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Vancouver Sun: Carbon tax finds plenty of green supporters in B.C.

Residents of the sole North American jurisdiction with a carbon tax don't seem to mind their singular tax status, a new poll suggests.

U.S Solar Industry Fears End of Government Incentives

Recent gains in the U.S. solar market are due largely to support from two federal funding programs that are set to expire this year and next.

California delays its carbon trading program for a year

Facing continued litigation, California officials will delay enforcement of the state's complex carbon trading program until 2013, state Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols announced.

Surge in Mississippi River Hydro Proposals Points to Coming Boom

Nearly 100 pre-application documents and proposals have been filed for conventional hydro and alternative hydrokinetic projects along the Mississippi.

World Bank warns of 'failing' international carbon market

The international market in carbon credits has suffered an almost total collapse, with only $1.5bn of credits traded last year - the lowest since the market opened in 2005.

Massachusetts towns digging out from widespread damage caused by rare tornadoes that killed 4

Residents of 19 communities in central and western Massachusetts woke to widespread damage Thursday, a day after at least two late-afternoon tornadoes shocked emergency officials with their suddenness and violence and caused the state’s first tornado-related deaths in 16 years.

Oxfam:  Food prices to double amid climate change

The price of staple foods such as corn, already high, could more than double in the next 20 years, and climate change is responsible for up to half of this expected increase.

IEA sees record CO2 emissions in 2010

Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies.

Climate Progress: Joplin disaster spurs media whirlwind

The devastation of Joplin, MO, has led to a super-storm of media stories on the link between climate change and extreme weather, including tornadoes.

LA Times: Texas drought has farmers on ropes

In Texas, worst drought since Dust Bow part of the "new normal" that climate scientists are talking about: the climate of extremes. 

AFP: Japanese PM pledges 10 million solar-powered homes

Japan will have ten million solar-powered homes, Prime Minister Naoto Kan pledged Wednesday, as the country makes a major push in coming years towards renewable energy following its nuclear crisis.

IPS: Permafrost melt soon irreversible without major fossil fuel cuts

Without major reductions in the use of fossil fuels, as much as two-thirds of the world's gigantic storehouse of frozen carbon could be released, a new study reported. That would push global temperatures several degrees higher, making large parts of the planet uninhabitable.

AFP: 50 million 'environmental refugees' by 2020, experts say

Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing food shortages sparked by climate change, experts warned at a major science conference.

Reuters: Australia government to set carbon price from mid-2012
Australia's government launched a third attempt to make carbon polluters pay for their emissions, unveiling plans for a fixed-price scheme from 2012 and vowing not to surrender this time in the face of fierce opposition.

Reuters: Coal's hidden costs top $345 billion in U.S. — study
The United States' reliance on coal to generate almost half of its electricity, costs the economy about $345 billion a year in hidden expenses, a Harvard study finds.

AP: Scientists connect global warming to extreme rainExtreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.

Politico: Senate Dems prepping CES bill
Senate Democrats are preparing energy legislation for the floor that includes the 'clean energy' standard sought by President Barack Obama, Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

NY Times: Wyoming senator seeks to lasso EPA
Senator John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming, has introduced legislation to block the Environmental Protection Agency from taking any action to regulate greenhouse gases to address climate change.

The Hill: Egypt's unrest revives debate about U.S. oil dependency
U.S. policymakers are watching the political unrest in Egypt closely for signs of oil-price volatility, while proponents of offshore drilling are citing the protests to push for expanded domestic production.

NY Times: Obama's bid to end oil subsidies revives debate
In his new budget, President Obama will propose doing away with roughly $4 billion a year in subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies, his third effort to eliminate federal support for an industry that is hugely profitable.

The Guardian: Greenpeace protests Koch brothers' rally
Prominent figures on both the right and left of the U.S. political spectrum gathered in Rancho Mirage, Calif.,  amid increasingly heated debate about the influence of the secrecy-loving billionaires Charles and David Koch on the political process.

ClimateWire: Greenland's ice feels the heat in record-setting 2010
Unusually warm conditions in much of the country helped extend the annual melting season by up to 50 days longer in 2010 than the average observed between 1979 and 2009, researchers found.

