U.N. Chief Poleward Bound - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

Secretary General Ban ki-moon today announced plans to fly from Norway out over the Arctic Ocean to the Norwegian research vessel Lance near the North Pole on September 1.

1. Why doesn't he go in the winter?

2. Why is he traveling via a fossil-fueled plane?

Sanjeev Dhawan lists reasons to be skeptical of Kyoto claims | Pierce County Herald | Ellsworth, Wisconsin

One should be very wary of the UN’s yearly IPCC reports, especially the SPMs (Summary For Policy Makers), which have become notorious for their bias, tendency to overstate problems and penchant for simplifying and dramatizing scientific speculation. They “confirm” politicians’ view on CO2 and global warming.

Love in a time of cataclysm | Grist

I was in a more subtle crisis, raising my kids without much help from their father in a bubble of my own fear, which came out of my growing acquaintance with the writings of James Hansen, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Bill McKibben. And also out of my close observations of the weather.

TERI University launches two new courses on 10th anniversary

he university, located here, is starting a specialised MBA programme on business sustainability, which will produce people able to manage businesses in such a way that natural resources do not get used up, chancellor R.K. Pachauri announced here Wednesday.