European Leaders Agree on Weakened Plan to Reduce Emissions - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

European Union leaders on Friday agreed to a dramatically weakened plan to reduce emissions.
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“A flagship E.U. policy now has no pilot, a mutinous crew and numerous holes in its fuselage,” said Sanjeev Kumar of the environment group WWF.

Prometheus » Blog Archive » The Inevitability of Cap and Trade in the US

Today’s New York Times has an interesting and speculative article about the role that Carol Browner will play as White House energy and climate “czar.” Interestingly, the article reveals that Browner sits on the corporate board of APX “which specializes in handling cap-and-trade emission credits.”

Prometheus » Blog Archive » Someone Explain This to Me

The only solution I can see is for a linked carbon market to work would be for the U.S. to join the EU, which doesn’t really seem likely. Barring a global carbon authority with the right to overrule national governments, linked carbon markets seem a fantasy. But maybe someone can show me what I might have missed.

Getting Warmer by The Editors on National Review Online

There’s an international conference on global warming — the 14th Convention of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol — under way in frozen Poznan, Poland. You’ll be excused for not having heard about it, because not much is happening, despite Al Gore’s triumphal entrance into the city, which may as well have occurred in a chariot. (“Many see him as a saviour,” reports Der Spiegel.) In Poznan, what is not happening is more significant than what is...

Britain shivers through coldest start to winter for 30 years as bookies slash odds on white Christmas | Mail Online

Britain is shivering through the coldest start to winter for more than 30 years, the Met Office has revealed.

The average temperature for the first third of December was a chilly 1.7C (35.1F)- compared to the long term average of 5.2C (41.4F), according to official figures.

Bookies have slashed their odds on a white Christmas to 4/1 in London and just 2/1 in Aberdeen.

They have even seen a flurry of bets on the Thames freezing over thanks to the freezing weather.