IPCC lead author: “Bush will go down in history as possibly a person who has doomed the planet”

The headline quote comes from “Saleem Huq, a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2007 report on adaptation,” in a Greenwire (subs. req’d) article on Bush’s legacy.

Bad Economy Hits Green Companies Hard | Newsweek Project Green | Newsweek.com

First there was the dotcom bust of the late 1990s, then came the real-estate bubble that's deflating before our eyes. Next up: the green bubble. Alternative energy ventures have received a lot of great press, heavy investment and lip service from politicians in the last couple of years, but many of the nascent green industry's balance sheets are beginning to bleed red.

Investor's Business Daily -- Less Power To Him

Politics: Barack Obama's apparent choice for Energy secretary is physicist Steven Chu. While there's no question about Chu's brilliance, his political activism is not what the country needs.

ANSA.it - News in English - Berlusconi hails EU climate deal

On Thursday the Italian premier had repeated a threat to veto the package if Italy's demands were not met, and said in a frank exchange with journalists that he thought it was ''absurd'' to be talking about carbon emissions in the face of the more pressing financial crisis.

''It's like someone with pneumonia thinking about having a hairdo,'' he said.

Heliogenic Climate Change: Wonder how Gore got his prize

The Nobel Prize Committee is facing criminal investigation of bribery and corruption after allegedly taking huge payments from a pharmaceutical company that directly benefits from the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in medicine.

The astonishing scandal, being reported in the European trade press and conspicuously absent from Sweden's major daily newspapers, surfaced just days before the internationally renowned awards were presented in Stockholm on Wednesday.