Standing on the outside looking in: a Washington insider reviews the carbon tax

New priorities must be established for many aspects of everyday life and commerce: the way we drive to work and on holiday; the way we build and heat and cool our homes and businesses; the way we manufacture goods and grow our food.

European Tories In Anti-Green Rebellion

Conservative MEPs have dealt a fresh blow to David Cameron’s green credentials by moving to water down efforts by the European Parliament to strengthen EU action against climate change.

COLUMN-World must keep focus on climate risk-Gerard Wynn | Agricultural Commodities | Reuters

It says that manmade climate change is "likely" responsible for hotter heatwaves worldwide, in findings which experts from 110 countries debated this week and may still change. In IPCC jargon, "likely" means a two-thirds chance or more.

US still denying Kyoto Protocol | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online

ISLAMABAD - While the whole world is concerned over climate change and is part of Kyoto Protocol, United States of America is still denying it and is not becoming the member in the emissions decreasing campaign.
...Henry Derwent, president and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association said in his opening remarks in the forum that United States’ denial to climate change removes the foundation for any emissions trading policy.

Deforestation at Northern Latitudes Can Actually Cool the Climate - Ecocentric - TIME.com

So: keep trees standing or even expand existing forests, and you can help stave off climate change. Right? Well, as it so often turns out in climate science, the reality on the ground is much more complicated. A new paper published in the November 17 Nature argues that deforestation actually has a net cooling effect when it's carried out in the northern latitudes, largely because the open land left after a clearcut reflects sunlight, while dark forested ground tends to absorb solar energy.

» Robert Kennedy, Jr.’s ‘Green’ Company Scored $1.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout - Big Government

President John F. Kennedy’s nephew, Robert Kennedy, Jr., netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his company, BrightSource, through a loan guarantee issued by a former employee-turned Department of Energy official.