Newsmaker of the year: In the eye of the storm : Nature News

Lubchenco has also pushed forward an initiative to create a NOAA division called the Climate Service, which the agency had been discussing since just after it was founded in 1970. The goal is to gather NOAA's decentralized climate expertise into a single office to enhance the science and provide an authoritative voice on climate information. The biggest reorganization in NOAA's history, this office — which awaits congressional approval — will give the public and businesses forecasts such as long-term temperature projections and flooding maps that take into account sea-level rise.

Rockefeller, Murkowski eyeing chances to block EPA climate rules next year - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) believes the new Congress will be “much more likely” to approve his legislation that would halt looming Environmental Protection Agency climate change rules.

BMC dreams of huge carbon credits from Deonar in the dumps - The Times of India

MUMBAI: After earning a handsome advance on the delivery of carbon credits from 'scientifically' closing down the Gorai dump yard, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) hoped to pocket a three times bigger amount once the curtains went down on Deonar, the city's oldest waste site. But India's overnight shift in Cancun on its policy on climate change and weakening support for extending the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012, put a dampener on the civic body's plans.

It seems now that the Deonar project, for which much of the responsibility to reduce and sell carbon credit falls on the agency that was awarded the contract, may not prove to be as lucrative. "The market will be affected but it BMC as the deal agreement puts the onus of reduction and sale of credits on the agency. We had a hunch that the market would sink and we smartly left this uncertain part with the agency. That foresight has paid off," said former additional municipal commissioner R A Rajeev.

The Pyramid of Frauds

One of the fastest growing industries in the world is based on a pyramid of frauds and its inevitable collapse will be worse than the sub-prime crash.

The Global Warming Industry is now fed by billions of dollars from western taxpayers and consumers. It is based on the unproven and now discredited claim that man’s production of carbon dioxide causes dangerous global warming.