‘The Question of Global Warming’: An Exchange (New York Review of Books) The New York Review received many letters concerning "The Question of Global Warming" by Freeman Dyson [ NYR , June 12]. Following are comments by William D. Nordhaus, whose book A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies , was reviewed in the article, as well as letters from two other readers, along with a reply by Freeman Dyson. [News Source]

Strongest storms grow stronger yet, study says. A new study finds that the strongest of hurricanes and typhoons have become even stronger over the last two and a half decades, adding grist to the contentious debate over whether global warming has already made storms more destructive. [News Source]

Greenland’s ancient analogue. New insights into the disappearance of a massive ice sheet that once covered much of North America suggest that Greenland could melt more rapidly than predicted. [News Source]

Predicting the impact of climate change on Germany. More heat waves, far less snow: Using a new more precise climate model, the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology has calculated the impact of global warming on weather patterns in Germany stretching up to the year 2100. [News Source]

Germany leads ‘clean coal’ pilot. Beneath the gargantuan grey boiler towers of Schwarze Pumpe power station, this mini power plant is a pilot project for carbon capture and storage - the first coal-fired plant in the world ready to capture and store its own CO2 emissions. [News Source]

Africa courts carbon-credit investors. Africa is courting a new type of investor: polluters who need to buy some environmental goodwill. [News Source]

Environmentalists can’t corral Palin. At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species. [News Source]

Residents return to rough it. The first wave of Hurricane Gustav evacuees started returning to New Orleans on Wednesday to a city of silent streets, downed tree limbs and boarded-up houses. [News Source]

Why hurricane Gustav didn’t become a monster. Hurricane Gustav had the potential to become a monster hurricane last Saturday, but two factors intervened to keep it from intensifying. [News Source]

Hanna’s unpredictability stymies Carolinas’ preparations. Officials along the southern Atlantic coast held off ordering evacuations Wednesday amid uncertainty about where Tropical Storm Hanna might come ashore and how strong it will be when it gets there. [News Source]

Residents return from Gustav exile to rough it. The first wave of Hurricane Gustav evacuees started returning to New Orleans on Wednesday to a city of silent streets, downed tree limbs and boarded-up houses. [News Source]