Another Week of GW News, October 28, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered]

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October 28, 2012

• Chuckles, COP18+, TWotW, Gas Flaring, Thomas, CBD, OIF, Cook
• Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
• Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
• Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
• Hurricanes, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Aerosols, Clouds, Ozone, Paleoclimate, Uncertainties, Risk
• ENSO, Climate Sensitivity, Ocean Currents, Oceans, Biosphere, Extinctions, Satellites
• Impacts, Forests, Desertification, Notable Weather, Wacky Weather, Extreme Weather
• Wildfires, Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
• Transportation, Buildings, Sequestration, Geoengineering, Conservation
• Journals, Other Docs, Misc. Science, Pielke
• International Politics: UN, Carbon Trade, Bank Tax
• Hormuz, South China Sea, Rare Earths, Security, Polls, H2O Biz
• National Politics: America, BP Disaster, 2012, Gas Prices, Keystone
• Mann, Birth Control, Coal Exports, USAdmin, Congress
• Britain, Europe, Australia, Carbon Law, Murray-Darling, India, Japan, Asia, Middle East
• Canada, C-45, FIPPA, CNOOC – Nexen, Petronas, Northern Gateway
• Power Shift, Transportation, Salmon, BC, Tar Sands, Alberta, Quebec, Canadiana
• Ecological Economics, IPAT, Media, Books, Video, Podcasts, Courts
• Energy, Transitions, Fracking, Coal, Oil & Gas, Corps, Pipelines, Peak Oil, US Tar Sands, Biofuel
• Wind, Solar, Nukes, Nuclear Fusion, LENR, Hydrogen, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Energy Storage
• Business, Insurance, Joe’s List, Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

Here’s a wee chuckle for ye:

• 2012/10/28: uComics: (cartoon – Toles) The Shadow of your Doubt
• 2012/10/26: ShoeComics: (cartoon – McNulty) When I was your age…
• 2012/10/26: XKCD: (cartoon – Munroe) The Saga of Epsilon and Zeta
• 2012/10/26: uComics: (cartoon – Rall) Republican Science
• 2012/10/26: uComics: (cartoon – Danziger) We Are Not Amused – Rape Edition
• 2012/10/24: JoeMohrToons: (cartoon – Mohr) Backyard CAFOs
• 2012/10/25: JoeMohrToons: (cartoon – Mohr) Hank D and the Bee: Scary Halloween Costumes
• 2012/10/23: Nation: (cartoon – TomTom) The End Is Near
• 2012/10/21: SeppoNet: (cartoon – Seppo) Wetlands are not wastelands
• 2012/10/22: uComics: (cartoon – Wiley) How To make Debates Watchable
  And for those who enjoy challenging Poe’s Law:
• 2012/10/24: Onion: God Distances Self From Christian Right
  Looking ahead to COP18 and future international climate negotiations:
• 2012/10/26: TheCanadian: The Ethics of Politically Impossible
• 2012/10/23: ChinaDaily: Nations meet prior to climate change talks in Doha
  The Like Minded Developing Countries (LMDCs) on climate change, a new group of developing countries, have been coordinating their positions on climate change negotiations ahead of the upcoming climate change talks in Doha, Qatar, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has said. Representatives of a number of developing countries-from Bolivia, China, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Venezuela-attended the first meeting of the group, hosted by China in Beijing last week, according to a statement by the NDRC late Tuesday. The new grouping, as part of the Group of 77 & China, creates a platform for developing countries with the combined goals of “environmental sustainability, social and economic development, and equity” to exchange views and coordinate positions, it said. Participants have vowed to work for an “ambitious, equitable and comprehensive outcome” of the upcoming climate change conference in Doha in December.
• 2012/10/23: IndiaTimes: India, China team up with developing nations at climate talks
  New Delhi: In what could change the contours of climate change negotiations, India and China have successfully brought together a disparate group of developing countries to take on the EU and its new-found friends — small and least developed countries. Its an odd set — Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Egypt, Thailand, Malaysia, Argentina and about three dozen other developing countries — but they have been stitched into a new climate alliance by India and China to help define the new global climate regime. In a just concluded meeting of the new formation called the ‘Like Minded Developing Countries on Climate Change’ in Beijing, the group came out with a strong statement backing India’s demand for integrating equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibility into any new regime.
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  The Word of the Week is a name…Fujiwhara:

• Wiki: Fujiwhara effect
• 2012/10/27: CCentral: How Fujiwhara Effect Will Toss Hurricane Sandy Into U.S.
  The Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership had a conference in London this week:
• Flaring and Venting Reduction & Natural Gas Utilisation Forum
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Gas flaring targets emerge from London [Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership] conference
  A conference in London on Wednesday has agreed an ambitious target of cutting gas flaring by 30% over five years.
• 2012/10/24: Guardian(UK): World Bank urges nations to end ‘wasteful’ gas flaring
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Gas flaring target of London conference
  A conference in London on Wednesday aims to press oil firms to reduce gas flaring – the burning of natural gas at oil production sites. Flaring mostly happens in remote areas where gas at the surface as an oil by-product cannot be brought to consumers. The World Bank says $50bn (£31bn) in fuel goes up in polluting smoke yearly. It says countries are starting to clamp down, but should do more. Friends of the Earth says flaring should be banned entirely. The conference convenes the Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership, started by the World Bank in partnership with governments and major oil firms 10 years ago. The World Bank says there have been substantial improvements, with a 40% cut in flaring volume in Russia, and a 29% reduction in Nigeria. But it says flaring still wastes 140 billion cubic metres of gas a year – equivalent to a third of the annual gas consumption in the European Union. The practice emits around 400 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
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  A few eyebrows raised over the Thomas paper on phytoplankton’s adaptation to climate change:

• 2012/10/25: Science: (ab$) A Global Pattern of Thermal Adaptation in Marine Phytoplankton by Mridul K. Thomas et al.
• 2012/10/26: SciNow: Oceans Getting Too Hot to Handle?
• 2012/10/25: CCentral: Rising Ocean Temps Threaten the Ocean Food Chain
  Some late comments on the CBD conference last week:
• 2012/10/26: CCurrents: CBD Has Lost Its Track: Diego Pacheco
  Bolivia is one of the few countries that has consistently been opposing treating biodiversity as a commodity at the ongoing Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity at Hyderabad. It has raised its voice against pro-market approaches in implementing the Strategic Plan and Aichi Targets of CBD. Even during the high-level ministerial segment of CoP 11, Bolivia did not leave any room for guessing while expressing its views. Diego Pacheco, head of the Bolivian delegation, explained his country’s stand to M Suchitra.
• 2012/10/22: GEP: Nothing New Emerges from CBD COP11
• 2012/10/22: ScienceInsider: Developed Nations Pledge to Double Biodiversity Aid [COP11]
  There is still a fair amount of chatter about Russ George and his sperrymint:
• 2012/10/27: GEP: Schoppmann [& Partner AG] Declined Role in Haida OIF Scheme
• 2012/10/24: SciAm: Pacific Ocean Hacker Speaks Out
  Is Russ George a “rogue geoengineer,” salmon savior or something else?
• 2012/10/23: GEP: Loan Documents Shed Additional Light on HSRC Project
• 2012/10/24: TreeHugger: Ocean Geoengineering Experiment May Not Have Broken Laws After All
• 2012/10/27: NYT: Geoengineering: Testing the Waters
• 2012/10/28: PostMedia: B.C. ocean fertilization experiment to make waves at UN meeting this week
  Canada may be called onto the carpet this week as nations gather in the United Kingdom to negotiate the terms of an international treaty to regulate the controversial practice of geoengineering. A First Nations salmon restoration group in Haida Gwaii has attracted worldwide attention after dumping more than 100 metric tonnes of iron into the Pacific Ocean in a process known as ocean fertilization. Many scientists from around the world have condemned the unsanctioned experiment, and the federal government says it is investigating. But Canada is a hotbed of geoengineering, says [etc group]
• 2012/10/23: PostMedia: Iron-fertilizing experiment took place in worst possible spot: scientists
• 2012/10/23: ScienceInsider: Legal? Perhaps. But Controversial [OIF: Ocean Iron] Fertilization Experiment May Produce Little Science
• 2012/10/23: NatureN: Ocean-fertilization project off Canada sparks furore
  Bid to boost salmon stocks relied on hotly debated science and dubious carbon credits.
• 2012/10/18: NewsWire: [Media Advisory] The Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation – October 19th media availability on salmon enhancement project
• 2012/10/22: ClimateEngineering: Iron fertilization in Canada (2nd update, 22.10.)
• 2012/10/21: NBF: Rogue Geoengineering to create algae bloom ten times larger than past tests
  John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:
• 2012/10/28: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #7 by John Hartz
• 2012/10/27: SkS: Climate of Doubt Shines a Light on the Climate Denial Movement by dana1981
• 2012/10/26: SkS: Big Oil and the Demise of Crude Climate Change Denial by Andy S
• 2012/10/25: SkS: Global Dimming in the Hottest Decade by Rob Painting
• 2012/10/24: SkS: Climate of Doubt and Escalator Updates by dana1981
• 2012/10/23: SkS: Rose and Curry Double Down on Global Warming Denial by dana1981
• 2012/10/23: SkS: New research from last week 42/2012 by Ari Jokimäki
  A note on theFukushima disaster:

  It is evident that the Fukushima disaster is going to persist for some time. TEPCO says 6 to 9 months. The previous Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, said decades. Now the Japanese government is talking about 30 years. [Whoops, that has now been updated to 40 years.] We’ll see. At any rate this situation is not going to be resolved any time soon and deserves its own section.
  Meanwhile…
  It is very difficult to know for sure what is really going on at Fukushima. Between the company [TEPCO], the Japanese government, the Japanese regulator [NISA], the international monitor [IAEA], as well as independent analysts and commentators, there is a confusing mish-mash of information. One has to evaluate both the content and the source of propagated information.
  How knowledgeable are they [about nuclear power and about Japan]?
  Do they have an agenda?
  Are they pro-nuclear or anti-nuclear?
  Do they want to write a good news story?
  Do they want to write a bad news story?
  Where do they rate on a scale of sensationalism?
  Where do they rate on a scale of play-it-down-ness?
  One fundamental question I would like to see answered:
  If the reactors are in meltdown, how can they be in cold shutdown?

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  Not much good news coming out of Fukushima:

• 2012/10/26: Science: (ab$) Fishing for Answers off Fukushima by Ken O. Buesseler
• 2012/10/28: TreeHugger: Fate of Radioactive Contamination in Fukushima Fish
• 2012/10/27: CCurrents: Fukushima Operators Struggle To Contain ‘Outrageous Amount’ Of Radioactive Water
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Radiation settles on seabed off Japan
  New research suggests radiation from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has settled on the ocean floor off Japan, and could contaminate sea life for decades.
• 2012/10/26: EneNews: Reporter: Can Tepco confirm Fukushima plant is not leaking radiation into sea? TEPCO: “Tepco cannot say such a thing”
• 2012/10/25: BBC: Fukushima fish still contaminated from nuclear accident
  Levels of radioactive contamination in fish caught off the east coast of Japan remain raised, official data shows. It is a sign that the Dai-ichi power plant continues to be a source of pollution more than a year after the nuclear accident. About 40% of fish caught close to Fukushima itself are regarded as unfit for humans under Japanese regulations. The respected US marine chemist Ken Buesseler has reviewed the data in this week’s Science journal. He says there are probably two sources of lingering contamination. “There is the on-going leakage into the ocean of polluted ground water from under Fukushima, and there is the contamination that’s already in the sediments just offshore,” he told BBC News. “It all points to this issue being long-term and one that will need monitoring for decades into the future.”
• 2012/10/25: Spectrum: Fukushima Fish Still Radioactive
• 2012/10/25: CBC: Japan nuclear plant struggling to store contaminated water — Fukushima Daiichi nearly out of space for growing volume of tainted liquid
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Fukushima fish ‘may be inedible for a decade’
  Marine scientist finds levels of radioactivity in fish near stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are higher than expected
• 2012/10/26: NatureNB: Fukushima fish still hot
• 2012/10/26: EneNews: 100 foot deep wall at Fukushima plant still being built, says Tepco – Trying to keep underground contamination from ocean…
• 2012/10/25: NYT: Fish Off Japan’s Coast Said to Contain Elevated Levels of Cesium
• 2012/10/25: CNN: Radioactive levels staying high off Fukushima Daiichi in Japan
  U.S. scientist: Cesium [isotopes 134 & 137] levels in fish point to ongoing source of contamination – The source could be from the seabed or from ongoing leaks from the damaged plant – Ken Buesseler studied thousands of Japanese catch reports for his study
• 2012/10/25: Eureka: Fishing for answers off Fukushima
  Japan fisheries data provides a look at how the ocean is faring 18 months after the worst accidental release of radiation to the ocean in history
• 2012/10/25: EneNews: Tepco: Water used to cool Fukushima reactors could be released into ocean — Outside experts worried
• 2012/10/25: CBC: Japan nuclear plant struggling to store contaminated water — Fukushima Daiichi nearly out of space for growing volume of tainted liquid
• 2012/10/25: al Jazeera: Japan struggling to store nuclear water
  Leading nuclear worker says space is running out for radioactive water cooling the Fukushima plant.
• 2012/10/23: GreenPeace:B: False hope: radiation monitoring in the Fukushima area
• 2012/10/24: Reuters: Fukushima situation stable but still precarious: regulator
• 2012/10/24: CCurrents: Greenpeace: Japanese Govt. ‘Downplays’ Radiation Threat
• 2012/10/23: CDreams: Greenpeace: ‘Unreliable’ Monitoring of Fukushima Radiation
• 2012/10/22: PRL: Cosmic Ray Radiography of the Damaged Cores of the Fukushima Reactors by Konstantin Borozdin et al.
• 2012/10/22: Ph&Ph: Using Muons From Cosmic Rays To Peek Into Fukushima?
• 2012/10/11: APS: Synopsis: Peeking into Fukushima’s Reactors
• 2012/10/10: ProjectCensored: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Worse than Anticipated
  Post Fukushima, nuclear policies are in flux around the world:
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): China to approve new nuclear plants, ending moratorium after Fukushima
  Chinese government says it hopes to generate 30% of energy from renewable sources and nuclear by 2015
• 2012/10/25: CSM: China jumps back into nuclear power, but with less verve
• 2012/10/26: DerSpiegel: The High Price of Clean Energy — Tax Breaks and Subsidies for Industry Divide Germans
  Major industry is being spared of the costs relating to Germany’s expensive shift from nuclear to green energies. The burden is being placed on small and medium-sized business as well as German consumers, who pay the second highest price for electricity in Europe. Resentment is starting to grow.
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  The Arctic melt continues to draw attention:

