Climate of fear. Alarm rather than genuine scientific curiosity, it appears, is essential to maintaining funding. And only the most senior scientists today can stand up against this alarmist gale, and defy the iron triangle of climate scientists, advocates and policymakers. [News Source]

Only creativity can solve long-term, global energy crisis. A solution to the energy crisis will take a long-term commitment from the United States working with the entire world, and will take decades, perhaps generations, to find the answers. [News Source]

The hothouse of US-China relations. Many issues will dominate the headlines, but they pale in comparison to another problem that is on neither side's agenda: global warming. [News Source]

When animals suffer, so do we. Because factory farms are legally recognized as farms -- not the industrial sites they are -- they are exempt from many of our most important environmental laws. [News Source]

Turner: U.S. is misunderstood. Criticism by other countries of the U.S. position on global warming is based on “a misunderstanding perhaps of what the United States is doing in climate change,” former Assistant Secretary of State for the Environment John Turner said Tuesday. [News Source]

Clinton calls biofuels key to creating jobs. Former U.S. president Bill Clinton took aim at his successor in the White House, saying the key to prosperity in the future lies in fighting global warming. [News Source]

Governor urges care on emissions cap. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cast some cold water Tuesday on a proposal to set firm limits on greenhouse gas emissions but endorsed other major recommendations of a new report and left open the possibility that a cap on emissions could be put in place later. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger backs steps to cut emissions. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed measures on Tuesday to reduce industrial emissions of greenhouse gases but stopped short of calling for a hard cap on emissions. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger wants market-based system to combat global warming. Schwarzenegger says he supports creating financial incentives to curb the release of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases and requiring companies to report their emissions. [News Source]

Governor backpedals on emissions. Gov. Schwarzenegger disappointed environmentalists Tuesday by backing a go-slow approach, making industry report its greenhouse emissions but not capping emissions until 2010. [News Source]

Gov. calls for curbs on emissions. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday threw his political weight behind a drive to curb greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]