‘Scary’ climate message from past. A new historical record of carbon dioxide levels suggests current political targets on climate may be "playing with fire." [News Source]

Save the forests, help save the planet. With deforestation accounting for over 20 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, a senior United Nations agricultural official today called for preservation of an ecosystem that can play a major role in fighting global warming. [News Source]

Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil. Saudi Arabia has led a quiet campaign demanding behind closed doors that oil-producing nations get special financial assistance if a new climate pact calls for substantial reductions in the use of fossil fuels. [News Source]

Russian climate goal weak as methane bomb ticks. Western scientists and environmentalists say collapsed river banks, rising tide waters and warmer winters in northwest Russia are clear signs of climate change, but they add Russia is in denial, ignoring a potentially disastrous "methane bomb." [News Source]

Lethal gas may have to be stored under villages, says adviser. Millions of tonnes of potentially lethal carbon dioxide may have to be stored deep under towns and villages to prevent climate change, according to a senior government adviser. [News Source]

What happened to global warming? This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. [News Source]

Fall blaze turns to blah. Could global climate change dim or delay the blaze of color that paints the Northeast each fall? [News Source]

Cool heads or heated conflicts? Richard Tol and Sebastian Wagner have had their recent findings published regarding the connection that has existed between climate and conflict in Europe over the past thousand years. [News Source]

Experts say climate change demands a sea change in planning. International experts have called for Vietnam to establish a national platform for disaster risk reduction within the next year as the effect of climate change loom ever larger on the horizon. [News Source]

Subsidence map plots flood threat. The rate at which the region is sinking into the sea has been accurately mapped for the first time – a resource which could help predict the threat to coastal communities from rising sea levels. [News Source]

Why aren’t we harnessing waste heat? For decades, Tom Casten of Recycled Energy Development has preached the gospel of saving money, resources and the planet by simply not wasting heat. The same fuel would do twice the work. We’d have doubled efficiency. [News Source]