2012 SkS Weekly News Round-Up #7

Editor's Choice

• Expanding Our Moral Imagination by Mary Pipher, Psychotherapy Networker, Sept/Oct 2012

Adaptation vs. Mitigation

• It May Be Too Late to Stop Global Warming by Lee Dye, ABC News, Oct 26, 2012

Africa

• Africa: Countries Asked to Take Climate Change Seriously, All Africa, Oct 20, 2012

Agriculture

• Corn belt moving northward with climate change by Alan Bjerga, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Oct 21, 2012
• More Greenhouse Gas per Grain of Rice, Press Release, Trinity College Dublin, Oct 22, 2012
• Zimbabwe: Climate Change Alters Face of Agriculture by Jeffery Gogo, All Africa, Oct 22, 2012

Australia

• Climate change bill of $1b for suburbs by Cameron Houston, The Age, Oct 21, 2012
• Climate Policies to Spur A$100 Billion in Spending by James Paton, Bloomberg, Oct 23, 2012

Climate Justice

• How to create a multi-level movement for climate justice by George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence, Oct 23, 2012

Defamation Suit Filed

• Penn State climate scientist files defamation suit by  Renee Schoof , McClatchy Newspapers, Oct 23, 2012

Denier Shenanigans

• Fake 'addendum' by libertarian group tries to undo federal climate report by Douglas Fischer, The Daily Climate, Oct 23, 2012

Fueling Emissions

• U.S. Coal Exports On Pace To Hit All-Time High, Fueling Surge In International Global Warming Pollution by Stephen Lacey, Climate Prgress, Oct 23, 2012
• Oil’s new supply boom is a bust for the climate by Lorne Stockman, Steve Kretzmann, and David Turnbull, Oil Change International, Oct 25, 2012

Glaciers

• Vanishing Glaciers, Then and Now by James Balog, Truthout, Oct 20, 2012
• World's Glaciers Have New Size Estimate by Becky Oskin, LiveScience, Oct 22, 2012

India

• Global warming upsetting biological clock of species, ZeeNews, Oct 21, 2012

Methane

• Climate-changing methane 'rapidly destabilizing' off East Coast, study finds, NBC News, Oct 24, 2012

Risks & Opportunities

• Companies Study Climate Risks and Opportunities by Marianela Jarroud, Inter Press Service (IPS), Oct 25, 2012

U.S.

• Obama’s record: Environmental agenda pushes sweeping attack on air pollution by Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Oct 21, 2012
• The Issue That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Justin Gillis, New York Times, Oct 23, 2012
• From ‘Frontline,’ a Look at the Skeptics’ Advance by Felicity Barringer, New York Times, Oct 24, 2012
• Both Romney and Obama Avoid Talk of Climate Change by John Broder, New York Times, Oct 25, 2012 

Note: This round-up is a sampling of the multitude of news articles and blog posts about the many facets of climate change that were published and posted during the course of the past week. You are more than welcome to add links to articles and posts that you believe would be of interest to our SkS community in the comment thread of this post.

Posted by John Hartz on Sunday, 28 October, 2012

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