Thursday, September 27, 2007

Climateer "Line of the Day" and Day Trading Hot Chinese Alt-Energy (What could possibly go wrong?)

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Speaking of the WSJ's Blog Empire (see below), Tim Annett posting at MarketBeat was yesterday's winner with a walk-off home run*: L...

Fortis group buys carbon rights

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As a follow-up to " A Pre-packaged Hedge or Climateer has Wind and Gas " (HT:WSJ's Energy Roundup ) and specifically " Fr...

Climate change in the media: Greening the message, but not the medium

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From Ethical Corporation: UK broadcasters offer impressive programmes encouraging us all to be green. But when it comes to addressing their ...

Ethanol Boom, Rising Corn Prices Divide US Farm Lobbyists

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I have a mental soundtrack that imposes itself, unbidden, at the oddest times. The story of the competing farm lobbyists triggered this ver...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Alt-Energy/Cleantech vs. Big Carbon: An Oil Man's Thoughts

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Open Choke is the nom de plume of an anonymous oil and gas industry executive. Open Choke's ideas and opinions do not necessarily repres...

Cost of dealing with climate change: 2% of GDP

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From the Times of India: NEW DELHI: The development projects India is undertaking to reduce impacts of climate change is already cutting i...

Solar Opportunities Excite Turner

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That Atlanta-Journal-Constitution headline just seems nasty. I don't want to think of Ted excited. Nor Jane. Here's the solar story:...

Talking Dung at the WSJ's Energy Roundup

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Mark Gongloff, posting at the ER, thinks he has a handle on the subject. Ha! Ha! He don't know dung! Ha! I've been saving this post...

Investments by Canada's New Government to Help Canola Products Yield Greater International Profits

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This may be forshadowing a "We told you so" moment. In Biofuels could increase global warming with laughing gas, says Nobel prize-...

ARM Resets: Updated

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Calculated Risk guides us to an updated BofA chart on the reset schedule. We've got plenty of time for my channeling the Post headline ...

REVEALED AT LAST ! The Evolutionary Basis Of Climate Change:

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. In the beginning, the Lord said "Let there be Carbon Sequestration, " ....................................And it was pretty we...

Hurricane Watch for Early October

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From Jeff Masters WunderBlog : ...More action off the coast of Africa An area of disturbed weather has moved off the coast of Africa, and is...

Investors Reap Returns on Clean Energy

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I have not seen the report and don't know the methodology. The 55% annualized return caught my eye because I had used that figure (durin...

Weak Dollar Central to Oil Price Boom

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From CNBC: The weak dollar's leading role in oil's ascent to record highs is partly due to a tide of financial flows into commodity ...

Swissy's Knifed-Secuitized Products not Secure

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Only tangential connection to AGW profit-making. I'm working on jazzing up my headlines. Here's how the Post put it: CREDIT SUISSE...

The shame of smelly banks

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I became a fan of Robert Peston while looking for good reporting on Northern Rock. He's the BBC's business editor. From his blog: Th...

An International Court to Try Ecological Crimes?

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From InterPressService: As the United Nations takes an increasingly dominant role in guiding the climate change debate, there is renewed int...

Carbon price is poor weapon against climate change

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Again, from Reuters: The battle to beat climate change has come down to one weapon -- the price of carbon. And analysts say it is not workin...

Rhodia S.Korea plant leads world in carbon credits

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Reuters has been on a roll recently in their coverage of the business of climate. A South Korean chemical plant that cleaned up its act has...

China, India could face CO2 tax on goods -U.S. envoy

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From Reuters: Retaliatory steps that comply with world trade rules could be found against China and India if they fail to help international...