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CBC News
It will be interesting to see whether the news that — putting aside issues of inaccessibility, geopolitical disputes and environmental risk — the Arctic probably has 90 billion barrels worth of oil will cool the rhetoric of those yearning for a modern-day version of the Apollo project .
Zerofootprint founder and CEO Ron Dembo spoke this past week at TED 2007. Here are his two PowerPoint presentations.
Tim Flannery nailed it when he reflected that one of the obstacles to decisive action on climate change is that the whole idea of global warming has become a cliché even before it has been understood.
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The Green Blog – Boston Globe
As with subprime mortgages, climate risks present far-reaching hidden risks, and the financial industry should be paying closer attention. Wall Street research analysts, bond rating agencies, and banks should all be scrubbing their portfolios to weed out subprime carbon assets that may prove toxic in the future.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), set up by the UN in 1988, is meeting in Valencia, Spain this week to summarize the risks of climate change for a report aimed at guiding governments.