From New Scientist, the best of expert opinion on population. Let's try cap-and-trade on babies: Population growth is the real driver for higher greenhouse gas emission, so why don't more mainstream solutions start there? Capitalism in Wonderland: The inability of received economics to cope with or even perceive the global ecological crisis is alarming in its scope and implications. From Mother Jones, a special section on the Copenhagen Climate Countdown. Recipe for Failure: Why Copenhagen will be a bust, and other prophecies from Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, the foreign-policy world's leading predictioneer. Anthony Giddens reviews Saving Kyoto: An Insider's Guide to the Kyoto Protocol: How it Works, Why it Matters and What it Means for the Future by Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen Sheeran. From M/C Journal, a special issue on climate culture. From Physics World, many policymakers have traditionally seen climate models as irrelevant, but recent advances are making such models an essential tool in informing policy choices; publicize or perish: The scientific community is failing miserably in communicating the potential catastrophe of climate change; and like the popular SimCity computer-game series that inspired its name, Clim'City puts players in charge of a virtual city and allows them to choose how it develops. What makes Europe greener than the US? An article on why climate change denial must be taken seriously. Bill McKibben thinks you should know that global warming isn't coming — it's already here. On geoengineering: We may not be able to save ourselves, but at least we won’t be bored.
