half a story

Here's an interesting critique of the Al Gore approach to addressing climate change. This is not another argument about whether the "hockey stick" record of historic global temperatures is correct or not. Quite the contrary. It's saying that Big Al is not big enough - he's only telling half the story, and the missing half says we have to take a more radical approach to change, essentially  because there is more that needs fixing than just our carbon-rich lifestyles. [Thanks, Katie!]

While we're on the topic of former US politicians, The Economist reports on the Clinton brand in the world of philanthropy. Apparently Billy Boy is making moves to do for renewable energy technologies what he did with antiretrovirals for HIV in Africa: make them cheaper by cajoling industry players and creating bigger markets by encouraging countries to buy in quantity.