Another Week of GW News, November 11, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered]

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November 11, 2012

• Chuckles, COP18+, Post Sandy, Athena, PwC, Extremes, Ice Ages, World Bank, Cook
• Fukushima Note, Fukushima News, Nuclear Policy
• Melting Arctic, Methane, Geopolitics, Antarctica
• Food Crisis, Fisheries, Food Prices, Food vs. Biofuel, GMOs, GMO Labelling, Food Production
• Hurricanes, Monsoon, GHGs, Carbon Cycle, Temperatures, Aerosols
• Paleoclimate, Attribution, ENSO, Oceans, Biosphere, Extinctions, Satellites
• Forests, Climate Refugees, Disease, Wacky Weather
• Tornadoes, Wildfires, Corals, Acidification, Glaciers, Sea Levels, Floods & Droughts
• Transportation, Buildings, Geoengineering, Adaptation
• Journals, Other Docs, Misc. Science, Free Science
• International Politics: UN, IPCC, Carbon Trade, Carbon Tax, Hormuz, Rare Earths
• Solar Spat, Misc., Security, Activism, Polls, H2O Biz, Groundwater, Ethics
• National Politics: America, 2016, Election Results, Now What?
• Gas Prices, Keystone, Nate Silver, Birth Control, Coal Exports, USAdmin, Congress
• Britain, Europe, Australia, Carbon Law, Energy Policy, MDBP, India, China, Asia, South America
• Canada, India Trip, C-45, FIPPA, CNOOC/Nexen, Northern Gateway
• Morgan Kinder, West2East, Agriculture, BC, Tar Sands, Alberta, North
• Ecological Economics, Fixes, Media, Books, Video, Podcasts, Courts
• Energy, Fracking, Coal, Oil & Gas, Pipelines, Biofuel
• Wind, Solar, Nukes, Nuclear Waste, LENR, Hydrogen, Grid, Efficiency, Cars, Energy Storage
• Business, Insurance, Joe’s List, Carbon Lobby, Miscellaneous Climate, Useful Links
• Shameless Self Promotion, .sig

It’s always nice to start with a chuckle:

• 2012/11/09: uComics: (cartoon – Danziger) A Hurricane Followed By A Record Storm, Climate Change!
• 2012/11/07: uComics: (cartoon – Wiley) Mel Presents His Traditional Post-Election Wrap-Up
• 2012/11/07: S&R: (cartoon – Szep) Billion-dollar Barry
• 2012/11/10: TP:JR: (cartoon – someecard) Open Thread Plus Best Someecard Ever!
• 2012/11/07: ERabett: A Message From Civilization
• 2012/11/06: uComics: (cartoon – Danziger) Plan B
  And for those who enjoy challenging Poe’s Law:
• 2012/11/08: NewYorker: Republicans Consider Welcoming People Who Believe in Math and Science [Poe's Law]
  Opting for a bold “big tent” strategy to rebuild the party, Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, told reporters today, “We need to welcome people who believe in different things than we do, like math and science.” After disappointing results in Tuesday’s election, Mr. Priebus said that it was time for Republicans to become “more tolerant of those with a math-and-science lifestyle.” “Just because we don’t believe in those things doesn’t mean we can’t get along with people who do,” he said. “We want to send this message: math and science Americans are Americans, too.” In the biggest departure from its previous electoral strategy, Mr. Priebus said, the Republican Party is “even considering trying to appeal to women.”
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  Looking ahead to COP18 and future international climate negotiations:

• 2012/11/09: Guardian(UK): Kyoto protocol: Australia signs up to second phase
• 2012/11/10: ABC(Au): UN [General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon] praises Australia’s Kyoto pledge
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Australia to sign up to Kyoto phase two
• 2012/11/08: BBC: Australia to join second Kyoto Protocol phase
• 2012/11/09: UN: Ban welcomes Australia’s decision to join second phase of Kyoto Protocol
• 2012/11/08: ICN: Japan Takes Different Tack on Climate Change Efforts
• 2012/11/09: Reuters: Australia to sign up to new Kyoto climate commitment, NZ out
• 2012/11/07: BrisbaneTimes: Countries hone positions for Doha climate talks
  Post Sandy happenings:
• 2012/11/10: BBerg: 100,000 N.Y. Homes, Businesses Face Months Without Power
  About 100,000 homes and businesses in New York City and Long Island were so damaged by Hurricane Sandy that restoring power to some of them may take months, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said. About two-thirds are on Long Island’s south shore, with 36,000 clustered in Staten Island and the Rockaways where the most flooding occurred, Cuomo said yesterday at a news briefing.
• 2012/11/11: CCP: Occupy Sandy brings relief to Rockaways, Staten Island, Red Hook,
• 2012/11/09: CCurrents: Why A Natural Disaster Became A Social Disaster, And Why It Doesn’t Have To Be That Way
• 2012/11/08: CCurrents: Occupy Movement in Sandy affected NY
• 2012/11/09: UCSUSA:B: Hurricane Sandy: An Unfolding Human and Economic Crisis
• 2012/11/08: UCSUSA:B: Sandy’s Punch Proves Truth Will Out
• 2012/11/09: Wunderground: Sandy the 11th U.S. billion-dollar disaster of 2012
• 2012/11/09: ESA: Super storm tracked by ESA water mission
• 2012/11/09: EUO: EU gives emergency aid to hurricane-hit Caribbean
• 2012/11/09: Grist: Climate and Hurricane Sandy: What’s in a name?
• 2012/11/08: UN: UN-sponsored aid arrives in Cuba in wake of Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/11/07: EurActiv: Hedegaard: Hurricane Sandy ‘in line with’ climate predictions
  EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has put Hurricane Sandy in the same bracket as a series of extreme weather events predicted by climate scientists.
• 2012/11/06: Guardian(UK): Hurricane Sandy: beware of America’s disaster capitalists
  The aftermath of the storm offers a chance to rebuild a fairer society. How can we seize it?
• 2012/11/08: UCSUSA:B: Hurricane Sandy’s Toll on Public Health
• 2012/11/08: DeSmogBlog: In Hurricane Sandy’s Aftermath, Fracking Adds to Headaches
• 2012/11/07: CCP: Please help Rockaway — Rockaway needs us
• 2012/11/07: CalcRisk: Hurricane Sandy: Impact on “Near-Term Economic Activity”
• 2012/11/06: FAO: FAO, Haiti Government seek $74 million for Haiti’s farm sector — Colossal damage caused by Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/11/09: USGS: Photos Reveal Severity of Hurricane Sandy’s Coastal Impacts
• 2012/11/06: SciAm:GB: Hurricane Sandy Hints at the Perils of Global Catastrophe
• 2012/11/07: CSW: House Democrats call for hearing on Hurricane Sandy and climate change
• 2012/11/06: TreeHugger: How Rockaway Beach Surf Club Became a Hurricane Sandy Relief Center
• 2012/11/07: APOD: GOES-13 Sandy Superstorm – Superstorm Sandy From Formation to Landfall
• 2012/11/06: PSinclair: Did Climate Change Contribute to Sandy? Yes.
• 2012/11/05: Curbed: Surveying Sandy’s Damage to Staten Island One Week Later
• 2012/11/05: Berkeley:B: Global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy by George Lakoff
• 2012/11/06: BBC: Sandy: UN to send emergency food aid to storm-hit Cuba
  The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) is to deliver emergency aid to the south-east of Cuba, where Hurricane Sandy wrought widespread damage.
• 2012/11/06: CBC: Sandy’s volatile path revealed in [UDel] computer animation
• 2012/11/06: UN: Haiti: UN and authorities seek $74 million to help farm sector recover from Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: Yes, Climate Change Contributed To Superstorm Sandy
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: In The Wake Of Sandy, A 16-Year Old Climate Activist Speaks Her Mind
• 2012/11/06: WSWS: One week after Hurricane Sandy, human crisis and class tensions grow
• 2012/11/05: QuarkSoup: Cuyahoga River Moment?
• 2012/11/05: QuarkSoup: New Jersey, Before and After Images
• 2012/11/05: P3: Did Climate Change Contribute to Sandy?
• 2012/11/05: CSW: Corell, Masters, Trenberth: Climate change contributed to Hurricane Sandy
• 2012/11/02: Atlantic: Why Great Sign Language Interpreters Are So Animated
• 2012/11/05: BRitholtz: Google Crisis Map: Power, Gas, Damage from Sandy Damage
• 2012/11/04: NYT: Sandy Versus Katrina
• 2012/11/06: IOTD: Comparing the Winds of Sandy and Katrina
• 2012/11/05: SMandia: 71,000 New Yorkers: “Rise Does Matter!”
• 2012/11/05: CCP: A storm of stupidity? Sandy, evidence and climate change by Stephan Lewandowsky
• 2012/11/05: PSinclair: Welcome to New New Jersey
• 2012/11/05: ICN: Superstorm Sandy Delivers Wake-Up Call for Low-Lying Florida
• 2012/11/05: 350orBust: Hurricane Sandy “More Scary Than 9/11,Because You Get The Feeling It Could Happen Again & Again & Again”
• 2012/11/05: BBC: Storm Sandy: NY transport network under strain
• 2012/11/05: BBC: Sandy: Haiti appeals for international help after storm
• 2012/11/05: WSWS: Millions still without power as temperature nears freezing in Eastern US
• 2012/11/05: WSWS: New York’s Staten Island hit with death and destruction
• 2012/11/04: al Jazeera: Hurricane Sandy’s disenfranchised victims in New Jersey struggle to rebuild
  A devastated post-superstorm New Jersey is scrambling to recover, let alone prepare for Election Day.
• 2012/11/04: al Jazeera: Heeding Hurricane Cassandra
  It’s irrational, in light of Hurricane Sandy, not to take action when it comes to climate change.
• 2012/11/05: al Jazeera: New York City faces post-storm housing crisis
  Mayor estimates superstorm Sandy severely damaged up to 40,000 homes, just as winter weather sets in.
• 2012/11/05: MODIS: Hurricane Sandy (18L) over the Mid-Atlantic States
• 2012/11/04: TP:JR: Will Sandy Be Short For Cassandra, Another Warning We Ignore?
• 2012/11/04: TCoE: Sandy
• 2012/11/04: CBC: NYC bracing for more heavy weather — Falling temperatures put thousands without power at risk
• 2012/11/04: BBC: Storm Sandy: Cuomo and Bloomberg warn on NY housing
  Tens of thousands of people displaced by storm Sandy could soon need housing as cold weather closes in, New York’s political leaders have warned.
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  After Sandy came Athena:

• 2012/11/08: NakedCapitalism: Continuing Sandy Aftermath, New Nor’Easter Underscore Complex System Fragility
• 2012/11/08: BBC: New York Mayor Bloomberg imposes post-Sandy fuel ration
• 2012/11/09: CBC: Gas rationed in New York as power outages persist — Hundreds of thousands still with no electricity after nor’easter storm
• 2012/11/09: CSM: Gas rationing begins in New York City and Long Island as some power returns
• 2012/11/08: Reuters: Northeast digs out from snow, gas rationing spreads
  New York City and much of the Northeast on Thursday dug out from a snowstorm that hammered a region struggling to recover from the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, as local governments expanded gasoline rationing in the face of shortages that may last for weeks.
• 2012/11/09: Reuters: Insight: After Sandy, Big Oil’s pumps fail motorists
• 2012/11/08: Wunderground: Winter Storm Athena batters the Northeast; Brutus takes aim at Montana
• 2012/11/07: al Jazeera: New York braces for new storm
  Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and evacuation orders have been implemented in some areas ahead of new storm.
• 2012/11/08: CSM: Nor’easter darkens Sandy-struck New York, New Jersey. But sunshine is next.
• 2012/11/08: CSM: Wet snow and power outages hit recovering East Coast
• 2012/11/08: CBC: Sandy-torn U.S. northeast deals with new storm
• 2012/11/08: WSWS: New storm hits US Northeast as misery from Sandy deepens
• 2012/11/07: CBC: New storm hits Sandy-battered New York, New Jersey
• 2012/11/07: BBC: New storm hits New York and New Jersey after Sandy
• 2012/11/07: Wunderground: First Hurricane Sandy, now Winter Storm Athena for the Eastern U.S.
• 2012/11/07: al Jazeera: Another storm heads for the Eastern Seaboard
  Residents of US Atlantic states brace for another bout of bad weather as they try to cope with the aftermath of Sandy.
• 2012/11/06: Wunderground: Wednesday’s Nor’easter to have lower impact than originally feared
• 2012/11/05: Grist: Oh, cool, another big storm headed for the East Coast
• 2012/11/05: Wunderground: Nor’easter coming Wednesday and Thursday
  Price Waterhouse Cooper released their “Low Carbon Economy Index 2012″ report this week:
• 2012/11/05: PWC: [link to pdf] PwC Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 — Too late for two degrees?
• 2012/11/08: TMoS: Running the Numbers on Climate Change
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Keeping Warming Below 4°C Rise Requires 400% Increase in Decarbonization
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: Study: We’re Headed To 11°F Warming And Even 7°F Requires ‘Nearly Quadrupling The Current Rate Of Decarbonisation’
• 2012/11/05: Guardian(UK): World on track for 6C warming without carbon cuts, [PwC] study shows
• 2012/11/05: EurActiv: PwC report argues for unprecedented CO2 cuts by 2050
  The world will have to cut the rate of carbon emissions by an unprecedented rate to 2050 to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius this century, a report released by PwC on Monday (5 November) showed.
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  An unsettling report:

