Engineering better than tax on climate: economists. "Climate engineering" projects, such as spraying seawater into the sky to dim sunlight, would be a more effective brake on global warming than increasing taxes on energy, a group of economists said on Friday. [News Source]

Australian firm linked to PNG’s $100m carbon trading scandal. An Australian company has been swept up in a $100 million carbon trading scandal in Papua New Guinea after claims fake carbon certificates were given to landowners to help persuade them to sign over the rights to their forests. [News Source]

‘Meat that resembles soggy white blotting paper.’ Pork chops will become soggier and paler as the world warms, and steaks could become blander, veterinary scientists warn. [News Source]

Fall colors fade in U.S. west as aspen trees die. Aspen, the white-barked trees with golden leaves that gave their name to the famed Colorado ski resort, have been dying off across the Rocky Mountain states. The die-off is puzzling but some foresters point to climate change. [News Source]

Clean coal in China said to face ‘staggering’ costs. Western governments pushing China to use clean-coal technology may need to lower their expectations for the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Ontario to cut back coal power 40 per cent. Ontario plans to shut down four coal-fuelled power units in late 2010, a move environmentalists say will make the province a leader in the fight against climate change. [News Source]

Chamber opposes cap-and-trade legislation. The director of the Center for Climate Change Law warned business leaders that if Congress fails to pass cap-and-trade legislation, the EPA will surely implement regulations that could prove to be even more onerous to the coal industry. [News Source]

Developing nations sceptical of climate summit. The 130-member Group of 77, the largest single coalition of developing nations, is at loggerheads with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon over an upcoming one-day global summit on climate change in New York. [News Source]

Power struggle looms in plans to regulate wind turbines at sea. Finding themselves at a historic crossroad between embracing renewable energy and conservation, Vineyard leaders gathered to discuss two legislative initiatives that would put them on the front line of an ambitious state plan. [News Source]

Has runaway Arctic warming already begun? Runaway warming of the Arctic threatens to spread climate havoc across the globe in the coming decades, according to a new study. Climate scientists disagree as to whether the process has already begun. [News Source]

Worst climate change offenders to escape effects, report claims. Countries which are contributing most to climate change, including Britain, will be shielded from its worst effects, according to a study which ranks nations according to their vulnerability to global warming. [News Source]