Climate News Roundup
A worrisome trilogy has the day’s big news that carbon cycle feedbacks are starting to kick in, something Climate Progress has been worried about for a long time (here and here for instance):
- Climate change weakens carbon sink - ScienceAlert
- Rapd rise in global warming is forecast - TimesOnline
- CO2 sponge losing ability to soak up extra emissions - The Guardian
[The Washington Post buried this major news as a three paragraph wire story on page A10, admittedly with the most bombshell headline, “Oceans May Be Losing Ability to Absorb Carbon.”]
Energy Standards Needed, Report Says - New York Times. Energy saving opportunities in American homes are immense with current technology — equivalent to the production from 110 new coal-fired 600-megawatt power plants — but new product standard mandates will be needed, according to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute. Quotable quote from McKinsey (hardly a hotbed of progressive thought): ” The study makes a strong case for what economists tend to shy away from — market intervention.”
US Says No Shift in Global Warming Stance - Reuters. Duh! So much for the claim, which we never believed, that Prime Minister Blair was “close to persuading George Bush to accept an ambitious plan to bring the world’s greatest polluters into international partnership to fight climate change for the first time.”
