECTIVE (3 May 2010 issue)

unfortunately no links, since only for subscribers; very well-informed articles, worth reading. titles posted for the record...

Nation editorial "Earth to Congress"

Nation feature "climategate claptrap"
M Hertsgaard "don't believe the spin"
J Hari "demented deniers, welcome to the USA!"
C Parenti "the case for EPA action"
R Eshelman "cracking big coal"
L Salzman "an open letter to Bill McKibben"
H Rogers "carbon offset buyers beware"
S Kaplan "sapping the superfund's strength"
K Paik "US military's plans would devastate Guam's environment"

CLIMATE TEXT REVIEWS

Claude Allegre L'imposture climatique (2010)
Ian McEwan Solar (2010)
...and blast from the past: Michael Crichton State of Fear (2004)

CLIMATE PHILOSOPHY

P Kingsnorth/D Hine the dark mountain manifesto (2010)



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Climate april II 2010

--text posts are at the blistered orb--


CLIMATE EVENTS

Arctic boreal forests are browning 5.1.
Mississippi hit by 'enormous' tornado 4.25.
US monthly tornado frequency at decadal low 4.23.
Iceland volcano causes fall in CO2 emissions by halting flights 4.19.
Spain and Japan see birds stop migrating due to climate change 4.18.

GAIA TRENDS

Health: climate change intensifies allergies 4.16. and 4.14.
Oceans: a second garbage patch has formed, now in Atlantic 4.15.
... Atlantic garbage patch photos
CLIMATE SCIENCE

Global warming monitoring needs to find missing oceanic heat 4.21.

(comparing old and new pics shows tundra growing bushes)
M. Sturm arctic plants feel the heat
Scientific American May 2010

(prepare for a drier world with infrequent torrential downpours)
G Stephens predictability of climate-related precipitation changes
Env Res Letters 5 (2010): 025209 (7pp)

(how a quiet sun can kink the jet stream)
M Lockwood are cold winters in Europe due to low solar activity?
Env Res Letters 5 (2010): 024001 (7pp)

(monsoons and megadroughts)
E Wahl toward understanding and predicting monsoon patterns
Science 328 (2010): 437-438

(it's time to study the trailing edges of shrinking forests)
C Matyas forecasts needed for retreating forests
Nature 464 (2010) 10.1038/4641271a

(why the poles heat up quickest: blame melting ice)
J Screen role of sea ice in recent Arctic temperature amplification
Nature 464 (2010): 1334-1337

CLIMATE POLICY

US approves nation's first offshore wind farm 4.28.US key republican senator withdraws support for climate bill 4.25.
US climate rally on Washington mall 4.25.
US Greenpeace: climate bill hijacked by industry lobbyists 4.23.
... M Friedman on climate bill 4.25.Bolivia Evo Morales opens climate conference: "planet or death" 4.21.
US coal business is booming (Peabody Energy quarterly report) 4.21.
UK climate skeptic wins landmark data victory 4.20.
Canada waits for US to move on cap-n-trade plan 4.16.

CLIMATE MITIGATION

NatureNews: hydrogen vehicles: fuel of the future? 4.28.
US Cape Cod tries to catch up with EU offshore wind projects 4.26.
Germany: hydrogen still in the eco-car race 4.18.
California: solar boom fueled by creative financing 4.16.
Denmark: hotel guest biking electric utilization 4.16.
US solar industry expanding, adds jobs 4.15.
Sweden: body heat electric utilization 4.15.

THE BIG PICTURE

D Jackson wheel dividends: how Europe breaks car dependence 4.27.
J Watts all the tees in China: golf boom threatens rain forest 4.24.
A Goodman Cochabamba, the water wars, and climate change 4.20.
J Sabella Chicago violence and warm weather: the connection 4.20.
T Donovan seven things to do for Earth Day that actually matter 4.19.
D Esty climate change plan B 4.13.

UK interactive carbon calculator
350org at the Bolivia Climate summit (running blog)

CLIMATE TEXT REVIEWS

B McKibben Eaarth and S Brand Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Climate april I 2010

