Climate Change Called Security Issue Like Cold War  [archive]
by Alister Doyle, Reuters, 8/21/2007
Climate change is the biggest security challenge since the Cold War but people have not woken up to the risks nor to easy solutions such as saving energy at home, experts said on Tuesday.

A Grim Reminder that Global Warming is a Catastrophe  [archive]
by Wesley Morris, Boston Globe, 8/24/2007
Mixed in with stock footage, graphics, and scenes from various disasters, a new film's participants make a jarring case for mankind's smallness, its temporariness, its heedless destruction of the planet.

Global Warming Set to Decimate China's Harvests  [archive]
by Wesley Morris, Boston Globe, 8/24/2007
Mixed in with stock footage, graphics, and scenes from various disasters, a new film's participants make a jarring case for mankind's smallness, its temporariness, its heedless destruction of the planet.

Science

Corals and Climate Change [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 8/23/2007
A new lab is the first of its kind to tackle the global problem of climate change impacts on corals. Fully operational this month, this new lab has begun to study how corals respond to the combined stress of greenhouse warming and ocean acidification.

Polar Ice Clouds May Be Climate Change Symptom [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 8/21/2007
Noctilucent ice clouds in the Arctic could be an upper-atmospheric symptom of a changing climate.

Carbon Market

Brazil Launches Carbon Trade  [archive]
from Bloomberg/Carbon Positive, 8/23/2007
Brazil’s Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM&F;) will begin carbon trading in São Paulo on September 27, auctioning CER carbon offsets from projects under Kyoto’s Clean Development Mechanism.

South Korea Sets up 'Carbon Fund' to Reduce Greenhouse Gases  [archive]
from The Hankyoreh, 8/13/2007
South Korea has set up a 200-billion-won (US$212 million) "carbon fund" aimed at financing commercial greenhouse reduction programs, the government said Thursday.

Chicago Climate Exchange to Offer Kyoto Contracts  [archive]
by Timothy Gardner, Reuters, 8/23/2007
The Chicago Climate Exchange has said that it will launch a futures contract on Friday representing clean projects under the Kyoto Protocol that are designed to cut greenhouse emissions.

Carbon Offsets: An Authentic Way to Go Green  [archive]
by Eric Carlson in the Washington Post, 8/26/2007
In his letter to the Editor, Eric Carlson, Executive Director of carbonfund.org, claims that offsets are a wise measure to take while emissions are reduced.

Politics/Legislation

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Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Report  [archive]
by Karen Gullo, Bloomberg, 8/21/2007
The Bush administration violated U.S. law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled.

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6 Western States Set Goal for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2020  [archive]
from AP, 8/22/2007
Six western states and two Canadian provinces announced a regional goal Wednesday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

Does Flying Harm the Planet  [archive]
by Bryan Walsh, TIME, 8/20/2007
Protesters who demonstrated outside Heathrow all of last week were trying to draw travelers' attention to the impact on climate change of the carbon gases emitted by the aircraft in which they fly.

Latest Round of UN Climate Talks Focuses on Business End of Global Warming  [archive]
from AP, 8/26/2007
A new report by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change says additional investments of about $210 billion a year will be needed — mostly in the developing world — to maintain greenhouse gas emissions at their current levels in 2030.