• 2012/10/27: IOTD: Swirls along an Ice Highway [Note Arctic sea ice volume graph below]
• 2012/10/26: ArcticNews: Big changes in Arctic within years
• 2012/10/26: ArcticNews: Amplification of climate change in the Arctic
• 2012/10/25: MODIS: Sea Ice off eastern Greenland
• 2012/10/24: USGS: Not-So-Permanent Permafrost
  As much as 44 billion tons of nitrogen and 850 billion tons of carbon stored in arctic permafrost, or frozen ground, could be released into the environment as the region begins to thaw over the next century as a result of a warmer planet according to a new study led by the U.S. Geological Survey.
• 2012/10/24: ArcticNews: Saving the Arctic Ice (#2) by Nathan Currier
• 2012/10/22: MODIS: Sea Ice off eastern Greenland
• 2012/10/22: Tamino: Winter Cooling?
  That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:
• 2012/10/25: ITracker: Gulf Stream destabilizing methyl hydrates
• 2012/10/24: CCP: Climate-changing methane ‘rapidly destabilizing’ off East Coast, study finds
• 2012/10/25: NatureN: Seismic signs of escaping methane under the sea
  A changing Gulf Stream is warming deep waters along the eastern United States and destabilizing greenhouse gases trapped in sediments.
• 2012/10/24: SciNews: Gulf Stream might be releasing seafloor methane — Greenhouse gas may be flowing into ocean waters off U.S. east coast
  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:
• 2012/10/25: CCurrents: Dominance Of Plastic: Arctic Deep Sea Bed Is Not Spared
• 2012/10/26: DerSpiegel: Norway’s New Foreign Minister — ‘Exploitation of Arctic Resources Will Happen’
  The Arctic is changing at a breathtaking pace, which has oil and gas companies flocking to the region. SPIEGEL ONLINE talks to Norway’s new Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide about the dangers of resource extraction and China’s role in the High North.
• 2012/10/22: CSM: Rosneft deal gives Russia control of world’s largest oil company
• 2012/10/22: EurActiv: BP turns to government in Russian venture
  BP is ending a stormy relationship with Russian tycoons from a company known as AAR and is instead targeting a partnership with government-owned Rosneft. The deal, worth over $25 billion (€19.18 billion) could give the British oil company a stake of between 16% and 20% in the Russian oil giant.
• 2012/10/22: BBC: BP sells TNK-BP stake to Russia’s Rosneft
  Oil giant BP has agreed to sell its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Russia’s Rosneft in return for cash and shares.
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  While in Antarctica:

• 2012/10/21: Eureka: New understanding of Antarctic’s weight-loss
  New data which more accurately measures the rate of ice-melt could help us better understand how Antarctica is changing in the light of global warming.
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  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2012/10/26: CCurrents: Food Game: Cake For Speculators And No Bread For People
• 2012/10/25: BBC: Africa trade barriers hit food production, says World Bank
• 2012/10/24: Reuters: Dominance of U.S. corn in Asia shaken by drought, price
  US prices are high as drought devastates crops – Asian buyers of US corn forge ties with competitors – Prices would be key in keeping US dominance in exports – Brazil, Argentina grab US market share
• 2012/10/24: BPA: Crop Rental Rates for the Midwest
• 2012/10/23: FAO: New locust alert for northwest Africa — FAO warns of impending threat
• 2012/10/15: Monbiot: Could scientists have got the impacts of climate change on food supply wildly wrong?
  I believe we might have made a mistake: a mistake whose consequences, if I am right, would be hard to overstate. I think the forecasts for world food production could be entirely wrong. Food prices are rising again, partly because of the damage done to crops in the northern hemisphere by ferocious weather. In the US, Russia and Ukraine, grain crops were clobbered by remarkable droughts. In parts of northern Europe, such as the UK, they were were pummelled by endless rain. Even so, this is not, as a report in the Guardian claimed last week, “one of the worst global harvests in years”(1). It’s one of the best.
• 2012/10/23: UN: UN food agency warns North Africa of locust threat, seeks funding help to control swarms
• 2012/10/22: NYT: Across Corn Belt, Farmland Prices Keep Soaring
• 2012/10/22: Independent(USA): Drought brings uncertainty to state’s cattle industry
  Nebraska agriculture faces serious consequences going into the 2013 growing season if drought conditions persist through the winter.
• 2012/10/22: RWER: World grain production, 2011 and employment in the Asia/pacific region
• 2012/10/22: RWER: Food, Fuel, Forests and Climate
• 2012/10/22: EnergyBulletin: Maize and bean farmers threatened by climate change
  The state of the world’s fisheries is a concern:
• 2012/10/24: EUO: EU keeps controversial fishing fleet subsidies
• 2012/10/24: NatureNB: Anger over ‘less ambitious’ agreement on European fisheries
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Fishing deal: EU ministers criticised
  EU ministers have reached a provisional deal to reshape the Common Fisheries Policy, long blamed for overfishing. The deal has been hailed by the UK environment ministry Defra but criticised by the EU fisheries commissioner and environmentalists. A Commission source told BBC News the new funding arrangements would continue to promote overfishing.
• 2012/10/24: al Jazeera: Anger as EU maintains fishing subsidies — Environmentalists say payments will contribute to overfishing of already stressed stocks
• 2012/10/22: LoE: The Antarctic Ocean needs your help
  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:
• 2012/10/25: CSM: Biofuels and food shortage: Are government mandates making it worse?
  Regarding the genetic modification of food:
• 2012/10/26: UCSUSA:B: This Happy Hour, How About Pesticide Cocktails? [GMOs]
• 2012/10/25: TreeHugger: Scientific Panel Recommends 10 Year Ban on GM Crop Trials in India
• 2012/10/24: ScienceInsider: Two French Public Bodies Dismiss Controversial GM Study, but Call for Further Research
• 2012/10/23: EurActiv: France wants EU to review long-term risks of GM crops
  A controversial study pointing to health risks from a type of genetically modified maize and a related pesticide did not provide grounds for questioning previous safety approvals, the French government said on Monday (22 October). But Paris also urged the EU to revamp its food safety procedures and said it would maintain its national moratorium on GM goods. The study by researchers at the University of Caen said rats fed on Monsanto’s NK603 GM maize or exposed to the company’s top-selling Roundup weed killer were at higher risk of suffering tumours, multiple organ damage and premature death.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): French panel rejects study linking GM corn to cancer
  An investigative panel has rejected a contested French study that linked genetically modified corn to cancer in rats, but called for a “long-term, independent” probe into the issue to advise the public. The Higher Biotechnologies Council (HCB) said it found “no causal relationship” between the rats’ tumours and consumption of Monsanto’s NK603 GM corn or the Roundup herbicide that was part of the experiment.
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  Regarding labelling GM food:

• 2012/10/26: Grist: The $41 million corporate ad blitz that is taking down California’s GMO labeling
• 2012/10/24: DemNow: Food Fight: Debating Prop 37, California’s Landmark Initiative to Label GMO Food
• 2012/10/23: CDreams: Monsanto’s Lies and the GMO Labeling Battle
  You may have never heard of Henry I. Miller, but right now he is attempting to determine the future of food in this country. And he has enormous financial backing. Mr. Miller is the primary face and voice of the “No on Prop 37″ campaign in California. At this very moment, Monsanto and other pesticide companies are spending more than $1 million a day to convince California voters that it’s not in their best interest to know whether the food they eat is genetically engineered. And Henry I. Miller is their guy.
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  And how are we going to feed 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion?

• 2012/10/26: Grist: Corn maze: There is no ‘simple fix’ for commodity farming
• 2012/10/26: DM:80B: Greener Farming Methods Can Make As Much Green As Industrial Ones
• 2012/10/26: S&R: Yet another study telling me organic food isn’t any better for me than the usual crap
• 2012/10/26: CBC: Organic food offers few advantages for kids, says U.S. study — Conventional food has same vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, report says
• 2012/10/25: Grist: Feed your soil — and the rest will follow
• 2012/10/24: UN: More progress needed to maintain indigenous livestock diversity, UN food agency says
• 2012/10/24: FAO: FAO Director-General calls for “next big step” in hunger fight — Urges eradication of undernourishment in people’s lifetimes
• 2012/10/24: FAO: Progress made in stopping decline of livestock genetic diversity
  Indigenous breeds critical to food security now getting government attention
• 2012/10/22: FAO: Principles for responsible investment in agriculture to be developed — Committee on World Food Security approves two-year process
• 2012/10/19: WiredSci: Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming
• 2012/10/24: UCSUSA:B: USDA Says Organic Farming Worth $3.5 Billion…Happy Food Day!
• 2012/10/19: NYT:Opinionator: A Simple Fix for Farming
• 2012/10/21: BBC: India’s plans to give citizens the legal right to food
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Search on for innovative weed control methods
  Agricultural researchers are putting together a booklet of homegrown weed control methods in an effort to fight herbicide resistance in Western Australia’s south.
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  In the Western Pacific:

• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: Typhoon Son-Tinh kills dozens in Philippines
  Death toll rises to 24 as storm causes drowning from flash floods and landslides in central islands and far south.
• 2012/10/27: MODIS: Tropical Storm Prapiroon (22W) and Cloud vortices off Cheju Do
• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: Typhoon Son-Tinh heads for Vietnam
  All eyes have been on Hurricane Sandy in the Americas, meanwhile Typhoon Son-Tinh lashes Asia with winds and flooding.
• 2012/10/27: BBC: Deadly tropical storm Son-Tinh batters Philippines
  At least 24 people have been killed as a result of tropical storm Son-Tinh in the Philippines, the government says.
• 2012/10/26: NASA: NASA Sees Tropical Storm Son-tinh Moving Through South China Sea
• 2012/10/25: NASA: NASA Sees Tropical Storm Son-tinh Moving into South China Sea
• 2012/10/24: Eureka: NASA satellite shows the Tropical Storm Son-tinh’s reach over Philippines
  In the Indian Ocean:
• 2012/10/25: NASA: NASA Saw Tropical Storm Murjan Making Landfall on the Horn of Africa
• 2012/10/24: Eureka: NASA’s TRMM satellite sees birth of Arabian Sea cyclone
• 2012/10/25: al Jazeera: Tropical storms rage across Asia and Africa
  One of systems is heading towards Somalia which is ill-equipped to cope with severe weather.
• In the Atlantic and the Caribbean:
• 2012/10/28: CNN: ‘Superstorm’ scenario puts millions from North Carolina to Maine on alert
  The storm has washed out the road between the Outer Banks and the mainland – The hurricane is 260 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina – Computer models predict Delaware, Maryland and Virginia could see up to a foot of rain – It won’t be until late Sunday, or Monday, that hurricane makes its full impact known
• 2012/10/27: CCP: Hurricane Sandy forecast from meteorologist Paul Douglas
• 2012/10/27: W&C: Sandy Update: Track Guidance Narrows as Storm Increases in Size
• 2012/10/28: STimes: Hurricane’s death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean
• 2012/10/28: Wunderground:BN: Sandy on Track – But Is the Message Getting Out?
• 2012/10/28: CBC: Hurricane Sandy treks parallel up U.S. southeast coast
• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: Forecasters predict ‘serious’ Hurricane Sandy
  Having killed 59 people in Caribbean, “super storm” set to menace US East Coast with high winds and major flooding.
• 2012/10/27: BBC: Hurricane Sandy: Storm threat to key US election week
• 2012/10/27: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Sandy crawls towards US as fears mount of a ‘super storm’
• 2012/10/27: BBC: US East Coast braced for Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/10/27: CBC: Sandy at hurricane strength after brief downgrade
• 2012/10/26: CBC: ‘Frankenstorm’ and the risk of hyping dangerous weather — New warnings evoke memories of 2011 ‘Snowmageddon’
• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: Hurricane Sandy moves up US Atlantic coast
  Category 1 system menaces large swathe of Eastern Seaboard as forecasters predict catastrophic hybrid “Frankenstorm”.
• 2012/10/26: BBC: Hurricane Sandy could merge with a winter storm to create what they have dubbed “Frankenstorm” as it churns towards the US, forecasters warn
• 2012/10/26: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Sandy: 41 dead as as authorities declare state of emergency
  Experts warn Sandy could contribute to a storm of ‘historic proportions’ expected to strike US coastline as early as Monday
• 2012/10/26: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Sandy batters Bahamas
• 2012/10/27: CSM: Hurricane Sandy liveblog: NJ state of emergency, Fla. warning canceled
• 2012/10/26: CSM: East Coast utilities prep for Hurricane Sandy aka ‘Frankenstorm’
• 2012/10/26: SciAm:Obs: What You Need to Know About Hurricane Sandy to Get Ready
• 2012/10/27: USGS: Sandy to Erode Many Atlantic Beaches
• 2012/10/27: USGS: USGS Storm-Surge Sensors Deployed Ahead of Tropical Storm Sandy
• 2012/10/26: DM:BA: Frankenstorm and the Dragon
• 2012/10/27: TreeHugger: Hurricane Sandy, AKA the Frankenstorm and Climate Change: Is There A Connection?
• 2012/10/27: Wunderground: Sandy likely to be a multi-billion dollar disaster for the U.S.
• 2012/10/26: Wunderground: Sandy remains a hurricane, slowly leaving the Bahamas
• 2012/10/27: EneNews: “Never Seen Anything Like This”: Hurricane Sandy begins merging with polar air mass, threatens US East Coast…
• 2012/10/27: CNN: Sandy strengthens, East Coast braces for possible ‘superstorm’
  Sandy responsible for at least 45 deaths in Caribbean, Central America – New Jersey orders evacuations; New York may suspend subway service – Sandy moves slowly, could merge with cold front to form “superstorm” – East Coast braces for potential flooding, high winds, widespread power outages
• 2012/10/27: W&C: Sandy maintains hurricane status; models beginning to come to a consensus
• 2012/10/27: PSinclair: Sandy Update 10/27: Heightened Threat to NYC
• 2012/10/26: BBC: Hurricane Sandy has swept north over the Bahamas towards the US, having reportedly killed 21 people as it tore through Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica
• 2012/10/26: CBC: Hurricane Sandy kills 29 across Caribbean — Eastern seaboard warned of potential ‘super-storm’
• 2012/10/26: CBC: ‘Frankenstorm’ may be headed for Eastern Canada, U.S.
  Potential rain, wind from southern Ontario to Maritimes in time for Halloween
• 2012/10/26: al Jazeera: Hurricane Sandy approaches eastern US
  Category One storm leaves trail of death and destruction on Caribbean islands of Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica and Haiti.
• 2012/10/25: W&C: Sandy takes aim on northeast U.S.
• 2012/10/25: TMoS: New York Braces for Frankenstorm
• 2012/10/26: DM:BA: Hurricane Sandy looms over the US
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: Frankenstorm 2012: Is it Related to Climate Change? Will It Ruin Halloween? Will It Kill Us All? Team TreeHugger Investigates
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: Warmer Than Usual Ocean Temperatures in Northeast Mean Heavier Rain From Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/10/26: Wunderground: Hurricane Sandy kills 21, heads towards the U.S.
• 2012/10/25: Wunderground: Hurricane Sandy remains a Category 2, continues on its track toward the East Coast
• 2012/10/26: NASA: NASA Sees Hurricane Sandy as the “Bride of Frankenstorm” Approaching U.S. East Coast
• 2012/10/26: CSM: Hurricane Sandy’s punch may be felt from Norfolk, Va., to Boston
• 2012/10/26: PSinclair: Sandy Update Friday 10/26
• 2012/10/25: P3: Grim Trajectories
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: Did Climate Change Help Create ‘Frankenstorm’?
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: As ‘Frankenstorm’ Barrels Towards East Coast, Newspaper Coverage Ignores Connection To Climate Change
• 2012/10/25: CBC: Hurricane Sandy crosses Cuba, heads for Bahamas
• 2012/10/25: al Jazeera: Hurricane Sandy strikes Cuba
  Storm gathers strength as 160kph winds hit country, a day after the hurricane battered the Caribbean island of Jamaica.
• 2012/10/25: CSM: Hurricane Sandy, ‘Frankenstorm,’ threatens East Coast
• 2012/10/25: BBC: Sandy hits Cuba as category two hurricane
• 2012/10/25: NASA: NASA Sees Warming Cloud Tops Indicating Tropical Storm Tony Weakening
• 2012/10/25: Grist: Update on Hurricane Sandy…
• 2012/10/25: Wunderground: Sandy slams Cuba, intensifies over the Bahamas
• 2012/10/24: Wunderground: Hurricane Sandy hits Jamaica, dumps heavy rains on Haiti
• 2012/10/25: CNN: Sandy sets its sights on the Bahamas – 2 killed as hurricane hits Caribbean
  Hurricane center predicts landfall in New Jersey on Tuesday – Bahamas residents prepare for Hurricane Sandy – More than 3,000 homes were damaged in Cuba – Tropical storm warnings are issued for parts of Florida
• 2012/10/25: PSinclair: Brace for Impact: Sandy Now a “Frankenstorm”
• 2012/10/24: CCentral: Hurricane Sandy Looks More Likely to Slam Eastern U.S.
• 2012/10/24: CNN: Hurricane Sandy hits Jamaica with 80-mph wind
• 2012/10/24: W&C: 5PM Wednesday: All “Eyes” on Sandy
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: Hurricane Sandy Pounding Jamaica, May Hit U.S. This Weekend
• 2012/10/24: Wunderground: Hurricane Sandy pounding Jamaica, may hit U.S. this weekend; TS Tony forms
• 2012/10/24: NASA: NASA Sees Tiny Tropical Storm Tony Traveling [TD 19]
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Halloween scare? Hurricane Sandy shows similarities to ‘perfect storm.’
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Hurricane Sandy brings torrential rain to Jamaica
• 2012/10/24: CBC: Soaked Jamaica braces for Tropical Storm Sandy — Up to 50 cm of rain possible in some areas
• 2012/10/23: CBC: Jamaica braces for tropical storm Sandy — Strengthening storm could hit Jamaica as a hurricane
• 2012/10/23: Wunderground: Sandy intensifying, headed towards Jamaica
• 2012/10/22: Wunderground: Sandy forms south of Jamaica; TD 19 forms in middle Atlantic
• 2012/10/23: NASA: NASA Sees Eighteenth Atlantic Depression Form [TD 18 - Sandy]
• 2012/10/22: Wunderground: Tropical Depression 18 forms south of Jamaica
  As for GHGs:
• 2012/10/24: Guardian(UK): UK makes biggest emissions cuts in Europe
• 2012/10/24: BizGreen: EU greenhouse gas emissions fall 2.5 per cent, despite growing economy — Latest figures for 2011 confirm bloc is on track to meet Kyoto emission reduction targets
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: Rice Growing Emits More Methane as Climate Warms
• 2012/10/21: Eureka: Rice agriculture accelerates global warming, new research finds
  And in the carbon cycle:
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Estuaries found to be carbon sinks
  Aerosols are making their presence felt:
• 2012/10/22: GreenGrok: Black carbon science: From Russia with love
  Clouds are one of the major uncertainties in climate. Much research revolves around them:
• 2012/10/25: ERW: Clouds have ‘complex’ response to Sun’s changes
  Regarding ozone:
• 2012/10/27: SciNews: Ozone hole at smallest size in decades — Warm Antarctic temperatures help preserve UV-protecting layer
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Satellite finds ozone hole still shrinking
• 2012/10/24: NOAANews: NOAA, NASA: Antarctic ozone hole second smallest in 20 years
• 2012/10/24: NASA: 2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years
  While in the paleoclimate:
• 2012/10/25: Eureka: Did the changing climate shrink Europe’s ancient hippos?
• 2012/10/22: ArcticNews: Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse
• 2012/10/23: Eureka: Oxygen’s ups and downs in the early atmosphere and ocean
  UC Riverside-led research team finds evidence for a dramatic rise in early oxygen about 2.3 billion years ago followed, more surprisingly, by an equally impressive fall
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  Dealing with uncertainties:

