Popular climate econ model needs major overhaul | Grist

Do you believe that a tax of $0.06 per gallon at the gas pump (and equivalent taxes on other fossil fuels) would solve the climate problem and pay for all future climate damages?

US Climate Change Concerns Approach Record Low : TreeHugger

I could editorialize about this for a while, but here's the straight story: A new Gallup poll found that just 51% of respondents said the worry "a great deal" or "fair amount" about climate change. That's one percentage point away from the all-time low recorded in 1997.

Hype about bio-fuels leads to hunger, not a cleaner Earth - The National

The United States spends about $6 billion a year on federal support for ethanol production through tax credits, tariffs, and other programmes. Thanks to this financial assistance, one-sixth of the world's corn supply is burned in American cars. That is enough corn to feed 350 million people for an entire year.

World needs climate justice -- now - Mary Robinson, Ireland's first woman president

I believe that climate change represents what is arguably the greatest threat to human rights that we will ever face.