2nd day – Arctic sea ice is again on the rise « Watts Up With That?

WUWT reader Bruce Richardson made a nice zoomed comparison graph, which he offered in comments, that I have added to this article.

What summer 2009 might be telling us about winter

It is important to be aware that a large scale severe winter is a real possibility this year.

More than 4.5m children will die if money for aid is diverted to climate change [scam] - Oxfam - Telegraph

Millions of children could die because cash for food aid is diverted to tackle climate change, Oxfam has warned.

To Save the Planet From Global Warming, Turn the Sahara Green

The study, published in the journal Climatic Change, proposes huge desalinization plants on the North African and Australian coastlines to convert sea water to fresh water, and a system of aqueducts and pumps to move the water inland. The young forests would be nourished with drip irrigation to prevent water loss through evaporation, and the sandy wastelands would chang into endless groves of heat-tolerant, tropical trees like eucalyptus. All that water engineering would come at a steep price–about $2 trillion per year–but the researchers say that cost isn’t much more than the projected cost of capturing all the carbon dioxide emissions from the world’s power plants and burying them deep underground. They also note that carbon capture and storage technology is still untested on the commercial scale, while everyone already knows that forests work as carbon sponges.

[Another bright idea from 2008: Let's hire 2 million people to saw down trees and bury them]

If each trench has a 500 tC capacity (example in Fig. 6), then the number of trenches needed for a 5 GtC y-1 sequestration rate would be 10 million per year, i.e., one trench every 3 seconds. Assuming it takes a crew of 10 people (with machinery) one week to dig a trench, collect/cut and bury wood over a 100 hectare area, 200,000 crews (2 million workers) and sets of machinery would be needed. This estimate is admittedly simplistic and the task could be quite labor-intensive if it is to be carried out in dense or steep-sloped natural forests.