Indonesia: UN chief: World Risks Oblivion Without Deal To Battle Global Warming (Sin Chew Jit Poh) Delegates to the UN climate change conference pass environmental activists holding a global warming sign Monday 10 Dec. (Photo courtesy: AP Photo/Ed Wray) [News Source]

Act now on climate change or face oblivion, warns UN chief (Times Online) Humanity faces oblivion if it fails to reach agreement on global warming, Ban Ki Moon, the UN SecretaryGeneral, said yesterday as the US and the European Union continued to scuffle over a successor to the ten-year-old Kyoto treaty on climate change. [News Source]

Warming expert: ‘Arctic is screaming’

An already relentless melting of the Arctic greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed an ominous tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.

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Norway floats idea of ‘carbon auction’ to fight global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) Norway's finance minister on Tuesday proposed a fresh plan to battle climate change by auctioning off permits to emit CO2 and using the profits to help poor nations cope with global warming. [News Source]

Study shows how clean-energy programs fight global warming (Tri-State Neighbor) As climate change concerns creep into new laws, a recent study shows farm policy is already aiding the cause and has potential to further curb gases that cause global warming. [News Source]

Canberra, Jakarta discuss climate change (Ararat Advertiser) Australia and Indonesia will work together on combating global warming, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday. Mr Rudd arrived in Bali for the United Nations' climate change conference on Tuesday afternoon and went straight into a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. [News Source]

The Pope condemns the climate-change scaremongers (Daily Mail) Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate-change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology [News Source]

Record ice melt seen on Greenland

The amount of melt on Greenland's ice sheet last summer broke the previous measured record by 10 percent, according to new data analyzed by researchers at Colorado University.

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Gas cut targets ‘too ambitious’?

In the face of U.S. opposition, the U.N. chief said Wednesday guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions cuts favored by Europe and developing countries may be “too ambitious” to include in a final statement on climate change.

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Gore, Bush and global warming (The Enterprise) Al Gore was presented with the Nobel Peace Prize Monday, an international recognition that he — along with the 2,500 scientists who have made up the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — has done more than anyone else to push the world toward solutions to global warming. [News Source]

Canberra, Jakarta discuss climate change (Nyngan Observer) Australia and Indonesia will work together on combating global warming, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Tuesday. Mr Rudd arrived in Bali for the United Nations' climate change conference on Tuesday afternoon and went straight into a meeting with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. [News Source]