Solve Climate: 2010 ties 2005 as warmest year, but Congress remains cold to actionThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest year in the temperature record, adding to the body of scientific evidence that the federal agency has characterized as “clear and unmistakable signs of a warming world.”

Reuters: Scientists see climate change link to Australian floods
Climate change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia's Queensland state, scientists say, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come.

Climate Central: 'Arctic Oscillation' spilling cold into North America, Europe
While sea ice has declined, scientists say an additional contributor is an unusual weather pattern that has kept parts of the Arctic unusually warm while driving cold air and snowstorms into parts of the U.S. and Europe.

Washington Monthly: Get the energy sector off the dole
Why ending all government subsidies for fuel production will lead to a cleaner energy future—and why Obama has a rare chance to make it happen.

AFP: Warming to devastate glaciers, Antarctic icesheet, -- studies
Global warming may wipe out three-quarters of Europe's alpine glaciers by 2100 and hike sea levels by four metres (13 feet) by the year 3000 through melting the West Antarctic icesheet, two studies said.

Guardian: Floods continue to batter Australia
Flash floods swept through a Queensland community today, killing one woman, trapping others in cars and leaving some clinging to trees in a region battling its worst flooding in decades.

Reuters: Republicans Plot Death of EPA Climate Rules
Republicans poised to take power in Congress are planning a rapid attack against a climate change initiative the Obama administration wants to launch on January 2.

Solve Climate: Thwarted Bingaman Still Eyeing Clean Energy Standard in Next Congress
The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will redouble his efforts in the 112th Congress to collaborate with Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe to advance fuel-saving provisions.

AP: Intense Climate Talks Stretch Into Final Hours
Climate talks in Cancun went into their final day with a raft of issues undergoing intense bargaining through the night, but with high hopes an agreement was within reach on measures to fight global warming.

Solve Climate: Outgoing Rep. Inglis Still Touting Revenue-Neutral Carbon Tax
The South Carolinian is a burr in the GOP’s rigid saddle because he discomfits dominant House Republican groupthink: he admits he trusts the science that says human activities are causing the planet to warm.

Reuters: China Buoys Climate Talks With 'Binding' Target
China offered for the first time to submit its voluntary carbon emissions target to a binding U.N. resolution, buoying climate talks in Cancun where Bolivia accused rich world policies of causing "genocide."

Reuters: Climate Change Fans Deep-Burning Fires in Alaska
Climate change is fanning longer- and deeper-burning fires in interior Alaska, changing the area from a carbon sink to a carbon emitter, scientists reported at the Cancun climate talks.

AFP: Climate: A Million Deaths a Year by 2030 -- Study
By 2030, climate change will indirectly cause nearly one million deaths a year and inflict 157 billion dollars in damage, according to estimates presented at UN talks in Cancun.

Guardian: Climate Change Will Cost a Billion People Their Homes, Report Says
A special report reveals that up to a billion people face losing their homes in the next 90 years because of failures to agree curbs on carbon emissions.

Solve Climate: Tax Pledge Adds Another Political Hurdle to U.S. Climate Action
Oil-funded Americans for Prosperity boasts more than 530 elected officials have signed the "No Climate Tax" pledge.

Guardian: World is Warming Quicker Than Thought in Past Decade
The world warmed more rapidly than previously thought over the past decade, according to a report published today, which finds the evidence for man-made climate change has grown even stronger over the last year.

Guardian: Climate Change Protesters' Anger Justifiable, Says NASA Scientist
The anger of 114 activists who planned to break into a coal plant near Nottingham was understandable because of the "lies" told by governments about climate change, NASA's top scientist told the trial of 20 climate campaigners.

Bloomberg Call for Carbon Tax
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he’s in favor of a carbon tax –- a view not shared by many political leaders of either party in Washington.

U.N. Climate Talks Seek Limited Deal as Costs Soar
After failure to agree a treaty at last year's summit in Copenhagen, ambitions for 2010 have been lowered to a modest package that includes a fund to manage aid to poor nations, new ways to share clean technology and to protect tropical forests.

As Glaciers Melt, Scientists Seek Data on Rising Seas
Calculations suggest that the rise in sea level could conceivably exceed six feet, which would put thousands of square miles of the American coastline under water and would probably displace tens of millions of people in Asia.

