Höglund and Pontus Schultz debated in the Swedish TV show "Agenda" today. It was unclear what the objective of today's show was, perhaps only to debate whether climate change is debated enough - that is whether it is happening or not and if human activities are part of the change.

Höglund is obviously correct in that statement that there is a heated debate going on in the blogosphere. Unfortunately, Höglund believes that the debate is more important than taking action against climate change. She says that it is important to constantly present a 50/50 amount of arguments from both views, as if the views of commentators are more important than the scientific findings.

How will the American election yesterday reflect on the environmental issue? With the financial crisis at hand the climate issue has been pushed back into the shadows. A quick look at both candidates makes you think that the world outside USA does not exist. Yes Obama mentions it (it being the rest of the world). He will reengage with UN and the UNFCC. At least that's better than McCain who only talks about the national parks in USA (all important but lets face it, it won't save the world). So what will save us all?

Yesterday I woke up to the annoying sound of a leaf blower. The municipality were doing gardening work outside my apartment. I can't help but to think that the leaf blower is one of mankind's worst inventions.

The noise is just unbearable and the personnel is using both ear plugs and hearing caps to protect their hearing. Most of the leaf blowers run on gasoline which we now know is an energy source we will no longer have in 5 - 30 years depending on who you ask. And it's an obvious source of pollution.

Since the year 2000, the year of my high school graduation, I've been asking myself why the world is still in such a bad shape. I studied natural science and technology, everything from chemistry to computer programming. Even with my then very limited view of the world I thought we could do better. I knew instinctively something was very wrong.

I had been tricked, duped and indoctrinated. For some reason I felt like I was worthless, an insignificant piece of the world, not only insignificant but even a burden to the world. As my understanding of the world progressed I have become able to express those feelings in writing - but more significantly by talking to people.

Eight years ago I had a vision of a world were humans didn't work to receive income to pay for their food, or to pay mortgages on their homes.

What effects do the financial crisis have on the climate change crisis and its associated movements and debates? Does the financial crisis have a beneficial effect on our planet wrecking activities? Or will it just cause less money in our collective pockets?

One thing is for sure, the media's earlier focus on the climate crisis is gone. Ever since the USA cried out loud that the economic system was nearing collapse media has covered the financial crisis closely while all news about the health of the planet has been tugged nicely under the carpet.

The usual comment section ruckus swept through The Register’s forum today as Steven Goddard published a quite entertaining article about the Arctic ice "refusing to melt as ordered".

Steve Goddard collected satellite images from NASA and used them to build a case against a National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) report. He used the "very convincing method" of counting the number of pixels in the images representing ice cover.

Immediately tens of comments appeared saying that Al Gore’s movie “An inconvenient truth” is inconvenient only to himself since nobody else believes in global warming or global climate change. The whole global warming scam is just a plan for the greedy government to raise taxes. Yes, this is the opinion of a lot of voters in our democracies and it is a problem.

In an interview with Yahoo! News President Bush says that the best way to solve the high price of gasoline is to “increase oil supply” and “build new refineries”.

Although Mr Bush is right about the fact that the US hasn’t built any new refineries since 1976, he forgot to mention that the existing refineries have doubled their capacity since 1976.

The real problem isn’t refinery capacity; it’s in our way of life. A way of life that threatens not only the climate by global climate change, but also our very own existence.

Dagens Industri published an article today about how the Swedish wind industry blossoms. Sweden may not reach its target of producing 10 TWh per year from wind power in 2015, but we are have passed the 1 TWh bar and the industry is optimistic.

One of the reasons is the new subsidiaries which lasts for 15 years for a new wind turbine, since wind turbines have a life expectancy of 12 to 20 years the subsidiaries are finally long enough to be included in a stable budget.

Immediately though the nuclear power proponents appeared, commenting on the article and filled the forum with comments like "it's unprofitable, wind power makes us poor", "nuclear power is the only solution" and so on.

I'm thinking lately about what we're doing to the last untouched pristine areas of the Earth to get the last drops of oil out of the ground.

Is it really ok to destroy the Canadian Boreal forest, one of the last three untouched forests on Earth, just for us to be able to drive our cars?

Is it really ok to create big lakes of toxic waste water, just to be able to live in the illusion that was the consumption society a few years more?

Many companies that try to build windmills in Sweden meet resistance from local population.

Universal Wind AB had to wait 11 years to get their needed permissions to build three windmills outside Lund. I can only imagine how frustrating that must feel. The reason people oppose the windmills are twofold, firstly they think they look ugly, and secondly they think think they are distracting.

I can agree with them beeing distracting, they do emit noise and they cast a dynamic shadow. But in my opinion they're beautiful. A testament to our engineering skills and a symbol of hope for the post oil era.

Let's face it, we will run out of oil, and when that happens our need for electricity will go up since part of the transportation fleet will use electricity as their fuel.

The more I look into what is going on in the world the clearer the picture gets: we're going to use up every available resource, and we're travelling faster every year towards that end. Oil, at current consumption increase per year rate, will run out in just 25 years.

In this process we lay waste to our planet, as if it would be able to magically repair itself. Or perhaps some believe God himself will clean up our mess? Oh yes, this is the one: the Aliens will clean it up.

Obviously I'm joking here.

Vi är 6,6 miljarder människor nu och på god väg mot 9 miljarder. Kommer människor att bo kvar i de outvecklade delarna av världen som drabbas av allt högre matpriser, mer torka, översvämningar och sjukdomar?

Jag tror att de kommer att röra sig mot utvecklade länder och städer. Frågan är vad västvärlden kommer att göra för att hantera situationen. Bygga murar?