• 2012/11/08: UCAR: Future warming likely to be on high side of climate projections, analysis finds
• 2012/11/09: TP:JR: Science Stunner: Observations Support Predictions Of Extreme Warming And Worse Droughts This Century
• 2012/11/08: WaPo: Warmer still: Extreme climate predictions appear most accurate, report says
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): Climate change ‘likely to be more severe than some models predict’
  Scientists analysing climate models warn we should expect high temperature rises – meaning more extreme weather, sooner
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  Here is another high Wnatt scale rating paper:

• 2012/11/09: Stoat: Carbon Dioxide: Our Salvation from a Future Ice Age?
• 2012/11/08: BBerg: Human Carbon Emissions Seen by Researchers Holding Back Ice Age
• 2012/11/08: Eureka: Carbon dioxide — our salvation from a future ice age?
  What’s the World Bank up to?
• 2012/11/06: BWeek: World Bank’s Kim Raises Sandy as G-20 Ignores Climate
  John Cook and friends continue their point-counterpoint articles:
• 2012/11/11: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #9 by John Hartz
• 2012/11/11: SkS: The Climate Show #30: Obama, Sandy and the rabbit by Gareth
• 2012/11/10: SkS: 2012 SkS News Bulletin #3: Hurricane Sandy & Climate Change by John Hartz
• 2012/11/09: SkS: Hurricane Sandy’s Double Whammy by greenman3610
• 2012/11/08: SkS: Fred Singer – not an American Thinker by John Abraham, dana1981
• 2012/11/07: SkS: WSJ, Sandy, and Global Warming – Asking the Right Questions by dana1981
• 2012/11/07: SkS: New research from last week 44/2012 by Ari Jokimäki
• 2012/11/06: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly Digest #44 by John Hartz
• 2012/11/06: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #8 by John Hartz
  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:

• 2012/11/09: CCurrents: Fukushima Disaster: Costs Could Run Upto $ 124 Billion
• 2012/11/08: SimplyInfo: White Paper: Fukushima Health Survey Occupies Medical & Legal Conundrum
• 2012/11/08: EneNews: “Astonishing”: Thyroid abnormalities found in Fukushima kids declared ‘ok’ by gov’t – Officials ordered doctors to stop examining patients
• 2012/11/08: EneNews: CNN: Debris from near Fukushima nuclear plant is being ground up, then burned in other parts of Japan (video)
• 2012/11/07: EneNews: Kyodo: Fukushima radiation ‘underreported’ – Metal boxes in monitors are blocking radioactivity – Hundreds of locations in multiple prefectures affected
• 2012/11/11: EneNews: Mother: I want the world to know Fukushima is in a state of dying – I reaffirmed severe radioactive contamination – I alone can’t do anything, I tried (video)
• 2012/11/06: EneNews: Filmmaker: Hope is hard to come by in Fukushima – To this day women having abortions for fear of genetic damage, families breaking up
• 2012/11/07: BBC: TEPCO seeks more aid as Fukushima clean-up costs rise
• 2012/11/05: EneNews: NHK: Concerns rising at Fukushima plant — 16,000 workers have quit, ‘severe working conditions’ blamed (video)
  Post Fukushima, nuclear policies are in flux around the world:
• 2012/11/03: JapanTimes: U.S. needs Japan to remain nuclear, expert says
• 2012/11/09: EneNews: Henry Kissinger-linked think tank pressuring Japanese to keep nuclear power (video)
• 2012/11/11: EneNews: Germany producing too much power after turning off nuclear reactors? Experts warn gas-driven plants are shutting down – Wind, solar, hydro prices are too low
• 2012/11/05: UN: Nuclear power safer now with new measures following Fukushima Daiichi accident, UN official
  The Arctic melt continues to garner attention:
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Arctic Spring Snowmelt Increasing Profoundly in Recent Years
• 2012/11/05: CBC: Spring Arctic snow pack melting fast, study warns
  Environment Canada researcher says climate change happening quicker than expected
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  That Damoclean sword still hangs overhead:

• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: Researchers Quantify Greenhouse Gases From Melting Arctic Permafrost: ‘Potential To Alter The Planet Is Very Real’
  As for the geopolitics of Arctic resources:
• 2012/11/09: TP:JR: Shell’s Attempt To Get Drilling Equipment Out Of Arctic Before Winter Underscores Challenges In The Region
• 2012/10/29: FP: Open Seas — The Arctic is the Mediterranean of the 21st century.
  If climate scientists’ prophesies of an ice-free Arctic Ocean pan out, the world will witness the most sweeping transformation of geopolitics since the Panama Canal opened. Seafaring nations and industries will react assertively — as they did when merchantmen and ships of war sailing from Atlantic seaports no longer had to circumnavigate South America to reach the Pacific Ocean. There are commercial, constabulary, and military components to this enterprise. The United States must position itself at the forefront of polar sea power along all three axes.
• 2012/11/05: Reuters: Great expectations fill Greenland as China eyes riches
  While in Antarctica:
• 2012/11/10: IOTD: A Block of Thwaites [Antarctica]
• 2012/11/06: TreeHugger: Huge Antarctic Ocean Protection Deal Fails, For Now
  The food crisis is ongoing:
• 2012/11/09: CCurrents: Climate Change: Food Crisis And Future Hunger Wars
• 2012/11/09: CBC: Coffee beans in danger of extinction — Climate change could kill off prized Arabica plants by 2080
• 2012/11/08: SimpleC: Monsoon instability raises food questions for India
• 2012/11/08: Reuters: Climate change could hit crops far worse than thought
  The impact of climate change on key food crops in Africa and South Asia may be much worse than previously estimated — with reductions of up to 40 percent by the 2080s — according to a study, which synthesised results from related studies published over the last 20 years.
• 2012/11/08: BBC: Climate change threat to Arabica coffee crops
  Climate change could severely reduce the areas suitable for wild Arabica coffee before the end of the century.
• 2012/11/08: BWeek: Canada’s Corn Belt Attracts the Hot Money
• 2012/11/08: NBF: Climate Change more than doubles Canada Farmland prices
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): Climate change threatens coffee crops
• 2012/11/10: Guardian(UK): Cocoa – and your chocolate fix – is under threat
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Full Planet, Empty Plates: Quick Facts
• 2012/10/30: FBC: Food Banks Canada reports record number of Canadians using food banks; 38% are children
  The state of the world’s fisheries is a concern:
• 2012/11/09: TreeHugger: Sustainable Fishing Net Slashes Overfishing, Reduces Fuel Consumption Too
• 2012/11/07: Guardian(UK): Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate change
• 2012/11/06: TreeHugger: Mozambique Approves Africa’s Largest Coastal Marine Sanctuary
• 2012/11/05: SciDevNet: Caribbean sardine collapse linked to climate change
  [Climate change impacts are depleting plankton -- a vital nutrition source for sardines] The collapse of sardine fisheries in the southern Caribbean Sea during the past decade may have been driven by global climate change, according to a study.
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  Food Prices are still problematic:

• FAO: World Food Situation – Food Price Indices
• 2012/11/08: FAO: FAO Food Price Index falls slightly in October — World food import bill may fall in 2012; rice production set for new record
• 2012/11/08: UN: UN reports slight drop in food prices, stresses need for policies to prevent crisis
  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:
• 2012/11/05: BPA: Mandated Corn Ethanol’s Ripple Effect on Global Commodity Prices and Food Security
  Regarding the genetic modification of food:
• 2012/11/09: TreeHugger: Washington [San Juan] County Bans GMO Cultivation
• 2012/11/08: CCurrents: Scientific Enough
  Regarding labelling GM (& other) food:
• 2012/11/08: Grist: What we can learn from California’s attempt to label GMOs
• 2012/11/08: TreeHugger: Prop 37 Defeated: Next Steps For GMO Labeling
• 2012/11/09: al Jazeera: California’s Prop 37 and the story of knowledge
  Biotech companies like Monsanto and Syngenta hold patents on the GE seeds and also “control who conducts research”.
• 2012/11/07: GEP: New Labeling Initiative Seeks to Promote Biochar-Grown Food
• 2012/11/07: ScienceInsider: California GM Food Labeling Initiative Defeated
• 2012/11/07: SciAm:SS: Prop 37 Loses, Scientists Cheer
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Lies, Dirty Tricks, and $45 Million Kill GMO Labeling in California
• 2012/11/06: CSM: Prop 37: Safer food or invitation for lawsuits?
  And how are we going to feed 9 billion, 10 billion, 15 billion?
• 2012/11/08: TUM: Sustainable land-use concept for South America
  Intensive farming with a climate-friendly touch: Farming/woodland mix increases yields
• 2012/11/08: NBF: 4 Story tall Vertical Farm that is up to ten times more productive than regular farms
• 2012/11/05: FAO: Women are main guardians of crucial livestock diversity — New study argues that to succeed, breed conservation efforts must empower women
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): Workshop considers climate change adaptable crops
  Agricultural experts from across the Asia-Pacific region are meeting in Western Australia this week in an effort to develop new varieties of crop that are adaptable to climate change. Representatives from 12 Asian nations are taking part in the workshop hosted by the Department of Agriculture and Food.
• 2012/11/10: RWER: Food World
• 2012/11/06: Eureka: The Phosphorus Index: Changes afoot
• 2012/11/04: RBroberg: Federal Crop Insurance Indemnity and Extreme Weather
  Things are quieting down in the hurricane wars, except the Yanks have Sandy recovery.
  And in the Western Pacific:
• 2012/11/08: MODIS: Tropical Cyclone Nilam (02B) over India [on Oct 31]
  As for the Monsoon:
• 2012/11/08: SimpleC: Monsoon instability raises food questions for India
• 2012/11/06: ERW: Indian monsoon could fail more often as climate changes
• 2012/11/06: TreeHugger: Indian Monsoon May Fail More Frequently, More Severely as Climate Changes
• 2012/11/07: CCurrents: Global Warming To Bring Severe Failure Of Indian Monsoon
  Meanwhile on the GHG front:
• 2012/11/07: EarlyWarning: Cement Production: China and Elsewhere
• 2012/11/09: Eureka: Climate-related emissions from feedyards monitored in AgriLife Research study
  And in the carbon cycle:
• 2012/11/06: MPG: Strange diet for methane consuming microorganisms — Methane supplies the energy for cell metabolism, but is not the carbon source
  And the temperature record:
• 2012/11/10: Moyhu: October GISS Temp up 0.08°C
• 2012/11/10: Moyhu: October TempLS Global Temp down 0.02°C
• 2012/11/10: Wunderground: Despite a cool October, U.S. on track for its warmest year on record
• 2012/11/09: QuarkSoup: Temperature News — GISS reports the second-warmest October since 1879
  Aerosols are making their presence felt:
• 2012/11/10: MODIS: Dust Storm in Western China
• 2012/11/11: al Jazeera: Smog chokes New Delhi
  India’s capital has been hit by reduced visibility and poor air quality. But what is the cause?
• 
  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2012/11/09: SciNews: An ancient civilization’s wet ascent, dry demise — Newly documented climate shifts helped shape Classic Maya destiny
• 2012/11/08: TreeHugger: Climate Change Link to Mayan Civilization’s Collapse Discovered
• 2012/11/08: NatureN: Drought hastened Maya decline — A prolonged dry period contributed to civilization’s collapse
• 2012/11/08: Eureka: The collapse of Classic Maya civilization linked to drought
• 2012/11/08: Eureka: Extreme weather preceded collapse of Maya civilization
• 2012/11/06: GSA: What Paleotempestology Tells Scientists about Today’s Tempests
• 2012/11/06: SciNews: New pathway proposed for ancient flood Meltwaters off northwestern Canada’s ice sheet would have shut down the ocean’s heat circulation 13,000 years ago [ie via Mackenzie Valley, not Gulf od St. Lawrence or Hudson's Bay]
• 2012/11/05: Eureka: Massive volcanic eruption puts past climate and people in perspective
  In the attribution debate:
• 2012/11/05: KSJT: Bloomberg Businessweek: It’s global warming, stupid
• 2012/11/04: QuarkSoup: Why Overblaming is a Bad Idea
  And on the ENSO front:
• 2012/11/09: ITracker: Could we see a triple-dip La Nina?
• 2012/11/10: W&C: Did El Nino Die?
• 2012/11/08: NOAA:NCEP: El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diagnostic Discussion
  Synopsis: ENSO-neutral is favored through the Northern Hemisphere winter 2012-13.
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  Regarding Climate Sensitivity:

