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A breakthrough moment: IPCC’s Dr. Pachauri supports 350 target

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Amazing news just arrived at 350 headquarters. Rajendra Pachauri, the U.N.’s top climate scientist, announced his support for a target of 350 ppm (parts per million of CO2). Dr. Pachauri leads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which every five years produces the authoritative assessment of climate science. Previously, the IPCC had helped establish a target of 450 ppm.

Nuclear Weapons and ‘Fourth Generation’ Nuclear Power

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‘Integral fast reactors’ and other ‘fourth generation’ nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention as potential contributors to climate change abatement, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. However, nuclear power could at most make a modest contribution to climate change abatement, and all nuclear power concepts fail to address the single greatest problem with nuclear power − its repeatedly-demonstrated connection to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Comment/Learsy hearsay or what’s wrong with Raymond Learsy’s “forthright comments” on oil

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It is probable, or at least possible Learsy himself takes seriously what he claims as facts in this “trenchant” piece. Basically he asserts the IEA or International Energy Agency has been taken over by dark forces which inject the world’s media, and politicians heads with dangerous, or at least wrongheaded propaganda to drive up oil prices.

Cyber-Attack Strategy: Part of Russian Attack on Georgian Pipelines, Report Finds

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John Bumgarner, a former cyber-security expert for the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies, is attracting much attention for his report concluding that Russia’s military offensive in Georgia last year was coordinated with a pre-arranged civilian cyber-attack on the country. What appears to have gone unreported is Bumgarner’s conclusion that the region’s oil apparatus was a strategic target of the overall conventional-and-cyber offensive.