Quoted: John Tierney, a science columnist for the New York Times, checks out new research and rethinks conventional wisdom.

Quoted: A Quick Look Inside the Very Full Brain of Amory Lovins Dan Shapley / News Editor Peak Oil is a distraction and global warming? Well, global warming will take care of itself. It's the bottom line, stupid. Amory Lovins makes these arguments, (without actually calling you stupid, and with a breathtaking whirlwind of statistics that he has -- miraculously -- cached in his brain) in the course of explaining why the energy source of the future is clean and limitless. Because it's no energy at all. Lovins, the winner of the 2007 Leadership Breakthrough Award from Popular Mechanics ...

Quoted: A renewable energy source designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is contributing more to global warming than fossil fuels, a study suggests.

This is cool.

Quoted: Even better, a recent discovery by Chevron has signaled that soon there may be vastly more oil gushing out of the ultradeep seabeds — more than even the optimists were predicting four years ago. In 2004, the company penetrated a 60 million-year-old geological stratum known as the "lower tertiary trend" containing a monster oil patch that holds between 3 billion and 15 billion barrels of crude.

Interesting on wood as a carbon sink.

quoted:Despite the anti-forestry scare tactics of celebrity movies, trees are the most powerful concentrators of carbon on Earth Dr. Patrick Moore is a co-founder of Greenpeace and chairman and chief scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. in Vancouver.

Quoted: By Chris Wills LONDON (Reuters) - Mankind's response to climate change will shift how the world gets its energy and is already making green barons out of early investors in renewable energy, clean technologies and carbon trading.

Quoted: A new analysis suggests that more carbon could be offset by replanting forests and using conventional fossil fuels than can be saved by using biofuels