Al Jazeera English - 2010 - UN climate panel admits mistake

[video] From New Delhi, Al Jazeera's Prerna Suri reports on the controversy.

18,000 Poles without electricity amid bitter cold - Taiwan News Online

Poland's Interior Ministry says that more than 18,000 people across the eastern European country are without electricity during the coldest weekend so far this winter.

Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said the outages were caused by icy trees and branches that damaged power lines in many places.

Green Left - PNG: Carbon traders move in

During the United Nations Copenhagen climate summit in December, fresh allegations emerged that unscrupulous carbon traders were buying up the rights to the carbon stored in forests in Papua New Guinea from indigenous landowners.

One PNG man told the December 12 SBS news he was forced to sign up at the point of a gun.

Hope only carried President Obama so far in first year | NJVoices Guest blog - NJ.com

...Such is not the case with the health insurance reform and the response to climate change known as "cap and trade," the heart of the Obama energy policy. It is on these two proposals that the finely tuned Obama ear went tone deaf. The eloquence of the president proved inadequate to explain to people who do not check the Brookings Institution website on a regular basis exactly what either of these ambitious proposals had to do with the nation’s unemployment problems — other than, perhaps, to worsen them.

The term "green jobs" may be instantly welcomed at the Sierra Club, but it falls with a resounding thud in the common idiom.