Peter H. Gleick: Montana considers repealing reality in the interest of economic development

I guess if the legislature wants to make facts disappear through legislation or to define these things as good for the "welfare and business climate" of the state, they can try. They can also declare up to be down, gravity to be void, and left to be right, but that doesn't make it so.

The Treasury growls as Nick Clegg pushes the green agenda | Politics | The Guardian

The Liberal Democrats want the green bank to be a proper bank. But Whitehall's powerbase is determined to frustrate them

Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management Division Releases Investing in Climate Change 2011 Report | Business Wire

“Institutional investors are giving greater consideration than ever before to climate change in their assessment of asset allocation,” said Kevin Parker, Global Head of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management division (DeAM) and a member of Deutsche Bank’s Group Executive Committee. “I believe that we have reached a critical point in our industry at which all the talk about climate change begins to translate into action. Asset owners everywhere are starting to move and their first impulse is to identify where in their portfolios the climate risk lies. To do so effectively and efficiently, they need a new intellectual framework and set of tools. And they need them now.”