Obama unveils climate change team (AFP via Yahoo! News) President-elect Barack Obama named his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US leadership on combating climate change after eight years of Republican foot-dragging. [News Source]

Obama unveils new climate change team (AFP via Yahoo! News) President-elect Barack Obama Monday named his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US leadership to combat climate change after eight years of Republican foot-dragging. [News Source]

Chu: new US champion to battle global warming (SpaceDaily) WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (AFP) Dec 15, 2008 Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Chu, named Monday as the next US energy secretary, will be Barack Obama's dedicated champion in the life-or-death fight against global warming. [News Source]

Obama unveils new climate change team (AFP via Yahoo! News) President-elect Barack Obama Monday named his energy and environmental chiefs and vowed a new dawn for US leadership to combat climate change after eight years of Republican foot-dragging. [News Source]

Subsiding hopes. Of all the threats facing southeast Louisiana in the age of global warming, subsidence is the most daunting, because it is a problem without a solution. [News Source]

Scientists urge caution in ocean-CO2 capture schemes. To some scientists and many nations, the concept of using nature to mop up mankind's excess CO2 to fight global warming is fraught with risk and uncertainty. [News Source]

No big cut in greenhouse gas emissions. The federal government has ruled out a deep cut to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions before 2020, believing the world will not get its act together on climate change soon. [News Source]

Rain data fires up dam critics. The area earmarked for the Traveston Crossing Dam has been in drought for nearly a decade, according to data from the Queensland Government's own Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. [News Source]

Climate change no fairy tale, says Sore. The bad effect of climate change is not a fairy tale but an on-the-ground reality, the Solomon Islands told the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poland. [News Source]

Project taking CO2 to new depths. The secret to addressing the growing concerns over carbon dioxide emissions and the so-called “greenhouse effect” may lie deep beneath the surface of the earth — deeper than perhaps even Jules Verne would have dreamed. [News Source]

Climate risk insurance the buzz in Poznan. A coalition of island and low-lying coastal countries that share similar development and environmental concerns, especially their vulnerability to the effects of climate change, want insurance as part of any deal on adaptation. [News Source]