Use the profit motive to fight climate change | David Cameron | Comment is free | The Observer

The prime minister argues that there are huge gains to be made from a green economy
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Over the past 12 months, we've seen the devastation that unchecked climate change could bring – floods in Pakistan, forest fires in Russia, mudslides in China.

In a far corner of Greenland, hope is fading with the language and sea ice | World news | The Observer

I am asked repeatedly if I am a Norwegian from Greenpeace. There is paranoia in the community about Greenpeace and the threat they pose to their hunting culture. One hunter told me that he will be waiting at the shoreline with his guns when they come.
...Cathedrals of ice sit like protruding teeth from off-white gums – their passage through the Murchison Sound halted for several months. Two forgotten motorboats are frozen in place, the sea ice having closed in around them.

The temperature has plummeted and the battle is now on to heat the non-insulated wooden hut where I live. It is below freezing in the bathroom and I have on a number of occasions slept in sub-zero temperatures due to problems with the oil heater, losing already one computer to the cold. Each day is now colder than the last, and we are almost cloaked in 24 hour darkness too...

David Cameron: UK is prepared to act on its own over climate change | Politics | The Observer

"I passionately believe that by recasting the argument for action on climate change away from the language of threats and punishments and into positive, profit-making terms, we can have a much wider impact," he says.

A billion people will lose their homes due to climate change, says report | Environment | The Observer

A special report, to be released at the start of climate negotiations in Cancún, Mexico, will reveal that up to a billion people face losing their homes in the next 90 years because of failures to agree curbs on carbon emissions.

Up to three billion people could lose access to clean water supplies because global temperatures cannot now be stopped from rising by 4C.
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Peter Stott of the Met Office said the most severe effect of all these changes is likely to involve changes to the planet's ability to soak up carbon dioxide. At present, around 50% of man-made carbon emissions are absorbed by the sea and by plants on land.