• 2012/11/07: TMasters: Changes in feedback strength with time: a look at the 1pct 2xCO2 GFDL CM2.1 experiment
  And the State of the Oceans:
• 2012/11/06: NatureN: Chinese survey reveals widespread coastal pollution — Massive declines in coral reefs, mangrove swamps and wetlands
• 2012/11/01: NSF: Stirred Not Mixed: How Seawater Turbulence Affects Marine Food Webs — Movement of seawater affects how marine bacteria absorb organic material
  What’s new in Biodiversity?
• 2012/11/07: BBC: Fens are rare wildlife ‘hotspot’, a new report finds
  The Fens are home to 25% of Britain’s rarest wildlife and 13 globally rare species, according to a new report. Researchers from the University of East Anglia studied over one million records collected by scientists and amateur enthusiasts that date back to 1670. The Fens Biodiversity Audit details evidence of 13,474 species of plants, insects, birds, fish and mammals.
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  What’s new on the extinction front?

• 2012/11/08: SciAm:EC: Last 500 Ethiopian Wolves Endangered by Lack of Genetic Diversity
• 2012/11/05: SciAm:EC: Amazing: Rarest Whale Seen for First Time in History, but Not at Sea
  Meanwhile in near earth orbit:
• 2012/11/06: WSWS: The future study of hurricanes at risk
  Following the end of the current generation of the weather and environment satellites, there will likely be a gap lasting 10 to 53 months of adequate satellite weather coverage, according to reports from the Government Accountability Board and the Commerce Department’s inspector general issued in recent months.
• 2012/11/06: WMO: Meteorological Satellites Make Growing Contribution to Socio-Economic Development
• 2012/11/04: CSW: The continuing threat to continuity of space-based global climate data
  In GW impacts, there are the world’s forests:
• 2012/11/09: NatureN: UK unveils plan to fight deadly ash disease — But most of the country’s 90 million ash trees likely to be wiped out
• 2012/11/09: Eureka: Texas A&M forest expert: Forest fertilization can increase production, decrease carbon emissions
• 2012/11/09: Eureka: Texas A&M scientist taking infrared laser look at forests — Monitoring forest health important to economic, environmental viability
• 2012/11/05: NSF: Drought in 2001-2002 Fueled Rocky Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak — Reduced precipitation in the southern Rockies turned outbreak into epidemic
• 2012/11/05: Eureka: 2001-2002 drought helped propel mountain pine beetle epidemic, says CU study
• 2012/11/05: UN: Cost of deforestation in Kenya far exceeds gains from forestry and logging, UN joint study finds
• 2012/11/04: JFleck: Beetle kill, watersheds and water quality
  Climate refugees are becoming an issue:
• 2012/11/07: DeSmogBlog: Climate Refugees in America
  Emerging diseases accompany ecological change:
• 2012/11/07: ProMedMail: West Nile virus – USA (20): (ME, MS)
  Yes we have no wacky weather, except…Freak Weather just isn’t very Freaky any more:
• 2012/11/06: CSW: “Wacky Weather” here to stay
  On the tornado front:
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Tornado warning for southern Tas
  As for heatwaves and wild fires:
• 2012/11/11: ABC(Au): Bushfire threatens homes near Port Lincoln [SA]
• 2012/11/11: ABC(Au): Two bushfires threaten Tasmanian town
• 2012/11/11: ABC(Au): Homes destroyed by out-of-control SA bushfire
• 2012/11/11: IOTD: Two Views of Australian Wildfires
• 2012/11/07: IOTD: Fires and Smoke in Northwestern India
  Corals are a bellwether of the ocean’s health:
• 2012/11/08: NatureN: Corals under attack summon friendly fish — Chemical alarm enlists gobies to trim toxic seaweed
• 2012/11/08: SciNews: Seaweed-threatened corals send chemical SOS to fish — Cry for help summons allies to graze away the overgrowth
• 2012/11/08: SciAm:SS: Coral Recruits Goby Bodyguards Against Seaweed Assassins
• 2012/11/08: Eureka: Corals attacked by toxic seaweed use chemical 911 signals to summon help
• 2012/11/07: CoralCOE: Historic coral collapse on Great Barrier Reef
  Acidification is changing the oceans:
• 2012/11/05: GSA: Earth on Acid: The Present & Future of Global Acidification — GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4-7 November 2012
  Glaciers are melting:
• 2012/11/08: IOTD: Kilimanjaro’s Shrinking Ice Fields
• 2012/11/07: NatureN: Melting in the Andes: Goodbye glaciers
  Researchers are racing to determine how shrinking glaciers in the Andes will affect the water supply of millions of people.
• 
  Sea levels are rising:

• 2012/11/09: Tamino: Sea Level and la Niña
• 2012/11/08: SciNews: Sea level rise overflowing estimates — Feedback mechanisms are speeding up ice melt
• 2012/11/08: Maribo: Storm surges, sea level and climate change
  As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:
• 2012/11/09: UN: UN appeals for funds to help Nigeria cope with impact of widespread flooding
• 2012/11/08: Reuters: U.S. drought deepens in Plains states, wheat crop suffers
  Drought expands in High Plains – Texas records 9th driest October – Above-normal temperatures seen in Oklahoma
• 2012/11/06: JFleck: Stuff I wrote elsewhere: Engineering nature at the Bosque del Apache
• 2012/11/04: BBC: Flood warnings after snowfall in west of England
• 2012/11/04: TP:JR: Hell And High Water: Sandy Swamps Eastern U.S. But Drought Persists Almost Everywhere Else
  Consider transportation & GHG production:
• 2012/11/07: Grist: Americans are apparently not as infatuated with cars as we thought
  [...] This year has seen more transit-related ballot initiatives than any year in at least a decade…
• 2012/11/04: RI: Burning Picassos for heat: Why we need to electrify transportation
• 2012/11/07: CSM: ‘Burning Picassos for heat’: the case for electrified transport
  While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:
• 2012/11/08: ERW: Insight: renovating homes could cut emissions more than building new
• 2012/11/07: Eureka: NJIT professor promotes building material of millennium: Autoclave aerated concrete
  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:
• 2012/11/08: RedOrbit: Pavements Created To Fight Climate Change May Increase Energy Consumption For Surrounding Buildings
• 2012/11/09: ERW: White roofs cool clear skies
  White roofs in north-east India found to reflect sunlight, potentially minimizing global warming.
• 2012/11/06: GEP: New South Wales Adopts Cloud-Seeding Program
• 2012/11/05: GEP: LC/LP Joins in Condemnation of Haida Experiment
• 2012/11/05: GreenPeace: Geoengineering the Ocean off Haida Gwaii: A False Solution to Real Problems
• 2012/11/06: ClimateEngineering: [press review] Localised SRM study (1st update, 6.11.)
• 2012/10/30: SSRN: The Who, What, and Wherefore of Geoengineering Governance by Daniel Bodansky
• 2012/11/05: WaPo: Geoengineering is the answer to climate change. Unless it isn’t.
• 2012/11/04: Guardian(UK): The man who would stop hurricanes with car tyres
  British scientist Stephen Salter and Bill Gates patent scheme to prevent huge storms
• 2012/11/04: Rifters: Geoengineering and the Evils of Conservation
• 2012/11/04: P3: An Argument In Defense of Russ George’s Geoengineering Experiment
  While on the adaptation front:
• 2012/11/09: SciAm:GB: Staten Island’s ‘Bluebelt’ doesn’t fight super-storms, but plays crucial role in managing excess rainfall
• 2012/11/10: QuarkSoup: India Now Spending More on Adaptation Than Health Care
• 2012/11/10: QuarkSoup: More on India’s Adaptation Costs
• 2012/11/06: NatureN: Hurricane sweeps US into climate-adaptation debate
  Manhattan flooding bolsters argument for a massive engineering project to protect New York.
• 
  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (ab$) Mechanism of oxygen detoxification by the surprisingly oxygen-tolerant hyperthermophilic archaeon, Pyrococcus furiosus by Michael P. Thorgersen et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (ab$) Linking water quality and well-being for improved assessment and valuation of ecosystem services by Bonnie L. Keeler et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (abs) Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990-2009 by John O’Loughlin et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (ab$) Ocean acidification slows nitrogen fixation and growth in the dominant diazotroph Trichodesmium under low-iron conditions by Dalin Shi et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (ab$) Elucidating secondary organic aerosol from diesel and gasoline vehicles through detailed characterization of organic carbon emissions by Drew R. Gentner et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (ab$) Sulfur record of rising and falling marine oxygen and sulfate levels during the Lomagundi event by Noah J. Planavsky et al.
• 2012/11/06: PNAS: (letter$) Maya collapse cycles by Marilyn A. Masson
• 2012/11/08: ACP: Amino acids in Arctic aerosols by E. Scalabrin et al.
• 2012/11/08: ACP: A multi-model study of impacts of climate change on surface ozone in Europe by J. Langner et al.
• 2012/11/07: ACP: Wintertime Arctic Ocean sea water properties and primary marine aerosol concentrations by J. Zábori et al.
• 2012/11/07: ACP: Particulate sulfate ion concentration and SO2 emission trends in the United States from the early 1990s through 2010 by J. L. Hand et al.
• 2012/11/06: ACP: Aerosol radiative forcing during African desert dust events (2005-2010) over Southeastern Spain by A. Valenzuela et al.
• 2012/11/06: ACP: Relationships between Brewer-Dobson circulation, double tropopauses, ozone and stratospheric water vapour by J. M. Castanheira et al.
• 2012/11/05: ACP: In-situ measurements of atmospheric hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs) at the Shangdianzi regional background station, China by B. Yao et al.
• 2012/11/08: ACPD: Ambient black carbon particle hygroscopic properties controlled by mixing state and composition by D. Liu et al.
• 2012/11/07: ACPD: Black carbon vertical profiles strongly affect its radiative forcing uncertainty by B. H. Samset et al.
• 2012/11/05: ACPD: Quantifying the uncertainty in simulating global tropospheric composition due to the variability in global emission estimates of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds by J. E. Williams et al.
• 2012/11/05: ACPD: Stratospheric loss and atmospheric lifetimes of CFC-11 and CFC-12 derived from satellite observations by K. Minschwaner et al.
• 2012/11/07: PLoS One: The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee (Coffea arabica): Predicting Future Trends and Identifying Priorities by Aaron P. Davis et al.
• 2012/11/05: CP: Modelling snow accumulation on Greenland in Eemian, glacial inception, and modern climates in a GCM by H. J. Punge et al.
• 2012/11/05: CP: Simulated oxygen isotopes in cave drip water and speleothem calcite in European caves by A. Wackerbarth et al.
• 2012/11/08: CPD: What controls the spatio-temporal distribution of D-excess and 17O-excess in precipitation? A general circulation model study by C. Risi et al.
• 2012/11/08: CPD: On the origin of multi-decadal to centennial Greenland temperature anomalies over the past 800 yr by T. Kobashi et al.
• 2012/11/07: CPD: Greenland ice core evidence of the 79 AD Vesuvius eruption by C. Barbante et al.
• 2012/11/05: CPD: Direct linking of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores at the Toba eruption (74 kyr BP) by A. Svensson et al.
• 2012/11/05: CPD: Tropical vegetation response to Heinrich Event 1 as simulated with the UVic ESCM and CCSM3 by D. Handiani et al.
• 2012/11/05: CPD: Amplified bioproductivity during Transition IV (332 000-342 000 yr ago): evidence from the geochemical record of Lake El’gygytgyn by L. Cunningham et al.
• 2012/11/08: Science: (ab$) Robust Photogeneration of H2 in Water Using Semiconductor Nanocrystals and a Nickel Catalyst by Zhiji Han et al.
• 2012/11/07: Nature: (ab$) Greenland ice-sheet contribution to sea-level rise buffered by meltwater storage in firn by J. Harper et al.
• 2012/11/09: Science: (ab$) A Less Cloudy Future: The Role of Subtropical Subsidence in Climate Sensitivity by John T. Fasullo & Kevin E. Trenberth
• 2012/11/10: Springer:CD: (ab$) On the effect of decreasing CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by Isabella Bordi et al.
• 2012/11/09: ACP: Influence of particle size and shape on the backscattering linear depolarisation ratio of small ice crystals – cloud chamber measurements in the context of contrail and cirrus microphysics by M. Schnaiter et al.
• 2012/11/09: ACPD: Impact of aging mechanism on model simulated carbonaceous aerosols by Y. Huang et al.
• 2012/11/09: GMD: Inclusion of vegetation in the Town Energy Balance model for modelling urban green areas by A. Lemonsu et al.
• 2012/11/07: GMDD: ECOCLIMAP-II/Europe: a twofold database of ecosystems and surface parameters at 1-km resolution based on satellite information for use in land surface, meteorological and climate models by S. Faroux et al.
• 2012/11/08: OS: Arctic surface temperatures from Metop AVHRR compared to in situ ocean and land data by G. Dybkjær et al.
• 2012/11/07: OS: Microstructure observations during the spring 2011 STRATIPHYT-II cruise in the northeast Atlantic by E. Jurado et al.
• 2012/11/09: OSD: Mapping flow distortion on oceanographic platforms using computational fluid dynamics by N. O’Sullivan & B. Ward
• 2012/11/07: OSD: A clustering analysis of eddies’ spatial distribution in the South China Sea by J. Yi et al.
• 2012/11/09: TC: Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance: evaluating simulations and making projections with regional climate models by J. G. L. Rae et al.
• 2012/11/07: TC: An ice flow modeling perspective on bedrock adjustment patterns of the Greenland ice sheet by M. Olaizola et al.
• 2012/11/07: TC: Surge dynamics on Bering Glacier, Alaska, in 2008-2011 by E. W. Burgess et al.
• 2012/11/09: TCD: A general treatment of snow microstructure exemplified by an improved relation for the thermal conductivity by H. Löwe et al.
• 2012/11/07: TCD: A regional climate model hindcast for Siberia – assessing the added value of snow water equivalent using ESA GlobSnow and reanalyses by K. Klehmet et al.
• 2012/11/08: WOL:CC: (ab$) Ethics and geoengineering: reviewing the moral issues raised by solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal by Christopher J. Preston
• 2012/11/06: GMD: Modeling wet deposition and concentration of inorganics over Northeast Asia with MRI-PM/c by M. Kajino et al.
• 2012/11/06: GMD: Development of high resolution land surface parameters for the Community Land Model by Y. Ke et al.
• 2012/11/06: GMDD: A new dataset for systematic assessments of climate change impacts as a function of global warming by J. Heinke et al.
• 2012/11/06: OSD: A modelling study of the hydrographic structure of the Ross Sea by M. Tonelli et al.
• 2012/11/05: TC: Melting of Northern Greenland during the last interglaciation by A. Born & K. H. Nisancioglu
• 2012/11/06: TCD: Modelling and mapping climate change impacts on permafrost at high spatial resolution for a region with complex terrain by Y. Zhang et al.
• 2012/11/06: AGWObserver: Papers on wind turbine noise
• 2012/10/30: SSRN: The Who, What, and Wherefore of Geoengineering Governance by Daniel Bodansky
• 2012/11/05: AGWObserver: New research from last week 44/2012
  And other significant documents:
• 2012/11/05: PWC: [link to pdf] PwC Low Carbon Economy Index 2012 — Too late for two degrees?
  As for miscellaneous science:
• 2012/11/09: NatureN: European research projects plagued by financial errors — Auditors lay blame on complexity of payment systems
• 2012/11/06: JCBaez: Mathematics and the Environment (Part 5)
• 2012/10/22: RetractionWatch: Researchers: Stop the spin and boasting in articles, say other researchers
• 2012/11/05: SVPoW: Science is formalised humility
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): Study explains slow down in global warming
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Solar and Wave-Powered Wave Glider Survives Hurricane Sandy, Transmits Dramatic Weather Data
  What developments in the ongoing struggle for Open Science?
• 2012/11/08: NatureNB: UK research funders announce grants for open-access publishing
• 2012/11/07: Eureka: Study reveals declining influence of high impact factor journals
  Analysis of 25 million articles published between 1902 and 2009 reveals negative trend
• 2012/11/03: CHE: Flat World Knowledge to Drop Free Access to Textbooks
  Sometimes free costs too much. As of January 1, 2013, Flat World Knowledge, which used to describe itself as the world’s largest publisher of free and open textbooks online, will no longer offer content at no charge.
• 
  Meanwhile at the UN:

