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"I used to worry for my grandchildren. Now there is a fairly high probability that I will experience the more severe effects of climate change at first hand."
- <a href="http://www.jeremybwilliams.net/ruminations/archives/000612.html">Jeremy</a>

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Matt Price (of Environmental Defence) and Allan Adam (of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) address issues surrounding the Albertan tar sands in <a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/ottawa-citizen-op-ed-tar-sands">an Ottawa Citizen op ed</a> (February 21st)

Terrance Berg at DeSmogBlog - "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/report-alberta-oil-sands-most-destructive-project-on-earth">Report: Alberta [Tar] Sands Most Destructive Project on Earth</a>" (February 18th) -
Yet "approvals have already been given that will double the size of existing operations"

Joseph Romm <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/21/china-sells-its-soul-for-liquid-coal/">on a Chinese liquid coal plant</a> (February 21st) -
"Nothing is worse for the climate than large scale coal-to-liquids. Not even the tar sands."

<a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/13/19535/1121">A coal industry advertisement</a> (in a February blog post) <a href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/13/19535/1121">
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Mark Trevelyan in Reuters - "<a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080221.wshell0221/BNStory/energy/home">Cheap, renewable energy years away: Shell</a>" (February 21st)  [via <a href="http://sharonastyk.com/">Sharon Astyk</a>] -
"The world faces a doubling of energy demand by 2050 but renewable sources are still too expensive and will take decades to make a big impact, Royal Dutch Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer said"

Andy Rowell - "<a href="http://priceofoil.org/2008/02/15/oil-sands-firms-see-record-year/">[Tar] Sands Firms See Record Year</a>" -
"The Canadian oil industry is poised for record year with 2008 profits rising 18 per cent to nearly $23 billion"

<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/exmomomomomomomo">Ross Gelbspan</a> and <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/gas-prices-up-globe-still-warming-and-exxonmobil-earnings-soar">Kevin Grandia</a> at DeSmogBlog on ExxonMobil profits from oil sales in 2007

Joseph Romm <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/02/23/and-the-greenwasher-of-the-decade-is-bp/">on corporate greenwashing--and "Beyond Petroleum" greenwashing, in particular</a> (February 23rd)

Andy Rowell <a href="http://priceofoil.org/2008/02/08/from-beyond-petroleum-to-big-polluter/">on how the company that dubbed itself Beyond Petroleum has invested in the Albertan tar sands</a> (February 8th)

Richard Littlemore at DeSmogBlog - "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/environment-canadas-muzzle-mandate-available-for-viewing">Environment Canada's Muzzle Mandate Available for Viewing</a>" (February 25th) -
"We now have a copy (attached) of the new <em>Media Relations Protocol </em>with which Environment Canada is muzzling its scientists."

Kevin Krolicki in Reuters - "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/23/7251/">GM [Vice Chairman] Stands by Calling Global Warming a 'Total Crock of Shit</a>'" (February 23rd)

Tom Krisher in the Associated Press - "<a href="http://www.theviennacafe.ca/latest/gm-urges-automakers-to-oppose-greenhouse-gas-limits-2.html">GM urges automakers to oppose greenhouse-gas limits</a>" (February 9th) -
"General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner [has] urged a group of auto dealers ... to lobby against individual states trying to set their own limits on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Rachel Oliver for CNN - "<a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/eco.about.ships/index.html">Shipping's impact on the air</a>" (January 20th) -
Shipping "emissions could be double the amount everyone previously believed."

<a href="http://thestormydaysofmarch.com/?p=175">A blog post about temperature measurement trends and global warming
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Simon <a href="http://green-blog.org/2007/11/19/how-spain-will-be-affected-by-climate-change/">on a book with images that show impacts that global warming has had and might have on Spain</a> -
The images show "how tourist paradises sinks down in the sea, how huge wildfires destroy the forests and how severe droughts turns everything to a desert.

Terrance Berg at DeSmogBlog - "<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/first-nations-to-alberta-government-enough-already-oil-sands">First Nations to Alberta Government: Enough Already!</a>" (February 25th) -
"A coalition of First Nations aboriginal groups in Northern Alberta has called for a freeze on all new [tar] sands development"

Simon Lewis in The Guardian - "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/26/7306/">Climate Change Is Killing Us. It’s Time for a Body Count</a>" (February 26th) -
"Why are we relying on a single, limited, out-of-date study for our information on the numbers of people killed by climate change?"

Michael T. Klare at TomDispatch - "<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/01/6773/">Something Had to Give: How Oil Burst the American Bubble</a>" (February 1st) -
"Oil, in fact, has played a critical, if little commented upon, role in America’s current economic enfeeblement — and it will continue to drain the economy of wealth and vigor for years to come."

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<em>We're in trouble</em>.
Please do what you can--with others--to get us out of this mess!

Please don't assume that others will sort all of this out.
That isn't happening.
Attention to these issues has been very superficial and <a href="http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=40">watered down</a> (as in talk about <a href="http://www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100427320">simple "things you can do,"</a> for instance--talk that implies that the ecological problems around us aren't very serious.)  Again and again as I've tried to raise <a href="http://tobanblack.net/blog/?cat=25">energy &amp; carbon issues</a> (such as global warming) through <a href="http://postcarbonlondon.ca/">Post-Carbon London</a> I've found that few people out there are very concerned or interested in these crises.

There's much to be done--and very, very soon.  Please <a href="http://tobanblack.net/blog/?p=67">pitch in</a>.

Battles are underway on many fronts--and, on the whole, they aren't going well.  If you've been on the sidelines, please step into the fray.

Toban Black
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)

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