Bayou Renaissance Man: A 'green' experiment backfires

The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research explained that the addition of iron to 300 square kilometres of the South Atlantic did promote plankton growth, but they were unexpectedly eaten by small crustacean zooplankton before they could absorb more of the greenhouse gas.

The Virginian: Dispelling the Global Warming Myth

These are a few of the many slides that I found interesting. This one, by Dennis Avery, puts the climate swings of the last 12,000 years (i.e., since the last Ice Age) in perspective...

AMEE: Why Everything Will Have a Carbon [Scam] ID

Gavin Starks, CEO of AMEE (a platform that seeks to, quite literally, measure all the energy data in the world), followed SF Mayor Newsom this morning on stage, to kick off the GreenNet09 gathering of tech oriented change agents.
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But what caught my attention this morning was not just the common sense of what AMEE provide, it was the passion and deep urgency in Stark's delivery. Take a look at the image above - my favorite slide from this morning's presentation - which has less to do with AMEE and more to do with the greater costs of taking little or no action to the planetary and climactic threats at our doorstep.

Incidentally, AMEE stands for "Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine". Now we're talking.