• 2012/11/07: UN: Kenya has ‘unique’ chance to move ahead with deforestation reversal – UN environment chief [Achim Steiner]
• 2012/11/05: WMO: World Meteorological Congress Approves Climate Services Implementation Plan
  As Hurricane Sandy highlighted the force of nature, governments from around the world agreed on a detailed road map to improve and expand climate services essential to cope with weather, climate and water-related hazards several of which are expected to increase in frequency and/or intensity. A historic extraordinary session of the World Meteorological Congress 29-31 October approved the governance structure and implementation plan for the Global Framework for Climate Services. This is a sweeping initiative to capitalize on scientific advances and roll out user-driven services such as seasonal climate outlooks and El Niño watches, flood prediction and drought monitoring tools.
• 
  The Fifth IPCC report is coming up:

• 2012/11/07: SMH: Former UN official says climate report will shock nations into action
  The next United Nations climate report will ”scare the wits out of everyone” and should provide the impetus needed for the world to finally sign an agreement to tackle global warming, the former head of the UN negotiations said. Yvo de Boer, the UN climate chief during the 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks, said his conversations with scientists working on the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggested the findings would be shocking. “That report is going to scare the wits out of everyone,” Mr de Boer said in the only scheduled interview of his visit to Australia. “I’m confident those scientific findings will create new political momentum.” The IPCC’s fifth assessment report is due to be published in late 2013 and early 2014.
• 
  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2012/11/06: LA Times: California’s first auction of greenhouse-gas credits nears
  Some industrial businesses are still fighting the cap-and-trade program, which requires big polluters to either reduce their emissions or buy credits to cover the difference. The auction is Nov. 14.
• 
  The idea of a carbon tax is still bouncing around:

• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): Kyoto won’t save us from climate change – but a carbon tax could [Dieter Helm]
• 2012/11/08: ERabett: The time window for a revenue-neutral carbon tax is 2017-2018, so get cracking
• 2012/11/08: Yale360: Forget Kyoto: Putting a Tax on Carbon Consumption
  Given the failure of international climate negotiations, a tax on carbon consumption is the most effective way of lowering CO2 emissions. If nations are serious about addressing climate change, then they must pay for the carbon pollution caused by what they consume.
• 2012/11/08: P3: Forget Kyoto
• 2012/11/08: Reuters: Long-shot carbon tax suddenly part of fiscal cliff debate
  A potential tax on big polluters, a taboo subject in the United States in recent years, has come back into the spotlight as some sense potential for a revenue windfall at a time lawmakers look for ways to the so-called “fiscal cliff” of tax rises and spending cuts due in early 2013.
• 2012/11/09: WaPo: With ‘fiscal cliff’ looming, carbon tax getting closer look
• 2012/11/10: WaPo: The carbon tax
  On the international political front, tensions continue as the empire leans on Iran:
• 2012/11/05: NakedCapitalism: Iran’s Untouchable Energy Exports
  In the global competition for Rare Earths and other natural resources:
• 2012/11/08: BBC: Malaysian rare earths Lynas plant gets go ahead
  A Malaysian court has given Australian company Lynas authorisation to start production at a controversial rare earths processing plant. The $800m (£502m) facility near the city of Kuantan had been ready to begin operations in May, but protesters successfully gained a suspension order. The site has faced strong opposition from local residents who are concerned about the risk of radioactive waste.
• 2012/11/08: ABC(Au): Malaysian court approves Lynas rare earths plant
  A court in Malaysia has paved the way for an Australian company to fire up its controversial rare earths plant in eastern Malaysia. Lynas obtained permission for the facility in September, but activists took the case to court complaining that the environmental risks of the project were too great.
• 
  The solar panel trade war between China and almost everybody continues:

• 2012/11/08: EUO: EU launches anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese solar trade
• 2012/11/07: BBC: US panel affirms tariffs on Chinese solar products
  The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has upheld the higher tariffs that were announced last month on imports of solar cells from China.
• 2012/11/08: BBC: EU to investigate Chinese solar panel subsidies
  The European Commission has opened an investigation into subsidies given to Chinese solar panel makers.
• 2012/11/10: CSM: While solar booms, a trade row intensifies
• 2012/11/07: BBerg: U.S. Affirms Penalty Solar Duties for China’s Suntech, Trina
• 2012/11/06: EurActiv: China accuses EU of breaching world trade rules over solar panels
  An escalating row between solar panel makers stepped up a gear on Monday ( 5 November) when China complained to the World Trade Organisation that Italy and Greece had unfairly favoured domestic suppliers.
• 2012/11/06: EUO: China files WTO complaint against EU on solar panels
• 2012/11/05: BBC: China files EU solar subsidy complaint with WTO
  China has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against subsidies provided by some European governments to solar panel makers. This is the latest in a long line of trade disputes pitting China against Europe and the US.
• 
  And in miscellaneous international political jousting:

• 2012/11/06: al Jazeera: Illegal Somali charcoal shipments continue
  Vessels depart from Kismayo port under watch of Kenyan peacekeepers serving under AMISOM, despite UN ban on the exports.
• 
  Climate Change is a threat multiplier exacerbating existing conflicts in food, energy, water, race, ideology … etc.:

