Renewable energy deniers miss the point « Robert Kyriakides’s Weblog

The renewable energy deniers, whether they are policy makers in a government office or journalists trying to earn a living by writing controversially, have to employ their imaginations better. An energy-less future is the quickest route to the dark ages where discomfort, disease and lack of essentials prevailed. Renewables will ensure that the future has a chance of being nearly as good as the past. Renewables are not perfect, but they the only source of energy when the fuel runs out.

Wait a minute--I thought the "point" was that if we kept using fossil fuels, my grandchildren would die in CO2-induced hellfire?!

British company barcodes trees to protect forests | Green Business | Reuters

Helveta hopes its technology could help countries taking part in a proposed scheme to protect the world's forests as part of the fight against global warming. That is likely to form part of any global climate deal agreed in Copenhagen in December.

The scheme, called Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), aims to increase forest cover to soak up carbon dioxide emissions blamed for rising seas, extreme weather and melting glaciers.

It may include a market-based element where traders buy and sell REDD credits from forestry projects that lock away carbon.

However, trading based on the number of trees in a forest needs close auditing if the market is to work, Helveta says.

YouTube - [Insane] Power Shift Sydney Flash-dance was sponsored in part by a university

UWS Comms/Arts Students and A-Live Entertainment Present - Flash-Dance for Climate Change! Thanks to major sponsors [University of Western Sydney], GetUp and Greenpeace.Edited by Mike Clay. Filmed by Craig, SImon, Jarra and UWS Students.

Capturing Carbon Dioxide In Tiny Bowls: Global Warming Fix From Microbes?

ScienceDaily (July 16, 2009) — The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those CO2 "catchers," a scientist from Maryland reports.