The Arctic to Become Fish Party Spot by Summer 2030

As diatoms flourish, larger animals will be given incentives to travel northward, a process that won’t occur overnight. It seems much more likely that larger animals, once they catch wind of the growing number of species in the Arctic, will migrate up for the summer and head back south for the harsh, dark winter months.

Climate Observations: Animations of Weekly SST Anomaly Maps from January 3, 1996 to July 1, 2009

ENSO events stand out in the Pacific Ocean SST anomaly animation. It is possible to differentiate between traditional El Nino events like the 1997/98 El Nino (initially forms in the eastern equatorial Pacific) and the El Nino Modoki events of 2002/03 and 2004/05 (initially form in the central equatorial Pacific). Occasionally, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) pattern in the North Pacific (north of 20N) makes its presence known, as does the basin-wide pattern of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO).

Green Ink: Everybody’s Upset With the Climate Bill - Environmental Capital - WSJ

There’s plenty of discontent with the energy and climate bills the House produced. Environmentalists feel cheated by the watered-down bill, and especially by what they see as passivity from the White House, in the NYT. Businesses which supported a cap-and-trade bill find they don’t really support this cap-and-trade bill, in the WSJ. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce explains some reasons why, in Politico.

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Finally, Austin’s aim of becoming the clean-energy capital of the U.S. has run into a roadblock: Now that renewable energy costs three times as much as regular electricity, nobody wants to buy the stuff, in the Austin American Statesman.

Jennifer Marohasy » In Melbourne: Big Al, Small Protest

ANYONE who denies global warming is in the pay of big oil. Remember that is what the big man, Al Gore, said in his movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. But like so much that Mr Gore says, it just isn’t true.

Consider the 30-odd protesters who held placards outside the breakfast he spoke at this morning in Melbourne. The scruffy-lot, lead by a farmer Leon Ashby, were not there because someone paid them, but because they are outraged by Al Gore and what he has thrust on the world. In particular, his belief that we already have a climate crisis and that the only solution is carbon trading.