grough — First winter snows fall on Highlands

The first snows of the Scottish winter arrived early this year – in August.

Taiwanese Premier Wu Calls for Cap-And-Trade System - BusinessWeek

The industrialized island releases about three times more heat-trapping gases per person than the world average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Rockefeller, Energy Secretary Chu to Discuss Carbon Storage at Forum - State Journal - STATEJOURNAL.com

Carbon capture and storage will be the topic of discussion when U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu joins Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., in a Forum on the Future of Coal Sept. 8 at the University of Charleston.

Uncovering Climategate | FrontPage Magazine

In sum, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change needs to go back to the drawing board. It must entirely revamp its structure and processes before anyone can take what it says seriously. Cap and trade, carbon taxes or other comparable policy prescriptions, based on the IPCC’s fear-mongering crisis advocacy, will wreck our economy and are likely to make little difference in affecting climate change.

Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina battle hard in first Senate debate - latimes.com

• Global warming: Fiorina did not directly answer when asked whether she believes global warming is real. "We should always have the courage to examine the science," she said, "but all scientists agree on this: The only way to impact global warming is to act globally. A state acting alone will make no difference."

She criticized Boxer's efforts to pass federal legislation that would have cut greenhouse gas emissions through a program of emission permits. Boxer's bill, Fiorina said, "was completely the wrong track" and would have cost "trillions of dollars in lost economic output [and] millions of jobs."

But Fiorina declined to take a position on Proposition 23, the November ballot measure that would suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment drops to 5.5% or lower for four consecutive quarters.

Fiorina calls Boxer 'most bitterly partisan' senator during Calif. debate - The Hill's Ballot Box

Fiorina said the Senate Democrats' energy bill was Boxer's "signature piece of legislation."

"She could not shepherd that to a conclusion," Fiorina said. "That bill was taken away from her and given to [Massachusetts Democrat] John Kerry [because] he had a better chance of getting bi-partisan support."