The big environmental news today (Mount St. Helens notwithstanding) is that Russia has decided to back the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, which places specific caps on the amount of greenhouse gasses that countries can produce. This is good.

I did a whole bunch of work looking at global warming during Spring Quarter of my Freshman year at Evergreen, so I know quite a bit about Kyoto and the issues surrounding global warming. However, I’m a little too beat to actually dig up my notes on the subject just yet — probably in the near future, for those who care about background. Or you could just check out the Wikipedia entry, which gives you more than I could ever tell you.

Guess you shouldn’t expect an update regarding this