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Putin says climate deal must take Russian forests into account 2
Posted 5 days, 17 hours ago A global warming pact to be agreed next month in Copenhagen must take into account the carbon dioxide absorption potential of Russia's sprawling forests, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
CRUDE AWAKENING

The violent twilight of oil and a strategy to expose it 1
Posted 3 weeks, 6 days ago An interview with journalist Peter Maass on why it doesn't matter what gas station you choose, and why oil is very bad for the people who live above it.
Iran and the Pipelineistan Opera

Jumpin’ Jack Verdi, it’s a gas, gas, gas 0
Posted 1 month ago Oil and natural gas prices may be relatively low right now, but don't be fooled. The new great game of the twenty-first century is always over energy and it's taking place on an immense chessboard called Eurasia. Its squares are defined by the networks of pipelines being laid across the oil heartlands of the planet. Call it Pipelineistan.
The keep-it-cold war

Global warming is no friend to Russia, ambassador says 5
Posted 3 months ago
Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak disagreed sharply with recent news reports suggesting Russian leaders may welcome climate change because it would make Arctic gas and oil deposits and northern regions more accessible.
Save the world? Yes or No?

Citizens want their leaders to make climate a higher priority, new poll finds 1
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Americans showed the least interest of 19 countries in asking their government to make climate change a higher priority. But there's encouraging news too!
Fools Russian

Why some Russians look forward to global warming 0
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago
Brad Plumer walks through a dispatch from the Abu Dhabi newspaper The National that outlines what Russia stands to gain from a warming climate, and why it may have little interest in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Copin' with Copenhagen

What is Obama’s international climate strategy? 9
Posted 4 months ago
International climate negotiations often seem like some sort of cosmic science fair project -- an aquarium full of hamsters connected to rudimentary motors. There's a lot of frantic running, a lot of sweat and heat, but in the end, very little light.

Faith in the UN climate process has dimmed. Joe Romm calls it a "dead man walking." The Copenhagen talks in December are generally discussed with the same dissonant mixture of urgency ("You have to do it in Copenhagen," says UNFCCC chair Yvo de Boer) and fatalism ("There is no movement," says German environment minister Sigmar Gabriel) as the last dozen rounds of international talks.

The Obama administration knows the danger of sclerosis and is working on several fronts to regain a sense of momentum.
Da we can

U.S.-Russia climate and energy efficiency cooperation: A neglected challenge 1
Posted 4 months, 1 week ago
The summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow on July 6-8 comes in the middle of a packed international schedule of bilateral and multilateral meetings for the United States. on climate change. In the run up to the critical U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen at the end of this year, when the extension or successor to the existing Kyoto Protocol must be agreed upon, it is crucial that the United States and Russia—both major emitters of greenhouse gases and potentially leaders on this crucial issue—explore ways of working together to ensure a positive outcome at these talks. Enhancing cooperation on climate change and energy efficiency should be a major plank of U.S. Russia policy and should be discussed at the highest levels when President Obama meets with President Medvedev next week.
The Climate Post: Something wrought in the state of Denmark? 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
A roundup of the week's climate news, from Copenhagen to China to Russia.
Postcard from Pipelineistan

The battle for control of Eurasia will shape the new world order 0
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game.

Our good ol' friend the nonsensical "Global War on Terror," which the Pentagon has slyly rebranded "the Long War," sports a far more important, if half-hidden, twin -- a global energy war. I like to think of it as the Liquid War, because its bloodstream is the pipelines that crisscross the potential imperial battlefields of the planet. Put another way, if its crucial embattled frontier these days is the Caspian Basin, the whole of Eurasia is its chessboard. Think of it, geographically, as Pipelineistan.
Cheap oil: Be careful what you wish for 2
Posted 10 months ago
U.S. negotiating team in Poznan dodges questions on Bush’s climate inactivism 1
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
I Can See Russia From My Sea!

Migrating pollock could endanger Alaskan fishery, international relations 2
Posted 1 year ago
Sochi So Far

Some venues relocated to minimize eco-impact of Russia’s 2014 Olympics 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Methane releases from under the Arctic seabed could jeopardize GHG stabilization 31
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Some Palin energy expertise 13
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
It’s time to break the American addiction to oil 12
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
A Baikal to Arms

Russia’s Lake Baikal under threat from massive lead and zinc mine 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
The Bush administration falters in a geopolitical chess match 9
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago