What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com

He announces in a speech on energy and climate change that we need to expand offshore oil drilling and coal production — two methods of obtaining fuels that contribute to the extreme weather Americans are now seeing.

Opening Gambit: Moore's Flaw - By Charles Homans | Foreign Policy

the venture capitalists who funded the 1990s tech boom have embraced the clean-energy business en masse, investing $12 billion from 2001 to 2009 in companies hoping to devise and market alternatives to oil and coal.

"We can already see a Moore's Law dynamic operating in the energy sector," John Denniston, a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers -- the venture-capital firm that bankrolled Google and is now a major clean-energy investor -- told a U.S. Senate panel in 2007, "giving us confidence [that] the rate of green-tech performance improvement and cost reduction will offer new energy solutions we can't even imagine right now." Vinod Khosla, the billionaire founder of Sun Microsystems and now among the most vocal clean-energy investors, wrote in Wired about the growth he expected in the capabilities of plant-derived fuels: "Like Moore's Law, this trajectory tracks a steady increase in performance, affordability, and, importantly, yield per acre of farmland."

Such analogies are the information economy's most seductive legacy, and its most perilous. Few other industries are so elegantly reducible to the movement of electrons; the cost and speed of sequencing the human genome, for instance, might be proceeding at a Moore's Law-like pace, but that doesn't mean that human life expectancy is, too. Photovoltaic solar cells are getting better and cheaper, but not exponentially so. And the high-powered batteries used in electric cars are rapidly approaching physical barriers to advancement.

Photographs depict climate change faces | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online

MANILA, Philippines — A photo exhibit is being mounted in the Philippine Senate to drum up support for the passage of Senate Bill 2558 or the establishment of People's Survival Fund (PSF) to help finance the adaptation to climate change of local governments and communities.

The exhibit, dubbed “Visage: Portraits of Filipinos Facing Climate Change,” which has opened last August 3, and ongoing up to August 12, in the hallway of the Upper Chamber, features the work of veteran photojournalist Jose Enrique Soriano and shows images of people who are directly affected by climate change. It is sponsored by the offices of Senate President Jose Ponce Enrile, Sen. Loren Legarda, Committee on Climate Change, and Institute of Climate and Sustainable Cities (iCSC).

The science is settled: 69% think global warming is a crock of something that smells very bad | IHTM

We just did our own survey. 50% of the IHTM staff thinks Al Gore concocted global warming to line his own pockets and 50% think he did it to advance one world government. The margin of error is 50% one way or the other.

An inconvenient investigation | Opinions | Medicine Hat News

What makes it newsworthy is that people are taking a second look at the 2004 findings.
After all, it's been seven years since the sighting of the four dead bears and since that time, no bears have drowned, with the exception of one which was darted by researchers.