BBC - Climate Change: The Blog of Bloom: [The killer moth of CO2 emissions approacheth]

'Killer moth begins English invasion' was the disturbing title of a story in the Daily Telegraph's recent Nature Notes linking the spread of the oak processionary moth to climate change.

This revelation about our imminent demise due to a furry Lepidoptera may have troubled you slightly. So just how deadly is this moth?

Beware of Obama's 'Battery Gold Rush' | Green Business | Reuters

But this battery program is explicitly about picking winners and losers in one industry sector, which may or may not turn out to be a real business. It reflects, I’m sorry to say, the Obama administration’s faith that the best and the brightest Ivy-educated government executives can figure out what needs to be done, and just how to do it. I have no doubt that the people around Obama are smart, well intentioned and hardworking. I dearly hope that they can, in fact, figure out just what needs to be done. But if we learned anything from Bush II, it is to worry about people in Washington who think they have all the answers.

No consensus: EU teeters between summit rows on climate-change [fraud] costs

Brussels - The European Union is trying to sidestep a bitter internal fight on how to pay developing countries to fight climate change at a summit in Brussels next week, according to internal documents seen by the German Press Agency dpa. But efforts to push the decision back to a summit in October could yet spark a new row, as some member states say that the subject should not be decided until 2010, EU diplomats said.