‘Citizen army’ carries coal’s climate message to hinterlands. Coal's biggest lobbying group is launching a $1 million campaign to win support from Senate Democrats, an effort that employs the same public relations firm ensnared by a scandal over forged letters to Congress. [News Source]

Burning issues. In an attempt to get answers regarding how Brazil is affected by climate change, scientists have decided to set the Amazon on fire. [News Source]

The homely costs of energy conservation. A quarter-century ago, during America's first energy crisis, a young scientist named Amory Lovins built himself a radical house in the Rocky Mountains based on a radical idea: saving energy and money by combining common sense and unconventional technology. [News Source]

Organic smugness. Go on, eat organic food, spend more than you would on ordinary food and dream that it somehow makes you healthier than you would be and the world more ecologically sound, but pray that not too many others emulate you. [News Source]

Cloud ships on course to beat climate change, says Copenhagen study. They sound like ideas from a Jules Verne novel, but giant engineering schemes designed to alter the climate offer the cheapest way of avoiding catastrophic global warming, according to a growing number of scientists and green-minded entrepreneurs. [News Source]

The homely costs of energy conservation. A quarter-century ago, during America's first energy crisis, a young scientist named Amory Lovins built himself a radical house in the Rocky Mountains based on a radical idea: saving energy and money by combining common sense and unconventional technology. [News Source]

Knowing how to pick a fight. Paul Ehrlich believes in provocation and speculation, forcing us to consider: If not for the provocateurs, would we pay attention? [News Source]

Burning issues. In an attempt to get answers regarding how Brazil is affected by climate change, scientists have decided to set the Amazon on fire. [News Source]

Dark days ahead. Britain is in an energy crisis. And although the lights are dimming, renewable energy options are less than desirable for the country. [News Source]

Quick climate change fixes come with huge dangers, warn scientists. Plans to reduce global warming by blasting jets of water into the atmosphere or placing mirrors in space could have devastating consequences, two climate scientists warn today. [News Source]

Swiss want to reverse prayers, ask God to stop glacier’s shrinking. Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries appealed to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier. Now they're seeking permission from the pope to reverse that. [News Source]