[Delayer]: Carbon Auctions Should Be ‘Very Small,’ Schwarzenegger Says - BusinessWeek

March 25 (Bloomberg) -- California’s planned cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases shouldn’t make industrial companies buy large numbers of pollution allowances at auction when it starts in 2012, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said.

EU wary of framing global carbon [swindle] market | EurActiv

There is a need for renewed debate on creating a worldwide emission-offsetting mechanism under a new climate treaty, but the EU will proceed with caution without prescribing solutions for other countries, the EU's top climate official said yesterday

Texas seeing fewer monarch butterflies

...one expert says the wet, cold winter in Mexico could be why fewer monarch butterflies have been seen in Texas this year.

UK must help homes adapt to climate change, MPs say | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Tim Yeo, chairman of the committee, said: "For a long time the climate change debate has focused on reducing carbon emissions, but adapting to the inevitable impacts of rising global temperatures is equally critical.

"Even if all the world's power stations were switched off tomorrow, past emissions mean that some climate change will still take place and we will face more floods, droughts and heat waves."