Hurricane!

Even the lawyers are looking for a way to make money on climate change.

There’s gold in them rising sea-levels, apparently. Texas law firms — dare we call it double-dipping if they are also working for the energy industry that owns the mess? — are building out climate change practice groups.

Google supports hybrids to fight climate change.

Found a news article talking about Google giving grants 'to drive toward a plug-in revolution'. They gave a total of $1,000,000. They are also converting their fleet over to plug in hybrids and have a website that compares two Toyota Prius Hybrids Vs two that have been converted to plug in hybrids. You can compare them here. You can drill down to the vehicle and the individual trip. Quite cool and it should nicely demonstrate the savings both in money and in CO2.

What about recreation and CO2 footprint?

The final thing I would mention is your point about increasing carbon footprint. I’m very sorry, Dad, but you are not the right person to criticize me about this. Sure I increase my carbon footprint by skydiving, but if you want to criticize me for that, then you should also criticize me for flying to Australia and Malaysia (one round trip from Boston to Sydney releases as much CO2 as driving a car for a couple of years.) You should also consider that

A look at NOAA and the wild hurricane seasons of the past in Storm World.

Mooney covers many of the themes and issues we've discussed here before, but adds his own novel interpretations and uncovers a number of key historical details, in the process of stitching together a compelling narrative. Naturally, there is discussion of the hoopla over the active 2004 and 2005 Atlantic hurricane seasons and the aftermath of Katrina. There is extensive discussion of the high-profile studies by Emanuel, Webster, Curry and coworkers (see e.g. here and here) which, eerily coincident with the record-setting 2005 season, first suggested a detectable climate change signal in hurricane behavior.

Click through for video on the relationship between resource constraints and climate change.

At last some thorough analysis on how Peak Oil links in with global warming - go here for the entry-site (HT Energy Bulletin).

Click through for more info on John Doerr's views on climate change.

John Doerr shares his fears about our current direction with respect to climate change.

CO2 sequestration and climate change explained.

The best and most natural solution to global warming has always been the idea of "sequestration" — storing carbon where it can’t do harm, vs. in the atmosphere. And that’s been going on naturally for a billion years before we lit our first camp fire. Plants take water and CO2 from the environment and use sunlight to create the sugars we depend on. They later burn those sugars (just as we do) for energy, putting some of that same carbon back into the air.