The renewable energy future

 (LA Times) An op-editorial about the challenges facing renewable enrgy in California and the USA.

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-renewable17sep17,1,2388408.story?coll=la-news-comment&ctrack=1&cset=true

New book on climate change from Bjorn Lomborg

Review of the skeptical environmentalist’s Bjorn Lomborg latest book.

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/a-cool-look-at-global-warming-your-turn-to-take-on-bjorn-lomborg/

Hydrogen economy won’t happen

Good editorial about how the hydrogen economy is overhyped and less carbon-friendly than people think.

http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=49540&src=rss

Al Gore: Climate change infor manipulated

Al Gore claims that big oil companies are funding misinformation on climate change.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Gore-Climate-Change.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The Case for the Carbon Tax

Those who support carbon taxes are missing the obvious: This could be structured and sold as an income tax rebate, paid for by fees levied on extraction or imports of carbon. A clever and simple carbon tax system.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/05/AR2007080501323.html 

AFRICA: Nobel Peace Prize Winner speaks out on climate change

  Wangari Matthai

Africa is the continent that will be hit hardest by climate change. Unpredictable rains and floods, prolonged droughts, subsequent crop failures and rapid desertification, among other signs of global warming, have in fact already begun to change the face of Africa. An editorial by Noel Prize Winner Wangari Matthai.

http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Opinion/opinion06080710.htm 

Climate change is about more than carbon

THE world is starting to take note of its carbon footprint – and with good reason. Yet in the rush to cut carbon dioxide emissions, it is all too easy to forget about other pollutants whose contribution to global warming is just as worrying. Ozone smogs, acid rain and smoke were all targeted by environmentalists in the 1980s and 1990s for the local harm that they do. What is now becoming clear is that failure to tackle them could also upset the best-laid carbon schemes.

http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12413-climate-change-is-about-more-than-carbon.html 

Biofuels: Green energy or grim reaper?

Biofuels could end up damaging the natural world rather than saving it from global warming, argues Jeff McNeely on BBC. Better policies, better science and genetic modification, he says, can all contribute to a greener biofuels revolution.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5369284.stm

Carbon neutral madness

 Carbon neutrality is really going mad…

http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4182&catid=&volume_id=254&issue_id=308&volume_num=41&issue_num=44

Climate change poker

A great editorial by Colin Challen MP in the UK from Science Magazine. (subscripotion)

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/317/5836/295?etoc