Here’s a not-bold prediction: China’s approach to climate change mitigation will be a defining issue of the decade for which we have just embarked. Part two of this series continues to look at why climate change might be pushing China to the precipice of its path toward economic growth.
The impact of climate change on Chinese [...]

A series on the projected impact of climate change on China.
Although China spent the last couple weeks rallying the non-Western world against the U.S. at the Copenhagen Climate Conference (and perhaps rightfully so), they shouldn’t be celebrating the deadlock and failure that was ultimately the result.
In the coming decades, the global processes resulting from [...]

If we’re going to reduce our emissions by 17% before 2020, the reduction has to come from somewhere. There is so much talk of making changes in the transportation sector through hybrid cars or hydrogen and electric car technologies that are not yet ready for mass consumption. I’m wondering what happened to the discussion on instituting high speed rail in the United States?

Here at Song of Sibyl we will try our best in preparing you to be an informed observer of the United Nations Conference on Climate Changes. The first article in our Copenhagen series may seem a bit basic to some, but I hope it brings clarity to a common misconception.

Yes. That’s right. In today’s rush to become the meanest, greenest, and cleanest nation in the world — the 21st century’s equivalent to the epic space race between the Soviets and Americans — the European Union nations are not only in the lead, their lead is growing by leaps and bounds. This gap has widened [...]

The good citizens of Athens must be getting pretty used to fires by now. In recent years fires have sort of become to Athenians like what hurricanes are to the residents of the Southern United States or drought to the people of Eastern Africa. That’s why the fires that shook the ancient city’s suburbs this [...]

Why it’s time to start building an ark.

Why Lady Liberty may soon need a life vest.