[We're not saved!]: Nicolas Sarkozy under fire after carbon tax plan shelved | World news | The Guardian

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president who vowed to try to "save the human race" with a tax on carbon, was today accused by his junior ecology minister of pandering to "eco-scepticism" after the reform was in effect abandoned by the government.
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...ecologists today expressed their anger at what they perceived as a symbolic retreat by the man who had vowed to make France a world leader in environmental policy.

A letter addressed to Sarkozy from 10 NGOs, including Greenpeace, WWF and Friends of the Earth, drew a stark comparison between the "pro-environmental frenzy" of the president's first term in office with the "denial" characterising his policy now.

SFGate: Politics Blog : Whitman would suspend AB32

Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay who is running for governor, said today that if she is elected she would immediately suspend implementation of California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law, Assembly Bill 32.

Cornell "Expert": World has underestimated climate-change effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Charles Greene asserts in the journal Oceanography that the world's policymakers have underestimated the potential dangerous impacts that man-made climate change will have on society.
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"Furthermore, while the oceans have slowed the amount of warming we would otherwise have seen for the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the ocean's thermal inertia will also slow the cooling we experience once we finally reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. This means that the temperature rise we see this century will be largely irreversible for the next thousand years.