France and Japan propose an 'IPCC for nature' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

World governments are meeting this week to try to set up a new international body that would put the global destruction of the natural world on an equal footing with the threat of climate change.

The proposed new organisation would be modelled on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), which was set up 22 years ago.

Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » Solar and Oil are Two Different Things

Can we all agree that solar power doesn’t do anything to reduce our use of oil?
...For solar energy to replace the energy in half of the oil we use, we would need to use 521 times as much solar energy as we do today. I suspect that will not happen.