Shifting Winds on Climate Change   [archive]
by Bryan Walsh, TIME, 1/23/2008
As the world's top carbon emitter and the only major developed country to refuse to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, America is seen as hastening global warming while foiling attempts to slow it down. But this might be changing soon.

UN Climate Head: 2050 Emissions Goal Doable if Big Steps Taken   [archive]
from CNN, 1/23/2008
The U.N. climate chief predicted Wednesday that the world will reach the goal of cutting global-warming gases 50% by 2050 and said the U.S. economic meltdown should spur governments to take bolder action in confronting climate change.

Shipping's Impact on the Air   [archive]
by Rachel Oliver, CNN, 1/21/2008
The shipping industry's emissions are probably double the amount everyone previously believed--that would make its carbon footprint double that of the aviation industry.

Human-Driven Planet: Time to Make It Official?   [archive]
by Phil Berardelli, ScienceNow, 1/24/2008
A group of geologists has formally proposed designating a new geologic epoch, the Anthropocene, which would encompass the past 200 years or so of geologic history.

Science

Ecologists, Material Scientists Pursue Genetics of Diatom's Elegant, Etched Casing   [archive]
University of Washington Release, 1/23/2008
For oceanographers, new findings on diatoms might help understand how thousands of different kinds of diatoms – and their ability to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – might be affected by something like global climate change.

Study: Warming May Cut US Hurricane Hits   [archive]
by Seth Borenstein, AP, 1/23/2008
Global warming could reduce how many hurricanes hit the United States, according to a new federal study that clashes with other research. The new study is the latest in a contentious scientific debate over how man-made global warming may affect the intensity and number of hurricanes.

Fertilizing the Ocean   [archive]
by Vivian Song, The London Free Press, 1/27/2008
Another fairly impartial overview of ocean iron fertilization, its science and its politics.

Carbon Market

NYSE Euronext, Partner Launch CO2 Exchange [archive]
from Reuters, 1/22/2008
Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext and French state bank Caisse des Depots said on Tuesday they had started a carbon emission rights exchange called BLUENEXT.

Carbon Prices Dive in Global Market Turmoil [archive]
from CarbonPositive, 1/23/2008
The EU carbon market has nosedived as the trade in emissions permits and offsets catches the contagion that has spread across global financial markets in recent days.

Politics/Legislation

EU Reveals Energy Plan of Action  [archive]
from BBC, 1/23/2008
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has announced "historic" plans to make Europe "the first economy for the low-carbon age".

EU Must Control Kyoto Offsets From 2013-20: Report  [archive]
from Reuters, 1/22/2008
The European Union should restrict the availability to heavy industry of cheap carbon offsets to 1.4 billion tons from 2008-2020, to meet its greenhouse gas emissions goals, a confidential EU document said.

States Seek Fraud Protection for Carbon Offsets Market  [archive]
from ENS, 1/25/2008
Citing the potential "to manipulate the system," California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today recommended that the Federal Trade Commission sharpen its guidelines for businesses that sell carbon emission offset credits.

'Climate Roadmap' Targets Emissions  [archive]
by Beth Daley, Boston Globe, 1/22/2008
Massachusetts officials are piecing together the state's first detailed blueprint to ensure those reductions actually happen: "The Climate Roadmap."