Climate-Change Panic Down Under in Australia - WSJ.com

Kevin Rudd's attack on 'skeptics' is instructive-and bodes poorly for Copenhagen.
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Tough economic times have a way of clarifying political priorities and forcing people to distinguish among needs, wishes—and fantasies. So you might think a politician as canny as Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would know better than to blame his country's new-found skepticism about the risks of global warming on something other than an evil conspiracy.

The bear facts about the polar bear hunt - thestar.com

We harvest more polar bears in Nunavut than the rest of the world combined," said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut's head of wildlife management. "Our annual harvest is between 450 and 500 bears a year..."

Bjørn Lomborg: Global Warming as Seen From Bangladesh - WSJ.com

Getting basic sanitation and safe drinking water to the three billion people around the world who do not have it now would cost nearly $4 billion a year. By contrast, cuts in global carbon emissions that aim to limit global temperature increases to less than two degrees Celsius over the next century would cost $40 trillion a year by 2100. These cuts will do nothing to increase the number of people with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Cutting carbon emissions will likely increase water scarcity, because global warming is expected to increase average rainfall levels around the world.

For Mrs. Begum, the choice is simple. After global warming was explained to her, she said: "When my kids haven't got enough to eat, I don't think global warming will be an issue I will be thinking about."

Independently Inaccurate - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

For post-2007 clarity, maybe this writer for the fading Indy — a lad who, incidentally, cobbled together a story ostensibly premised on discarded (and dog-offal-smeared) paper stolen from my trash by Greenpeace — should read Planet Gore more often.

Senate Climate Battle Shifts Onto New Turf - NYTimes.com

"We've been talking a lot about starting over with a blank piece of paper," Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said last week after the EPW Committee markup. "I think this might allow for that. If that's the case, that's a positive."
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Reid has not given any specifics about the timing for the climate legislation, though most acknowledge the debate is almost certain to take place behind the scenes through the end of the year, with a floor battle on hold until at least early 2010.