[Arizona: Time to stock up on firewood and candles?] - NYTimes.com

Earlier this year, Arizona Public Service, Arizona’s largest utility with 1.1 million customers, released a plan outlining its strategy for future energy production in the state. The company included no new coal-fired plants in the plan, despite an anticipated 50 percent rise in energy demand by 2025.

In an interview, Ed Fox, vice president and chief sustainability officer for Arizona Public Service, said that the company would not build another coal-fired plant until “new technology comes along that allows us to manage pollutants, including carbon dioxide.”

Arizona Public Service expects to fulfill virtually all of its demand growth in the next five years with wind and solar projects and increased energy efficiency, Mr. Fox said.

Dr. Holdren’s Ice-Age Tidal Wave - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com

What interests me are not the disaster specifics but rather Dr. Holdren’s tendency to foresee worst-case scenarios that require new public policies. (In the 1970s, he and Paul Ehrlich discussed controlling population by giving sweeping powers to a new “Planetary Regime.”) I’ve previously written about criticism that a climate-change report from the White House and federal agencies exaggerates the threat of natural disasters. Does Dr. Holdren have a worst-case bias in his interpretation of data?

Climate [Hoax] Bill: Boxer Draft Aims High, But Silent on Key Details - Environmental Capital - WSJ

The draft copy of her proposal doesn’t specify how the government would allocate the hundreds of billions of dollars in emissions permits that companies will be required to hold in order to spew carbon dioxide. Nor does it spell out what steps the U.S. would take against goods imported from countries that don’t enact carbon controls.

People familiar with the matter say Ms. Boxer intends to hash out those issues with other members of her panel at a mark-up the last week in October.

Companies Vie for Control of ‘Dot-Eco’ - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

So far, two organizations have gone public with their intention to win the .eco registry.

Karikuy - The Kawsay Humanitarian Program

Peru is at the front lines of global climate change. Puno, the southwestern province of Peru has been hardest hit by a long winter of freezing temperatures. At the mercy of the bitter cold spell have been the children of the Altiplano who simply haven’t the strength to survive the coldest winters in the history of Puno. It has been estimated that over 150 children have died since January of this year due to respiratory infections and colds that go uncared for. It is estimated that over 30,000 people in Puno have been affected by viruses due to global climate change and that over 300 kids in Puno are currently suffering from pneumonia.