With so much of the discussion about global warming focused on sophisticated climate models, radiant forces, and the merits of the science (and yes, the science has merit), it's easy to not see the forest for the trees -- or lack thereof. A lot of the...]]> The International Energy Agency (IEA) issued their annual World Energy Outlook, and despite a drop in 2009 demand due to the global recession, the numbers look grim. As Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the IEA put it; "...a continuation of current ...]]> If we are "addicted" to oil (as even George Bush admitted), then I guess air travel would need to be classified as heroin: Extremely harmful, and yet almost impossible to quit. As an example of how deep this addiction runs: I'm on an email group list ...]]> Al Gore has a new book out (which I have not yet read) and already the attack dogs are on the loose. You'd think a Nobel prize and Oscar winning ex-Senator/Vice President could get a little respect. I mean, if his resume ('CV' for you euro-readers) do...]]> In a recent talk reminiscent of Joseph McCarthy's famous Lincoln Day speech of 1950, The British Viscount Christopher Monckton revealed that climate change and the upcoming UN talks in Copenhagen are all a part of a gigantic communist plot. According ...]]> I just saw a short video featuring James Altucher, a weekly columnist for the Financial Times and long time Wall Street fund manager, who is bullish on Campbell's Soup and winter coats, and bearish on climate change.Altucher is obviously a very brigh...]]> In the United States, more people believe that houses can be haunted by the dead than believe that the living can cause climate change. Is this simply a scary Halloween tale or our frightening future? The latest Pew poll on global warming shows a larg...]]> "Dear World,This is an invitation to build a movement—to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis." Thus starts the invitation from Bill McKibben and his colleagues to participate in the International Day of Climate Action this Saturda...]]> Peter Russell, a British author and futurist, has a mesmerizing world clock on his website.This clock doesn't tell time, it measures global stress issues, such as population growth, species extinctions, deforestation, and CO2 emissions. I reset the cl...]]> Donald Rumsfeld famously said:There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don't know we ...]]>