The World Will Warm Faster than Predicted

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/27/world-warming-faster-study

The Energy Bill and Environmentalist

The New York Times reports on concerns among some environmentalist on Obama’s committment to climate action.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/us/politics/11protest.html?_r=1&ref=earth

USDA Budget

63% of the USDA budget goes to nutrition programs.

Chewing Well

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS212878+07-May-2009+PRN20090507

Help in Understanding Cap and Trade in the Energy Bill

http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/07/10/robert_stavins_interview/

Pricing

An interesting New Yorker article on pricing in our Internet era.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell?currentPage=all
It opens the discussion for the economy of new ecosystem service credits….credits represent environmental ’stuff’…and our society has a scarcity of the environmental ’stuff’ we need to restore Earth’s atmosphere. What is the best model to reap the greatest ’social willingness’ to participate in credit markets?

Doom and Gloom

An article about the politics and science of climate change and James Lovelock.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/141081/the_dark_side_of_climate_change%3A_it%27s_already_too_late%2C_cap_and_trade_is_a_scam%2C_and_only_the_few_will_survive/?page=1

Some Comments from Michael Pollan

From an interview with Michael Pollan:
* At least 20 percent of all fossil fuels go to agriculture, much of that in the form of synthetic fertilizer, Pollan noted. The nitrous oxide given off by such fertilizer “is 300 times more heat-trapping than carbon dioxide,” the greenhouse gas that gets the most press.
* President Obama “has [...]