Healthcare delay may complicate U.S. climate debate | Green Business | Reuters

Climate change legislation is not expected to be considered on the Senate floor until October, and a spokesman for Reid reiterated that timetable still holds.

But many of the leading senators will likely be preoccupied longer on healthcare reform, which could complicate Obama's efforts to get legislation passed just as the world prepares for a December summit in Copenhagen on global warming.

Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog: What's Happening Now

Under the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade climate bill, the taxpayers have to give General Electric $200 every time it sells a refrigerator.

Aspen Institute: Arctic in trouble - CKA News

WINNIPEG — The deteriorating state of the Arctic shows the world is running out of time to address global warming and complacency is the biggest obstacle to reversing the damage, international commissioners studying climate change said Thursday.

At a meeting in Winnipeg, commissioners from the Aspen Institute said the Arctic is a bellwether for the rest of the world. The North is warming at a dizzying pace, losing sea ice and threatening both residents and wildlife, they said.

The Arctic also acts as the world’s cooling system and, without it, they say life on Earth is at risk.

Movie “Food Inc.”

The movie goes along entertainingly enough until about 2/3 the way through when it’s true colors come out. An interview with Stonyfield Farm’s CEO Gary Hirshberg begins the assault.

“We’re never going to get rid of capitalism. At least we’re never going to get rid of it in time to arrest global warming and the food crisis.”

FT.com / Asia-Pacific - India minister accuses west over glaciers

Mr Ramesh said that the rate of retreat of glaciers in the Himalayas varied from a "couple of centimetres a year to a couple of metres", but that this was a natural process. Some were, in fact, growing, he said.

Senior Indian hydrologists say the retreat of glaciers is far from catastrophic and that they would take several hundred years to disappear.