Bolivia creates a new opportunity for climate talks that failed at Copenhagen | Pablo Solón Romero | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Bolivia will host an international meeting on climate change next month because it is not prepared to 'betray its people'

Aiming for a no-carbon economy | Mike Mason | Environment | guardian.co.uk

There is a big difference between a "low-carbon economy" and a "no carbon economy". Both will need massive investments in new infrastructure and the deployment of huge swaths of new technology which will take decades to build. However, getting the last bit of carbon out of the economy is going to be terribly difficult, and many key choices needed to get there must be made more or less today.

Four obstacles facing electric bike popularity | Grist

[I'd add a fifth obstacle: Not many people really believe that you can prevent bad weather by riding a bicycle.]

Poll results handily explained by what bloggers think | Eric Roston - Grist

Marc Morano, the former aide to Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), runs an operation called Climate Depot that feeds a lot of the AGW ((anti-)anthropogenic global warming) blogosphere. This week he asks, "How could Americans show less concern?!" The least scientific of all investigations, the Google Blog search, turned up far fewer liberal posts that match the breathless, ad hominem, conspiracy-exposing tone of these conservatives blogs.

Eric Roston | Grist

Eric Roston is senior associate at the Nicholas Institute and author of The Carbon Age: How Life's Core Element Has Become Civilization's Greatest Threat.  [or maybe we put the Weber grills too close to the thermometers]