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Kyoto protocol stronger after Montreal meeting

"How often does one walk into one of these things and come out at the end of it at 6 in the morning with just about everything you asked for coming in? Not very often." That was Greenpeace climate campaigner Steve Sawyer's reaction at the end of the Climate summit in Montreal.

Absolute oil corrupts absolutely. Enlarge Image

Exxon to staff: vote for oil

There's nothing nastier than a wounded tiger. ExxonMobil(Esso) is licking its wounds as Russia moves closer to ratifying the Kyoto protocol. But the world's number one environmental criminal is still fighting tooth and nail to deny the truth about climate change. The US government is increasingly isolated and Exxon is out to ensure its workers keep it that way by voting for US politicians who oppose action against global warming.

The ExxonSecrets website graphically shows the links between Exxon money, phony science, and pro-oil lobbying. Enlarge Image

Exxon secrets

The secret's out. Climate sceptics being funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind the name of a front group. A new website - www.exxonsecrets.org - exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the think tanks, associations and individuals denying global warming.

Over one million tonnes of oil were spilled into the world's oceans during the 1990s Enlarge Image

Pay up, Exxon

When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in 1989, it was said that lawyers not yet born would argue the case. Those lawyers are 15-year-olds today. We'll make another prediction: lawyers not yet born will be taking Exxon to court again in the future. The charge will be negligent asphyxiation of our planet.

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Update February 1, 2006

George Bush admitted that the US is "addicted to oil" in his State of the Union speech.

Is this the first step in the 'Oilaholics Anonymous' programme? No one should be under the illusion that the Bush Administration has undergone a fundamental shift in its position on Climate Change, but he has certainly knuckled under to pressure. The administration has been forced to acknowledge they have a serious problem by the growing pressure from states, cities, the business community and the public (as well as the last 6 Environmental Protection Agency administrators) to do something about climate change, and the weight of high gasoline prices, the high price of energy, and on the vulnerability of their supply lines.

The good news is that while the Bush Administration slept, others were preparing the future. Preliminary figures have the USA leading the world in annual installed wind capacity in 2005, some 2500 megawatts. Solar photovoltaic technology is now cost competitive in California markets where demand outstrips supply. And biofuels are becoming an increasingly significant part of the energy landscape.

If Bush wants to get started on a 12-step programme, he could to worse than address the current balance of U.S. federally funded energy research, development and investment. While it now contains some substantial support for renewable energy technologies, it is too heavily weighted towards nuclear, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen, and not on deploying the technologically-developed, market-ready renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies that are available today.