Carol Browner on Climate Change: "The Science Has Just Become Incredibly Clear" - US News and World Report

I think there's also this great belief that we can do better, that [with] American innovation, American ingenuity, we really can build wind farms and power our cities with clean energy, with homegrown, American, renewable energy.
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[Q] How much have attitudes shifted on climate change?

I think, first of all, that the science has just become incredibly clear—that the impacts are real, they will be real, and that we need to do something. There are businesses that quite frankly see an opportunity, recognize that if you have requirements in terms of reducing greenhouse gases, that their innovations, their ingenuity are going to allow them to capture some opportunities in the marketplace. That's a change. There's a long history of the government making decisions and creating opportunities for businesses, and I think you've got a growing number of businesses in this arena that understand that.

Scientists present latest news on climate change - International Herald Tribune

COPENHAGEN: Climate scientists are preparing for bad news as they review the latest data on global warming at a conference this week in Copenhagen, one of the organizers said Monday.

The three-day conference starting Tuesday aims to update the science on climate change since the last U.N. report two years ago. Its conclusions will be presented to policy-makers at a key international climate summit in December.

"The purpose of the conference is to give the best ever information to the politicians," said Katherine Richardson, a scientist at the University of Copenhagen, which is hosting the conference.
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"Certainly the message from the natural science side, the part of science that looks at how the climate system really works, isn't very good," Richardson said. "There isn't any good news to be found there."