• 2012/10/25: P3: Schneider’s Quandary
  How to deal with Risk:
• 2012/10/25: Grist: What security experts can teach climate geeks about assessing risk
  And on the ENSO front:
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Weather Bureau ditches El Nino forecast
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Forecasters surprised by El Nino turnaround
  The weather bureau is predicting a big change in Australia’s weather forecast this summer, with an El Nino no longer expected. Average rainfall is predicted in the coming months in the absence of El Nino – the climate pattern that brings drought-like conditions. The chief climate forecaster says it is the biggest turnaround in weather patterns since records began.
• 2012/10/23: P3: SCIENCE The 2011 La Niña: So strong, the oceans fell
• 2012/10/22: Economist: Difference Engine: Cloudy with a chance of…
  [...]
  Circumstantial evidence, though, suggests that something new is underway. A variation of El Niño has been detected in the central Pacific, well away from the ocean’s eastern edge where it is normally born. This phenomenon, known as El Niño Modoki (Japanese for “looks like, but slightly different from”), causes unusual effects…
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  Regarding Climate Sensitivity:

• 2012/10/27: TMasters: CMIP5 Effective Sensitivity vs. Radiative Response in Last 40 Years
  As for ocean currents:
• 2012/10/24: ClimateSight: Climate Change and Atlantic Circulation
  And the State of the Oceans:
• 2012/10/10: ProjectCensored: Oceans in Peril
  And the State of the Biosphere:
• 2012/10/26: DM:VS: A Long, Cold Walk for Pregnant Caribou
  What’s new on the extinction front?
• 2012/10/26: DD: Wiping out species decreases resilience to climate change
• 2012/10/26: CNN: Saving the magnificent blue whale
  Asha de Vos: Northern Indian Ocean is home to unusual population of blue whales – She says they choose to stay in tropical waters all year round – Whales are threatened by heavy container ship traffic lanes, she says – De Vos: My mission is to decrease blue whale deaths caused by ship strikes
• 2012/10/25: Eureka: Report: Bushmeat pushes Southern African species to the brink
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Orangutan survives after being shot 100 times
  An endangered orangutan on Borneo island has survived after being shot more than 100 times with an air rifle. The female ape, whom conservationists have named Aan, has gone blind in one eye and sustained serious wounds across her body after being repeatedly hit with pellets on the Indonesian part of the island.
• 2012/10/26: SciAm:EC: Habitat Loss, Misinformation Spur Chimpanzee Aggression
• 2012/10/22: USGS: Science Working to Combat Deadly White Nose Syndrome in Bats
• 2012/10/23: USGS: Isolation of Puerto Rico’s Manatees Affects Survival Odds
• 2012/10/24: DD: South Africa hits another new record in rhino killings — Two rhino subspecies declared extinct
• 2012/10/24: SciAm:EC: Female Komodo Dragons Die Young, Housework to Blame
  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
• 2012/10/26: NYT: U.S. Satellite Plans Falter, Imperiling Data on Storms
  More GW impacts are being seen:
• 2012/10/24: Eureka: Climate change may alter amphibian evolution
• 2012/10/24: CCurrents: Climate Crisis: Palm Trees In The Antarctic, 540% Increase In Heat Related Deaths And Smaller Fishes
• 2012/10/22: Eureka: Climate change threatens marine environment in the Baltic Sea
  And then there are the world’s forests:
• 2012/10/27: BBC: Ash tree import ban to halt disease
  A ban on the import of ash trees will come into force on Monday in an attempt to halt the spread of a deadly disease, the environment secretary has said. Owen Paterson has denied ministers were slow to react to the outbreak. The Chalara fraxinea fungus, which causes Chalara dieback, has already killed 90% of ash trees in Denmark and has been found in East Anglia. Mr Paterson said 50,000 ash trees have already been destroyed to try to prevent the spread of the disease.
• 2012/10/25: BBC: ‘Ash dieback’ fungus Chalara fraxinea in UK countryside
• 2012/10/24: TreeHugger: Tree Conservation Lessons Learned Since England’s Great Storm of 1987
  Desertification looms as a threat:
• 2012/10/26: DD: Impoverished Niger creates fund to fight desert spread
  This week in notable weather:
• 2012/10/28: al Jazeera: Germany’s early taste of winter
  Early heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures have caused widespread traffic disruption across a good part of Germany.
• 2012/10/26: MODIS: Low pressure system over eastern Europe
• 2012/10/28: MODIS: Dust storm in the lower Great Plains
• 2012/10/23: al Jazeera: Severe weather slams California — Snow, tornadoes and torrential rain batter the Golden State
• 2012/10/23: APOD: Mammatus Clouds Over Saskatchewan
  Yes we have no wacky weather, except:
• 2012/10/25: ASI: Looking for weirdness
• 2012/10/22: ClimateLab: How “weird” has UK weather been in 2012?
  This week in the New Normal — extreme weather:
• 2012/10/26: PSinclair: Teachable Moments: Get used to ‘em.
• 2012/10/22: al Jazeera: Severe weather takes a swipe at South Africa — Torrential rain and large hail cause widespread damage
  As for heatwaves and wild fires:
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Hughenden community battles bush fire
  Land holders and firefighters in northern Queensland are hoping for improved weather conditions to fight a large grass fire which started on Saturday. Graziers say it’s one of the worst fires the district has ever seen, destroying yards, fences, pipelines and hundreds of thousands of hectares of grassland. It’s not yet known whether any cattle have been caught in the blaze, which at one point formed a 45-kilometre front.
• 2012/10/23: TheRepublic: Up to 1,400 wildfires burn 560,000 acres, destroy 75 homes, cost $100M this year in Wyoming
• 2012/10/27: ABC(Au): Rain brings relief in marathon fire effort
  Overnight rain has doused two major fires in south east Queensland but crews are still dealing with extreme fire conditions in the state’s west. Authorities say the rain has extinguished bushfires which had been burning at Greenbank and Mount Tambourine south of Brisbane. Firefighters will return to a fire near Crows Nest to dampen down remaining hotspots, but crews are still dealing with almost 20 fires.
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Crews brace for more fire battles across Qld
  It is going to be another busy day for firefighters battling blazes across Queensland, with no heavy rain predicted and gusty winds forecast for the south-east. There were more than 60 bushfires burning across the state yesterday but most were under control or out by late last night.
• 2012/10/23: ABC(Au): Residents put on alert as bushfire threat looms
  Firefighters are contending with 65 bushfires across Queensland this afternoon. Emergency Services say the gusty conditions are fuelling fires up and down the state, but no property is under immediate threat.
• 2012/10/23: MODIS: Fires in northern India
  Corals are a bellwether of the ocean’s health:
• 2012/10/22: Eureka: Sweden’s only coral reef at risk of dying
  Acidification is changing the oceans:
• 2012/10/23: DD: Graph of the Day: Oceanic pH, 24 million years BP – Present
  Glaciers are melting:
• 2012/10/26: DD: World’s glaciers have new size estimate
• 2012/10/26: ERW: Two-degree warming would melt one-third of glacier area in Swiss Alps
• 2012/10/23: Yahoo:LS: World’s Glaciers Have New Size Estimate
  Sea levels are rising:
• 2012/10/27: Tamino: Sea unLevel
• 2012/10/25: CCR: NASA climate chief demolishes denialist claims on sea levels
• 2012/10/27: NJ: As climate change causes sea level to rise, New Jersey must adapt
• 2012/10/22: DD: The public benefit in saving beaches from rising seas: fight or flee?
• 2012/10/22: DD: Antarctica losing 190 million tons of ice daily, causing sea levels to rise 1 mm per year
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Study reveals ice melt impact on sea level rise
  A new study has revealed Antarctic ice melt is contributing less to sea level rise than first thought. In a study led by the University of Tasmania, satellite technology has been used to “weigh” the land mass of Antarctica and measure how that changes over time. The university’s Professor Matt King says the study improved the technique for measuring land mass, resulting in a more accurate picture of how Antarctic ice melt is contributing to sea level rise.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Rethink on effect of Antarctic ice-melt on sea levels
  Scientists have found that melting ice in Antarctica is contributing less to sea level rise than previously thought. The scientists used a satellite to estimate the weight of the land mass of Antarctica and how it has changed.
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  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2012/10/26: Grist: Drought continues to hammer the economy
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: Squeezing Blood From the Desert: The West Grapples With Less Water
• 2012/10/27: CBC: Wawa, Ont., deluge forces First Nation evacuation — Area highway closed after high water levels erode roadway
  On the mitigation front, consider transportation & GHG production:
• 2012/10/24: Eureka: Speed limits on cargo ships could reduce their pollutants by more than half
• 2012/10/22: SciAm: Rising Energy Costs May Usher in U.S. Freight Rail Revival
  Rail built America in the 19th century and now it may be poised for a massive resurgence in the 21st century as high fuel prices make it competitive again
• 2012/10/21: CalcRisk: DOT: Vehicle Miles Driven increased 1.2% in August
  While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:
• 2012/10/25: TreeHugger: LEED-Bashing: USA Today Series Says It’s Too Easy To Be Green (and a Whole Lot More)
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: It’s a Mud Mud Mud Mud World
  As for carbon sequestration:
• 2012/10/27: ABC(Au): Environmental think tank [CCES] says Australia should lead on carbon capture
• 2012/10/22: P3: Sequestering carbon in the ocean is hard to do, and even harder to measure [Donner]
• 2012/10/22: Maribo: Sequestering carbon in the ocean is hard to do, and even harder to measure
  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
• SCOR-INT: SCOR WG 131 on The Legacy of in situ Iron Enrichment: Data Compilation and Modeling
• 2012/10/12: PS&EP(via doi): (ab$) Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: a review of effectiveness, environmental impacts and emerging governance by Phillip Williamson et al.
• 2012/10/15: WOL:CC: A review of climate geoengineering appraisals by Rob Bellamy et al.
• 2012/10/26: TechRev: Geoengineering Could Be Essential to Reducing the Risk of Climate Change
• 2012/10/17: EPSRC: SPICE [Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering] update
• 2012/10/24: FP: Playing God
  With efforts to halt climate change on life support, scientists are looking at some radical options to save our planet. But could the cure be worse than the disease?
• 2012/10/25: SciAm: Controlling the Controllers: A Timeline of Geoengineering Rules and Regulations Worldwide
• 2012/10/26: KEI:CE: [press review] Localised SRM study
• 2012/10/26: PostMedia: More ocean fertilization feared — Haida Gwaii experiment may embolden others, critic warns
• 2012/10/25: GEP: Review Clears SPICE Project
• 2012/10/24: GEP: Dalai Lama Willing to Look at Geoengineering
• 2012/10/24: ICN: Can Hurricanes Be Tamed? Scientists Propose Novel Cloud-Seeding Method
• 2012/10/27: EconView: Climate Change and ‘Free Drivers’
• 2012/10/23: DD: Localised sunshade could stop Arctic melting
• 2012/10/21: Harvard:SEAS: Targeting solar geoengineering to minimize risk and inequality
• 2012/10/21: Eureka: Improving effectiveness of solar geoengineering
  What’s new in conservation?
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: Support for Massive Antarctic Ocean Preserve Divided Over Fishing
• 2012/10/23: Eureka: Experts call for wildlife conservation network
  It’s time to establish a national network for wildlife conservation, bringing together state, federal and private initiatives to coordinate planning and work toward common goals, 11 prominent wildlife biologists and policy experts write in the journal BioScience.
• 2012/10/23: ABC(Au): Moves to further protect Antarctica
  Moves to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean are being debated at an international Antarctic science symposium in Tasmania. Two hundred delegates from more than 30 countries are attending the 31st Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CAMLR) meeting in Hobart. During the next two weeks they will consider proposals to protect three regions including the Ross Sea, West Antarctic Peninsula and East Antarctica.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Australia pushes for Antarctic protection
  Meanwhile in the journals:
• 2012/10/25: ACP: Mapping the uncertainty in global CCN using emulation by L. A. Lee et al.
• 2012/10/24: ACP: Characterization of wind power resource in the United States by U. B. Gunturu & C. A. Schlosser
• 2012/10/24: ACP: Aerosol forcing based on CAM5 and AM3 meteorological fields by C. Zhou et al.
• 2012/10/22: ACP: Atmospheric impacts on climatic variability of surface incident solar radiation by K. C. Wang et al.
• 2012/10/25: ACPD: CO2 dispersion modelling over Paris region within the CO2-MEGAPARIS project by C. Lac et al.
• 2012/10/25: ACPD: Global impact of contemporary smoke aerosols from landscape fires on climate and the Hadley circulation by M. G. Tosca et al.
• 2012/10/23: ACPD: Scorched earth: how will changes in ozone deposition caused by drought affect human health and ecosystems? by L. D. Emberson et al.
• 2012/10/22: ACPD: Comparing two years of Saharan dust source activation obtained by regional modeling and satellite observations by I. Tegen et al.
• 2012/10/24: Nature: Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water by Frederick Kaufman
• 2012/10/24: Nature: (ab$) Recent changes to the Gulf Stream causing widespread gas hydrate destabilization by Benjamin J. Phrampus & Matthew J. Hornbach
• 2012/10/26: CP: Timing and magnitude of equatorial Atlantic surface warming during the last glacial bipolar oscillation by S. Weldeab
• 2012/10/26: CP: Reconstruction of high resolution atmospheric fields for Northern Europe using analog-upscaling by F. Schenk & E. Zorita
• 2012/10/25: CP: HadISD: a quality-controlled global synoptic report database for selected variables at long-term stations from 1973-2011 by R. J. H. Dunn et al.
• 2012/10/23: CP: Effects of dating errors on nonparametric trend analyses of speleothem time series by M. Mudelsee et al.
• 2012/10/26: CPD: The Holocene thermal maximum in the Nordic Seas: the impact of Greenland Ice Sheet melt and other forcings in a coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean model by M. Blaschek & H. Renssen
• 2012/10/24: CPD: Spatial gradients of temperature, accumulation and O18-ice in Greenland over a series of Dansgaard-Oeschger events by M. Guillevic et al.
• 2012/10/23: CPD: Hominin responses to environmental changes during the Middle Pleistocene in Central and Southern Italy by R. Orain et al.
• 2012/10/26: Science: (ab$) Fishing for Answers off Fukushima by Ken O. Buesseler
• 2012/10/24: Springer:E&ES: (ab$) Reexamining the economics of aerosol geoengineering by J. Eric Bickel & Shubham Agrawal
• 2012/10/22: NERC:NORA: Farm nitrogen balances in six European agricultural landscapes: a method for farming system assessment, emission hotspot identification, and mitigation measure evaluation by T. Dalgaard et al.
• 2012/10/22: NERC:NORA: Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world by Melanie Hagen et al.
• 2012/10/24: NERC:NORA: Seasonal inflow of warm water onto the southern Weddell Sea continental shelf, Antarctica by Marius Arthun et al.
• 2012/10/26: NERC:NORA: Multi-year droughts in Europe: analysis of development and causes by Simon Parry et al.
• 2012/10/26: ACP: Influence of air quality model resolution on uncertainty associated with health impacts by T. M. Thompson & N. E. Selin
• 2012/10/26: ACPD: Quantitative comparison of the variability in observed and simulated shortwave reflectance by Y. L. Roberts et al.
• 2012/10/26: ACPD: African dust outbreaks over the Mediterranean Basin during 2001-2011: PM10 concentrations, phenomenology and trends, and its relation with synoptic and mesoscale meteorology by J. Pey et al.
• 2012/10/24: TC: Radar diagnosis of the subglacial conditions in Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica by S. Fujita et al.
• 2012/10/24: TC: Sea ice inertial oscillations in the Arctic Basin by F. Gimbert et al.
• 2012/10/24: TCD: Scenario-based climate change modelling for a regional permafrost probability model of the southern Yukon and northern British Columbia, Canada by P. P. Bonnaventure & A. G. Lewkowicz
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Calcium-dependent regulation of cyclic photosynthetic electron transfer by a CAS, ANR1, and PGRL1 complex by Mia Terashima et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Genome sequence of the button mushroom Agaricus bisporus reveals mechanisms governing adaptation to a humic-rich ecological niche by Emmanuelle Morin et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Area-heterogeneity tradeoff and the diversity of ecological communities by Omri Allouche et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (abs) Efficient TALEN-mediated gene knockout in livestock by Daniel F. Carlson et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Climate negotiations under scientific uncertainty by Scott Barrett & Astrid Dannenberg
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Solar absorption by elemental and brown carbon determined from spectral observations by Ranjit Bahadur et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (ab$) Flexible graphene-based lithium ion batteries with ultrafast charge and discharge rates by Na Li et al.
• 2012/10/23: PNAS: (letter$) Applying statistical models to the climate-migration relationship by Shuaizhang Feng & Michael Oppenheimer
• 2012/10/24: GRL: (ab$) Stability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation: A model intercomparison by Andrew J. Weaver et al
• 2012/10/04: GRL: (ab$) The 2011 La Niña: So strong, the oceans fell by Carmen Boening et al.
• 2012/10/12: PS&EP(via doi): (ab$) Ocean fertilization for geoengineering: a review of effectiveness, environmental impacts and emerging governance by Phillip Williamson et al.
• 2012/10/15: WOL:CC: A review of climate geoengineering appraisals by Rob Bellamy et al.
• 2012/10/23: TC: Sensitivity of Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance to surface albedo parameterization: a study with a regional climate model by J. H. van Angelen et al.
• 2012/10/22: TCD: Surface undulations of Antarctic ice streams tightly controlled by bedrock topography by J. De Rydt et al.
• 2012/10/08: ESA:FE&E: (ab$) Do trophic cascades affect the storage and flux of atmospheric carbon? An analysis of sea otters and kelp forests by Christopher C Wilmers et al.
• 2012/10/22: PRL: Cosmic Ray Radiography of the Damaged Cores of the Fukushima Reactors by Konstantin Borozdin et al.
• 2012/10/22: AGWObserver: New research from last week 42/2012
• 2012/10/21: Nature: (ab$) Lower satellite-gravimetry estimates of Antarctic sea-level contribution by Matt A. King et al.
• 2012/10/21: Nature: (ab$) Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees by Richard J. Gill et al.
• 2012/10/21: Nature:CC: Hydroclimatic shifts driven by human water use for food and energy production by Georgia Destouni et al.
• 2012/10/21: Nature:CC: Increased greenhouse-gas intensity of rice production under future atmospheric conditions by Kees Jan van Groenigen et al.
• 2012/10/21: Nature:CC: Evolutionary response of the egg hatching date of a herbivorous insect under climate change by Margriet van Asch et al.
• 2012/10/21: Nature:CC: Management of trade-offs in geoengineering through optimal choice of non-uniformradiative forcing by Douglas G. MacMartin et al.
  And other significant documents:
• 2012/10/27: PI: [link to 908k pdf] Behind the Wheel — Opportunities for Canadians to drive less, reduce pollution and save money
• 2012/09/24: Oceana: [link to 1.1 meg mdf] Ocean-Based Food Security Threatened in a High CO2 World
• 2012/10/23: DeSmogBlog: [link to 1.2 meg pdf] As You Sow: Coal Investments, Shale Gas, a Bad Bet
  As for miscellaneous science:
• 2012/10/24: SMandia: Help scientists who are being attacked by Climate of Doubters
• 2012/10/24: ScienceInsider: Muted Reaction to New Science Budget in Australia
• 2012/10/24: NatureN: High stakes for US science — As the election nears, the opinions of the presidential candidates diverge over research
• 2012/10/23: UCSUSA:B: Next Steps On Improving Citizen Access To Government Scientific Information
• 2012/10/24: NOAANews: NOAA, National Archives team up with citizen-scientists to reconstruct historical climate of the Arctic
• 2012/10/22: ERabett: Please Slam the Door on Your Way Out
  The Pielke fan clubbe, alas:
• 2012/10/23: DerSpiegel: The Disaster Business — Scientists Denounce Dubious Climate Study by Insurer [PFC]
  Whether it’s hurricanes, thunderstorms or tornadoes, extreme weather is big business for insurers. Now German re-insurer Munich Re claims to have found proof that man-made climate change is causing more weather catastrophes in North America. Scientists are outraged.
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  Meanwhile at the UN:

