The last week of September (24th – 28th) is jam-packed with international climate-related conferences and meetings, “unfolding against a background of deepening scientific concern but entrenched political obstacles.”

Already, some international discussion has begun on post-Kyoto emissions targets. The Christian Science Monitor has a media summary explaining where several major nations stand after a preliminary meeting last week in Vienna.

A second meeting will take place the final week of September. (Both meetings are precursors to formal negotiations beginning in December in Bali, Indonesia.) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is gathering 30 nations in New York to discuss global warming prior to the General Assembly’s session on it.

A few days later, President Bush has invited the top 15 emitters to D.C. for conversations on voluntary reductions and technology development — the old game of delay, delay, delay.

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Climate Progress has seen an explosion of readership recently. I wouldn’t expect most new readers to go through the archives looking for the gems, so I’ll offer what I think are the best here. It’s my version of a clip show:

• A Must Read: “Global Temperature Change,” by James Hansen et al.
• Tiger Woods and Global Warming
• Ten Reasons Why Climate Change May Be More Severe than Projected
• White House Fools the Media Again with Warmed-Over Do-Nothing Climate “Plan”
• The Permafrost is not so Perma
• Wildfire Season Smashes Records — and the Media Keeps Blowing the Story
• Global Warming = Bush gets Fired

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