Hopes low before South Africa climate change talks

Nkoana-Mashabane said the talks can't just be about the environment.

"People need to eat first," she said. "People need sustainable jobs for survival."

In their own words: The Republican presidential field on climate change - The Hill's E2-Wire

"I was trying to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment," Gingrich said on WGIR radio in July. "Obviously it was misconstrued, and it's probably one of those things I wouldn't do again."

Australia passes CO2 offset laws, carbon pricing next | Reuters

(Reuters) - Australia's parliament endorsed the world's first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry on Monday, to complement government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012.

ESR | August 22, 2011 | Huntsman dead wrong on global warming

GOP candidate Jon Huntsman, whose poll numbers linger in the low single digits, took a giant leap backward when he hopped on the disintegrating Al Gore bandwagon by taking potshots at rival candidate Texas Gov. Perry's position on the discredited human-caused-global-warming theory. Evidently, Huntsman is not aware that the wheels have come off the Gore bandwagon and it is coming apart at the seams!