AP: Rising Arctic Temperatures Melt Ice
The temperature is rising again in the Arctic, with the sea ice extent dropping to one of the lowest levels on record, climate scientists have reported.

Sustainable Business: $1B Market for Wind Energy Storage by 2015
Analyst firm NanoMarkets states that growth in the wind industry will not be sustainable unless the matter of cost-effective energy storage is addressed.

NY Times: A Climate Proposal Beyond Cap and Trade
The death of cap and trade doesn’t have to mean the death of climate policy. The alternative revolves around much more, and much better organized, financing for clean energy research.

AFP: Wind Could Provide 20% of World Power by 2030: Greenpeace
Wind power could meet about a fifth of the world's electricity demand within 20 years, an industry group and environmental watchdog Greenpeace predicted in a new report released.

Bloomberg: EU Cap-And-Trade Hasn't Given Price Signal, Investor Poll Says
The European Union’s carbon trading system hasn’t provided the needed long-term price signal for investors to switch away from carbon-intensive technologies, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change said.

Politico: Hopes Dim for Energy Bill in Senate

ClimteWire: GE's Immelt Says U.S. Policy Deadlock Holds Back Clean Energy DevelopmentThe chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. branded U.S. energy policy a failure, saying that other nations, led by China, are speeding past the United States in developing the next generation of energy technologies.

Reuters: U.S. Seen Losing Renewable Energy Race to Asia
Several Asian countries in addition to China could soon challenge the United States in the race to build a renewable energy industry if Washington doesn't provide more incentives for its domestic business, venture capitalists and others told a Congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Solve Climate: Renewable Electricity Promotion Act of 2010 Introduced in Senate
If the winds blow the way Sen. Jeff Bingaman is predicting, Congress will make a 15 percent renewable electricity standard a reality during the lame-duck session after the midterm election.

Wonk Room: Bill Clinton: Save America's Economy With Clean Energy (And Save the Planet)
President Bill Clinton believes the “number one thing” to restore the American economy is clean, efficient energy. In a blogger roundtable, he shares his “favorite ideas” for making the green economy a political and economic reality.

ENN: Wesleyan University to Host National Conference on Pricing Carbon Emissions
Climatologist Dr. James Hansen and author-activist Bill McKibben will speak at the conference, which will  examine new approaches to pricing carbon emissions that are destabilizing the Earth's climate.

Washington Post: 2010 Headed Toward Being Hottest Year on Record
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday that the first eight months of 2010 tied the same period in 1998 for the warmest combined land and ocean surface temperature on record worldwide.

NY Times: Arctic Sea Ice Continues Its Summer Slide
DotEarth blogger Andrew Revkin writes: "It’s clear that a downward trend, which many Arctic specialists are convinced will lead to open-water summers around the North Pole later in the century, has not abated."

Greenwire: Senate Showdown Over EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regs
Two Senate Democrats said they may support an amendment to block U.S. EPA climate rules, increasing the odds of its success when the Senate Appropriations Committee votes on EPA's budget.

NY Times: As Senate Returns, Democrats Seek Action on Energy Measures
While the Senate seems unlikely to approve an energy bill during the few weeks it reconvenes before the November elections, it may consider measures on U.S. EPA climate rules, power plant pollution curbs and energy tax incentives.

NY Times: White House Spurns Solar Panel
Bill McKibben, an environmental campaigner from Vermont with a flair for showmanship, was rebuffed Friday morning in his effort to get the White House to reinstall one of the solar panels that President Jimmy Carter had placed on the White House roof.

NY Times Op-Ed: Weird Weather in a Warming World
DotEarth blogger Andrew Revkin writes: "Though today’s extremes can’t be reliably attributed to the greenhouse effect, they do give us the feel, sweat and all, of what’s to come if emissions are not reined in."

Solve Climate: World Bank Caught in Controversy Over Suspect Carbon Credits
At issue is whether the UN should modify the way it gives valuable carbon credits for climate-destroying refrigerant chemicals. The decision could reshape the $2.7 billion carbon crediting scheme known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

The Ecologist: Bees Stung by Climate Change-Linked Early Pollination
Climate change may be causing flowers to open before bees emerge from hibernation, leading to declines in pollination, new research suggests.

