Ladies and Gentleman, if You Look in the Rear View Mirror, You Will See the Guard Rail

I have been reading abit about the impact on the young biogas industry from the low price of methane. Also, i looked over the summary from IEA 11/2012 World Energy Outlook, http://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/weo2012sum.pdf . We should note that the IEA said last year we are on track for 6 degree C average planetary temperature later this century.

While reading this article on natural gas and climate change, I clicked on links to  check the material out further. That lead to this piece by David Roberts , then to  the Anderson &Bows paper , “Beyond dangerous climate change: emission scenarios for a new world” http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/369/1934/20.full.pdf+html

This was part of a 2011 Royal Society Proceedings issue on living in a 4 degree C world. The optimism abroad in U. S. energy circles re the shale oil/gas among other things has prompted me to take a peek at what I like to call the fossil fuel uber alles scenario. All hopes and sentimentalities aside, what drives energy decisions is price/ROI, the later being the Short Attention Span Theatre concept of ROI http://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/returnoninvestment.asp#axzz2E7btOrLt
This points to the growing importance of climate change adaptation. There is going to be a lot to adapt to. 4 degree C is starting to look optimistic to me.

Audio lecture by Kevin Anderson

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1208

Presentation by Kevin Anderson (Flash media format) http://137.205.102.156/Ms%20S%20J%20Pain/20111124/Kevin_Anderson_-_Flash_(Medium)_-_20111124_05.26.31PM.html