Greenhouse Effect Predicted in 1953

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Intelligent Energy

Sense some differences in approach between Europe and the US.

Today is Earth Day

Check EarthDay.Net, calling for urgent climate action.

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Boston Consulting Group Positive on China's Global Potential

Boston Consulting Group's Jim Hemerling says China is emerging as a global R&D and innovation hub in its own right. Sourcing execs take note!

Also read: 'Asia to spawn tech breakthroughs', which lays out Bill Gates's opininion.

Friedman on Green Offshoring

Go read the Friedman interview with YaleGlobal on March 30. The question is who gets to do the work. “If whatever can be done will be done,” he says, “the biggest competition is between you and your imagination.” In the latest edition of his book, Friedman lists nine categories of jobs available to citizens of the flat world. One of those categories, he says, will be green jobs, anything green.

With millions of people pursuing the consumer dream, he says, “we’re going to burn up, heat up, choke up the planet faster than even Al Gore predicts.” According to Friedman, this development has implications: “Green design, green consulting, green manufacturing, green science, is going to have a huge new middle opportunity.”

First Commercial Quantum Computer

D:Wave Systems, the Quantum Computer Company presented the first commercial QC machine on February 13, and made it to the New York Times on Easter Day.

IPCC: Millions at Risk

The first and worst impacts of climate change are being felt by the poor in the developing world. Drought in sub-Saharan Africa, floods in China and India, and a near tripling of people affected by extreme weather and other natural disasters globally in the last two decades, almost all in the developing world, affecting those who are most vulnerable and least able to cope.

A nice two-page overview together with several links is this Greenpeace briefing.

Don't miss the British Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

April 6: A new IPCC climate report warns time is running out:

Huge numbers of people will be at risk due to sea level rise, storm surge and river flooding in the Asian Megadeltas such as the Ganges-Brahmaputra (Bangladesh) and the Zhujiang (Pearl River).

Warming of more than another degree could commit the world to multi-metre sea level rise over several centuries from the partial or total loss of the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets.

Huge coastal dislocation would result and could be triggered by emissions made in the next several decades.