A Busy Week Ahead as Senate Starts Work on Climate [Hoax] Bill - NYTimes.com

These are the first in a long line of Senate climate hearings as the Democratic-led chamber tries to cobble together a bill in time for Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) Sept. 18 deadline for all committees to clear their pieces of the legislation.

Also Wednesday, Reid plans to bring together the chairmen of the six key Senate committees for what are now becoming regular strategy sessions on the issue: Agriculture's Tom Harkin of Iowa; Commerce, Science and Transportation's John Rockefeller of West Virginia; Energy and Natural Resources' Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico; Environment and Public Works' Barbara Boxer of California; Finance's Max Baucus of Montana; and Foreign Relations' John Kerry of Massachusetts.

Boxer is expected to take the lead in writing the core components of the climate bill, building in large part off the House legislation approved less than two weeks ago on a 219-212 vote. A Democratic committee aide today said legislative text should be ready for public release within the next two weeks. Boxer has set aside the weeks of July 27-31 and Aug. 3-7 for marking up the bill.

Oxfam: [Stuck on Stupid] : TreeHugger

A new report from Oxfam tries to put a human face on the suffering that climate change will cause in the future, even if we muster the political will to hold global average temperature rise to 2°C, as well as what's already happening around the globe. Suffering the Science: Climate change, people and poverty goes into greater detail, but in short the report says that hunger, disaster and disease will be the "new normal":