Buzz Roundup: Talk in the Green Blogs, 12.12.07

Each day, I'm going to try to lasso at least a good chunk of the best and busiest conversations on our favorite blogs about the environment. (If we've missed a great blog you read -- or write -- regularly, please let us know! Leave a comment, or write to us.

"The Arctic Is Screaming"

So says NASA senior scientist Mark Serreze of new satellite data showing that summer sea ice is now half the size it was just four years ago, and that the Greenland ice sheet's summer melt was nearly 19 million tons more than the previous record. The story quickly climbed the charts on Digg and Newsvine; RealClimate's Raypierre and Joe Romm at Climate Progress have detailed accounts of the science, presented yesterday by Serreze at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. GreenCarCongress has specifics on U. of Colorado professor Konrad Steffen's presentation on the Greenland ice sheet. And Dave Chandler's comments hit home.

Bali Climate Conference

Longtime climate warrior Ross Gelbspan's current gloom notwithstanding, the UN climate conference in Bali is rolling on; talks yesterday turned to funding the gigantic sea changes that will be required to slash greenhouse emissions. It's now "crunch time" -- the high-level segment of the conference opens today. NRDC has a sizeable team blogging the conference, including NRDC president Frances Beinecke and climate-policy director David Doniger, who's feeling invigorated and hopeful. Elsewhere, New York Times environment reporter Andrew Revkin is writing about the conference in his Dot Earth blog; DeSmogBlog continues to needle the actions of the United States and Canada at the conference; Grist is doing a wonderful job covering the conference, and It's Getting Hot in Here is churning out posts.

Daily Morsels

• Greg Laden at ScienceBlogs found a riotous send-up of Fox News' approach to reporting the news on climate change;
• Triple Pundit has a fascinating post on several efforts to make wind-generated electric power with... sails. Yep, as in spinnakers, topsails, etc.
• Plenty Magazine's Extinction Blog reports on a new threat to pandas.
• EcoGeek 'splains the UK's staggeringly ambitious new wind-power plan
• blogfish on the sad decline of the Chesapeake Bay oyster fishery
• Sheril Kirshenbaum at Wired Science on why science is her abiding passion.

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