• 2012/10/23: UN: UN Central Emergency Relief Fund to provide $10 million to help flood victims in Pakistan
• 2012/10/23: WMO: Ministerial Conference adopts Integrated African Strategy for Meteorology
  Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe – An integrated African Strategy for Meteorology (Weather and Climate) to meet challenges such as climate change and extreme weather hazards has been adopted by an African ministerial-level conference in Zimbabwe.
• 2012/10/25: WMO: Strong climate services support climate change adaptation and sustainable development
  And on the carbon trading front:
• 2012/10/26: DerSpiegel: Cutting Carbon — Is Europe’s Emissions Trading System Broken?
  Emitting CO2 into the atmosphere is dirt cheap in Europe these days. At just 8 euros per ton, the low price is undermining the European Union’s effort to establish an effective cap and trade system. Implementing necessary fixes to the system, however, won’t be easy in the face of industry opposition.
• 2012/10/23: EurActiv: Brussels pitches ban on Kyoto-era credits
  The European Commission has proposed an Emissions Trading System (ETS) ban on E440 million of Kyoto-era carbon credits from non-EU countries such as Russia, which have not signed up to a second Kyoto commitment period.
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  The Robin Hood tax, aka the Tobin tax, aka the Bank tax, aka the Financial Transaction tax keeps coming up:

• 2012/10/24: EUO: EU commission tables financial tax for 11 states
• 2012/10/23: EUO: Brussels recommends financial tax for 10 countries
• 2012/10/23: BBC: Financial transaction tax for 10 EU states
  The European Commission has backed plans from 10 countries to launch a financial transactions tax to help raise funds to tackle the debt crisis. The 10 countries include France, Germany, Italy and Spain. The nations want to push ahead with the tax after failing to win support from all members of the European Union. The UK has been especially vocal in its opposition to the tax, which it feels would hit the City of London particularly hard.
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  On the international political front, tensions continue as the empire leans on Iran:

• 2012/10/28: al Jazeera: The unfolding human catastrophe in Iran
  Sanctions imposed on Iran’s banks and financial institutions could lead to a humanitarian crisis.
• 2012/10/28: OilDrum: Tech Talk – Global crude oil and Iran
• 2012/10/26: AntiWar: Steel Sanctions Have Iran Scrambling to Import Coal — Coal Trade Booming With Syria, Lebanon Used as Intermediaries
• 2012/10/23: AntiWar: Iran Threatens to Halt Oil Exports Over Sanctions — Analysts Shrug Off ‘Idle Threat’
  South [& East] China Sea tension persists:
• 2012/10/25: al Jazeera: Japan sees new Chinese activity near islands
  China accused of sending four ships and also increasing air operations in disputed East China Sea waters.
• 2012/10/24: WSWS: Island dispute between Japan and China grows more tense
  In the global competition for Rare Earths and other natural resources:
• 2012/10/23: TreeHugger: Good News for Clean Tech: China’s Reign over Rare Earth Metals is Ending
  Climate Change is a threat multiplier exacerbating existing conflicts in food, energy, water, race, ideology … etc.:
• 2012/10/22: UColorado: Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa measured by Boulder team
• 2012/10/27: SimpleC: Climate provides weak power to predict African violence
• 2012/10/22: Eureka: Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa measured by Boulder team
• 2012/10/22: LA Times: Climate linked to conflict in East Africa, study finds
• 2012/10/22: USAToday: Climate conflict: Warmer world could be more violent
  Polls! We have polls!
• 2012/10/24: CleanTechnica: British Public Want More Solar and Wind
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): UK public favours wind turbines over shale gas wells, poll finds
  More than two-thirds of people would rather have a wind turbine than a shale gas well near their home
• 
  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2012/10/24: Nature: Futures market: Wall Street’s thirst for water by Frederick Kaufman
• 2012/10/24: DeseretNews: Group blasts state policymakers over climate change
  A Utah conservation organization is blasting state leaders, particularly those in charge of managing water supplies, for continuing to ignore the impacts of rising temperatures and how that will shape reality in the years to come.
• 2012/10/22: JFleck: Tarrant: Much ado about nothing
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: China’s State-Owned Media: ‘Global Warming Is Melting Mountain Ice Cap’ Posing ‘Great Threat’ To Water Supply
• 2012/10/21: JFleck: Pat Mulroy on the value of water
  And on the American political front:
• 2012/10/26: DemNow: Who Owns the World? Noam Chomsky on U.S.-Fueled Dangers, from Climate Change to Nuclear Weapons
• 2012/10/25: DeSmogBlog: Key Findings From the Mashey Report on Donors Trust
• 2012/10/28: Grist: David Attenborough: U.S. politicians duck climate change because of cost [vid]
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: David Attenborough On Climate: ‘The Most Powerful Nation In The World Denies What The Rest Of Us Can See Very Clearly’
• 2012/10/26: KSJT: Scientific American: Republican Antiscience more Dangerous than Democrat Antiscience
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost
  The naturalist warned it would take a terrible example of extreme weather to wake people up to global warming
• 2012/10/26: TheHill:e2W: Chevron gives $2.5M to super-PAC backing House Republicans
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: Chevron Donates $2.5 Million To GOP Super PAC In Single Largest Corporate Donation Post-Citizens United
• 2012/10/26: Grist: Despite GOP jeers, BrightSource succeeds in solar
• 2012/10/25: Grist: GOP candidate: ‘My opponent believes in global warming and has been to other countries, he is basically a monster’
• 2012/10/25: TreeHugger: GOP to South Dakota: Don’t Vote for the Climate Change Guy (Video)
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: Five Things You Need To Know About ‘War On Coal’ Messaging This Election Season
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: Chamber Of Commerce Refutes Its Own Attacks On Obama’s Energy Policy With A New Study
• 2012/10/24: Syracuse: U.S. Sen. Gillibrand supports Gov. Cuomo on hydrofracking, wants more information before drilling
• 2012/10/25: UCSUSA:B: Congressional Budget Office and Media Miss the Point on Electric Vehicle Incentives
• 2012/10/24: DeseretNews: Group blasts state policymakers over climate change
• 2012/10/24: CSM: The rise of Evangelical environmentalists could reshape US elections
• 2012/10/25: BBerg: Solar Energy Is Ready. The U.S. Isn’t
• 2012/10/26: Grist: The $41 million corporate ad blitz that is taking down California’s GMO labeling
• 2012/10/26: UCSUSA:B: Michigan’s Neighbors Show Increasing Renewable Electricity Standard is Affordable
• 2012/10/22: CER:RRapier: Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
• 2012/10/23: CJR: Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two — The AP gets it right the second time around
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: Three Ways Big Oil Spends Its Profits To Defend Oil Subsidies And Defeat Clean Energy
• 2012/10/23: MoJo: So Much for That “War on Coal”
  Republicans have made hay of a temporary mine closure in Virginia, but it plans to reopen the week of the election.
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: Company Held Up As Evidence Of ‘War On Coal’ Quietly Plans To Resume Mining Operations
• 2012/10/24: Grist: California’s biggest climate hawk comes under fire
• 2012/10/27: CCP: Monbiot: How the feral elite turned conservatism into an orgy of destruction
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Renewable energy: Mandate it in the constitution?
  Michigan is poised to become the first state in the nation to have renewable energy mandated in its constitution. On Nov. 6, voters will decide the fate of proposal 3, better known as “25 by 25,” which would put in their constitution that the state is required to produce a quarter of its electricity from renewable energy by 2025.
• 2012/10/24: DemNow: Michael Pollan: From GMOs to NYC’s Soda Ban, Local Efforts Challenge Agri-giants’ National Control
• 2012/10/24: DemNow: Michael Pollan: California’s Prop 37 Fight to Label GMOs Could Galvanize Growing U.S. Food Movement
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: Use It Or Lose It: Report Shows Oil And Gas Companies Sitting On Thousands Of Unused Leases
• 2012/10/23: Grist: How U.S. cities rank for cleantech…
• 2012/10/23: UCSUSA:B: Michigan Has a Powerful Megaphone for Our Energy Future
• 2012/10/22: BBerg: Democrats Seek to Aid Solar With Control of Arizona [Corporation Commission]
• 2012/10/23: CSM: Unconventional energy jobs: 1.7 million and counting
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: How The Right Wing Has Put The Grand Canyon And Other Public Lands In The Crosshairs This Election
• 2012/10/22: UN: UN food agency mourns death of US Senator who was ‘tireless advocate of world’s hungry’
• 2012/10/22: ICN: Arizona’s Solar Future Decided Next Month
• 2012/10/21: EconView: Stavins: Cap-and-Trade, Carbon Taxes, and My Neighbor’s Lovely Lawn
  The BP disaster continues to twist US politics:
• 2012/10/25: DD: U.S. downplayed effect of Deepwater Horizon oil spill on whales, emails reveal
• 2012/10/25: NolaDefender: BP Plugs Leaky Dome at the Bottom of the Gulf
• 2012/10/24: Guardian(UK): US downplayed effect of Deepwater oil spill on whales, emails reveal
  Documents obtained by Greenpeace show officials controlling information about wildlife affected by the disaster
• 
  So, do you want the etch-a-sketch vulture capitalist or the hopey-changey kill-list guy?

