William S. Becker [Executive Director, Presidential Climate Action Project]: Grading a Climate Bill, Part 1

With the future of the planet hanging in the balance, with the world watching for what the United States will do, and with Congressional action likely to have a major influence on whether we'll see a global climate agreement at Copenhagen, this is probably the most important exam the current members of Congress will ever take.
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How much and how quickly we reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not topics for negotiation, any more than you or I would be wise to try negotiating with a rapidly metastasizing cancer. Aggressive cancer demands aggressive treatment on an aggressive timetable. So does global warming.
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On climate change - the mother of all environmental, economic, energy, public health, national security and international relations issues - responsible members of both parties need a gut check. They need to man-up. They need to inoculate their constituents against flat-earthers and demagogues by educating the voters about why climate action is so urgent an issue, why it's time for the United States to seize the opportunity of a clean energy economy, and why every American, present and future, stands to benefit from the change.

CARPE DIEM: The Most Energy Efficient Economy in U.S. History

Bottom Line: The U.S. economy has never been more energy efficient than it is today, and it just keeps getting more and more efficient every year as we find ways to produce more and more output with less and less energy. Amid all of the gloom and doom, this seems like something to celebrate. Over time, we're not becoming energy gluttons, we're actually becoming energy misers.

Clouds, seas to be targeted by U.N. climate report - Yahoo! News UK

The 2007 report pointed to cloud formation as a big uncertainty in climate change.

Shouts & Murmurs: The Temperature of Hell: A Colloquium : The New Yorker

Former Vice-President Al Gore, who was among the first to raise concerns about this problem, convened an interdisciplinary gathering in December of 2008 to discuss some of Hell’s climate issues and how we might begin to address them.