• 2012/11/09: NYT: Climate Change Report Outlines Perils for U.S. Military
• 2012/11/10: TMoS: America’s Top Scientists Warn America’s Top Generals
• 2012/11/09: Guardian(UK): US military warned to prepare for consequences of climate change
  National Academy of Sciences recommends crash course for analysts on preparing for rise in sea level and food shortages
• 2012/11/05: QuarkSoup: The Coming International Climate Wars
  What are the activists up to?
• 2012/11/07: STimes: Climate change warrior McKibben takes activism on the road
  Bill McKibben plans to travel the country in a sustainable-fuel bus, asking public institutions to divest portfolios of dirty energy holdings — and encourage more civil disobedience against those companies.
• 2012/11/09: Grist: Roll ‘em: A dispatch from 350.org’s Do the Math bus by Bill McKibben
• 2012/11/08: DeSmogBlog: Bill McKibben Kicks Off 350.org Do The Math Tour In Seattle
• 2012/11/09: 350orBust: Fossil Fuel Industry’s Bottom Line Will Destroy Our Climate: Do The Math
• 2012/11/06: Guardian(UK): Why we should name hurricanes after fossil fuel corporations [McKibben]
  Hurricane Sandy’s intensity is connected to global warming caused by fossil fuel use so let’s pin the blame where it belongs
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): Residents blockade mine access
  The Hume Coal Project has again sought unsuccessfully to access land at Carters Lane in Sutton Forest to carry out exploratory drilling. On Monday afternoon, access using a ute and a red tractor was stopped by an ongoing blockade set up by local residents.
• 2012/11/05: OilChange: “No Dash for Gas” Ends Protest [at the West Burton gas power station's chimney in Nottinghamshire]
  Polls! We have polls!
• 2012/11/09: TP:JR: Rasmussen Poll: 68 Percent Of American Voters See Global Warming As A ‘Serious Problem’
  Regarding Water Politics and Business:
• 2012/11/07: Guardian(UK): Laos breaks ground in ceremony for contentious Mekong dam
• 2012/11/10: JFleck: On water and storytelling
• 2012/11/10: JFleck: US-Mexico Colorado River Deal
• 2012/11/05: TreeHugger: Laos Moves Forward With Massive Mekong River Dam
• 2012/11/06: al Jazeera: Laos to start building controversial dam
  Minister says construction will start “this week” at hydropower plant dividing neighbouring nations.
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): Laos to begin work on Mekong ‘mega’ dam
• 2012/11/05: JFleck: Transborder conflict on the Mekong
• 2012/11/05: BBC: Laos approves Xayaburi ‘mega’ dam on Mekong
  Laos has given the go-ahead to build a massive dam on the lower Mekong river, despite opposition from neighbouring countries and environmentalists.
• 
  And on the groundwater front:

• 2012/11/08: NAS: Cleanup of Most Challenging U.S. Contaminated Groundwater Sites Unlikely for Many Decades
• 2012/11/05: DerSpiegel: Contaminated Aquifers — Radioactive Water Threatens Middle East
  The Middle East and North Africa suffer from water shortages and pump millions of liters a day from ancient aquifers. But the water contains high levels of naturally-occurring radioactive contamination. Experts fear this will increase the cancer risk for millions of people.
• 
  Ethics? You want to talk about ethics?

• 2012/11/08: LoE: The ethics of fossil fuel use
  And on the American political front:
• 2012/11/10: GLaden: Science Debate 08 12 14 16?
• 2012/11/10: TP:JR: Let’s Put Climate Change At The Top Of The Agenda
• 2012/11/09: TP:JR: What Karl Rove’s Election-Night Meltdown Says About The GOP’s Stance On Climate Science
• 2012/11/09: CSW: Climate cliff overshadows fiscal cliff
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): Climate change, not the national debt, is the legacy we should care about
  Worry about the grandchildren? Then stop global warming, but don’t pretend deficit reduction by slashing pensions is for them
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): Kyoto won’t save us from climate change – but a carbon tax could [Dieter Helm]
• 2012/11/08: Reuters: Long-shot carbon tax suddenly part of fiscal cliff debate
  A potential tax on big polluters, a taboo subject in the United States in recent years, has come back into the spotlight as some sense potential for a revenue windfall at a time lawmakers look for ways to the so-called “fiscal cliff” of tax rises and spending cuts due in early 2013.
• 2012/11/07: Guardian(UK): Oil lobby and Koch-backed groups spent $270m on anti-Obama ads
  At least half a dozen Democrats elected to the Senate despite receiving series of oil and coal attack ads
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: David Frum Tweets: “Horrible Possibility: If The Geeks Are Right About Ohio, Might They Also Be Right About Climate?”
• 2012/11/05: GreenGrok: Another storm pounds the North Carolina coast (sort of)
• 2012/11/08: ERabett: The time window for a revenue-neutral carbon tax is 2017-2018, so get cracking
• 2012/11/09: SciAm:PI: Reality Laughs Again at North Carolina
• 2012/11/10: DeSmogBlog: Growing the Options: Showing the Clean Economy is Good Politics and Policies [US pol]
• 2012/11/08: MoJo: 5 Climate Hawks Who Won on Tuesday — Maybe there’s hope for meaningful climate action yet
• 2012/11/09: WaPo: With ‘fiscal cliff’ looming, carbon tax getting closer look
• 2012/11/10: WaPo: The carbon tax
• 2012/11/05: CCurrents: The Deafening Silence On Climate Change
• 2012/11/07: al Jazeera: New York launches price-gouging probe
  Attorney General Schneiderman says his office has ‘zero tolerance’ for companies that prey on victims of Sandy.
• 2012/11/06: DeSmogBlog: Chesapeake Energy Tied to Mansfield, OH Bill of Rights Astroturf Attack
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: Utility Front Group Raises $24 Million For Scare Campaign To Defeat Michigan Renewable Energy Initiative
• 2012/11/05: TheHill:e2W: ALEC takes aim at state green power standards
  The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is launching an effort to repeal state-based laws that require utilities to provide escalating amounts of power from renewable sources like wind and solar energy.
• 2012/11/05: Nation: Superstorm Sandy — a People’s Shock?
• 2012/11/05: BBerg: Hurricane Sandy Alters Calculus of Climate Change
  If the worst Atlantic storm in U.S. history holds an economic lesson, it is this: We all need to come to terms with the cost of climate change.
• 2012/11/05: Guardian(UK): Pastor blames hurricane Sandy on Bloomberg’s support of gay rights
• 2012/11/05: Guardian(UK): Obama and Romney remain silent on climate change, the biggest issue of all [Monbiot]
  Despite hurricane Sandy, neither Obama nor Romney will speak about global warming. The danger this poses is huge
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: Surrogate Re-Hashes Romney’s Rising Seas Joke: ‘Ask Mayor Bloomberg’ About The Rise Of The Oceans
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: How Do Obama And Romney Stack Up On Science Policy?
• 2012/11/05: ICN: Federal Disaster Relief Intrudes on Election Debate Over Size of Government
• 2012/11/04: Guardian(UK): America’s theologians of climate science denial
  The religious right in the US backs GOP climate change denial because science also supports evolution against creationism
• 2012/11/04: Guardian(UK): Romney attacked over climate change as activists tap post-Sandy concerns
  Activists run TV ads based on Romney’s dismissive remarks about global warming and bid to follow him on campaign trail
• 2012/11/04: Wunderground:RR: Election Eve: Climate Science and the 2012 Election
  The end of one campaign is the beginning of the next…2014…2016:
• 2012/11/09: Guardian(UK): Hillary Clinton v Jeb Bush? With 2012 election over speculation turns to 2016
  Post election results & commentary:
• 2012/11/10: WSWS: US elections leave House and Senate balance nearly unchanged
• 2012/11/09: Guardian(UK): US elections: five climate hawks who will take office in 2013
• 2012/11/09: TimesCall: With Longmont [Colorado] fracking ban passed, questions lie ahead
• 2012/11/07: QuarkSoup: Art Robinson Loses Big [in Oregon's Fourth Congressional District]
• 2012/11/07: MWatch: Coal stocks shudder at Obama’s victory
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: Environmental Groups Celebrate A Political Victory: ‘Knock, Baby, Knock’ Beat ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: Obama Wins Reelection, Now Must Become A Climate Hawk To Avoid Dust-Bin Of History, Dust Bowl For America
• 2012/11/06: MWEN: Michigan rejects measure to expand renewable energy standard
• 2012/11/07: TheHill:e2W: [Senate] Energy winners and losers: A snapshot
• 2012/11/07: Grist: Beyond Obama: Here are green ballot measures that won and lost
• 2012/11/07: ScienceInsider: California GM Food Labeling Initiative Defeated
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: 7 Ballot Initiatives Bucking the Status Quo Passed Yesterday & 1 Upheld It
• 2012/11/07: BBerg: Michigan Rejects Increase to Renewable Energy Requirement
  Post election — now what?
• 2012/11/10: Guardian(UK): Election 2012: America’s new mandate on climate change
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: Hoping For Change: A Post-Election Action Plan For Addressing Climate
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: Five Clean-Tech Actions For President Obama In His Next Term
• 2012/11/08: ICN: California’s Model Climate Policies Will Maintain Momentum in Obama Second Term
• 2012/11/07: ICN: Post-Sandy and Post-Election, Will Political Taboo on Climate Change Be Lifted?
• 2012/11/07: PSinclair: Obama Wins: “I Agree with You. Now Make Me Do It.”
• 2012/11/07: GreenGrok: Obama’s re-election and climate change
• 2012/11/08: Grist: Does Michigan’s clean-energy loss mean that greens are outgunned at the state level?
• 2012/11/07: Grist: What can we expect now from Obama on energy and climate?
• 2012/11/08: NatureN: Climate change action and more drilling likely in Obama’s second term
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Obama’s Victory Also a Win for Science Funding
• 2012/11/08: TDC: Time to celebrate? Four suggestions for how President Obama can make a real difference in his second term. by Paul Ehrlich
• 2012/11/08: CSM: California Proposition 39 results in $2.5 billion for energy efficiency
• 2012/11/08: al Jazeera: The progressive president America needs
  Barack Obama, though vastly better than Mitt Romney, is barely a shadow of the president America truly needs.
• 2012/11/08: PlanetJ: Obama’s reelection won’t change anything
• 2012/11/07: Guardian(UK): What does Obama’s victory mean for action on global warming?
• 2012/11/07: Guardian(UK): Barack Obama stokes expectations of climate change action in second term
• 2012/11/07: P3: A Huge Victory for Science, Too
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): An open letter to Obama from the world’s poorest countries
• 2012/11/08: Guardian(UK): In Obama’s second term, hope for change rests with us, the people
• 2012/11/07: ArcticNews: President Obama addresses climate change in acceptance speech
• 2012/11/08: CJR: Obama and the environment — Media react to the election with speculation, some insights
• 2012/11/08: EmbassyMag: Can Obama move on tackling climate change in his second term? Hurricane Sandy has certainly put the issue into perspective
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: Obama: ‘We Want Our Children To Live In An America That Isn’t Threatened By The Destructive Power Of A Warming Planet’
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: Election Takeaway for Fossil Fuel Industry: Money Can’t Buy You Love
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: The Final Tally: Big Polluters’ Big Ad Spending In The 2012 Elections
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: What Obama’s Re-Election Means For Coal, Climate Change, And America’s Energy Future
• 2012/11/07: Grist: In victory speech, Obama calls for climate action, citizen engagement
• 2012/11/07: SciAm:Obs: Climate Change Action and More Drilling Likely in Obama’s Second Term
• 2012/11/07: CSW: Toward government accountability on climate change during Obama’s second term
• 2012/11/07: ERabett: A Message From Civilization
• 2012/11/07: UCSUSA:B: It’s Obama — Now What?
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: Obama Wins, Says Nation is “Threatened by the Destructive Power of a Warming Planet”
• 2012/11/06: LoE: Memo to new US President (Obama hopefully)
• 2012/11/06: OilChange: The Next President Must Act on Climate
• 2012/11/06: CSM: Hurricane Sandy blows climate change back on the table
  Gas Prices are going up, down, up, down:
• 2012/11/09: QuarkSoup: About Gas Prices (No, They’re Not Higher)
• 2012/11/06: CSM: Gas prices continue to drop
  The Keystone XL saga bumps along:
• 2012/11/08: BCLSB: Keystone XL: Don’t Get Your Hopes Up
• 2012/11/08: TreeHugger: Activists Wasting No Time in Pressing Obama on Keystone XL Pipeline
• 2012/11/09: ICN: Domestic Oil Boom, Climate Change Concern Could Derail Keystone XL Permit
• 2012/11/09: PostMedia: Obama energy adviser says many uncertainties with Keystone XL pipeline — Nobel laureate gives speech at University of Calgary
  Newly-elected President Barack Obama will look to Canada for co-operation in implementing new policies to combat global warming, predicts a U.S. environmental expert.
  [...]
  Dan Kammen, a Nobel laureate and adviser to Obama on energy issues, said the U.S. will likely expect Canada to take action on the environment through regulation and greater investment into renewable energy initiatives like solar and biomass.
• 
  A revealing little imbroglio revolving around the quants (epecially Nate Silver) and the pundits:

