Alarmist Phillip Mills weighs in

A recent four-year project in Germany, in which taxes were shifted from labour to carbon-based energy, reduced CO2 emissions by 20 million tonnes and helped to create approximately 250,000 new jobs.
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If we do not act quickly, global warming will pose a dire threat to civilisation as we know it, within our lifetimes or those of our children.

There remain no significant sceptics on this subject, even major opponents such as the Bush administration having acknowledged the problem.

In the event that climate-change deniers are wrong, failure to act will have devastating results whereas, even if they are right, unnecessary action will result in little harm done and potentially much good.

However, there are a host of other ecological challenges that we will face before we reach judgement day on this issue, any one of which has the ability to wreak havoc upon the world economy.

Global Warming Link To Amphibian Declines In Doubt

Evidence that global warming is causing the worldwide declines of amphibians may not be as conclusive as previously thought, according to biologists. The findings, which contradict two widely held views, could help reveal what is killing the frogs and toads and aid in their conservation.

Obama Administration To Move Quickly On Climate Legislation -Adviser - EasyBourse actualité

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- President-elect Barack Obama's administration will move quickly on climate change policy, a top adviser said Wednesday.
"Enjoy the holiday season...and rest up because it's going to be a very, very busy 2009," Obama's environment and energy adviser Jason Grumet said at a carbon conference here.
"We will have the opportunity to move very quickly because there has been a profound amount of knowledge, demo projects initiated and efforts under way," Grumet said.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said while energy legislation that could help to reduce man-made greenhouse gases thought to contribute to global warming is ready to be debated in the new year, climate change bills would likely come later in the year.
"Cap and trade legislation...is not likely to occur in the first weeks of the new administration, but later in the year," Bingaman told the conference.
"I think it will take more than one year to get it done," he said, pointing to final passage in 2010.