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Long, detailed, impressive - but futile in the face of runaway climate change
George Monbiot, The Guardian

Lord Turner has two jobs. The first, as chair of the Financial Services Authority, is to save capitalism. The second, as chair of the
committee on climate change, is to save the biosphere from the impacts of capitalism. I have no idea how well he is discharging the first task, but if his approach to the second one is anything to go by, you should dump your shares and buy gold...
(2 December 2008)

Ancient skills 'could reverse global warming'
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent
Ancient techniques pioneered by pre-Columbian Amazonian Indians are about to be pressed into service in Britain and Central America in
the most serious commercial attempt yet to reverse global warming.

Trials are to be started in Sussex and Belize early in the new year, backed with venture capital from Silicon Valley, on techniques to
take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it in the soil, where it should act as a powerful fertiliser.

The plan is to scale up rapidly into a worldwide enterprise to reverse the build-up of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming, in the atmosphere and eventually bring it back to pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
(8 December 2008)

George Monbiot meets ... Yvo de Boer
George Monbiot, The Guardian
Series: Monbiot meets ...Index George Monbiot meets ... Yvo de BoerGeorge Monbiot charges the UN's leading climate change official with lacking ambition for a global emissions deal, and takes him to task over expensive carbon offset schemes and his support for the US president, George Bush. Includes stock footage from Greenpeace
(8 December 2008)
An fascinating contrast between activist Monbiot and pragmatic negotiator Yvo de Boer. The video contains a clip of de Boer almost breaking down in public upon hearing about apparent U.S. double-dealing. -BA