EPA 'Cow Tax' Could Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases

Farm Bureau warns just this one rule may increase milk production costs up to 8 cents a gallon.

DailyTech - Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979

Rapid growth spurt leaves amount of ice at levels seen 29 years ago.

FT.com / UK - 'As night from day'

For delegates used to the glacial pace of climate negotiations - which have been going on since 1992 - the change in the White House offers the best hope yet of real movement. "It will be as different as night from day," promised Senator John Kerry, the former Democratic presidential candidate and member of the Obama camp, who attended the talks in order to report back to the president-elect. "Obama has made clear he supports a mandatory target [on global emissions reduction]. This is a significant departure from where we have been to date."
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Steven Chu, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, was named head of the Department of Energy. Mr Chu, director of the Lawrence Berkeley national energy laboratory in California, has warned of imminent catastrophe if the world does not drastically and urgently reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

He is a member of the Copenhagen Climate Council, a group of scientists and business leaders pressing for a worldwide agreement to replace the Kyoto protocol.