May 2009 Archives

Best News Lede Ever

By Emily Gertz on May 28, 2009 11:45 AM | No Comments
"On the first day of her trip to the Arctic - a day when she gutted a freshly slaughtered seal, pulled out its raw heart and ate it - Michaelle Jean said she hopes her fifth and perhaps last Arctic trip as Governor-General will help capture the attention and interest of southern Canadians in the resource-rich and internationally disputed region."

Governor General touts Inuit's role in northern development, by Alexander Panetta, The Globe and Mail, Tue. My 26, 2009

Latest byline: Agency Forecasts Word Energy Use to Grow a Whopping 44% by 2030

By Emily Gertz on May 28, 2009 11:40 AM | No Comments
My first article for EnergyBoom.com, with a great headline by editor Kevin Grandia, covers yesterday's release by the U.S. Energy Information Agency of its latest International Energy Outlook.  

Based on current policies (including, one assumes, the new US CAFE standard as well as the current international climate treaty), it's a bummer:

"The world's energy use will jump 44 percent in the next twenty years, with capacity for renewables growing at the fastest rate, according to a new energy forecast by the Energy Information Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Energy...developing nations will drive a 39 percent hike in global, energy-related emissions of climate-altering carbon dioxide, the IEO suggests, from 29.1 billion metric tons in 2005 to 40.4 billion metric tons in 2030."
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