The Trade: Links We Like

Posted on 21 August 2009

- The latest issue of Foreign Affairs is out and is filled with climate and energy related issues: an analysis of the upcoming Copenhagen Conference,  “Black Carbon” emissions, Cap and Trade versus a Carbon Tax, and a contrarian forecast for an extended period of low oil prices.  We expect some insightful commentary from this well-respected journal, whose history and expertise in the field of foreign relations and diplomacy assures that the issue will receive high-level attention. We’ll comment more on these issues as we digest it.

- James Glanz at the New York Times takes another break from his bureau post in Iraq to update us on delays in the Alta Rock EGS drilling project north of San Francisco at The Gysers.   The news:  “The [drilling] bit has snapped off at least once and become repeatedly fouled in a shallow formation called cap rock, and the drillers have twice been forced to pull it out and essentially start the hole over again.”  This non-news seems hardly worthwhile given the enormity of Glanz’s purview in Iraq. We continue to find his coverage of the topic to be unfairly negative and are surprised that the Times continues to focus on this distraction.