• 2012/10/27: CDreams: Candidates Flee East Coast as Frankenstorm Takes Revenge for their Ignoring Climate Change
• 2012/10/28: Wunderground:RR: Climate Science and the 2012 Election – Redux (1)
• 2012/10/27: TreeHugger: Obama Talks Climate Change with MTV (Video)
• 2012/10/26: HillHeat: Challenged By MTV On His Climate Silence, Obama Says It’s A ‘Critical Issue’ And Is ‘Surprised It Didn’t Come Up’
• 2012/10/26: DeSmogBlog: MTV Breaks Climate Silence In Interview With Barack Obama
• 2012/10/26: Mercury: Obama and Romney on environmental issues: A Grand Canyon of difference
• 2012/10/26: GreenGrok: Fun Facts: Air pollution costs vs. campaign costs
• 2012/10/26: TheHill:e2W: Obama ‘surprised’ climate change didn’t surface at the presidential debates
• 2012/10/24: ERabett:BDS: Romney in Ohio
• 2012/10/25: CSM: Romney stands by Mourdock as Obama continues criticism of rape remark
• 2012/10/24: al Jazeera: The other parties – excluded but not silenced
  As third party US presidential candidates hold their own debate, we ask if they can win over American voters.
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: Romney Ad Slams Obama Over Climate Pledge, Sort Of
• 2012/10/22: P3: Obama’s Climate Record not so Bad
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: The New York Times Calls Out the Presidential Candidates’ Climate Silence
• 2012/10/25: CCurrents: Still Time Left To Talk About ‘Climate Change’ In US Elections
• 2012/10/24: CJR: Ask Obama and Romney this: What about climate change? [Bob] Schieffer misses media’s last chance to pop the question on a big stage
• 2012/10/23: LA Times: Third-party debate showcases fresh faces and issues
  Four alternative candidates for president of the United States debated Tuesday night in Chicago and agreed America needs a good dose of what they could provide — clear, straight talk that has not been market-pasteurized. The third-party debate, sponsored by the nonprofit Free and Equal Elections Foundation and streamed online with host Larry King, offered up a heaping serving of candidates few voters have seen and issues President Obama and Mitt Romney have seldom raised — including drug legalization, climate change and indefinite holds on citizens suspected of terrorism.
• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: US presidential candidates cool on warming
  Though polls show more Americans believe the planet is warming, the issue is seldom discussed on campaign trail.
• 2012/10/27: CBC: Storm fears alter U.S. presidential campaigns — Obama, Romney steer clear of approaching superstorm
• 2012/10/23: CSM: Obama, Romney ignore climate change, but so do voters
• 2012/10/24: al Jazeera: Third-party candidates spar in US debate
  Representatives of the Libertarian, Green, Constitution, and Justice parties have held a presidential debate in Chicago.
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): US presidential debates: abortion, climate change and other missing issues
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): US presidential debates’ great unmentionable: climate change
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: Quasi-Climate Quote: In Debate, Romney Says ‘We Have To Make Decisions Based Upon Uncertainty’
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: Let’s Raise The Voltage In The Presidential Energy Debate
• 2012/10/23: Grist: Obama and Romney ignore climate, could learn from Hillary Clinton
• 2012/10/22: Grist: Climate silence: It’s the right, stupid
• 2012/10/23: Slate: Mitt Romney’s Coal Complex — The GOP candidate’s distortions, flip-flops, and bad jokes about energy
• 2012/10/22: ERabett: Ray P. Writes
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: Climate Change is Absent from the Presidential Debates for the First Time Since the 80s
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: Why It’s Impossible To Ignore Climate In A Presidential Foreign Policy Debate
• 2012/10/22: Guardian(UK): US elections: Barack Obama accused of ‘climate denial’
  Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein criticises president’s failure to address green issues during election campaign
• 2012/10/22: DeSmogBlog: What To Expect When You’re Electing – The Candidates’ Energy Plans
• 2012/10/22: HillHeat: In Iowa, Obama Links Carbon Pollution To ‘The Droughts We’ve Seen’
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: Will This Be The First Time The Debates Are Silent On Climate Since 1984?
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: This November, Our Energy Future Hangs In The Balance
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: Denver Post Slams Romney’s ‘Drill-At-All-Costs’ Energy Policy
• 2012/10/22: Grist: Newspaper presidential endorsements ignore climate change
• 2012/10/22: SciAm:PI: Will Sea Level Rise Make the Final Debate?
• 2012/10/22: DeSmogBlog: Obama and Romney Have One More Chance to End Climate Silence
  Gas Prices are going up, down, up, down:
• 2012/10/26: CSM: Gas prices falling. Will hurricane Sandy reverse that?
  The Keystone XL saga rolls along:
• 2012/10/26: ICN: Texas Keystone XL Protests Show No Sign of Abating as Arrest Tally Hits 32
  Protests against the Keystone XL pipeline have led to arrests and headlines. But TransCanada says construction is moving along as planned.
• 2012/10/25: ICN: Need for Keystone XL Shrinking as Industry Looks to Export U.S. Crude Oil
• 2012/10/24: CBC: Quality concerns arose before TransCanada pipeline blast — Company proposing Keystone XL under scrutiny for previous line failure
• 2012/10/27: DeSmogBlog: Lone Star Standoff: Texan Landowners and Climate Activists Unite to Block Keystone XL
• 2012/10/23: CDreams: Keystone XL Pipeline Blockaders Face Arrests, Lawsuits in Texas
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: From North To South, Activists Fight Tar Sands Pipelines
  Michael Mann has had enough:
• 2012/10/26: ScienceInsider: Climate Scientist Mann Faces Obstacles to Winning Libel Lawsuit, Legal Experts Say
• 2012/10/26: ERabett: J Bowers” Has the gazelle just fired a shot across the nose of everyone’s favorite hyena? [Mann]
• 2012/10/24: S&R: Christopher Horner [of CEI] is demonstrably wrong [Mann]
• 2012/10/24: ERabett:JF: Sue the Bastards!
• 2012/10/24: Guardian(UK): Climate scientist Michael Mann sues over sex offender comparison
• 2012/10/24: PSinclair: Mike Mann’s Lawsuit — What’s at Issue
• 2012/10/23: WaPo: Penn State climate professor sues [CEI] think tank, National Review
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: Climate Scientist Michael Mann Sues The National Review And Competitive Enterprise Institute For Defamation
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Climate scientist sues for defamation
  Michael Mann, an influential climatologist who has spent years in the centre of the debate over climate science, is suing two organisations that have accused him of academic fraud and of improperly manipulating data.
• 2012/10/23: S&R: Climate scientist Michael Mann sues Competetive Enterprise Institute, National Review
• 2012/10/23: PSinclair: Bam! Mike Mann Files Lawsuit against Defamatory Denialist National Review, CEI
• 2012/10/23: BCLSB: Suck On It Mark Steyn — Climate scientist Michael Mann has finally filed his lawsuit
  The GOP War on Women continues. See also:
• 2012/10/24: DailyKos: GOP Rape Advisory Chart
• 2012/10/25: S&R: The seven kinds of rape (thx to the GOP for sorting this out)
• 2012/10/25: CBC: [Mourdock's] Rape comments loom large as Romney, Obama campaign
• 2012/10/24: Wonkette: GOP Candidate Richard Mourdock: Why Can’t Dames Understand That Rape-Babies Are God’s Precious Gift?
• 2012/10/25: al Jazeera: Another US candidate blasted for rape comment
  Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock has angered voters by saying rape-caused pregnancy was “God’s intention”.
• 2012/10/25: S&R: The GOP and God-sanctioned rape
• 2012/10/25: TMoS: The Evil Face of the Republican Party
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Richard Mourdock under pressure as Democrats pounce on rape remarks
• 2012/10/23: ACLU: ACLU of Indiana Wins Appeal in Planned Parenthood Medicaid Case
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Will Richard Mourdock’s rape remarks hurt Mitt Romney?
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Richard Mourdock clarifies: ‘God does not want rape’
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Republican Senate hopeful Richard Mourdock in rape row
  A Republican US Senate candidate has come under fire for suggesting that pregnancies caused by rape were “something God intended to happen”.
• 2012/10/24: CBC: God at work when rape leads to pregnancy, Republican says — Romney camp quickly distances itself from comments
  The NorthWest coal export debate remains heated:
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: U.S. Coal Exports On Pace To Hit All-Time High, Fueling Surge In International Global Warming Pollution
  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:
• 2012/10/25: DeSmogBlog: Groups Call On EPA To Close Fracking Disclosure Loopholes
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: Federal Regulators Issue Most Deepwater Drilling Permits In The Gulf Of Mexico Since 2007
• 2012/10/24: NOAANews: NOAA announces $5.5 million to support watershed education projects for K-12 students around the country
• 2012/10/23: NOAANews: NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuaries: Preserving and protecting oceans’ natural treasures
• 2012/10/19: EENews: Policy: Hillary Clinton puts clean energy, climate change on State’s marching orders
  As for what is going on in Congress:
• 2012/10/26: NYT: U.S. Satellite Plans Falter, Imperiling Data on Storms
• 2012/10/24: ScienceInsider: What They Think: Congressional Leaders Weigh-In on Science
• 2012/10/24: Grist: When it comes to food, how does your lawmaker stack up?
  While in the UK:
• 2012/10/26: Edie: Anger as oil chief appointed to climate committee
  Wide condemnation has been expressed at the appointment of climate change sceptic and oil company director Peter Lilley to the House of Commons energy and climate change select committee.
• 2012/10/26: BBC: EDF Energy customers will see a 10.8% rise in gas and electricity prices from 7 December, the company has announced
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Green campaigners condemn Peter Lilley’s energy committee post
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Peter Lilley: ‘I am a global lukewarmist’ and other quotes
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Oil companies going unpunished for thousands of North Sea spills
  Fines issued for only seven of 4,123 oil spills since 2000, with no company having to pay more than £20,000
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: UK makes biggest emissions cuts in Europe
  The United Kingdom cut greenhouse gas emissions by more than any other European country in 2011, over-achieving on targets under the Kyoto protocol on climate change. Some of the reduction was owing to milder weather and an increase in renewable energy generation, but the sluggish economy is also likely to have contributed.
• 2012/10/24: EurActiv: ‘Lowest energy tariffs’ do not necessarily mean lower bills, experts warn
  UK Prime Minister David Cameron recently announced that he would pass a law forcing energy companies to offer their customers the lowest tariffs available, but this will not necessarily translate into cheaper energy bills, EU energy experts warn. While Cameron might in theory be able to keep his promise of making sure energy companies offer the lowest tariffs, this will not necessarily mean that consumer bills will be lower. This is mainly due to rising energy prices. The Paris-based International Energy Agency last year declared that the age of cheap fuel was over.
• 2012/10/24: Guardian(UK): Climate change sceptic Peter Lilley joins Commons energy committee
• 2012/10/22: Monbiot: How conservatism turned into an orgy of destruction.
  There was a time when conservatism meant what the word suggests. It was an attempt to keep things as they are: to arrest economic and social change, to defend the position of the dominant class. Today conservatism has become a nihilistic festival of destruction: a gleeful Bullingdon dinner party of upper class anarchists, smashing other people’s crockery and hurling the chairs through the windows. Yet its purpose is still to secure the position of the dominant class. It is no longer enough to own the land and most of the capital, to own the media and – through the corrupt system of party funding – the political process. To reinstate Edwardian levels of inequality, the feral elite must seek to reverse the political progress that has been made since then. This means dismantling the tax system, which redistributes wealth. It means ditching the rules which prevent the powerful from acting as they please. Both are being consumed in what British Conservatives proudly describe as a bonfire(1,2). Nowhere is deregulation more destructive than in its treatment of the natural world.
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): We must impose a carbon limit on new electricity generation here and now
• 2012/10/22: BBC: University postgraduate system ‘failing UK economy’
  The postgraduate system in the UK’s universities is failing to produce the number of highly skilled staff needed by a modern economy, a report warns. The Higher Education Commission says the system is geared towards attracting overseas students, rather than training more UK students. The report warns that the UK is falling behind in investing in research.
• 2012/10/23: BBC: Allt Duine wind farm public inquiry starts in Aviemore
• 2012/10/22: Guardian(UK): Can the Isle of Wight start a power revolution?
  The island has taken its first steps towards a smart grid that will reduce electricity consumption and manage renewables
• 2012/10/22: EurActiv: UK green deal: Households to get up to £1,000 for insulation
  Householders insulating their homes from January will be able to claim hundreds – and potentially thousands – of pounds back in cash from the government, the energy secretary, Ed Davey, said on Friday (19 October).
• 2012/10/21: Guardian(UK): Fears grow over Conservatives’ links to fossil fuel lobbyists
  Sacked energy minister warns Britain must not ‘bet the farm’ on shale gas extraction
• 
  And in Europe:

