Gore: I don't want to be czar

Al Gore has turned down the chance to be the Obama administration's "climate czar," Tom LoBianco and S.A. Miller report.

It just illustrates that old saying: A lot of people talk about the climate, but nobody ever does anything about it.

Arianna Huffington knows CO2

...more and more, both new media and old-fashioned news types are disagreeing with that approach. The growing trend is that the truth must surpass the 50/50 doctrine. "We have gotten it so wrong with the idea of giving equal play to both sides," says Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of Huffingtonpost.com and a longtime proponent of trading arbitrary "balance" for truth. "We are not always going to be balanced. Very often, it is one side or the other." She cited the ongoing arguments against global warming, which she contends mainstream journalists allowed for too long to go unchallenged: "We wasted a lot of journalistic capital on global warming trying to be balanced."

The road to hell is paved with good intentions: Greenpeace opposes both coal and nuclear power for Africa

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Environmental group Greenpeace opened its first office in Africa on Thursday and urged South Africa, the continent's biggest economy, to reduce its dependence on coal and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.

Experts say poverty means Africa is ill able to adapt to severe weather changes forecast to be triggered by global warming, while African nations have been among the lowest emitters of the gases blamed for causing it.

South Africa relies on coal to generate much of its electricity. State utility Eskom has previously said it plans to cut emissions by reducing its reliance on coal and to expand future power output using mainly nuclear power stations.

"They need to spend more money not in nuclear power, but in renewable energy and energy efficiency," Amadou Kanoute, executive director of Greenpeace Africa, told Reuters.
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"Africa is in a position to leapfrog dirty development and become a leader in helping to avert catastrophic climate change and protect the natural environment. We are here to help make that happen," Kanoute said.