Greenhouse Gases Fueled 2006 U.S. Heat  [archive]
by Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters, 8/28/2007
Greenhouse gas emissions -- not El Nino or other natural phenomena -- pushed U.S. temperatures for 2006 close to a record high, government climate scientists reported on Tuesday.

Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change  [archive]
by Claudia H. Deutsch, New York Times, 8/29/2007
The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving.

Global Warming: Not So Hot  [archive]
by Karlyn Bowman, senior fellow at AEI, for the Washington Post, 8/31/2007
Global warming has received an enormous amount of media attention over the past several years, but it still doesn't rank at or near the top of issues people want the president and Congress to address.

Science

Observations of Atmosphere, Oceans Quantify Climate Change [archive]
by Cheryl Pellerin, US International Information Programs, 8/30/2007
The second in a series of articles about U.S. contributions to direct observations of the changing climate.

Indonesian Peatlands Seen Playing Key Climate Role [archive]
by Sugita Katyal, Reuters, 8/28/2007
Peatlands across the world are more than just simple marsh land: they are one of the largest carbon stores on earth and play a significant role in the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and global climate change.

Carbon Market

Carbon Negative  [archive]
from The Times (UK), 8/30/2007
Skeptical of the carbon market, this piece argues that those who want to offset emissions should invest in particular projects in which, through their own research, they have confidence.

Carbon Offset Buyers Go Beyond Green  [archive]
by Emily Gertz, WorldChanging, 8/28/2007
TerraPass says a new survey results bury for good the naysayer argument that carbon offsets are the 21st century equivalent of chuch indulgences. A significant proportion of those who buy carbon offsets, the company says, are cutting their energy use in many other ways as well.

Putting C02 to Good Use  [archive]
by Vaughan Scully, Business Week, 8/27/2007
The gas is the major contributor to global warning. Now major energy companies are looking for ways to capture and sell it.

Politics/Legislation

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Developed Countries Should Cut Emissions 40% by 2020  [archive]
by Matthew Carr, Bloomberg, 8/31/2007
Industrialized nations need to curb emissions by at least 25 percent and as much as 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels to stabilize the world's climate, according to conclusions at a United Nations meeting in Vienna.

No Sign of US Carbon Trading Consensus  [archive]
from Reuters, 8/30/2007
It will be very difficult to reach agreement on a carbon market for the United States as there is no sign of consensus between regional schemes, the US chief climate negotiator said on Wednesday.

The Other Side of Carbon Trading  [archive]
by Stephan Faris, Fortune, 8/30/2007
Planting trees in Uganda to offset greenhouse-gas emissions in Europe seemed like a good idea - until farmers were evicted from their land to make room for a forest.