• 2012/11/07: RealClimate: Trying to shoot the messenger
• 2012/11/09: Grist: Climate science is Nate Silver and U.S. politics is Karl Rove
• 2012/11/08: MetaSD: A small victory for scientific gobbledygook, arithmetic and Nate Silver
• 2012/11/09: TreeHugger: After the Election, Big Data Is King. So Climate Models Should Be, Too
  The GOP War on Women continues:
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): Republican candidates lose after rape comments
  Two republican candidates [Todd Akin & Richard Mourdock] who sparked a furore with comments about rape have been lost their election bids as the Democrats look set to defend their majority in the US senate.
• 2012/11/05: ACLU: Arguments Held Before Federal Appeals Court Challenging Most Extreme Abortion Ban in the Nation
  The NorthWest coal export debate remains heated:
• 2012/11/05: ICN: Fight Intensifies Over NW Coal Exports
  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:
• 2012/11/09: TreeHugger: US Forest Service Approves Expansion of Arch Coal Operations in Colorado Wilderness
• 2012/11/09: DeSmogBlog: EPA And TVA Nix Coal Ash Spill Cleanup Efforts
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: The Sounds Of Silence: Team Obama Launched The Inane Strategy Of Downplaying Climate Change Back In March 2009
  As for what is going on in Congress:
• 2012/11/08: ScienceInsider: And Then There Were Three: Rohrabacher Announces Bid to Lead House Science Committee
• 2012/11/07: ScienceInsider: It’s Official: Sensenbrenner Seeks Top House Science Committee Post
• 2012/11/08: AutoBG: A123, Wanxiang deal under scrutiny by Republican Senators
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: Sen. Majority Leader Reid: “Climate Change Is An Extremely Important Issue For Me, And I Hope We Can Address It”
• 2012/11/08: GEP: CO2-EOR [Enhanced Oil Recovery] Tax Bill Introduced in US Senate
• 2012/11/07: ScienceInsider: U.S. House Science Committee Set For Big Turnover
• 2012/11/04: CSW: The continuing threat to continuity of space-based global climate data
  While in the UK:
• 2012/11/08: LoE: Nuclear, wind and wave power chiefs in joint appeal on green energy
• 2012/11/09: NatureNB: UK Chancellor Osborne throws his weight — and a little money — behind science
• 2012/11/09: BBC: Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has acknowledged that ash dieback, a disease that threatens the UK’s ash trees, will not be eradicated
• 2012/11/07: NatureNB: Cuts threatened to UK parliament science advice
• 2012/11/06: Guardian(UK): UKIP’s Godfrey Bloom and the £2,000-a-month climate researcher
• 2012/11/06: Guardian(UK): Ministers warned over plans to exclude transport emissions
  Tim Yeo attacks plans by senior ministers to ensure that shipping and aviation are left out of UK carbon budgets
• 2012/11/06: BBC: Scientists at Stirling University are suggesting new national guidelines be drawn up to protect bats and birds from domestic wind turbine developments.
• 2012/11/06: BBC: Jersey minister says low energy costs ‘lead to waste’
  The low cost of energy in Jersey leads to it being wasted, the island’s environment minister has said. Deputy Rob Duhamel said: “A lot of people squander electricity and other fuel sources – energy is probably too cheap for people who waste a lot.” His comments came as Jersey’s government unveiled plans that by 2050 would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 80% compared to 1990 levels.
• 2012/11/05: BBC: UK water resources ‘left to weather’s mercy’
  A new report blames the government for leaving the UK’s water resources at the mercy of the weather. The document from 16 leading environmental organisations says it took the wettest ever summer to avert serious drought.
• 2012/11/05: Guardian(UK): Industry letter calls for decarbonisation target in energy bill
  And in Europe:
• 2012/11/08: EurActiv: EU scales back planned F-gas bans, opts for phase-out
  The EU has abandoned plans to ban global warming fluorinated gases from Europe’s commercial and industrial refrigerators, opting largely for a ‘phase-down’ approach intended to reduce the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to a third of today’s levels by 2030.
• 2012/11/07: BBerg: EU Proposes Tighter Rules to Cut Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases
• 2012/11/06: EurActiv: Polish energy firms intensify coal lobbying in Brussels
  This year’s annual European coal industry conference in Brussels is being co-organised by the Central European Energy Partners (CEEP), which was founded by, and is mostly made up of, state-owned Polish energy firms.
  [...]
  “Poland’s coal industry is pulling the strings,” commented Kuba Gogolewski, a Polish energy campaigner for the green group CEE Bankwatch. “Instead of moving away from coal, and investing in clean energy technology, state-owned energy firms are using taxpayers’ money to sabotage the EU’s climate policy.”
• 2012/11/05: EurActiv: Energy giants promote gas and renewables ‘ideal partnership’
  A new corporate coalition which says it will advance a low-carbon energy policy for Europe launched in Brussels last week. The coalition unites energy majors which so far include Alpine Energie, DONG Energy, First Solar, GE Energy, and Shell – all big investors in gas and renewable projects, who have taken strong positions supporting EU climate action. Executives from these firms stressed “the ideal partnership of gas-fired and renewable portfolios” at the launch event on 31 October, although the issue is contested in policy circles.
• 2012/11/05: EurActiv: An EU cap-and-trade scheme for water pollution? Greens say no
  Environmentalists who have gone to court in a bid to kill a US water pollution trading system say it would be a mistake for Europeans to consider a similar cap-and-trade scheme to reduce fertiliser and other agricultural emissions.
  EU conservationists fear that the European Commission may be tempted to recommend market-based approaches for water pollution in its forthcoming water blueprint, or in future amendments to water pollution laws.
  In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Washington, two conservation groups seek to overturn an emissions trading scheme designed to save the Chesapeake Bay, whose future as one of America’s most vibrant marine ecosystems is in doubt because of high concentrations of agricultural pollution.
  Lawyers argue in a lawsuit filed in October that the US Environmental Protection Agency illegally created a cap-and-trade system in 2010 under the Clean Water Act.
• 
  Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Climate change debate heats up
  Climate Change Minister Greg Combet has come under fire for using rough language to describe the climate change policies of Tony Abbott, but said the Opposition Leader had it coming.
  [...]
  GREG COMBET: Given that everything he has said about this issue, to be frank about it and so that you don’t misunderstand anything I am saying, has been complete bullshit.
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Energy overhaul looms
  The Labor party’s plan to overhaul Tasmania’s energy sector appears set to go ahead, with the Greens poised to support it.
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Oppn: Combet on Abbott: ‘complete bullshit’
• 2012/11/08: WSWS: Greens enter government in Australian Capital Territory
  The Australian Greens have formed a coalition with the Labor Party in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), keeping the 11-year-old Labor administration in office for another four years. The move underscores the increasingly crucial role played by the Greens within the Australian political establishment as a prop for the major parties.
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): Residents blockade mine access
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): Greens fear [NSW] govt review will pave way for CSG
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): NLC in talks on additional nuclear waste dump site
  The Northern Land Council has confirmed it is about to start formal talks about a new site for a proposed nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory.
• 2012/11/05: ABC(Au): High Court agrees to hear mining tax challenge
  The carbon bill is law. The Aus-EU ETS is codified. Now come the practicalities…and the finagling:
• 2012/11/08: BBerg: Trading in First Carbon Units Shows Progress in Australia
  Australia’s top emissions regulator says the national carbon market is stepping up to the next level as the government gives away the first permits to polluters ranging from Rio Tinto Group to Alcoa Inc. (AA), with banks showing an interest in buying the units. Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has issued about 45 million free permits as part of the government’s program to help businesses that are constrained in their ability to pass on the costs of a carbon price. Businesses can sell the carbon units back to the government or to other companies.
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): Carbon report shows business concerns easing
  The latest snapshot of Australia’s biggest companies says they are “increasingly comfortable” with the Federal Government’s carbon pricing scheme.
• 
  The Federal government released an energy white paper this week:

• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Business lobby group supports power deregulation
  WA’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry has backed a Commonwealth push to deregulate the State’s retail energy sector. A white paper recently released by the Federal Government calls for measures to boost competition and reduce regulation in a bid to ease rising energy prices. The Chamber’s Tim Bray welcomes the suggestions including one to install smart meters in homes. He says it is also time the State Government stopped setting the price of electricity.
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au):TDU: What’s the point of exporting our emissions elsewhere?
  There’s a massive contradiction at the heart of Australia’s Energy White Paper, writes Ben Eltham. While we’re reducing our emissions at home, we’re increasing them overseas.
• 2012/11/08: ABC(Au): Fed energy white paper, deregulation key
  After launching its Asian century policy blueprint last month, the Government today released another white paper, this time on the future of Australia’s energy sector. The Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has launched the energy policy blueprint, setting out the case for a more efficient and competitive market-based approach. He’s arguing for deregulation so consumers have more choice to buy power when it’s less expensive. That could depend on smart metres, seen as the key to helping consumers do that. The white paper also calls for privatisation. The Federal Minister Martin Ferguson told Alexandra Kirk the aim is to have the cheapest energy and the most reliable system.
• 2012/11/08: ABC(Au): Protesters crash release of energy white paper
  Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has been interrupted by anti-fossil fuel protesters as he outlined plans to overhaul the national energy market. The two men took over the podium during Mr Ferguson’s speech, accusing him of being a “puppet” of the fossil fuel industry and singing a satirical song about global warning.
• 2012/11/08: ABC(Au): Higher power bills flagged in energy white paper
  After years of drought and flooding, water usage planning is controversial and difficult:
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): The Department of Environment and Water says it expects River Murray flows will start to be regulated again this week
• 2012/11/07: ABC(Au): Environmental legislation should not apply to civil assets including drains: Condina Report
• 2012/11/06: ABC(Au): Comment sought on Pilbara water plan
• 2012/11/05: ABC(Au): 5yr plan reveals rising water rates
  Lower Murray Water (LMW) has released details of its proposed five-year plan for north-west Victorian water customers.
• 
  While in the Indian subcontinent:

• 2012/11/08: ScienceInsider: India’s Centre for Glaciology in Deep Freeze, Scientists Say
  Three years after it was launched with great fanfare, India’s premier facility for monitoring the Himalayan glaciers is floundering, scientists say. Established in 2009 within the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG) here, the Centre for Glaciology still has no permanent faculty members or facilities.
• 2012/11/10: QuarkSoup: India Now Spending More on Adaptation Than Health Care
• 2012/11/10: QuarkSoup: More on India’s Adaptation Costs
• 2012/11/10: NBF: Indian Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project to start production by first week of December
• 2012/11/09: CCurrents: Our Sisters In Jail — Sixth Letter From Women Of Koodankulam
• 2012/11/08: CCurrents: Scientific Enough
• 2012/11/04: CCurrents: Koodankulam People’s Appeal To The Conscience Of The Nation
  And in China:
• 2012/11/09: CBC: Patrick Brown: No ‘reformers’ in China’s political elite
  Like a rare alignment of the planets — offering an unusual glimpse of two different worlds — the political orbits of the U.S. and China converged this week with the climax of the American presidential election and the opening of the 18th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Just hours after a triumphant President Barack Obama left the confetti-strewn stage in Chicago, having energized his supporters with the rich promise of four more years, China’s President Hu Jintao strode up to the podium in the Great Hall of the People to wrap up his 10 years in office, and begin the coronation of his successor, Xi Jinping, who will take over in the spring. Hu’s speech included a line that may disappoint but not surprise the many Chinese who take a passionate and sometimes envious interest in U.S. politics: “We will never copy a Western political system,” he said.
• 2012/11/09: al Jazeera: Ready for your close-up, Mr Xi?
  Hope and change, Chinese-style, erupts at the highly-choreographed Communist Party Congress.
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Who’s who? China’s leadership contenders
  Elsewhere in Asia:
• 2012/11/07: BBC: Tokelau islands shift to solar energy
  Tokelau has become the first territory able to meet all its electricity needs with solar power, officials say. The South Pacific territory – comprising the three atolls of Atafu, Nukunonu and Fakaofo – had been dependent on diesel to generate electricity. New Zealand, which administers Tokelau, funded a $7m (£4.3m) solar project.
• 
  And South America:

• 2012/11/10: BBC: Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has announced he will run for a third term in February’s elections
  In Canada, neocon PM Harper pushes petroleum while ignoring climate change:
• 2012/11/08: DeSmogBlog: “Stephen Harper Hates Science”: Federal Scientists Muzzled to Protect Tar Sands Reputation
• 2012/11/06: TMoS: Harper Gags EnviroCan Scientists to Keep Mum about Tar Sands Snowpack Contamination
• 2012/11/06: PostMedia: Oilsands contaminants in snowpack confirmed — But scientists discouraged from speaking publicly
  Environment Canada scientists have confirmed results published by researchers from the University of Alberta showing contaminants accumulating in the snow near oilsands operations, an internal federal document has revealed. They also discovered contaminants in precipitation from testing in the region. But the researchers were discouraged from speaking to reporters about their findings, first presented at a November 2011 conference in Boston of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, says the document, released to Postmedia News through access to information.
• 2012/10/30: FBC: Food Banks Canada reports record number of Canadians using food banks; 38% are children
• 2012/11/04: PostMedia: Federal testing backs study that found contaminants in oilsands region snow
  Harper ignores the NPTand the CTBT in making nuclear deals with India:
• 2012/11/06: BBC: India and Canada finalise conditions of nuclear deal
• 2012/11/06: WpgFP: Canada and India finally seal a nuclear deal
• 2012/11/09: CBC: Harper leaves unanswered questions in India
• 2012/11/05: CCurrents: Stephen Harper, Climate Monster, Is On His Way To India
  Another aspect of C-45:

  Editorial Comment

  The Feds have made a habit of setting up systems with inherent self conflict.
  They put food manufacturers in charge of food inspection.
  The Cohen Commission remarked the DFO has a dual mandate: promote fish farms and ensure healthy food.
  And here, the DFO is supposed to promote the Northern Gateway and protect the waters.
  I assume they are not stupid, so they must be doing it on purpose, most likely for economic and ideological reasons.
  How long will it take until some self serving corporation generates a major incident?

• 2012/11/05: CBC: Navigable Waters Act at committee one last time — 130-year-old law gets two hours, four witnesses at Transport Committee
  Two hours of Transport Committee hearings today will be the last word the House of Commons hears on the 130-year-old Navigable Waters Protection Act. The Act is to be replaced by the Navigation Protection Act, a piece of legislation included in bill C-45, the government’s second omnibus Budget Implementation Act. “We’re losing our tools to protect fresh water and our federal government is really getting rid of their responsibility to protect our waterways,” argues Meredith Brown, the Ottawa Riverkeeper, a watchdog group that monitors water quality in the Ottawa River and its tributaries. The Ottawa is one 62 rivers, 97 lakes and three oceans that will be protected under the new act. The old act protected every body of water you could float a canoe in and required ministerial approval to be sought for any structure that went over, under or through a waterway. Brown worries about who will protect the thousands of rivers and lakes that won’t be covered under the new act.
• 
  The FIPPA saga plays on with Nexen in the air:

• 2012/11/07: CPW: Don’t be fooled by the spin on the Canada-China FIPA treaty
• 2012/11/09: TheCanadian: Stopping FIPA: Follow-up Action You Can Take to Halt Canada-China Trade Deal
• 2012/11/05: TheCanadian: How You Can Help Prevent the Ratification of the Canada-China FIPA
  The CNOOC bid for Nexen has been approved by the shareholders. Now the ball is in Harper’s court:
• 2012/11/08: iPolitics: Nexen, China and ‘net benefit’: what you need to know
• 2012/11/07: BCLSB: China: Canada Like Infertile Old Bag If We Don’t Cough Up Bitumen REAL SOON
• 2012/11/05: BWeek: Canada’s Dec. 10 Cnooc-Nexen Review the Last, Ambassador Says
  The battle over the Northern Gateway pipeline rages on:
• 2012/11/10: TMoS: Adding Insult to Injury – Northern Gateway Style
• 2012/11/10: PostMedia: Top job shows Fisheries’ focus on Gateway
  Leaked email reveals ‘unprecedented’ senior liaison position for pipeline megaproject across B.C
  Enbridge Inc.’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline project is getting special attention from the federal Fisheries department, according to an internal email obtained by The Vancouver Sun. In what critics call an unprecedented step, the department has listed a “Northern Gateway Liaison” at a top level of its organizational chart, under a reorganization prompted by the 2012 budget’s sweeping Fisheries Act amendments. The position will report directly to the executive director of the National Ecosystems Management Branch at the department’s headquarters.
• 2012/11/07: G&M: Northern Gateway pipeline threatens [woodland] caribou, group warns
• 2012/11/06: G&M: In China, growing frustration over Canada’s ‘outdated’ oil sands
  Canada’s oil sands risks being left behind by the global energy industry if the pipelines needed to carry bitumen to the west coast do not soon materialize, a Chinese oil industry academic warned.
• 
  And the Kinder Morgan expansion:

• 2012/11/06: PostMedia: Kinder Morgan making careful moves
  Three weeks after B.C. laid down the conditions for getting a pipeline endorsed, the president of Kinder Morgan wrote a six-page letter to Premier Christy Clark. It gives a glimpse of how the company – which is planning to twin an existing line to metro Vancouver – is trying to differentiate itself from the Enbridge Northern Gateway effort to build a line to Kitimat. The public argument over that proposal is reaching peak volume just as debate on Kinder Morgan’s plan is getting underway. And the impression is building that the Kinder Morgan project – which is a year or two behind Enbridge in the approval process – is the one to take seriously.
• 
  About that West to East pipeline:

• 2012/11/09: CBC: Enbridge’s Line 9 reversal touted as good oilsands PR
  If Enbridge plan is approved, pipeline may carry oilsands oil to Montreal – and beyond The reversal of a pipeline between Sarnia, Ont. and Montreal to carry Western crude oil east is an exercise in good public relations, says Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. Enbridge’s Line 9 would show eastern Canadians the benefits of Alberta oilsands development, argues Oliver.
• 2012/11/05: TStar: Eastbound pipeline from Alberta suddenly looks viable
  Climate effects on agriculture:
• 2012/11/08: BWeek: Canada’s Corn Belt Attracts the Hot Money
• 2012/11/08: NBF: Climate Change more than doubles Canada Farmland prices
  In BC, the stage is set. Now what will Clark and Dix do?
• 2012/11/06: CBC: China eyeing timberland on Vancouver Island
  Report claims Chinese state-owned firm is considering buying 12% stake in Island Timberlands The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that China is preparing to invest about $100 million in timber assets mainly on Vancouver Island. The Journal said China’s government wealth fund, the China Investment Corp., is negotiating with Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management for a 12.5 per cent stake in Island Timberlands, which owns about 254,000 hectares of forest land.
• 
  Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2012/11/09: DeSmogBlog: Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown: Tar Sands Expansion May Violate Crown’s Legal Obligation to First Nations
• 2012/11/05: PI: Environmental groups to oppose Jackpine oilsands project at hearing
• 2012/11/06: PostMedia: Oilsands contaminants in snowpack confirmed
• 2012/11/06: PostMedia: Feds still learning about oilsands — Tories roll out plan for monitoring
  The federal government said Monday that its deployment of scientists to study the oilsands industry, in partnership with the Alberta government, will answer questions about long-term environmental damage caused by the sector’s development.
• 2012/11/04: PostMedia: Federal testing backs study that found contaminants in oilsands region snow
• 2012/11/05: ICN: Mining Canada’s Oil Sands: Suddenly, Not a Sure Thing
  Also in Alberta:
• 2012/11/09: CBC: Alberta researchers to listen for fracking quakes
  University of Calgary and University of Alberta teams to record ground vibrations in research study
• 2012/11/08: CBC: World’s first refinery designed to capture CO2 gets start — Facility to be built near Edmonton
  In the North:
• 2012/11/09: PostMedia: Feds admit surveillance satellite project delayed two years
  The federal government has admitted that its ambitious plan to launch a series of satellites to monitor Canadian territory from space starting in 2014 has been delayed by at least two years. The delay is significant as the Defence Department has previously warned that the satellites had to be in place by 2015 at the latest or Canada would be left without any space-based surveillance capability.
• 
  The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:

• 2012/11/05: ABC(Au): Adapting to a changing planet too slow
  Forty years ago, Professor Jorgen Randers co-wrote the book Limits to Growth which forecast Earth’s environmental future. Now Professor Randers has updated his predictions for 2052. He says that while the process of adapting to the planet’s limitations has started, the response is still far too slow.
• 
  How are we going to deal with this mess?

• 2012/11/06: CCurrents: We Cannot Avoid The Global Crisis… But We Can Deal With It
  How do the media measure up?
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: They Talk About The Weather On TV, But Still Not Much About Climate Change
• 2012/11/06: CJR: Lemmings like us — Businessweek’s climate-change broadside is powerful, but ignores the allure of waterfront property
• 2012/11/04: FAIR: Media Should Describe Sandy as the Result of Our Climate Experiment
• 2012/11/05: FAIR: Worst Media Moment on Hurricane Sandy?
• 2012/11/06: FAIR: Yes, You Can Talk About Climate Change on TV
• 2012/11/06: Deltoid: The Australian’s War on Science 79: Maurice Newman versus your lying eyes
• 2012/10/30: GiagOM: Hurricane Sandy and Twitter as a self-cleaning oven for news
• 2012/11/04: CSW: For the record
• 2012/11/04: ERabett:JF: Bloomberg Business Week Discovers Global Warming!
  Here is something for your library:
• 2012/11/10: Guardian(UK): [Book Review] _Flight Behaviour_ by Barbara Kingsolver
  Climate change fears are given wings in Barbara Kingsolver’s well observed Appalachian tale
• 2012/11/07: SkS: [Book Review] _Rising Sea Levels: An Introduction to Cause and Impact_ by Hunt Janin and Scott Mandia by Andy S
  And for your film & video enjoyment:
• 2012/11/11: SkS: The Climate Show #30: Obama, Sandy and the rabbit by Gareth
• 2012/11/08: PSinclair: New Video: Antarctic versus Arctic Ice — Apples and Oranges
• 2012/11/08: PSinclair: Dr. Jeff Masters: Why Did Sandy Take such an Unusual Track?
• 2012/11/08: PSinclair: Bumping Up Against Reality. Is this a Wake Up Call that the Right Wing will Hear?
• 2012/11/08: AFTIC: James Hansen on our Planetary Emergency
• 2012/11/09: PSinclair: In Sandy’s Wake, a Nissan-Powered Fridge
• 2012/11/10: PSinclair: Algae into Fuel
• 2012/11/07: P3: David Roberts Sums it All Up in Fifteen Minutes
• 2012/11/09: Grist: Stephen Colbert on ‘wind turbine syndrome’
• 2012/11/09: TreeHugger: Stephen Colbert Examines the Dangers of ‘Wind Turbine Syndrome’
• 2012/11/11: PSinclair: The Weekend Wonk: Pigs. Poop. Power.
• Women of Fukushima (film)
• 2012/11/06: P3: SciShow: Hurricane Sandy FAQ
• 2012/11/06: QuarkSoup: Ground-level View: Raw, Direct and Kinda Angry
• 2012/11/02: UDel: Superstorm animation — UD researchers show Sandy’s explosive development
• 2012/11/06: AFTIC: “Double Whammy” from Climate Crocks
  As for podcasts:
• 2012/11/10: CBC:Q&Q: Mayan Dry Decline & The Ocean of Life
  Meanwhile among the ‘Sue the Bastards!’ contingent:
• 2012/11/07: BBC: Argentina ‘freezes Chevron assets’ over Ecuador damage
  A judge has ordered $19bn (£11.9bn) of assets held by oil company Chevron to be frozen in Argentina over an environmental damages claim in Ecuador, lawyers in the case say. The Ecuadorean plaintiffs accuse Chevron of polluting land in the Amazon region for almost three decades.
• 2012/11/09: CCurrents: Chevron Fined $19 Billion For Polluting The Amazon Basin
• 2012/11/09: BBC: Chevron appeals against asset freeze in Argentina
  Two Argentine subsidiaries of the oil company Chevron have appealed against a court order freezing up to $19bn (£11.9bn) of their assets. A judge issued the order as part of an environmental damages claim in Ecuador.
• 
  Wrestling over a new energy infrastructure continues unabated:

• 2012/11/08: BNC: CSIRO Energy Future 2050 tool
• 2012/11/08: SciAm:PI: The Energy Opportunity in Wasted Heat
• 2012/11/10: CSM: US energy infrastructure is vulnerable
• 2012/11/11: OilDrum: Tech Talk – a further look at MS&T Geothermal
• 2012/11/07: TreeHugger: New Compressed Air Energy Storage System Could Deliver Double the Efficiency
• 2012/11/07: CCurrents: The Great Transition, Part II: Building A Wind-Centered Economy by Lester R. Brown
• 2012/11/07: CCurrents: The Great Transition, Part I: From Fossil Fuels To Renewable Energy by Lester R. Brown
• 2012/11/04: CCurrents: Profit And Corruption Widens Energy Inequality
• 2012/11/06: CBC: Tapping old mines for heat may create new energy source — Energy-producers around the world inspire northern Ontario researchers
• 2012/11/06: OilDrum: A New Study on Integration of Renewables in Germany
• 2012/11/05: CSM: Is gas as important as food and water?
  Hey! Let’s contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It’ll be a fracking gas!
• 2012/11/09: TimesCall: With Longmont [Colorado] fracking ban passed, questions lie ahead
• 2012/11/06: DeSmogBlog: Chesapeake Energy Tied to Mansfield, OH Bill of Rights Astroturf Attack
• 2012/11/05: Eureka: Hydro-fracking: Fact vs. fiction — 2012 GSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, Charlotte, North Carolina, US
• 2012/11/04: DeSmogBlog: Tea Party, Fracking Industry Launch Astroturf Campaign Against Mansfield, OH Community Bill of Rights Referendum
  On the coal front:
• 2012/11/08: OilDrum: Update on Coal by Jean Laherrère
• 2012/11/05: Grist: Exporting to China may not save the U.S. coal industry after all
  On the gas and oil front:
• 2012/11/09: BBerg: Closing oil prices Friday
  OIL (US$/bbl)
  Dated Brent Spot….109.40
  WTI Cushing Spot…..86.07
• 2012/11/09: ICN: U.S. Oil Production Sets New Record [6.68 mb/d]
• 2012/11/11: CSM: Gas-to-liquids is a risky investment
  And in pipeline news:
• 2012/11/07: CBC: Enbridge not threatened by rival’s eastern oil pipeline
  Enbridge doesn’t see a rival pipeline company’s plan to ship western crude east as a threat to its own ambitions, new CEO Al Monaco said Wednesday as the firm posted improved quarterly results. TransCanada Corp., another major Calgary-based pipeline operator, said last week its plan to convert part of its natural gas mainline to crude service appears to be economically and technically feasible, and that its customers seem to be keen on the idea.
  [...]
  Earlier Wednesday, Enbridge said its third-quarter net profit was $189 million, or 24 cents per share, compared with a small net loss of $5 million or one cent a share last year.
• 2012/11/07: ICN: Enbridge to Build Deepwater Crude Oil Pipeline in Gulf of Mexico
  Biofuel bickering abounds:
• 2012/11/08: LBL: More Bang for the Biofuel Buck
  Berkeley Lab Researchers Combine Old Fermentation Process For Making Explosives with New Chemical Catalysis to Boost Biofuel Production
• 
  The answer my friend…:

• 2012/11/11: TP:JR: Remembering Wind Pioneer Corwin Hardman: The Man And The Myth
• 2012/11/05: CSM: Green technologies: Portable wind turbine promises off-grid power
• 2012/11/05: BCLSB: A Vet, A Radiologist, And An Anaesthetist Walk Into A Scientific Controversy…
  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: U.S. Solar Jobs Grow By 13 Percent In 2012, Far Outpacing The Broader Economy
  The nuclear energy controversy continues:
• 2012/11/09: al Jazeera: Cracks found in South Korean nuclear reactor
  Reactor shut down after discovery of microscopic cracks, raising fears about power shortages before peak winter season.
• 2012/11/09: EneNews: AFP: Cracks found in South Korea nuclear reactor
• 2012/11/08: LS: ‘Powerships’ May Replace South Korea’s Offline Nuclear Reactors
• 2012/11/08: NBF: High Temperature Gas Cooled Reactors and the potentional market of 700 reactor modules
• 2012/11/08: NBF: First Public 1 Megawatt Rossi Ecat expected in May/June 2013 and other non-Public Sales
• 2012/11/10: NBF: Indian Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project to start production by first week of December
• 2012/11/11: TreeHugger: Data from Chernobyl Workers Links Leukemia to Radiation
• 2012/11/07: CCurrents: No Time To Waste: From Koodankulam to Vilappilsala
• 2012/11/05: CCurrents: Two Nuclear Reactors Shut Down In South Korea
• 2012/11/04: CCurrents: Koodankulam People’s Appeal To The Conscience Of The Nation
• 2012/11/05: NRC: NRC: Event Notification Report for November 5, 2012
• 2012/11/05: BBC: South Korea shuts nuclear reactors over unapproved parts
• 2012/11/05: ABC(Au): Uncertified parts force nuclear reactor shut down
  South Korea has been forced to shut down two nuclear reactors to replace components provided with fake quality certificates, a minister said, warning of “unprecedented” power shortages. Knowledge economy minister Hong Suk-Woo stressed the “non-core” components posed no safety threat and were unrelated to a string of systems malfunctions at reactors this year which triggered calls for a safety review. The two affected reactors at the Yeonggwang nuclear complex in the south west may have to remain offline until early January, as engineers replace more than 5,000 fuses, cooling fans and other parts provided by eight suppliers.
• 2012/11/05: al Jazeera: S Korean minister warns of energy crisis
  Economy minister Hong Suk-Woo says “unprecedented” power shortages possible after two nuclear reactors are shut down.
• 
  Nuclear waste storage requires _very_ long term thinking:

• 2012/11/06: BBC: Sellafield nuclear waste storage poses ‘intolerable risk’
  An “intolerable risk” is being posed by hazardous waste stored in run-down buildings at Sellafield nuclear plant, a watchdog has found. The National Audit Office (NAO) also said that for 50 years, the operators of the Cumbria installation failed to develop a long-term plan for waste.
• 
  Low energy nuclear keeps coming up:

• 2012/11/08: NBF: Low Energy Nuclear Reaction Experiment generates millions of neutrons in a second
  Like a mirage, the dream of a Hydrogen Economy shimmers on the horizon:
• 2012/11/09: ABC(Au): Scientists unlock nature’s hydrogen secrets
  Two Canberra scientists believe they have made a major breakthrough in how to best produce hydrogen which can be used as a clean and renewable energy source. Professors Rob Stranger and Ron Pace from the Research School of Chemistry at the Australian National University (ANU) have used computer modelling to reveal the molecular structure of the photosynthesis reaction site in plants.
• 2012/11/08: SciNow: A Wet Way to Better Burning?
• 2012/11/08: SciNews: Hydrogen fuel edges a step closer — Chemical setup creates clean-burning gas
  More people are talking about the electrical grid:
• 2012/11/07: Yahoo:AP: Swiss firm says its new switch to aid green energy
• 2012/11/10: NBF: A Direct Voltage breaker for high voltage transmission will enable interconnect between countries and continents
• 2012/11/06: ICN: Sandy’s Blackouts Pressure Utilities to Bury Power Lines
  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:
• 2012/11/06: TreeHugger: Fireflies Inspire Better, Cheaper LEDs
  Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:
• 2012/11/08: AutoBG: EV drivers find plug-in refuge during gas station frenzy post-Sandy
• 2012/11/08: NBF: Argonne National Laboratory Engineer makes better diesel engine but states there will be no demand without regulation
• 2012/11/09: AutoBG: California leads in green car sales, but there are surprises on the lists
• 2012/11/07: AutoBG: Car Charging Group tips its hat to SAE Combo [J1772] as debate continues
• 2012/11/05: AutoBG: How Sandy (may have) set 17 plug-in hybrids on fire
• 2012/11/05: NBF: Tesla Motors on track to reach profitable 20,000 car per year production volumes
• 2012/11/06: CSM: Assessing Sandy: Are electric cars a better bet in emergencies?
• 2012/11/06: BBC: Nissan has slashed its full-year profit forecast by 20% after car sales slumped in China amid anti-Japanese protests
• 2012/11/06: BBC: Suzuki Motors to end US car sales amid growing struggle
  Japan’s Suzuki Motors will stop selling cars in the US as it continues to struggle to compete with rivals in the world’s second-biggest market.
• 2012/11/06: CBC: Bankrupt Suzuki to focus on motorbikes in U.S. market — Japanese firm to cease selling cars in U.S. market
  As for Energy Storage:
• 2012/11/08: TreeHugger: New Grid-Scale Battery Has Electrodes that Don’t Degrade
• 2012/11/08: AutoBG: A123, Wanxiang deal under scrutiny by Republican Senators
  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:
• 2012/11/07: AutoBG: Renault installs massive photovoltaic panels, enough to offset 1,500 gas cars
  Insurance and re-insurance companies are feeling the heat:
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: The Insurance Industry Is Finally Waking Up And Smelling The Climate Chaos Coffee
• 2012/11/04: BizInsurance: Recent storms highlight need for Northeast hurricane mitigation plan
• 2012/11/06: CSW: “The insurance industry is finally waking up and smelling the climate chaos coffee”
  Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:
• 2012/11/09: TP:JR: November 9 News…
• 2012/11/08: TP:JR: November 8 News…
• 2012/11/06: TP:JR: November 6 News…
• 2012/11/05: TP:JR: November 5 News…
  Other (weekly) lists:
• 2012/11/11: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #9 by John Hartz
• 2012/11/06: BPA: Agriculture News
• 2012/11/05: TreeHugger: Energy News…
• 2012/11/06: SkS: 2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #8 by John Hartz
  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:
• 2012/11/10: al Jazeera: Dealing with oil-Qaeda
  For years, energy executives have funded a massive campaign to deny the reality of climate change.
• 2012/11/10: UKISS: Denier Comment of the Day, November 10, 2012
• 2012/11/06: CCP: Chesapeake Energy Tied to Mansfield, OH, Bill of Rights Astroturf Attack
• 2012/11/07: TWTB: Christopher Monckton, birther — Part IV
• 2012/11/08: AFTIC: Monckton goes all out birther
• 2012/11/07: PSinclair: Monckton: Obama “Was Not and Is Not The President”. And by the Way, there is no Climate Change.
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: Election Takeaway for Fossil Fuel Industry: Money Can’t Buy You Love
• 2012/11/07: TP:JR: The Final Tally: Big Polluters’ Big Ad Spending In The 2012 Elections
• 2012/11/11: Tamino: Extreme Denial
• 2012/11/11: TP:JR: Climate Denier Lord Monckton’s IPCC ‘Appointment’ That Wasn’t
• 2012/11/07: DeSmogBlog: The Real Winner Of US Election — Dirty Energy Money
• 2012/11/07: OilChange: Big Oil bet big…and lost
• 2012/11/06: CD: Reasons why climate disasters might not increase concern about climate change
  As for climate miscellanea:
• 2012/11/07: GLaden: Science Denialism: Some resources
• 2012/11/09: Tamino: What David Suzuki and I have in common
• 2012/11/06: CCentral: Changes in Sea Saltiness Show We’re Affecting the Climate
• 2012/11/06: QuarkSoup: Making Seawalls Out of Coal
• 2012/11/06: AllModelsAreWrong: Many dimensions to life and science
• 2012/11/06: Grist: GMO labeling or no, a movement comes of age
• 2012/11/05: QuarkSoup: This Morning’s Bad, Good and Ugly
  And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:
• All Models Are Wrong
  …but some are useful. A grown-up discussion about how to quantify uncertainties in modelling climate change and its impacts, past and future.
• CFTE: Center for Transportation Excellence
• Wiki: NPT – Non-Proliferation Treaty – Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
• Wiki: CTBT – Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
• Blueprint for Water – 10 steps to sustainable water
• GreenEconomics
• NRC Research Press – Scientific Publishing
• BBSRC: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
• Climate & Health Council
• CleanTechnica
• PaleoWave

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

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

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