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[The Briefing Room] Investigate Oct 05, The Kyoto Conspiracy: While playing the climate-change card at the G8 Summit, the final Gleneagles’ declaration shows that the leaders of the developed world have no intention of sacrificing growth and economic success for an ascetic global warming religion. To quote Michael McCarthy, the environment editor of the Independent: ”˜The failed agenda that Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the World Wide Fund for Nature and others were complaining of - that the US has still not agreed to cut its carbon dioxide emissions - was the green groups’ own agenda, not the British government’s.

 [Peak Energy] The Asia-Pacific Climate Summit: But in the real world, according to Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we have at most 10 years to reverse this trend. Which means we have to do everything quickly -- hybrid cars and solar panels and compact light bulbs and local food and tree planting.

[The Business of America is Business] The Dirty Half Dozen: Also to the dismay of critics, chief among them environmental economists and Australia's six state governments, one solution for reducing CO2 emissions not on the table is carbon-trading, a regime whereby producers of said emissions reduce them, often by switching to more efficient or cleaner technologies, and then sell their unused allocations to others. Such a scheme, critics believe, will provide the necessary incentives for polluting industries to increase investments in newer and cleaner technology, thereby reducing emissions and mitigating global warming.

 [Proud To Be Canadian .ca] Greens Are the Real Energy Problem: It goes without saying that the global economy depends on the availability of affordable energy. Many place their hopes for abundant energy supplies in yet-to-be-imagined technologies.

 [Members.greenpeace.org] Our Environment - clean energy - Greenpeace Member Blog: Congress is meeting today to discuss ExxonMobil and the rest of the oil industry's record-breaking profits. And tomorrow the House of Reps is expected to vote on a bill that would allow drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Rescue - dubbed "America's Serengeti."

[Gristmill.grist.org] Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine: I scribbled down a rewrite of the Greenpeace polar bear ad, making it super weepy, even patronizing. I recommend airing during cartoons popular with 7-year-old girls.

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