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Who's fueling whom?

Lisa Heinzerling (Georgetown): Climate Change, Human Health, and the Post-Cautionary Principle. Sir Nicholas Stern on climate change, ethics and the economics of the global deal. Computer servers are at least as great a threat to the climate as SUVs or the global aviation industry, warns a new report. A look at we would be fools to banish global business from the great climate battle. Martin Wolf on why the climate change wolf is so hard to kill off. Scientists are using a controversial genetic engineering process to change the composition of the wood in the hopes of turning trees into new energy sources. Who's fueling whom? Why the biofuels movement could run out of gas. A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. Theodore Dalrymple on oil on troubled waters. A look at how there's more evidence we've entered the end of oil. Stories of oil: A look at how the oil industry is trying a Hollywood approach. A review of Discovery: The Search for Arabian Oil by Wallace Stegner.