• 2012/10/26: EUO: EU ministers fail to agree joint climate strategy
• 2012/10/25: Reuters: EU environment ministers in disarray over “hot air”
  EU talks to agree tactics ahead of an international climate summit in Doha next month ended in disarray on Thursday, after coal-dependent Poland led opposition to more ambitious attempts to curb atmospheric pollution. The bitter spat over a huge surplus of U.N. pollution permits was highly technical, but EU officials said it had serious implications for U.N. efforts to tackle climate change. “We have not moved at all,” an EU official said on condition of anonymity. “The lack of agreement could endanger a second commitment period.”
• 2012/10/26: DerSpiegel: The High Price of Clean Energy — Tax Breaks and Subsidies for Industry Divide Germans
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Bioenergy review confirms carbon savings doubts
  A new review of European bioenergy by independent researchers has found “significant risk” that EU renewables policies will increase carbon emissions by 2020 because of a dearth of carbon accounting safeguards. There is “no basis” for presuming that EU bioenergy use will deliver any emissions savings at all, says the study by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), a not-for-profit research organisation.
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Bulgarians to vote for nuclear plant
  Bulgarians will vote on whether to build a new nuclear power plant in the Balkan country’s first referendum since the fall of communism in 1989, Parliament has decided.
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Poland’s veto on EU climate laws ‘has no legal basis’
  Poland’s use of a veto to block EU climate goals for 2050 has no legal basis, according to internal legal documents from the Council of the European Union, obtained by EurActiv. Polish media have reported that Warsaw may try to wield a veto against measures supporting carbon market reform and the EU’s low carbon roadmap during a meeting of EU environment ministers taking place in Luxembourg today (25 October). The Polish veto is anticipated as the Council, representing the 27 EU member states, tries to adopt a common position for the UN climate summit in Doha next month. But Warsaw’s block on climate issues has no legal basis and may be circumvented easily by other EU member states as unanimity is not required to vote the common position at today’s Environment Council meeting, EurActiv has learned.
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Greenpeace pushes for renewable energy targets beyond 2020
  The European Union is on the right track for its 2020 renewables targets but will not receive real returns on investment until after that period, says a new Greenpeace EU report.
• 2012/10/25: EUO: EU on track to meet climate targets
• 2012/10/24: EurActiv: EU bioenergy policies increase carbon emissions, says leaked EU study
  Bioenergy production is often increasing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term even though the EU currently counts it as a carbon neutral technology, according to an unreleased EU report, which EurActiv has obtained.
• 2012/10/24: EUO: EU keeps controversial fishing fleet subsidies
• 2012/10/24: EUO: EU commission tables financial tax for 11 states
• 2012/10/23: SwissInfo: Geneva’s green hub loses out to geopolitics
  Switzerland should try to market Geneva’s international know-how better, says environmental consultant Yves Lador, who analyses the Swiss city’s failure to host the new United Nations climate fund.
• 2012/10/24: BBC: Fishing deal: EU ministers criticised
• 2012/10/23: EurActiv: France wants EU to review long-term risks of GM crops
• 2012/10/23: EurActiv: Brussels pitches ban on Kyoto-era credits
• 2012/10/23: EUO: Brussels recommends financial tax for 10 countries
• 2012/10/23: BBC: Financial transaction tax for 10 EU states
  Meanwhile in Australia:
• 2012/10/27: ABC(Au): Environmental think tank [CCES] says Australia should lead on carbon capture
• 2012/10/27: ABC(Au): Forest talks fail after two-year negotiation
  After two years of negotiation and several deadline extensions, Tasmania’s forest peace talks have failed. Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke flew into Hobart last night in a last-ditch attempt to save the talks. But this morning he said he was pessimistic agreement would ever be reached to reduce native forest logging and create new conservation areas. Tasmania’s Resources Minister Bryan Green said peace in Tasmanian forests was now almost impossible.
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Green energy plan for King Island
  King Island’s use of renewable energy is set to increase 20 per cent by next year to 65 per cent. The target is part of a $46 million Hydro Tasmania project to reduce the island’s dependence on diesel through the use of more wind turbines, bio diesel and updated energy storage technology.
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): [20%] Renewable energy target divides power companies
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Indigenous group says oil and gas company destroyed archaeological site
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Study says renewable energy target has boosted investment by millions
  The Clean Energy Council released research today which shows that Australia’s Renewable Energy Target has delivered more than $18 billion worth of investment in the sector in the last decade.
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Go ahead for one of world’s largest coal mines
  The New South Wales Planning Assessment Commission has approved one of the biggest open-cut coal mines in the world in the state’s north-east. Whitehaven’s Maules Creek Project, near the Leard State Forest, will extract 12 million tonnes of raw coal a year. If given the final go ahead from the Federal Government, Whitehaven expects production to start mid-2013, with operations predicted to last around 30 years.
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au):TDU: Smears on Gillard simply make no sense
• 2012/10/24: PlanetJ: The fossil-fuelled war on renewables
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Shire sheds light on solar hopes
  A northern Victorian shire says its effort to bring solar power development to the region is starting to pay off. Wodonga-based company Eco for Life has applied to build a 30-megawatt photovoltaic plant along the Old Echuca Road, south of Kerang. Another project, the Kerang Solar Farm, was approved by the Gannawarra Shire in August.
• 2012/10/23: ABC(Au): Climate change unit axed in cost-cutting push
  The Northern Territory Government is disbanding the Energy Policy and Climate Change Unit set up by Labor inside the Environment Department. The Government says the move will save about half a million dollars, and was put forward as a cost-cutting measure by the new Department of Lands, Planning and Environment.
• 2012/10/23: JQuiggin: Will there be buyers for Queensland’s uranium
• 2012/10/22: BBC: Australia’s largest grain merchant, GrainCorp, is reviewing a takeover offer from the US conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Unconventional gas supplies key to future: Moore
  The Mines Minister Norman Moore says unconventional gas reserves in WA will become increasingly important as global energy needs continue to grow.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Letter shows Campbell Newman’s uranium backflip
  The Australian Conservation Foundation says it received a letter from Queensland Premier Campbell Newman just days ago that stated the Queensland Government had no plans to approve uranium mining.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Queensland Govt lifts 30-year ban on uranium mining
• 2012/10/22: UKISS: Tony Abbott’s pledge
  The carbon bill is law. The Aus-EU ETS is codified. Now come the practicalities…and the finagling:
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Pig poo power a potential cash cow
  A piggery that turns manure into power has become the first to be approved for the Federal Government’s carbon farming scheme. The farm, located in the New South Wales town of Young, uses methane from the manure of 22,000 pigs to generate electricity.
• 2012/10/24: ABC(Au): Top end station set to achieve Australian first in carbon farming
• 2012/10/24: JQuiggin: 0.4 percent of a wrecking ball makes …
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Farmer flawed by carbon tax costs
  Primary Employers president, Ferdie Foster has an itemised electricity account showing 40 per cent of his of-peak power price is due to the carbon tax (Rosemary Grant ) A majority of Australians say the carbon price and compensation package is making no difference to them, according to a September Nielsen Poll. But Tasmanian farmers with big irrigation electricity bills say that’s not the case for their businesses.
• 
  After years of drought and flooding, water usage planning is controversial and difficult:

• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Basin announcement gets mixed reception from NSW Irrigators
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Basin states split over Murray plan
  The Federal Government’s plan to return an extra 450 gigalitres to the River Murray is expected to significantly improve the river system. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged $1.7-billion over 10 years to increase environmental flows. South Australia says it’s a breakthrough. Victoria is against it. New South Wales is yet to be convinced and Queensland wants more detail. And irrigators are concerned about where the water will come from.
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Gillard to announce Murray Darling plan changes
  Prime Minister Julia Gillard will today announce a plan to put an extra 450 billion litres of water back into the Murray Darling Basin from 2019. It is a move that will appease South Australia, but could put the Commonwealth on a collision course with Victoria and New South Wales. Several studies have found putting extra water back into the river will improve the environment, but hurt irrigators or communities along its path.
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Gillard announces Murray-Darling plan changes
  Prime Minister Julia Gillard has pledged $1.7 billion over 10 years as part of plans to significantly increase environmental flows in the Murray-Darling river system.
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Fed Govt adopts more ambitious target for returning water to Murray-Darling
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Arguments continue over Murray-Darling Basin plan
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Murray plan fights the constraints of history
  Speaking at the University of Adelaide recently, former prime minister John Howard echoed the lament of generations of politicians who have tried to govern the Murray-Darling Basin – if only they hadn’t caved in at Federation. Mr Howard delivered the Sir John Downer oration and, in paying homage to one of the fathers of Federation, noted the South Australian delegates to various constitutional gatherings prior to 1901 had argued for the Commonwealth to control the Murray. Instead they signed off on a constitution which said power would be shared by the states through which the river runs.
• 2012/10/22: ABC(Au): Water assets to stay in public hands
  The [Victoria] State’s Water Minister Peter Walsh has ruled out the sale of water assets to fund future infrastructure projects.
• 
  While in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Australian filmmaker arrested in India
  Indian police have detained an Australian documentary filmmaker investigating the country’s nuclear industry [near Koodankulum]
• 2012/10/23: CCurrents: Do We Exist? Fifth Letter From The Women Of Idinthakarai
• 2012/10/21: BBC: India’s plans to give citizens the legal right to food
  And in Japan:
• 2012/10/26: al Jazeera: Will Japan’s government disappear?
  A Supreme Court ruling in Japan could shake up the political landscape of the country.
• 2012/10/25: BBC: Tokyo’s governor Shintaro Ishihara is resigning to form a new national political party, ahead of expected general elections in Japan
  While elsewhere in Asia:
• 2012/10/23: ABC(Au): Fiji hosts first national climate change summit
  Scientists, government officials and community representative have gathered in Fiji for the country’s first ever national summit on climate change. The two-day National Summit for Building Resilience to Climate Change has been organised by Fiji’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and is backed by government departments, the World Wide Fund for Nature South Pacific, the German Society for International Cooperation, and the University of the South Pacific’s Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development. Fiji is hoping to engage climate change personnel at a grassroots level to develop strategies to deal with the impact of climate change.
• 
  And the Middle East:

• 2012/10/28: CSM: Why Saudi Arabia is taking a shine to solar
  In Canada, neocon PM Harper pushes petroleum while ignoring climate change:
• 2012/10/21: EnergyBulletin: Canadians could free themselves from oil imports, but will they?
  There are rumbles over the latest omnibus bill [C-45] from the Harperistas:
• 2012/10/26: iPolitics: Harper government changed course on navigable waters act four months ago
• 2012/10/24: CBC: Conservatives agree to broader study of budget bill — Bill more than 400 pages long would make changes to 60 Canadian laws
• 2012/10/22: SixthEstate: Budget Fall 2012, Part 3: 30 of Canada’s 47 Longest Rivers Removed from Navigable Waters Protection List
  There is a fair amount of concern about that Canada-China FIPPA Treaty:
• 2012/10/25: 350orBust: Canada-China Investment Treaty Threatens Canadian Security, Sovereignty, And Democracy
• 2012/10/24: CBC: Albertans wary of Chinese investment, poll suggests
• 2012/10/24: Tyee: BC Premier Urged to Consider Fast Legal Action Against China Treaty
• 2012/10/25: Tyee: Five Reasons to Pause on Canada-China Treaty — US think tank lists inconvenient facts the Harper government ignores
• 2012/10/26: DeSmogBlog: The Scary Canada-China Trade Deal That Will Haunt Us for 31 Years
• 2012/10/23: DeSmogBlog: Suzuki: Short-Term Thinking On Display in Canada-China Deal and Budget
• 2012/10/27: CBC: 5 things to know about the Canada-China investment treaty
• 2012/10/24: Rabble:DS: China deal and budget sacrifice democracy to short-term goals
• 2012/10/23: TStar: The politics behind Harper’s approach to Chinese energy takeovers
• 2012/10/23: TStar: Canada caught in geopolitical energy struggle between China and the U.S.
• 2012/10/23: NorRe: The Unexamined Treaty
• 2012/10/23: G&M: Why aren’t we debating the Canada-China investment pact?
  In one week’s time, unless something strange happens, a far-reaching Canada-China investment agreement will take effect. It’s one of the most important commercial agreements Canada has signed since NAFTA. But whereas NAFTA could be terminated on six months’ notice, this deal locks in the signatories for a minimum of 15 years.
• 
  The CNOOC bid for Nexen has been approved by the shareholders. Now the ball is in Harper’s court:

• 2012/10/25: CBC: Nexen expects China takeover to close this year — Net income falls 70% from same period in 2011
• 2012/10/25: DeSmogBlog: The Rush to Ratify: BC Rejected International Investment Deal in ’98 and Should Do So Again
• 2012/10/23: BBerg: Nexen Sale Said to Turn on China Backing Canada Deals
  Canada plans to ask China to allow several transactions in exchange for approval of state-owned Cnooc Ltd. (883)’s $15.1 billion bid for Nexen Inc. (NXY), said a person with knowledge of the matter. This list of deals by Canadian companies in China underscores that reciprocity will be part of foreign investment policies Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government will release soon, said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions aren’t public. Another person with knowledge of the matter said Canada is seeking concessions from China before agreeing to the Nexen deal.
• 
  The Petronas bid denial is still coming in for comment:

