Carbon Chronicles: Climate Change Becomes a Business Reality - Businessweek

This is the year climate change should have hit home. The first eight months are the hottest on record in the U.S., and Arctic sea ice is about to hit a record low. Extreme weather, as we’ve come to call it, has affected everything from the juiciness of the steak at Peter Luger (high corn prices mean steer are being killed before there’s sufficient fat in the marbled meat) to crime rates, as some blame the recent heist of $30 million of maple syrup in Quebec to a one-third drop in U.S. production.
...Putting a price on carbon is another priority for Rachel Kyte, the World Bank’s sustainability chief, because that creates clarity and potential profits from doing the right thing.

Energy minister's adviser copied into £5m contract email | Politics | The Guardian

Greg Barker, the climate change minister, is under further pressure after it emerged that the adviser at the heart of a row over access to ministers was copied in to internal emails discussing the award of a £5m contract to a second company linked to her firm.

2012 Has Had Most Extreme Weather On Record for U.S. | Climate Central

the percentage area of the U.S. affected by top 10 percent drought conditions was the 11th greatest since 1910.

Popular Technology.net: Skeptical Science: The Censorship of Poptech

After being unable to refute how Google Scholar actually works they resorted to an extensive censorship of my comments and eventually a site wide purge of all of them.