Part 12 (1/2)

Chapter 18: The Gap Between Knowing and Not Knowing.

Guy Pearce's book is High and Dry (Penguin, 2007). George Monbiot's comments appeared in 'What is progress', The Guardian, 4 December 2007 and 'The road well travelled', The Guardian, 30 October 2007.

Stanley Cohen's 2001 book is States of Denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering (Polity: Boston). Max Bazerman's 2006 essay 'Climate change as a predictable surprise' appeared in Climatic Change 77: 17993. George Marshall comments are from 'The psychology of denial: our failure to act against climate change', The Ecologist online, 22 September 2001.

Max Planck's statement is from Scientific Autobiography (Philosophical Library: New York, 1949).

Chapter 19: Making Effective Decisions.

Churchill's comments are reported in G. Best, Churchill: a study in greatness (Penguin: London, 2002). Jim Collins book is Good to Great: why some companies make the leap and others don't (Random House: London, 2001).

John Howard's comments were made on ABC TV's Lateline, 5 February 2007, parison of future energy generation costs: Renewable Energy: a contribution to Australia's environmental and economic sustainability, Final Report to Renewable Energy Generators Australia by McLennan Magasanik a.s.sociates.

Biofuels: Reports on biofuels were published in January 2008 by The Royal Society, Sustainable Biofuels: prospects and challenges, and the British House of Commons, Are biofuels Sustainable? The 2007 UN report is The Impact of Biofuels on the Right to Food. The effect of nitrogen release from biofuel cropping on global warming is demonstrated in P. Crutzen, A. Mosier et al. (2007) 'N2O release from agro-biofuel production negates global warming reduction by replacing fossil fuels', Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussion 7: 11191205. Energy efficiency comparison is discussed by K. Kleiner in 'The backlash against biofuels', Nature Reports Climate Change, January 2008. Biofuel impact on food production: J. Vidal, 'The looming food crisis', The Guardian, 29 August 2007 and G. Monbiot, 'An agricultural crime against humanity', The Guardian, 6 November 2007 Offsets: The study of effect of tree coverage on climate is S. Gibbard, K. Caldeira et al. (2005) 'Climate effects of global land cover change', Geophysical Research Letters 32: L23705. The treddle pump story is told by D. Kennedy and A. O'Connor, 'To cancel out the CO2 of a return flight to India, it will take one poor villager three years of pumping water by foot. So is carbon offsetting the best way to ease your conscience?', The Times, 28 August 2007. The Financial Times investigation 'Industry caught in carbon smokescreen' by F. Harvey and S. Fidler appeared on 25 April 2007.

Carbon trading and CDMs: A comprehensive study is 'Carbon trading: a critical conversation on climate change, privatization and power', Development Dialogue No. 48, September 2006 (The Dag Hammarskjold Foundation/Corner House). The Guardian investigation by N. Davies was published on 2 June 2007. The Newsweek story 'Global warming: no easy fix' by E. F. Vencat appeared on 12 March 2007. G. Lipow discusses market and regulatory approaches at 'Emissions trading: a mixed record, with plenty of failures', Gristmill, 19 February 2007, gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/18/205116/813.

Chapter 21: Climate Solutions.

Cutting emissions to zero: T. Helweg-La.r.s.en and J. Bull, Zero Carbon Britain: an alternative energy strategy (Centre for Alternative Technology, 2007); A. Makhijani, Carbon-free and Nuclear-free: a roadmap for US energy policy (IEER Press/RDR Books, 2007).

Using telecommunications networks: K. Mallon, G. Johnston, et al., Towards a High-bandwidth, Low-carbon Future: telecommunications-based opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (Climate Risk: Sydney, 2007).