Bloomberg: U.S. Won't Pass Carbon-Price Law for Power Generators This Year
The U.S. won’t pass legislation this year that charges power plants a price for releasing carbon dioxide and other gases that scientists have linked to climate hange, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said.

Yahoo News: Noted Anti-Global Warming Scientist Reverses Course
Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract "The Skeptical Environmentalist," has reversed course on the urgency of global warming, and is now calling for action on "a challenge humanity must confront."

The Hindu: India Approves 1,000 MW Grid-Connected Solar-Power Projects
The government is targeting 1000 MW of solar power by 2013 of which 500 MW would be solar PV and 500 MW through solar thermal technology, New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah said.

NY Times: Murkowski Concedes Senate Race in Alaska
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, the ranking member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, conceded late Tuesday in her Republican primary race against Joe Miller who was backed by Tea Party activists.

The Hill: Reid Puts Renewables Mandate in Play, Eyes Lame-Duck Energy Bill
Senate Majority Leaders says a nationwide renewable-electricity standard, or RES, is “absolutely” in the mix as he tries to salvage energy legislation this year — possibly in a lame-duck session.

NY Times: Cap-and-Trade is Beginning to Raise Some Concerns
Critics have warned for years that this form of offsetting would encourage profiteering, with little or no value in efforts to curb climate change.

NY Times: Review Finds Flaws in U.N. Climate Panel Structure
The United Nations needs to revise the way it manages its assessments of climate change, with the scientists involved more open to alternative views, an independent review panel said Monday.

Platts: TVA Targets Nine Older Coal-Fired Units for Shutdown by 2015
Units were targeted because they are older, less efficient, and it would be too expensive to retrofit them with updated emissions equipment.

Reuters: Biden Says Country on Track to Double Renewable Energy Capacity
Government stimulus spending has put the country on track to double renewable energy production capacity by 2012 and halve solar power costs by 2015, the Vice President said.

NY Times: The Gates Path to an Energy Revolution
Microsoft founder says a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon-emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline.

NY Times Op-Ed: Disaster at the Top of the World
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and this summer its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace. But in the world’s capitals, movement on climate policy has nearly stopped.

NY Times: Australia Steps up Renewable Energy Efforts
Australia has plans to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013, part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean energy sources.

Epoch Times: Coal Industry Drinks Up Massive Amounts of Water
Out of the 410 billion gallons drawn from US waterways everyday for a variety of the nation’s water needs, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), half of it goes to cooling power plants, which are largely coal fired.

NY Times: Oil Groups, Climate Bill Supporters Clash in Summer Campaigns
American Petroleum Institute kicks off what it dubs "citizen rallies" on Sept. 1.  The trade group wants to drive support that can translate into calls and letters to Congress members.

AP: Coal Industry in Midst of Expansion, Despite Push for Clean Technologies
Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come.

Bloomberg: Obama Says Commitment to Clean Energy Will Boost Jobs
President Barack Obama said government incentives to expand clean-energy industries will help restore jobs, citing a battery maker in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, where he is highlighting the impact of the economic stimulus.

NY Times: In Weather Chaos, a Case for Global Warming
Seemingly disconnected, these far-flung disasters are reviving the question of whether global warming is causing more weather extremes.

BBC: Russia Ban on Grain Export Begins
Russia is one of the world's biggest producers of wheat, barley and rye, and the ban is likely to see bread prices rise in places like the Middle East.

AP: Extreme Weather May be Signs of Climate Change
Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: It's not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way.

Reuters: Deutsche Unit Spurns U.S. for Climate Investment
"They're asleep at the wheel on climate change, asleep at the wheel on job growth, asleep at the wheel on this industrial revolution taking place in the energy industry," said Deutsche Bank official Kevin Parker.

SolveClimate: Study: Solar Power Officially Cheaper Than Nuclear in North Carolina
The price of the state's solar-generated electricity has fallen so far that it is now cheaper than new nuclear power, according to a report published in July by researchers at the state's Duke University.

WS Journal: Illinois Town Backs Out of 'Clean Coal' Project
A tiny Illinois town on Wednesday refused to provide land to store carbon dioxide, dealing a blow to the Obama administration's plan to fund a carbon-storage facility in the town.

