Revealing comments from Christophe de Margerie, head of exploration for Total and heir presumptive to the leadership of the French energy multinational. Interviewed by the Times earlier in the week he argued that the world lacks the means to produce...
Not that this is news on its own, but an ABC/Washington Post poll, released yesterday, shows that a whopping 74% believe he's mishandling "the situation with gas prices". Thanks to Greenpeace for the heads up.
Tens of thousands of animals and plants could become extinct within the coming decades as a direct result of climate change, according to a new study. Scientists believe that if atmospheric levels of CO2 double - as expected by 2100...
Interesting article from today's Independent about how Bush's remarks on oil addicition have boosted the renewable energy sector. So maybe he did some good after all. "When President George Bush talked about the US being 'addicted to oil' this year,...
More insightful comments from readers in today's Independent: "The scientific background to the climate change debate is rather frightening, so that those with knowledge and power are stunned by the problems ahead. If they are not addressed, I foresee the...
Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing - it asked it's readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion...
The day before Tony Blair addresses a key scientific conference on climate change in New Zealand, the British government has finally admitted what many long suspected, that - wait for it - it will fail to meet its often repeated...
The BP spill on the North Slope is still reverberating - here is a post to the "safepipelines" discussion group: "You know I get asked all the time variations of; 'what do you expect'. What do you expect us to...
A staggering three-quarters of the American population are "disgruntled" about weak leadership from President Bush on climate change, and argue that the government should be doing more to promote renewable energy. The survey, by the Civil Society Institute, found that...
So we now know that three-quarters of the American public is concerned about climate change (see blog below) and believes that Bush should be doing more. They are not the only ones. Earlier this month the Insurance Commissioners of the...
