Quick hits for your weekend:
- Now we're really screwed. Tony Blair thinks the world is about to make significant headway against global warming. His opinion is bad enough, but listen to why he thinks so. The US, he says, is about to make a "quantum shift" in its approach to the crisis. Uh, Tony, the master in whose lap you sit still has two years before he's gone. If you think two years is "quantum," it explains a lot about how you thought Iraq would be such a piece of cake.
- Those of us who don't live in the colder states don't really have a good idea how important winter is to economies in those states. This story will give you a better idea. Now multiply that times climate change.
- China has finally owned up to its miserable record on environment, including climate change factors, with its own experts ranking it 100th out of 118. Now that they're apparently in a 12 Steps program, let's hope they really do walk their new talk.
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