Speaking of Global Warming  [archive]
from the International Herald Tribune, 9/23/2007
This week could set a record for the number of high-profile hours spent discussing global warming. It begins with a one-day session at the United Nations, and ends with a two-day White House "summit" involving all of the major emitters, including India and China.

Scientists Report Severe Retreat of Arctic Ice  [archive]
by Andrew C. Revkin, New York Times, 9/21/2007
The cap of floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean, which retreats under summer’s warmth, this year shrank more than one million square miles — or six Californias — below the average minimum area reached in recent decades.

Climate Change Tops Future Humanitarian Challenges  [archive]
from AFP, 9/17/2007
Former UN chief Kofi Annan warned Monday that climate change was likely to be the most urgent humanitarian challenge in the future, highlighting some one million people hit by recent flooding in Africa.

Science

'Fertilising' Oceans with Iron May Combat Climate Change [archive]
by Jonathan Leake, Times Online (UK), 9/23/2007
An unbiased report, seemingly at least partially inaccurate, on the Planktos iron seeding plan. Quotes David Santillo of Greenpeace as well as Russ George of Planktos.

Ancient British Bog Provides Clue to Global Warming [archive]
from ScienceDaily, 9/24/2007
Analysis of sediments from a British bog suggest that methane emissions increased due to intense global warming around 55 million years ago.

Carbon Market

Trading Rise Boosts Climate Exchange  [archive]
by Fiona Harvey, Financial Times, 9/19/2007
Higher trading volumes at Climate Exchange, which operates exchanges to trade in greenhouse gases on both sides of the Atlantic, helped tip the company into operation profit.

What's the Carbon Footprint of a Potato?  [archive]
from BBC, 9/19/2007
Walkers Crisps, a British snack food company, is the first firm to put carbon footprint figures on its products, with nine more companies set to follow.

Wal-Mart to Measure Energy Used  [archive]
from Business Week, 9/24/2007
Retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday it will partner with a nonprofit climate group to measure the amount of energy used to create products throughout its supply chain. It amounts to the biggest carbon disclosure project in business history.

The Debate Over Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade  [archive]
by Toni Johnson, Council on Foreign Relations, 9/20/2007
A policy paper-style survey of existing cap-and-trade mechanisms,including brief words on successes and failures up to this point as well as outlook for the future.

Politics/Legislation

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CCS Given Kyoto Green Light  [archive]
from CarbonPositive, 9/19/2007
The capture and sequestering underground of carbon dioxide from coal-fired power plants will earn carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol, following amendments to the treaty’s main carbon trading scheme.

To Go Green, Live Closer to Work, Report Says  [archive]
by Margot Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times, 9/21/2007
A new study by the nonprofit Urban Land Institute says planning compact, mixed-use communities instead of suburbs would help save the planet.

Historic Agreement Safeguards Both Climate and Ozone Layer  [archive]
from Environment News Service (ENS), 9/22/2007
In an unprecedented agreement, 191 industrialized and developing countries that are parties to the Montreal Protocol have decided to accelerate the phaseout of coolant chemicals that are harmful to the ozone layer and also are a cause of global warming.

EU to Create Alliance With Developing Countries on Climate Change  [archive]
from Forbes/AFX, 9/18/2007
The European Commission said its Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) will work with developing countries to integrate climate change into poverty reduction strategies.