Climate change ‘moral’ says Brown (BBC News) Chancellor Gordon Brown talks for the first time of the 'moral need' to tackle climate change. [News Source]

Media, academic journals in cahoots on global warming (Chicago Maroon) According to Brian Montopoli writing for the CBSNews.com blog, 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley said, “There is virtually no disagreement in the scientific community any longer about global warming. The science that has been done in the last three to... [News Source]

World may turn back clock for liquid coal future. Governments are pouring money into potential solutions such as hydrogen fuel cells or new generation nuclear plants to offset the risk for a future energy crisis, but it may be more realistic long-term to turn huge coal reserves into gas and then oil. [News Source]

2-TXU to spend $10 billion on new Texas generation Power generator TXU Corp. plans to spend $10 billion to expand generation capacity in Texas would feature 11 new coal-fired generating units at nine existing sites across the state. [News Source]

Project energy: The future of nuclear power. A report prepared for the military by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers calls nuclear power plants such as Prairie Island and Monticello "arguably our most reliable source of electricity," but nuclear power has not always been discussed in such friendly environmental terms. [News Source]

Cameron calls for carbon levy. Conservative leader David Cameron will pledge to scrap Labour's climate change levy and replace it with a more effective way of dealing with harmful CO2 emissions. [News Source]

Ocean currents helped frost Antarctica. The meeting of Atlantic and Pacific ocean waters off the tip of South America that helped convert Antarctica from forest to ice cap began more than 40 million years ago, according to a new study. [News Source]

Costello backs climate warnings. Britain's Chancellor Gordon Brown warned in a speech to the United Nations overnight that failure to address the environment would jeopardise future economic growth. [News Source]

Warm weather drops snowpack. Recent warm weather is melting snowpack across Wyoming faster than normal, state and federal officials say. [News Source]

Global-warming panel explores the role of scientists in politics. The role of science in policy-making and politics was explored last week at the third annual State of the Rockies four-day conference at Colorado College. [News Source]

HOK goes green with renewable energy contract. From London to Tokyo to St. Louis, one of the world's largest architecture firms has designs on making itself greener. [News Source]