Obama Puts Forward a Cautious Offshore Drilling Policy - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Obama has set a target of reducing U.S. oil imports by a third by 2025, and greater domestic oil production is going to have to be a part of that—including oil from the Arctic.

The burning issue of energy can't wait for economic good times | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The house is ablaze and we are throwing bucket after bucket at it - buckets of petrol. Worse, if that is possible, the world's politicians are not stepping in to stop us stoking the flames: instead they are helping us pay for the petrol.

That simple, devastating analogy captures entirely the current global action on climate change. Despite warnings from scientists that have been clear for years, the globe is not curbing its carbon emissions: they are rising by record amounts.

...The previous charge made against the world's leaders - you are not moving forward fast enough - failed to spark action. Will the new message - you are now reversing at speed towards a hellish future - change that? The UN negotiations on a global climate change agreement, reconvening in Durban shortly, will be the first test of whether this new reality has sunk in.

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The IEA predict a temperature rise of 3.5C if current energy policies around the world are delivered but no more. That means a future world of mass migration, severe water shortages and England having the summer climate of Morocco today. If those policies fail to materialise, the IEA predicts 6C. That's Armageddon: large parts of the planet uninhabitable and the risk of runaway warming threatening the rest.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Saw "Water is Rising" (htt ...

Saw "Water is Rising" (bit.ly/vYfcjN) tonight. A stirring reminder of what folks like @billmckibben are fighting for. #climatechange

@ChrisMooney_ goes biological on unscientific...

[Revkin] @ChrisMooney_ goes biological on unscientific Republicans. Sequel on unscientific liberals?

Record Cold In Greenland | Real Science

An incontrovertible sign of Greenland melting, is that maximum temperatures in capital have  not yet made it up to the normal minimum on any day this month.