Climate Progress: BrightSource to Build largest Concentrating Solar Power Plant
The California Energy Commission's siting committee has recommended approval of what will be the world’s largest solar energy project, a 392-megawatt system located in California’s Mojave Desert.

Reuters: Huge Ice Island Calves Off Greenland Glacier
An ice island four times the size of Manhattan broke off from one of Greenland's two main glaciers, scientists said on Friday, in the biggest such event in the Arctic in nearly 50 years.

Xinhua: Delegates Close to Outlining Outcome for Cancun: U.N. Climate Chief
Climate negotiators are "very close" to making a decision on "what shape the Cancun outcome is to be," as they completed the third round of talks in Bonn, German.

USA Today: Senate Dems Delay Vote on Scaled-Back Energy Bill
Reid's decision to delay until at least September is the latest setback for Democrats trying to pass energy legislation this summer in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Reuters: Cancun Talks Will Not See Big Climate Deal — EU
A U.N. summit in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year will not result in a new climate treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, the co-head of the European Union's climate delegation said in an interview on Tuesday.

WashPost editorial: The Truth About Global Warming
In a depressing case of irony by juxtaposition, the death of climate change legislation in the Senate has been followed by the appearance of two government reports in the past week that underscore the overwhelming scientific case for global warming.

Solve Climate: Rep. Inslee Proposes Shared Fee on Electric Bills for Clean Energy
In a nutshell, Inslee’s bill is based on Germany’s feed-in tariff. Producers of clean energy get a connection to the nation’s electric grid and predetermined rates from utilities for the power they generate.

Ottawa Citizen: B.C.'s Carbon Tax is Looking Like a Winner
The carbon tax has obvious moral appeal. By tying the pollution tax to reduced income taxes, British Columbia has shifted from taxing "goods," like working and entrepreneurship, to taxing "bads," like pollution.

The Nation: Senate Climate Bill Dies — Does the Environment Win?Charles Komanoff of the Carbon Tax Center offers the alternative to the now-dead cap-and-trade bill -- carbon fee and dividend.

Bloomberg: 'Unmistakable' Evidence Shows World Getting Warmer, NOAA Says
The past decade was the warmest on record and the past 50 years have been getting hotter, the researchers said, citing 10 main indicators, including surface and ocean temperatures, the amount of sea ice and glaciers and levels of humidity.

Solve Climate: Tiny Tax on Wall Street Trades to Pay for Climate Mitigation?
Revenues from the tax would cover expenses for worldwide climate change mitigation. This includes daunting tasks such as moving homes away from coastlines, transforming agricultural practices and reconfiguring infrastructure.

Krugman: Who Cooked the Planet?
So it wasn’t the science, the scientists, or the economics that killed action on climate change. What was it? The answer is, the usual suspects: greed and cowardice.

Friedman: We're Gonna Be Sorry
We’ve basically decided to keep pumping greenhouse gases into Mother Nature’s operating system and take our chances that the results will be benign — even though a vast majority of scientists warn that this will not be so.

WS Journal: Carbon Capture Still Pricey for China
Many environmentalists suggest that China will be the country that makes carbon capture and sequestration viable — but Chinese officials remain unconvinced.

NY Times: Efforts to Block EPA's Greenhouse Gas Regulations Back in Play
Over the past two years, cap-and-trade advocates used the threat of U.S. EPA climate regulations as a key driver in the push for climate legislation on Capitol Hill. Now, Democratic leaders face the challenge of renewed bipartisan interest in handcuffing EPA before it takes action.

NY Times: With a Whimper
In an editorial, the Times doles out blame for the demise of climate legislation and calls for a renewed effort in the months to come.

Politico: Democrats Pull Plug on Climate Bill
Senate Democrats pulled the plug on climate legislation Thursday, pushing the issue off into an uncertain future ahead of midterm elections where President Barack Obama’s party is girding for a drubbing.

Reuters: U.S. Senate Panel Backs More Electric Cars, Solar
Millions of electric-powered vehicles that would slash America's dependence on foreign oil and cut its carbon emissions would be put on the road under legislation approved by a Senate committee on Wednesday.

The Hill: Key Environmentalists OK With Delay on Climate Bill Until Fall
The view of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change — part of a small band of environmental groups and utility companies that have been negotiating a first-time carbon-pricing plan for power plants — may resemble a growing consensus among green activists.
 


