Germany calls for binding climate deal in 2010  | ajc.com

BRUSSELS — German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Friday for all countries to fix binding climate change targets next year at the latest, acknowledging that no such deal is likely at global talks in Copenhagen next month.

In a joint press conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, she said they were both worried that ambitions for countries to agree on cuts to greenhouse gas emissions at Copenhagen "seem to have shrunk."

Kerry Still Optimistic on Copenhagen - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

President Obama is undecided as to whether to attend the Copenhagen climate meetings.

Senator John Kerry has some advice for Mr. Obama: Go.

A Fuel’s Errand - Edward John Craig - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Robert Zubrin is still plugging away at the flex-fuel mandate, though it seems an uphill climb in our present political moment — with the Obama administration expecting Detroit to make cars that run on a blend of pixie dust and good intentions.

Draining Swamps To Fuel Autos | The Resilient Earth

In 2007, the perceived benefits of biofuels helped spur the US Congress to pass the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), which mandated a nearly fivefold increase in U.S. ethanol production, to 117 billion liters, by 2022. Of this amount, nearly half is slated to come from corn ethanol by 2015. If this goal is pursued it will cause food prices to rise, fresh water to become scarcer, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico to expand and overall air pollution to increase. This is not good economic policy. This is not good environmental policy. This is not good energy policy. It is special interest politics at its worst. Biofuels are the last thing the world needs.