• 2012/10/22: CBC: Harper defends Petronas decision, vows new investment rules — NDP says foreign investment review process ‘broken’
• 2012/10/23: PostMedia: B.C. energy minister mystified after Ottawa nixes key [Petronas] takeover for province’s natural gas strategy
  A last-minute decision by the Harper government to reject a takeover of Canadian gas producer Progress Energy by Malaysian state-owned energy giant Petronas pulled the rug out from under B.C. Energy Minister Rich Coleman, who viewed the $5.9-billion deal as one of the catalysts for B.C.’s multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas strategy.
• 2012/10/21: CBC: Mulcair slams feds on handling of Petronas deal — NDP leader unhappy with lack of transparency in foreign investment decisions
  NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is denouncing the federal government’s lack of transparency in its decision to reject a $6-billion bid by Malaysia’s state-owned oil company Petronas for Calgary-based Progress Energy Resources, in a speech to party faithful in Ottawa on Sunday. Mulcair said the decision by Industry Minister Christian Paradis came like a thief in the night.
• 2012/10/21: BBerg: Petronas Rejection Casts Doubt on CNOOC $15.1 Billion Bid
  The battle over the Northern Gateway pipeline rages on:
• 2012/10/23: NYT: Canada’s New Pipeline Woes
• 2012/10/22: TheCanadian: Global Video: Thousands Rally in Victoria for ‘Defend Our Coast’
• 2012/10/23: OilChange: Thousands Say No to Northern Gateway
• 2012/10/23: 350orBust: Canadians Answer The Call To Defend Our Coast While Climate Silence Reigns South of Border
• 2012/10/22: TMoS: BC’ers Turn Out to Say No to Northern Gateway
• 2012/10/22: CBC: Thousands gather to protest pipeline at B.C. Legislature
• 2012/10/22: DeSmogBlog: See What the Exxon-Valdez Would Look Like on BC’s Coast
• 2012/10/22: CBC: Pipeline opponents gather for protest at B.C. legislature
• 2012/10/21: CCP: Enbridge: Dead Pipeline Walking, by Tex Enemark
  “We Are Power Shift” held a conference in Ottawa this week:
• We Are Power Shift Canada
• 2012/10/27: CPW: Power Shift 2012 Conference Begins With Powerful Presentations
• 2012/10/26: CPW: The Canadian Progressive covers Power Shift 2012 Conference
• 2012/10/26: CPW: 1000 youth converge in Ottawa to demand just solutions to climate and economic crises
• 2012/10/24: CleanBreak: Attention all, young and old, who are concerned about Canada’s inaction on climate change [Power Shift 2012]
• 2012/10/26: Rabble: PowerShift brings hundreds of youth activists to Ottawa this week-end. Follow the opening night live.
  Pembina released their “Behind the Wheel” report:
• 2012/10/27: PI: [link to 908k pdf] Behind the Wheel — Opportunities for Canadians to drive less, reduce pollution and save money
• 2012/10/23: PI: Report outlines ways Canadian commuters can save money, drive less and cut climate pollution
• 2012/10/22: PI:B: Snubbing the pump: How Canadian drivers can save money on fuel and reduce their environmental impact
  The ISA/PRV/IHN/Alpha virus in Canadian waters is potentially disastrous:
• 2012/10/22: AlexandraMorton: Is Truth a Tactic?
• 2012/10/28: Guardian(PE): Critics blame feds for poor return of sockeye to Fraser River in 2009
  Some who took part in the inquiry looking into why millions of sockeye salmon vanished from one of British Columbia’s most prized fishery are already anticipating what the report might say, and many believe the news won’t be good for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. After listening to 160 witnesses, compiling 14,000 pages of transcripts and 2,100 exhibits, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen must deliver his report to the federal government by Monday, although it remains unclear when, or even if, the document will be made public.
• 2012/10/24: TheCanadian: Alexandra Morton Receives Two Academic Honours, Forces Farmed Salmon Recall
• 2012/10/23: TheCanadian: Sobeys Pulls Farmed Salmon, Reviews Handling Procedures Due to Sea Lice Discovery in Stores
  In BC, the stage is set. Now what will Clark and Dix do?
• 2012/10/27: Rabble:DC: Foundering B.C. premier hires Alberta strategist Stephen Carter
• 2012/10/26: CBC: B.C. Liberals’ kick off Whistler convention
  [...]
  …Clark has brought in Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s former chief of staff for some help. Campaign strategist Stephen Carter says besides disregarding the poll numbers, Clark needs to better define herself to the public.
• 2012/10/25: TheCanadian: Time the [BC] NDP Came Clean on Dirty Fracking, Gas-Powered LNG Plants
• 2012/10/25: DeSmogBlog: BC Coastal First Nations Appeal For Help In Enbridge Pipeline Battle
• 2012/10/26: PostMedia: Even Enbridge buys a table at [BC] NDP fundraising event
  Navigating around the room at the big fundraiser for New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix this week, reporters were immediately struck by the breadth of business interests that had put up the necessary $3,500 per table to attend. Movie makers. New car dealers. Bankers. Salmon farmers. Hoteliers. Trial lawyers. Pharmacists. Dairy farmers. Enbridge. I’ll say that again: Enbridge.
• 2012/10/22: TheCanadian: Anti-Fracking Candidate George Heyman Wins NDP [Vancouver-Fairview] Riding Nomination
• 2012/10/23: WpgFP: B.C. government investigates claims by Chinese recruiters looking for miners
• 2012/10/21: PEF: BC’s Natural Gas Strategy nothing more than a fairy tale
  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:
• 2012/10/26: DeSmogBlog: No Herd Left Behind: Federal Caribou Recovery Strategy On “Collision Course with Industry,” Leads to Caribou “Zoos”
• 2012/10/26: TMoS: Even Albertans Don’t Want Chinese Ownership of the Tar Sands
• 2012/10/22: Tyee: Globe’s Oil Sands Advertorial Blurs Lines Public Editor Won’t Discuss — Eight pager formatted much like news, but Stead offers slim explanation
• 2012/10/22: PI: The case against the proposed Shell Jackpine oilsands mine expansion
• 2012/10/23: PI:B: Aboriginal opposition turns up the heat on oilsands expansion
• 2012/10/27: CSM: North America’s oil bonanza creates a railroad boom
• 2012/10/24: CBC: Alberta oilsands will benefit all provinces, [Conference Board of Canada says]
• 2012/10/23: DeSmogBlog: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Challenges Shell in Legal Hearing
• 2012/10/23: ICN: Shell’s Tar Sands Expansion Could Violate First Nations Treaties
  The residents of Fort Chipewyan, an indigenous community near the Arctic Circle, that lives directly downstream from Canada’s tar sands in Alberta, are officially challenging tar sands expansion there on constitutional grounds – saying it violates their rights under Canada’s First Nations treaties.
• 2012/10/23: CSM: Canadians could free themselves from oil imports, but will they?
• 2012/10/18: BizInsider: These Pictures May Give You Nightmares About The Canada Oil Sands
• 2012/10/21: PostMedia: Study for Shell’s Jackpine oilsands mine predicts big losses in animal habitat
  Shell Canada outlines a substantial loss of habitat for birds, woodland caribou, bison and other animals in an environmental assessment of the proposed expansion of its Jackpine oilsands mine in northeastern Alberta. The document prepared by the company for an upcoming public hearing predicts that the impact of all development projects in the region, including but not restricted to the proposed Jackpine mine, would result in the loss of 40 to 60 per cent of the habitat for birds, 47 per cent of habitat critical to woodland caribou, 39 per cent of the habitat used by wood bison and significant swaths of forest important to fisher, lynx, wolverine, moose, beaver and black bear.
• 2012/10/22: BCLSB: Alberta Oil Not So Ethical
  Also in Alberta:
• 2012/10/24: PostMedia: New energy regulator to cut ‘months’ of red tape — Alberta ministers say environment will still be rigorously defended
  Alberta’s new energy regulator could save megaproject developers “more than months” of waiting, Energy Minister Ken Hughes said Wednesday. But environmental issues will be just as stringently addressed as ever, he said during a news conference at SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary after legislation establishing the Alberta Energy Regulator was introduced in the legislature. The new legislation is the culmination of a three-year process to improve the province’s regulatory regime and will combine the 75-year-old Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board with the regulatory functions of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development.
• 
  While in la Belle Province:

• 2012/10/23: CBC: Hydro-Québec could lose millions on nuclear parts — Utility bought key components for now-cancelled reactor refurbishment
  Hydro-Québec has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars on equipment for refurbishing the province’s sole nuclear power plant, components that will likely have to be sold at a steep loss following the government’s decision to cancel the project, CBC’s French-language service has learned.
• 
  As for miscellaneous Canadiana:

• 2012/10/26: ArcticNews: Open Letter to Canadian MPs from Paul Beckwith — Food is the new oil. Land is the new gold.
  The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:
• 2012/10/26: CSM: How to give cooperative businesses more clout in the world economy
• 2012/10/25: EnergyBulletin: Economic crisis shakes old paradigms by Walden Bello
• 2012/10/25: CCurrents: Proposing A Vision Of A New Earth
• 2012/10/25: CCurrents: Our Choice: A Shut Down, Either Temporary or Permanent
• 2012/10/10: ProjectCensored: The International Year of Cooperatives
  IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:
• 2012/10/27: al Jazeera: France slated to offer abortions for free
  Bill passed by parliament reimburses cost for all unwanted pregnancies and provides minors full contraceptive access.
• 2012/10/25: CCurrents: The Populations Problem
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): Imposing a fight for abortion on other countries can backfire
• 2012/10/23: al Jazeera: Abortion top issue for many US women voters
  Arizona is considered one of the frontlines in the fight for increased legal restrictions on abortions.
• 
  How do the media measure up?

• 2012/10/26: TWTB: Making an honest hack out of Fred Pearce in five easy steps
• 2012/10/26: UCSUSA:B: David Brooks and the Myth of the “Renewable Energy” $90 Billion
• 2012/10/24: P3: Rubbish Reporting
• 2012/10/24: MediaMatters: Timeline: Fox News’ Role In The “Climate Of Doubt”
• 2012/10/22: Tyee: Globe’s Oil Sands Advertorial Blurs Lines Public Editor Won’t Discuss — Eight pager formatted much like news, but Stead offers slim explanation
• 2012/10/25: WCT: From growth media to news media
• 2012/10/23: CJR: Debunking the ‘war on coal,’ take two — The AP gets it right the second time around
• 2012/10/25: FAIR: NPR Could Use Some ‘Energy Independence’ of Its Own
• 2012/10/23: TWTB: Fred Pearce continues to be rubbish
  Note the hype on this for a rise of 4%:
• 2012/10/26: ABC(Au): Rise of diesel fast and furious
  Official figures show the use of diesel-fuelled cars by households has jumped almost 50 per cent in the past three years. An Australian Bureau of Statistics study of motor vehicle usage has found 13 per cent of households are now driving diesel-powered vehicles, up from 9 per cent just three years earlier.
• Regarding the quality of blogospheric discussion:
• 2012/10/25: PSinclair: Tea Party Imposters Undermining Internet Discourse
• 2012/10/27: JFleck: bunk risk and the problem of debunking
• 2012/10/27: P3: Recognizing and Coping with Lies
  Here is something for your library:
• 2012/10/20: Economist: How to fix it — Climate change needs better regulation, not more political will
  [Book Review] _The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It_ by Dieter Helm
• 2012/10/23: EnergyBulletin: By the numbers: Data highlights from Full Planet, Empty Plates
  [Book Plug] _Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity_ by Lester R. Brown
• 
  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• 2012/10/25: RealClimate: PBS: Climate of Doubt
• 2012/10/24: TreeHugger: This is the Most In-Depth Investigation into Climate Politics That Will Ever Air on TV (Video)
• 2012/10/24: JKB: Climate of Doubt
• 2012/10/24: PSinclair: Renewables and the Bottom Line
• 2012/10/24: TreeHugger: Let’s Try to Make Sense of DC’s Deafening Climate Silence (Videos)
• 2012/10/23: PBS: Climate of Doubt
• 2012/10/22: DeSmogBlog: Comedian Kamau Bell Joins Romney, says F**K Science!
• 2012/10/22: PSinclair: Katharine Hayhoe on the New Normal
• 2012/10/22: PSinclair: While Scientists tell us the sky is blue, one man says not so fast. Film at 10.
  As for podcasts:
• 2012/10/27: CBC:Q&Q: Whales for the Killing – Electricity Likes it Hot
  Meanwhile among the ‘Sue the Bastards!’ contingent:
• 2012/10/26: EurActiv: Czech company wins landmark case against Gazprom
  RWE Transgas, the Czech unit of Germany’s RWE, has won a landmark legal dispute with Gazprom over gas contracts, after a court ruled for the first time that a company did not have to pay fines under a “take-or-pay” clause.
• 2012/10/22: EFF: EFF and ERI Fight to Quash Speech-Chilling Subpoenas from Chevron
  Oil Giant Demands Years of Private Email Account Information from Activists, Journalists, and Attorneys
  San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and EarthRights International (ERI) asked judges in California and New York today to quash subpoenas issued by Chevron Corporation to three email providers demanding identifying information about the users of more than 100 email accounts, including environmental activists, journalists, and attorneys. The information Chevron wants could be used to create a detailed map of the individuals’ locations and associations over nearly a decade. The subpoenas are the latest salvo in the long-running battle over damage caused by oil drilling in Ecuador. After years of litigation, an Ecuadorian court last year imposed a judgment of over $17 billion on Chevron for dumping toxic waste into Amazon waterways and causing massive harm to the rainforest. Instead of paying, Chevron sued more than 50 people who were involved in the Ecuador lawsuit, claiming they were part of a conspiracy to defraud the oil giant. None of the individuals represented by EFF and ERI has been sued by Chevron or accused of wrongdoing.
• 2012/10/23: ICN: Judge Postpones Hearing to Halt Enbridge Pipeline Project
  Enbridge has started to replace a Michigan pipeline that ruptured in 2010. Landowners and towns say the firm lacks permits and want construction stopped.
• 2012/10/21: PlanetSave: Kansas Teen Files Climate Change Lawsuit
  [...] On Thursday (Oct. 18), 14 year old Samantha Farb of Lecompton, Kansas, became the latest U.S. youngster to file suit (District Court of Shawnee County) against her State under what’s known as the Public Trust Doctrine. The doctrine rests upon a long-standing legal principle that requires all branches of government to protect and maintain certain shared resources fundamental for human health and survival.
• 2012/10/19: EENews: Endangered Species: Polar bear fight returns to court
  Nothing to do with what is just,
  Nothing to do with what would be good for the future of the country,
  Only what will further corporate financial interests and maybe avoid some bad publicity:
• 2012/10/25: TheHill:e2W: Oil industry eyes Capitol Hill push to scuttle SEC rule
  The oil industry’s top lobbying group might seek legislation to thwart new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandates that petroleum companies allege will create severe competitive harms. The new SEC rules will force publicly traded oil, gas and mining companies to disclose payments to foreign governments related to projects in their countries. American Petroleum Institute (API) CEO Jack Gerard told reporters Thursday that the group’s plan of attack includes work on Capitol Hill as well as litigation filed earlier this month.
• 2012/10/24: TheHill:e2W: Oxfam jumps into oil payments disclosure lawsuit
• 2012/10/10: TheHill:e2W: Oil, business groups sue SEC over disclosure rule
  Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: IER Attacks New Clean Energy Report, And Honestly Asks ‘In What Sense Is Drilling Unsustainable?’
• 2012/10/24: NBF: Nextbigfuture overview of emerging energy technology
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: Sweden to Import Garbage as Trash Supplies Run Dry
• 2012/10/25: NakedCapitalism: Ocean Power: The Ignored Alternative
• 2012/10/22: CER:RRapier: Hofmeister: An Energy Plan for America
• 2012/10/22: ERW: Supercritical geothermal plant cuts energy emissions
  What do you have in energy comparisons and transitions?
• 2012/10/25: TreeHugger: The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuels to Renewable Energy by Lester Brown
• 2012/10/23: Oregonian: Wind power surpasses hydro for the first time ever in Northwest region
  Hey! Let’s contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It’ll be a fracking gas!
• 2012/10/25: GreenGrok: Update: Well water contamination near fracking operations
• 2012/10/24: Syracuse: U.S. Sen. Gillibrand supports Gov. Cuomo on hydrofracking, wants more information before drilling
• 2012/10/24: PSinclair: New Ad Slams Fracking in New York
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: The Science is Clear: Hydraulic Fracturing is Putting the Lives of our Children at Risk
• 2012/10/19: LubbockOnline: Methane found in drinking water across U.S. brings concern to the Lubbock community
  Hydraulic fracturing contaminating the drinking water is a concern to the Lubbock community.
• 2012/10/22: OilChange: Survey Finds Fracking Impacts Health
• 2012/10/22: EneNews: Official: Fracking OK 500 feet from nuclear plants
  On the coal front:
• 2012/10/25: ABC(Au): Go ahead for one of world’s largest coal mines
• 2012/10/24: WaPo: Cost of mining coal continues to climb
  On the gas and oil front:
• 2012/10/26: BBerg: Closing oil prices Friday
  OIL (US$/bbl)
  Nymex Crude Future…86.28
  Dated Brent Spot….110.77
  WTI Cushing Spot…..86.28
• 2012/10/27: CSM: Major natural gas find by Saudis. A shift ahead?
• 2012/10/25: Guardian(UK): Oil companies going unpunished for thousands of North Sea spills
  Fines issued for only seven of 4,123 oil spills since 2000, with no company having to pay more than £20,000
• 2012/10/24: EurActiv: Gazprom set to bid for Greek energy firm
  Gazprom has expressed the strongest interest of all prospective bidders eyeing the privatisation of Greek gas firm Depa, two Greek energy sources said yesterday (23 October). The deal could undermine EU efforts to reduce Russian involvement in Europe’s energy markets.
• 2012/10/25: BBC: Nigeria: ‘Oil-gas sector mismanagement costs billions’
  A leaked report into Nigeria’s oil and gas industry has revealed the extent of mismanagement and corruption that is costing billions of dollars each year.
• 2012/10/24: OilDrum: Shale Oil: The Latest Insights
• 2012/10/24: OilChange: North America is the “New Middle East”
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: U.S. Poised To Be World’s Top Oil Producer, Part Of ‘The New Middle East’. The Bad News: We’ll Also Have Their Climate
• 2012/10/22: NBF: IEA Iraq Oil Outlook
• 2012/10/23: CSM: Canadians could free themselves from oil imports, but will they?
  In the gas and oil corps:
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: Chevron Donates $2.5 Million To GOP Super PAC In Single Largest Corporate Donation Post-Citizens United
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: ConocoPhillips By The Numbers: Earns $1.8 Billion Profit, Gets $600 Million In Annual Tax Breaks
  And in pipeline news:
• 2012/10/25: MLive: Kalamazoo County Commissioner sues Enbridge Energy for Kalamazoo River oil spill
• 2012/10/26: ICN: Kalamazoo County Commissioner Sues Enbridge for 2010 Oil Spill
• 2012/10/23: CBC: TransCanada reopens Keystone on limited capacity
• 2012/10/18: NWF: Sunken Hazard
  Aging oil pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac an ever-present threat to the Great Lakes
• 2012/10/22: ICN: Will Industry Provide Data for Federal Dilbit Study?
  Firms have a trove of internal data on oil spills that could inform the federal study on dilbit pipeline safety, but they aren’t obligated to turn it over.
• 
  Yes we have a peak oil sighting:

