Check this out. Apparently Chevy is running an online contest to design a new ad - and hasn't gotten around to censoring the entries yet...

UPDATE: 3:15 eastern. The Ministry of Memory at Chevy has apparently swung into gear, and the video's gone now. It was a hilarious ad for an SUV with some pointed bits about global warming. You can add your own text to a Chevy ad at http://www.chevyapprentice.com/ - just click on "enter the contest", and you get to play video editor and ad any text you want - FUN!

Great article on Alternet today by Chad Heeter about the amount of fossil fuels needed to make your average breakfast. According to Heeter "an average of over seven calories of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400 calorie breakfast, I will, in effect, have 'consumed' 2,800 calories of fossil-fuel energy".

"But this is only an average" he continues. "My cup of coffee gives me only a few calories of energy, but to process just one pound of coffee requires over 8,000 calories of fossil-fuel energy --

In the first ever ranking of the Top 100 companies, BP and DuPont have come out as top "leaders" for their climate change strategies. Not surprisingly ExxonMobil is seen as a "laggard".

Tony Blair has been accused of caving in to American pressure by proposing a new "watered-down" replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding emission cuts as the solution to climate change.

Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing - it asked it's readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion of its readers. And they asked it on the most pressing issue of all: Climate change. The paper is then going to send these comments to the All-Party Inquiry on Climate Change.

Today the paper published the results in what they call the "Great Global Warming Debate". The response, says The Independent, "has been nothing short of extraordinary".

Polar Ice Caps Are Melting Faster Than Ever... More And More Land Is Being Devastated By Drought... Rising Waters Are Drowning Low-Lying Communities... By Any Measure, Earth Is At ... The Tipping Point … The climate is crashing, and global warming is to blame. Why the crisis hit so soon--and what we can do about it.
No its not Oil Change saying it – it’s the front page of Time magazine. Need we say more...

Do you remember George W’s promise to end oil addiction? Part of that process would be beginning to end the vast subsidies given to the oil industry at tax-payers expense.

The day before Tony Blair addresses a key scientific conference on climate change in New Zealand, the British government has finally admitted what many long suspected, that - wait for it - it will fail to meet its often repeated manifesto commitment on cutting carbon dioxide emissions.

Good news from Britain's wind energy. It is set to exceed expectations with 50% more wind farms powering British homes and industry by 2010 than predicted four years ago, according to new figures published by the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA).

The European Parliament's Environment Committee has said that the EU must wean the transport sector off oil entirely within a generation.