BusinessWeek: China May Spend $738 Billion on Clean Energy Projects
China, the world’s biggest polluter, may spend about 5 trillion yuan ($738 billion) in the next decade developing cleaner sources of energy to reduce emissions from burning oil and coal, a government official said.

NY Times: The Passing of a Climate Warrior
Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who for decades built the case that global warming, while laden with complexity, justified an aggressive response, has died.

Wall Street Journal: Scientists Estimate Impact of Temperature Change on Environment
If global temperatures rise, fueled by carbon-dioxide emissions, there will be long-term consequences in rainfall, crop production and wildfires, according to a new report issued Friday by the National Research Council.

Reuters: Honda to roll out plug-in hybrid car in 2013
Honda Motor is working on a hybrid car that can be recharged at home and an all-electric vehicle, both for release in about three years,

NY Times: Our Beaker is Starting to Boil
Columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about a photo exhibit that reveals an alarming shrinkage of glaciers  over the past century.

Bloomberg: Carbon Emissions Cap-And-Trade Law Can't Pass, Sen. Rockefeller Says
The West Virginia Democrat says 'It's common knowledge around here' that cap-and-trade can't get the 60 votes needed in the Senate.

Climate Progress: Review of the must-read book, 'Merchants of Doubt'
'How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming.'

Politico: The Science Behind Climate Science
In an opinion piece, four scientists leading scientists state, "The urgent need to act cannot be overstated. Climate change caused by humans is already affecting our lives and livelihoods."

Reuters: Senators Craft Scaled-Back Climate BillSens. John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman have drafted a less ambitious climate bill that calls for capping emissions from utilities beginning in 2013.

Reuters: Senators Craft Scaled-Back Climate BillSens. John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman have drafted a less ambitious climate bill that calls for capping emissions from utilities beginning in 2013.
The Hill: Reid Throws Climate Lifeline to Greens
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reassures environmental groups that energy legislation will include some form of greenhouse gas limits.

Politico: Moment of Truth for Energy Bill
The next three weeks represent Democrats’ last, best shot at getting an energy and climate change bill passed this year.

Washington Post: First Half of 2010 Sets Heat Record
The NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies now reports that the first six months of 2010 are the warmest on record.

NY Times: Big Oil's Good Deal
An editorial in the Times calls for an end to subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies and focus on encouraging alternative fuels that create cleaner energy and clean-energy jobs.

NY Times: A Climate Change Corrective
An editorial in the Times states that recent reviews of the trumped up controversy known as "Climategate" have cleared the scientists involved and confirmed their findings.

Mail and Guardian: Rising Sea Drives Panama Islanders to Mainland
Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes on low-lying Caribbean islands.

Roll Call: Remember Europe's Cap and Trade Experience
Economist Rob Shapiro comments on the failure of the European Emissions Trading Scheme to sufficiently reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

NY Times: British Panel Clears Scientists
A British panel on Wednesday exonerated  the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming.

TIME: Hot Times in Antarctica
A new paper published in Science magazine reports that winter temperatures in the Antarctic Peninsula have risen 6 degrees C over the last 50 years.

Sydney Morning Herald: India Taxes Coal to Fund Clean Energy
"First step to introduce carbon tax" will place levy on imported as well as domestic coal.

NY Times: New Rules Issued on Coal Air Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed rules on coal-fired power plants to reduce soot and smog.

Raw Story: Judge Refuses to Jail Activist Who Hung Banner in Senate Building Over Objections of U.S. Attorney
Ted Glick of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, who faced a 3-year sentence for  'Green Jobs Now' banner, receives sentence of 40 hours of community service and $1,100 fine.

Mother Jones: Risky Business -- Can American Industry Adapt to Climate Change?
A special report on how the business community is looking at future risks and liabilities of climate change and how beaches are disappearing on the East Coast.

The Hill: Waxman to Push for Carbon Limits in Conference if Senate Falls Short
Rep. Henry Waxman says he'll seek limits on CO2 in conference committee if Senate sends an energy bill that fails to cap carbon.

LA Times: National Academy of Sciences Urges Strong Action to Cut Greenhouse Gases.

The NAS confirms that climate change is happening as a result of human activity and recommends that a price be put on carbon to discourage use of fossil fuels.