Major storms could submerge New York City in next decade | Environment | guardian.co.uk

By the mid-2020s, sea level rise around Manhattan and Long Island could be up to 10 inches, assuming the rapid melting of polar sea ice continues. By 2050, sea-rise could reach 2.5ft and more than 4.5ft by 2080 under the same conditions.

Frozen Planet has a duty to inspire debate as well as wonder | Susanna Rustin | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

For what is the point of education, if not the truth?

Just how much meat can eco-citizens eat? - environment - 16 November 2011 - New Scientist

The rich eat 10 times more [meat] than the poor – in other words, some people get 10 burgers a day while others get none.

Europe's Climate Agenda Takes the Back Seat

For the first time, the Greens were voted down in the European Parliament, so the mood has changed. The climate issue is no longer at the top of the agenda. The targets won’t be changed; they will no longer be taken that seriously.

Vaclav Smil: Obama's Indefensible Pipeline Punt

By preventing the oil flow from Canada, the United States will deliberately deprive itself of new manufacturing and construction jobs; it will not slow down the increase of global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion; it will almost certainly empower China; and it will make itself strategically even more vulnerable by becoming further dependent on declining, unstable, and contested overseas crude oil supplies.