In Geneva, designing a global climate-alert system. While the big picture on climate change has been virtually settled by decades of scientific work, the details of what exactly will happen in a warmer world are still fuzzy — and the climate devil will be in those details. [News Source]

Hurricanes add to the stresses on wildlife and coastlines. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission predicts great challenges ahead as the unpredictable aspects of climate change hit the coastal environment. [News Source]

Can dirt really save us from global warming? Scientists aren't sure no-till farming sequesters carbon any better than conventional farming - an important point as Congress considers a bill that gives farmers "offsets" for the practice. [News Source]

China changes the climate debate. China has just laid out its negotiating position for the upcoming summit in Copenhagen. And the West is not going to like it. [News Source]

Prescott: cutting emissions by 80% will not be enough. Europe's climate targets of cutting carbon emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050 may not be tough enough to get developing countries into a worldwide global warming deal, John Prescott has warned. [News Source]

Governor Doyle pushes climate bill. Clean-energy policies, such as the federal energy and climate bill and a state climate bill, are needed to help open doors for entrepreneurs and prod other companies to invest in cleaner energy technologies, Gov. Jim Doyle said Wednesday. [News Source]

GOP sees harm to Ohio from climate-change bill. U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner and other GOP House members pressed their case in Columbus yesterday against climate-change legislation, charging that it would drive more jobs out of ailing Ohio. [News Source]

Energy-gulping U.S. buildings ripe for savings. Spurred by steadily rising utility bills, the need to rein in costs in the recession, a host of government tax incentives and increasing awareness of carbon footprints, energy-saving building renovations are in vogue. [News Source]

Climate change bill a tough sell in Montana. The lead effort to emerge out of Congress so far, the so-called “cap-and-trade” bill, sponsored by Democratic Congressmen Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts, is already generating opposition in Montana – and some of it is coming from the left. [News Source]

New permit for coal-fired power plant pleases both sides. Both sides in a dispute over a coal-fired power plant in far Southwest Virginia said they were happy after the state issued a new permit for the plant yesterday. [News Source]

India to make fuel efficiency mandatory from 2011. India will make fuel efficiency standards mandatory for the transport sector from 2011 as part of a growing suite of measures to fight climate change, the country's environment minister said on Wednesday. [News Source]