Farmers vs. greens: A fossil fuel debate | PressDemocrat.com | The Press Democrat | Santa Rosa, CA

The debate about climate change prods all sorts of cultural sore spots: liberal versus conservative, urban versus rural, the coasts against the heartland. To an urban locavore, pricey fuel does not sound so terrible. In his book “$20 per gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better,” Christopher Steiner, a journalist, rejoices that Americans will eventually give up driving and move to densely packed cities where they can walk to shops. To people like Wright, that sounds like hell. “It’d be like living in Beijing,” he gasps, gazing across an open plain to the mountains in the distance.

BBC NEWS | Climate change [swindle] talks 'need Obama'

US President Barack Obama and other world leaders "need to" go to the environment summit in Copenhagen, cabinet minister Ed Miliband has said.

No climate-change deal likely by year's end, officials say - CNN.com

Singapore (CNN) -- President Obama and leaders from the rest of the world's top economic powers acknowledged Sunday that there's no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's end.

Harper's trip to Singapore wraps up 

And, he says there's ``a pretty strong consensus'' that a binding legal global treaty on climate change is a long way off.