Australia: Support for ETS slipping | Dynamic Business

The poll taken last weekend also revealed that those “strongly in favour” of am emissions trading scheme fell from 35 percent in October last year to 29 percent last weekend, and just 19 percent would support Rudd’s threats to bulldoze the bill through the Senate with the threat of an early election.

Problems and Priorities Poll: Climate change finishes last yet again

Bloomberg Poll conducted by Selzer & Co. Sept. 10-14, 2009. N=1,004 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.1.

Which of the following do you see as the most important issue facing the country right now?

The economy 46
Health care    23
The federal budget deficit 16
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan 10
Climate change  2
Other (vol.)     1
Unsure   2

UN climate change summit awaits word from heavyweights US and China | csmonitor.com

China is expected Tuesday to announce a plan to reduce its carbon emissions as a percentage of gross domestic product. Such a plan would boost China’s commitment to help combat global warming, while allowing Beijing to preserve its high-growth strategy.  But it could leave United States lawmakers cold.

[Dangerous insanity]: Climate change victims can sue coal-fired plants | Saxe Environmental Law News

In a landmark decision, the US Second Circuit has agreed that victims of climate change can sue electric utilities in nuisance for the emissions from their coal-fired power plants.