--text posts are at the climate blog--

CLIMATE EVENTS
Rhode Island record high temps help dry up flood 4.8.
US Northeast summer temps shatter records 4.8.New York record high temperature 4.7.
Philadelphia record high temperature 4.7.
Washington week-long heat wave 4.7.
South Carolina record high temperature 4.6.
Arctic cold snap causes late-season growth spurt 4.6.
Brazil's worst rains on record kill 95 in Rio 4.6.
New York approaches daily high temperature record 4.5.
Arctic sea ice melting season latest start on record 4.5. and 4.6.Aral See shrunk by ninety percent; is almost dried up 4.5.
Vermont record high temperature 4.3.N America Monarch butterflies now under siege 4.2.Florida winter was among coldest ever 4.2.
Rhode Island sewage plants overwhelmed by flooding 4.1.New England flooding drowns homes 3.31.Rhode Island battered, watches water rising 3.31.
Germany sees return of winter 3.31.
US East Coast record rain; Mass., R.I., Conn. emergency 3.30.US East Coast battered by record storms 3.30. and 3.30.
US East Coast gets near-record rains 3.29.
US hit by another cold snap 3.27.
US migrant birds are shrinking due to climate change 3.25.
GAIA TRENDS
Earth's sixth extinction event is now underway 4.9.
China blamed for SE Asian water shortage 4.1.
Arctic changes: the big picture (3 min video) 3.31.
Africa: how food and water are driving the 21st C land grab 3.7.
CLIMATE SCIENCE

US forecasters see increased 2010 hurricane threat 4.7.
US Northeast will see more, fiercer rain storms 4.5.
Arctic thaw frees overlooked greenhouse gas 4.4.
Arctic thaw more warming worries: methane 4.4.
US the future of freezing 4.1.Nature launches publication of Nature: Climate Change journal 3.31.
Cambodian Angkhor civilization collapsed due to climate 3.30.
UK climategate (sic!) scientist P Jones, East Anglia, exonerated 3.30.
climate & meat eating & driving confusion/connection 3.27.
Gravity matters! Global sea level rise will vary by region 3.25.
CO2 domes over cities increase health risks 3.16.

(climate, biodiversity, nitrogen: quantifiable sustainability limits)
J Foley boundaries for a healthy planet
Scientific American (Apr 2010): 55-60

(wind patterns account for 1/3 of polar cap changes)
M Ogi influence of wind anomalies on summer sea ice extent
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010): L07701

(geoengineering insolation reduction won't lower sea level rise)
S Jevrejeva how will sea levels respond to forcings by 2100?
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010): L07703

(quiet sun won't cool us down enough--temps will go up anyway)
G Feulner on the climate effect of a new minimum of solar activity
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010): L05707

(if abrupt cold 12 kya perhaps due to impact, we'll find nitrates)
A Carlson what caused the younger dryas cold event?
Geology 38 (2010): 383-384

(monster rains are now more frequent)
P Gorman current changes in tropical precipitation
Environmental Research Letters 5 (2010): 025205

(if you think seas will only go up 1-2 meters, dream on)
S Rahmstorf a new view on sea level rise
Nature Reports Climate Change 4.6. doi 10.1038

(S Korea and China, not U.S., are world leaders in green spending)
E Barbier how is the global green new deal going?
Nature 464 (2010): doi: 10.1038/464832a

(if it snows less in E Antarctica, it'll rain more in W Australia e.v.v.)
T van Ommen Antarctica snow increase tied to Australian drought
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 267-277

CLIMATE POLICY

Mexico: from Copenhagen to Cancun 4.12.
Germany: from Copenhagen to Bonn 4.9.Bolivia prepares alternative climate conference 4.12.
... 350.org Bolivia summit blog
France scientists ask minister to disavow predecessor's book 4.9.Canada's do-nothing climate policy 4.6.
US new fuel efficiency standards announced 4.1. and 4.1.
Arab nations lag behind in climate action 4.1.
UN doesn't expect climate deal until 2011 3.31.
US permits offshore drilling Delaware to Florida & Alaska 3.31.
US-French action on climate? 3.30.
US Interior Dept to decide on Alaska offshore drilling 3.30.
US EPA weighs hidden costs of carbon 3.30.Greenpeace unmasks Koch Industry's funding of climate denial 3.30.
US Obama gives fed agriculture post to corp Monsanto man 3.29.
US Obama high speed rail money allocated too little too late 3.17.
CLIMATE MITIGATION

Europe finds cleaner energy in trash, but US lags 4.12.
US wind energy growing in blue and red states alike 4.12.
US everything you need to know about new fuel economy rules 4.1.
McDonalds scraps composting b/c food won't decompose April 1!
Earth Hour 3.27.
THE BIG PICTURE

editors the clouds of unknowing The Economist 4.13.
leader spin, science, and climate change The Economist 4.13.
B. Chameides much ado about arctic sea ice? 4.12.
A. Lappe diet for a hot planet (review) 4.6.
P. Hawkens commencement address Portland University 4.5.
D. Goldberg do Americans really make the connection? 4.1.
M. Klare is the world's resource map tilting east? 4.1.
M. Gaworecki wanted: climate denial kingpins 3.31.
J. Buell humans, climate change 3.30.
C. Hedges is America yearning for fascism? 3.29.
J. Lovelock humans too stoopid to prevent climate change 3.29.
... at the Guardian link ... more ...
J. Boardman (Amtrak CEO) passenger rail essential for climate 3.29.
T. Dickinson the climate killers 1.6.


