Australian drought – Jan 21

Drought and corporate profit

Australia ponders climate future

Coral study: more Asian monsoons = more severe Aus droughts

Supermarket’s drought action day

Drought drag on economic growth

More: Snakes, floods, and cracking buildings…

Oil sands – Jan 21

U.S. urges ‘fivefold expansion’ in Alberta oilsands production
Close energy ties to U.S. limit action on climate change
Du sable dans l’engrenage – good Canadian broadcast (French)
Nuclear power in oilsands extraction questioned

Dysfunction – Jan 20

Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
Texas view on environment is 18 lanes wide
Burtynsky photos on consumerist capitalism
The end of the world as they know it

Peak oil – Jan 20

Revenge of the Shia?
Cubic Miles of Oil (CMOs): Getting a grasp on oil production volumes

Pemex predicts production drop
Pemex faces change or drying up

Climate attitude turnaround?

A coalition for firm limit on emissions

Power companies endorse emissions cap bill
Oil companies warm to law on emissions
Warming no longer taboo at Natl Parks Service

Confessions of an alleged ExxonMobil whore

China – Jan 20

China to get tough on green design
Will 2007 be China’s Year of Gasoline imports?
China starts thinking ‘alternative energy’
US farming disaster: a prediction for China?

Climate science – Jan 20

Life in California post-global warming

Surge in carbon levels raises fears of runaway warming

Landmark UN study backs climate theory
IPCC: New warnings on climate change

5 minutes to midnight

The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades climate change could cause drastic harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.

Bush on climate change

Bush readies speech on climate change
Bush set for climate change U-turn
White House denies climate change U-turn

Climate policy – Jan 18

Stern upbeat over climate action, responds to critics
Science and faith join forces
Exxon softens climate-change stance
Chrysler questions climate change
Env ministers lack clout on global warming
U.S.
cutbacks impede climate studies
Canada can get rich by going green, Dion says
Is good weather bad for sustainable energy?