Southern Ocean Rise Due to Warming, Not Ice Melts   [archive]
by Michael Byrnes, Reuters, 2/17/2008
Rises in the sea level around Antarctica in the past decade are almost entirely due a warming ocean, not ice melting, an Australian scientist leading a major international research programme said.

Rich, Poor and Climate Change   [archive]
by Rachel Oliver, CNN, 2/18/2008
The general dialogue on adapting to a world affected by climate change by definition excludes the world's poorest people. And yet it's the world's poorest who are often put forward as the ones who are likely to feel the affects of climate change the most and are likely to be able to deal with them the least.

Warming Risks Antarctic Sea Life   [archive]
by Helen Briggs, BBC, 2/16/2008
Unique marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn.

Science

Huge Study Gives Wake-Up Call on State of World's Oceans [archive]
by Alok Jha, The Guardian (UK), 2/15/2008
Fishing, climate change and pollution have left an indelible mark on virtually all of the world's oceans, according to a huge study that has mapped the total human impact on the seas for the first time. Scientists found that almost no areas have been left pristine and more than 40% of the world's oceans have been heavily affected.

Global Warming: Sea Level Rise Could Be Twice as High as Current Projections [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 2/12/2008
A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important data that have long been missing from the ice sheet models on which projections about sea level rise and global warming are based.

Carbon Market

Bank of America Creates Environmental Banking Team  [archive]
from Reuters, 2/12/2008
Bank of America Corp, the second-largest U.S. bank, is creating an environmental banking group focused on finding and financing ways to promote conservation and reduce global warming, Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis said on Tuesday.

Firms Will Act on C02 Only If Its Cost Triples, Says Shell  [archive]
by Terry Macalister, The Guardian (UK), 2/15/2008
A carbon price close to $100 per tonne of CO2 - more than three times higher than it is today - is needed before industry will invest in the thousands of carbon-capture-and-storage (CCS) schemes needed for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Shell warned yesterday.

Venture to Use Sea to Fight Warming Runs out of Cash  [archive]
by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 2/14/2008
Planktos, a California company that is trying to turn a profit by fertilizing the ocean with iron dust, canceled planned field tests on Wednesday, citing a lack of funds. At the company’s Web site, planktos.com, a notice blamed a “highly effective disinformation campaign” for the cancellation.

Politics/Legislation

U.N. Leader Ban Presses Bush on Climate Change [archive]
from Reuters, 2/15/2008
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday pressed President George W. Bush to take more of a leadership role in negotiations on a new global pact to fight global warming.