new blog/journal site The Daily Green

PSEUDOSCIENCE

A. Bolt, meteorologist, Herald Sun, Melbourne 4.1.

PARADIGM SHIFT

Full comprehension of [the] interconnected [climate science literacy] concepts will require a systems-thinking approach, meaning the ability to understand complex interconnections among all of the components of the climate system.

from entry on climate literacy added to Encyclopedia of Earth

GLOBAL WARMING NEOLOGISMS

"greenhouse extinction"
... from P. D. Ward, Under a Green Sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they tell us about the future (NY: Harper, 2008)
and:
ecocide


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climate march II 2010

--text posts are at the blistered orb --
CLIMATE EVENTS

Ocean currents remain unchanged 3.24.
Soils worldwide emit more CO2, may make it all worse 3.24.Beijing hit by second sandstorm; Hong Kong gets scary air 3.24.
China's sandstorms blast Beijing 3.22. and 3.20.
Greenland ice melt is accelerating GRL 3.19.North Dakota gets hit by floods 3.18.
Cyclone Tomas hits Fiji 3.16.
New York blasted by flood, storms 3.15.
US Northeast storm power outage 3.14.

GAIA TRENDS

EU Red List shows climate change kills off butterflies 3.17.
Pacific Trash Vortex world's greatest garbage dump 3.16.
US FWS List shows climate change kills off birds 3.11.

CLIMATE SCIENCE

(ocean currents seem to keep chugging along)
J. Willis, Can floats & altimeters detect changes in overturning?
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010): LO6602

(Lovelock was right on--we're losing forests to climate change)
C. Allen et al., Emerging climate change risks for forests
Forest Ecology and Management 259 (2010): 660-684

(the Amazon rainforest isn't as tough as we've hoped)
A. Samanta et al., Amazon forests did not green up in 2005 drought
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010) L05401

(ditto)
O. Phillips et al., Drought sensitivity of the Amazon rain forest
Science 323 (2009): 1344-47

(modeling causal flows in spreading ocean dead zones)
M. Pena et al., Modeling dissolved oxygen dynamics and hypoxia
Biogeosciences 7 (2010): 933-57

(if we're lucky, souring seas blessed by negative feedback loop)
E. Breitbarth et al, Ocean acidification affects coastal iron speciation
Biogeosciences 7 (2010): 1065-73

(oceans won't turn to deserts yet, but they're getting there)
M. Steinacher et al., Projected decrease in marine productivity
Biogeosciences 7 (2010): 979-1005

(repost: the window of opportunity is still open!)
D. Matthews et al, Committed climate warming
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 142-143

(hurricanes will get stronger 2-11 percent)
T. Knutson et al, Tropical cyclones and climate change
Nature Geoscience 3 (2010): 157-163

(Greenland melt gets serious)
S. A. Khan, Spread of ice mass loss in northwest Greenland observed
Geophysical Research Letters 37 (2010) L06501

CLIMATE POLICY

State of the Planet climate conference at Columbia U 3.25.
US policymakers distance themselves from cap & trade 3.25.
UN FAO to look at meat and climate link 3.24.
California report shows climate bill won't hurt business 3.24.
Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou world's first megacity 3.23.
US democrat coalition urges Senate climate vote 3.22.
US state governors for Wind Energy Coalition 3.17.

CLIMATE MITIGATION

could tiny mirror-bubbles in the seas cool the planet? 3.26.
cleaner, cheaper diesel engines developed 3.25.California screws up: less trains & buses 3.24.
physicists name power saving unit the "Rosenfeld" 3.9.

THE BIG PICTURE

M. Hulme mapping climate change knowledge
S Thill, 10 ways Mother Earth will strike back 3.21.
T Norris why America needs an energy education strategy 3.18.
NASA site: global climate change
NASA video (25 sec): annual sea ice minimum 1997-2007
AlterNet on the paradigm shift
John Cook's anti-skepticism blog
W. Lin, Asian test-score culture thwarts creativity Science 327: 1576

GAIA CONSENSUS

It is thus important to initiate further research in the natural and social sciences to better understand and communicate whether alternative strategies to moderate future climate change are, or are not, viable, appropriate, and ethical. Further discussions [on geoengineering] must involve government and civil society.

Asilomar 2 geoengineering conference statement
March 2010, Pacific Grove, Cal

GLOBAL WARMING NEOLOGISMS

cleantech
megacity and ...
fart apocalypse


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