• 2012/10/27: CCurrents: Peak Oil vs. Global Warming
• 2012/10/26: Forbes: America’s (Un)Peak Oil
• 2012/10/25: CSM: An economic theory of limited oil supply
• 2012/10/25: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: the end game
  Progress. Now the USA can make their own Mechanical Mordor:
• 2012/10/26: DeSmogBlog: Tar Sands South: First US Tar Sands Mine Approved in Utah
• 2012/10/25: ICN: Utah Tar Sands Project Can Proceed Without Pollution Permit, Water Monitoring
  Decision by officials sets the stage for a possible court battle over the nation’s first tar sands mine in Utah’s fragile Book Cliffs region.
• 2012/10/25: OilChange: Oil’s new supply boom is a bust for the climate
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Utah OKs first US tar sands project
  Biofuel bickering abounds:
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Bioenergy review confirms carbon savings doubts
• 2012/10/24: NatureNB: Report questions the sustainability of algal biofuel
• 2012/10/24: ScienceInsider: Large-Scale Algae Biofuels Currently Unsustainable, New Report Concludes
• 2012/10/25: UCSUSA:B: Biomass Resources in the United States: More Biomass Than You Can Shake a Stick At
• 2012/10/25: NYT: BP Ends Plan for [Florida] Biofuel Plant
• 2012/10/23: Eureka: Highly efficient production of advanced biofuel by metabolically engineered microorganism
  Combining systems metabolic engineering and downstream process, production of butanol, an important industrial solvent and advanced biofuel, could be dramatically increased
• 2012/10/23: AutoBG: US ethanol production falls to lowest level in 27 months
  The answer my friend…:
• 2012/10/24: TheHill:e2W: Wind-power consumption rises as nation’s overall energy use drops
• 2012/10/23: ERW: Analysing wind-turbine performance
  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:
• 2012/10/24: BBerg: U.S. Solar Jobs Face Bright Future, Wind Posts Flutter
• 2012/10/24: SciAm:PI: U.S. Solar PV Tops 3.5 GW
• 2012/10/24: ACS:C&EN: Solar Woes Hit Chemical Firms — Renewables: Raw material suppliers pay price for solar industry’s overexpansion
• 2012/10/26: Eureka: Next-generation antireflection coatings could improve solar photovoltaic cell efficiency
• 2012/10/26: Eureka: Scientists demonstrate high-efficiency quantum dot solar cells
• 2012/10/22: SacBee: Germany’s Siemens to give up solar energy business
• 2012/10/22: ICN: Arizona’s Solar Future Decided Next Month
  The nuclear energy controversy continues:
• 2012/10/26: NBF: Nuclear Reactor Startups Expected for 2013 through 2017
• 2012/10/25: EurActiv: Bulgarians to vote for nuclear plant
• 2012/10/24: BBerg: EON Withdraws From Finnish Nuclear Project on Price Slide
• 2012/10/23: BNC: The Case for Near-term Commercial Demonstration of the Integral Fast Reactor
• 2012/10/23: Eureka: Self-powered sensors to monitor nuclear fuel rod status
• 2012/10/22: EneNews: First Ever: US nuclear plant permanently shutting down for economic reasons – More may be at risk of closing – Possible “Domino Effect” discussed (video)
• 2012/10/23: APR: SCE repairs hydrogen leak at San Onofre
• 2012/10/22: APR: SCE conducting testing at San Onofre
• 2012/10/22: EneNews: Official: Fracking OK 500 feet from nuclear plants
• 2012/10/22: APR: Dominion to shut, decommission Kewaunee [Power Station in Carlton, Wisconsin]
  Nuclear fusion projects around the world limp along:
• 2012/10/26: NatureN: Fusion project struggles to put the pieces together — Contracting woes may cause further delays for E15 billion ITER effort
• 2012/10/22: CSM: The promise (and shortcomings) of fusion energy
  Low energy nuclear keeps coming up:
• 2012/10/25: NBF: Popular Science has an overall negative feature of Andrea Rossi but Hopeful on LENR
• 2012/10/23: TreeHugger: GE’s Brillion Home Energy Systems Now Available At Sears
• 2012/10/21: NBF: Defkalion releases third party test results
  Like a mirage, the dream of a Hydrogen Economy shimmers on the horizon:
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: Stories We Missed: RIP Hydrogen Highway?
  More people are talking about the electrical grid:
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: FERC Order 1000: The Most Exciting Energy Regulation You’ve Never Heard Of
  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
• 2012/10/26: Eureka: Efforts to mitigate climate change must target energy efficiency
• 2012/10/24: LLNL: Americans use more efficient and renewable energy technologies
• 2012/10/23: EurActiv: Energy savings hampered worldwide by regulatory laissez-faire: Economist study
  Failure to enforce existing regulation is the main obstacle preventing the energy-efficiency services market from picking up across the globe – including in the European Union, India, China and the United States – says a recent study by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
• 
  Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:

• 2012/10/26: LA Times: Electric-car maker Tesla bucks traditional dealership network
  Tesla opens its own stores to sell its flagship Model S directly to consumers. Some auto dealers and regional associations have sued the automaker.
• 2012/10/25: UCSUSA:B: Congressional Budget Office and Media Miss the Point on Electric Vehicle Incentives
• 2012/10/25: TreeHugger: Tesla Being Sued By Car Dealers Association For Selling Cars Without A Middleman
• 2012/10/26: AutoBG: Mitsubishi [France's leader, Jean-Claude Debard] labels French [Minister of Industrial Recovery, Arnaud Montebourg] a “retard” for “ruining the lives of motorists”
• 2012/10/26: CSM: Taxi company aims to have first all-electric fleet in US
• 2012/10/25: EnergyBulletin: Electric velomobiles: as fast and comfortable as automobiles, but 80 times more efficient
• 2012/10/23: UCSUSA:B: Electrifying Trucks: Moving Stuff with Less Oil
• 2012/10/23: AutoBG: GM provides 2013 Chevy Volt with software updates after reports of shutdowns
  As for Energy Storage:
• 2012/10/24: NatureN: Pioneering battery maker files for bankruptcy — A123 Systems goes under after 11 years
• 2012/10/28: NBF: [California Lithium Battery, silicon graphene composite] Anode Material Triples Capacity While Lowering Battery Cost up to 70%
• 2012/10/23: AutoBG: Electric drive industry responds to A123′s bankruptcy, takeover by Johnson Controls
• 2012/10/23: NBF: Ambri Liquid Metal Battery Company
• 2012/10/24: CSM: Liquid metal battery: Can we invent our way out of climate trouble?
  Here is a problem calling out for large scale energy storage:
• 2012/10/25: BBerg: Windmills Overload East Europe’s Grid Risking Blackout: Energy
  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
• 2012/10/23: Guardian(UK): Ikea unveils plans to use 100% clean energy by 2020
• 2012/10/23: ICN: Ikea Shifting to Renewable Energy by 2020
• 2012/10/23: TreeHugger: IKEA Will Grow More Wood Than It Uses by 2020, Touts Clean Energy, Efficiency Commitments
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: Ben & Jerry’s Becomes a B Corporation, Despite Wholly-Owned Status
  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
• 2012/10/27: TheAge: Australia’s insurance losses to climb as globe warms: Munich Re
• 2012/10/25: PSinclair: Insurance Giant Study Warns “Extreme Events a Game Changer”
• 2012/10/22: ERabett: The Real Game Changer
• 2012/10/21: TP:JR: Seminal Study Finds ‘Climate-Change Footprint’ In North America, ‘Continent With The Largest Increases in Disasters’
• 2012/10/21: CCP: Munich Re: North America most affected by increases in weather-related natural catastrophes
  Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:
• 2012/10/26: TP:JR: October 26 News…
• 2012/10/25: TP:JR: October 25 News…
• 2012/10/24: TP:JR: October 24 News…
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: October 23 News…
• 2012/10/22: TP:JR: October 22 News…
  Other (weekly) lists:
• 2012/10/28: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #7 by John Hartz
• 2012/10/26: TreeHugger: Energy News…
• 2012/10/23: P3: A Burst of News
• 2012/10/26: EnergyBulletin: ODAC Newsletter
• 2012/10/27: ERabett: Some Reading
• 2012/10/23: BPA: Agriculture News
• 2012/10/22: TreeHugger: Energy News…
  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
• 2012/10/26: BBickmore: The Monckton Files: Now it’s Al Gore Going to JAIL!!!
• 2012/10/25: CCR: NASA climate chief demolishes denialist claims on sea levels
• 2012/10/26: CCP: NASA’s Hansen demolishes denialist claims on sea levels
• 2012/10/25: C&S: GWPF, Lies, Damn Lies
• 2012/10/25: TWTB: Tom Fuller and Malaria – A Case Study of Denialism and the Backfire Effect
• 2012/10/25: CSW: “Climate of Doubt” — Money Buys Skepticism
• 2012/10/25: UCSUSA:B: Here They Go Again: Oil Companies Trying to Stop Progress on Climate Policy
• 2012/10/25: DeSmogBlog: Fakery 2: More Funny Finances, Free Of Tax
• 2012/10/24: DeSmogBlog: Irony Alert: Tobacco Apologist Steve Milloy’s EPA Human Testing Scare Campaign
• 2012/10/25: P3: Becks’s Bestiary of Internet Climate Trolls
• 2012/10/25: AFTIC: Climate Trolls – An Illustrated Bestiary
• 2012/10/26: ERabett: Sometimes Auld Acquaintance Would Be Better Forgotten
• 2012/10/24: UCSUSA:B: No Doubt About It: Climate Denialists Have Undermined Public Understanding of the Science
• 2012/10/28: DeSmogBlog: Why Is North America Behind The Curve On Climate Change and Energy?
• 2012/10/23: ERabett: Letters, Eli Gets Letters, and Email and Twits
• 2012/10/23: PSinclair: Heartland Calls Wahhmbulance. Anticipates Frontline will Report Truth
• 2012/10/23: BBickmore: Debate Challenge to Viscount Monckton
• 2012/10/23: BBickmore: The Monckton Files: Love Letters
• 2012/10/22: P3: The Exaggerated Horde
• 2012/10/23: DM:BA: Flatly wrong global warming denial
• 2012/10/23: PSinclair: Do the Math, See the Logic: World’s Leading Climate Denier is Now World’s Leading Birther
• 2012/10/22: BBickmore: The Monckton Files: The Monckton Challenge
  The fake addendum:
• 2012/10/27: Wonkette: Cato Institute Helpfully Makes Its Fake Climate Report Look Like Actual Government Climate Report, Except Fake
• 2012/10/24: CSW: Brief: Cato Institute’s “Addendum: Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States”
• 2012/10/23: CSW: “Statement on the Cato Institute ADDENDUM Report” by co-authors of the 2009 assessment, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States”
• 2012/10/23: ERabett: More Letters, Emails and Twits [Fake Addendum]
• 2012/10/23: DeSmogBlog: Media Watch: Will Cato Dupe Journalists with Counterfeit Gov’t Copycat?
• 2012/10/23: TP:JR: Cato Institute Crafts Fake ‘Addendum’ To Federal Climate Report: ‘It’s Not An Addendum, It’s A Counterfeit’
• 2012/10/22: CSW: Cato Institute counterfeit U.S. climate change impacts assessment
• 2012/10/22: P3: Not the USGCRP
• 2012/10/22: DeSmogBlog: Koch Brothers Produce Counterfeit Climate Report to Deceive Congress
• 2012/10/22: SMandia: Is Patrick Michaels Trying to Pass Us a Counterfeit $20 Bill?
• 2012/10/22: TDC: Fake ‘addendum’ by libertarian group tries to undo federal climate report
  A soon-to-be-released Cato Institute report, posing as an ‘addendum’ to a 2009 federal summary of climate change impacts, discounts the science in the original.
• Meanwhile in the ‘clean coal’ saga:
• 2012/10/22: WSWS: Extensive coal ash contamination found in US water supply
  Recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that as many as 197 different sites across 37 states registered violations to federal drinking water statutes due to contamination from coal ash produced by power plants nearby. Coal ash impoundment sites, called wet ash ponds, in some cases contained contaminant levels so toxic that in an event of a pond’s overflowing, the result would be a loss of human life. Nearby lakes and rivers, which are used by energy companies as a water source for cooling towers, are likewise heavily polluted. The process of coal-burning in more than 430 different power plants across the US creates more than 140 million tons of ash per year-carrying toxins such as arsenic, lead and mercury which can settle in public areas and water supplies. More than half of the waste is simply stored in landfills, ponds and old mines, where leakage is common. Some 2,000 dump sites hold coal ash across the country.
• 
  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2012/10/27: Stoat: Lindzen doesn’t like me
• 2012/10/28: Guardian(UK): David Attenborough: force of nature
• 2012/10/23: AFTIC: Supply Side creationism
• 2012/10/22: ERabett: Belief
• 2012/10/21: P3: Bound for Glory: The Woody Guthrie Thinking Blogger Award
• 2012/10/21: ERabett: Happy Woody Guthrie to MT, Happy Woody Guthrie to MT
• 2012/10/22: SciNews: Spanish quake linked to groundwater pumping — Draining aquifers probably triggered deadly 2011 tremor
  And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
• We Are Power Shift Canada
• C2ES: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions [formerly Pew Center on Global Climate Change]
• Wiki: Fujiwhara effect
• Flaring and Venting Reduction & Natural Gas Utilisation Forum
• UNFCCC: Doha Climate Change Conference – 26 Nov. to 7 Dec. in Doha, Qatar
• Resilience [EnergyBulletin is moving]
• SCOR-INT: SCOR WG 131 on The Legacy of in situ Iron Enrichment: Data Compilation and Modeling
• As You Sow: Corporate Social Responsibility, Shareholder Advocacy and Toxics Reduction
• From a Glaciers Perspective
• Wiki: Howard T. Odum
• Wiki: Wave disk engine
• GreenPoC: Elizabeth May’s blog
• TierrAmerica
• Moms Clean Air Force
• Do the Math — Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, options – by Tom Murphy

Low Key Plug

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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