Greenland is warming up. In the past two decades, much of the evidence for global warming has come from Greenland. Now, on the eve of the most important meeting on climate change ever held, politicians are looking closely at Greenland – both as time capsule and as crystal ball. [News Source]

Meat creates half of all greenhouse gases. Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal products to help the environment. [News Source]

The evolution of an eco-prophet. "Our Choice" is Al Gore at his best and his worst. The new book is authoritative, exhaustive, reasoned, erudite, and logical. It is, thank goodness, no "50 things you can do" primer. To the contrary. Gore hopes people will exert political pressure for what he calls "large solutions." [News Source]

Las Brisas legal showdown starts Monday. Las Brisas Energy Center and several environmental groups take to the courtroom this week to argue the details of the proposed petroleum coke-fueled power plant’s air permit. [News Source]

Climate change threat to shellfish. A Native American name for Long Island, Sewanhacky, meant "Island of Shells." It referred to the vast numbers of clam, oyster and other shells deposited on its shores. But shellfish now face an invisible yet mounting attack from global climate change. [News Source]

Forty days to get a climate deal. The creation of a binding Copenhagen deal now looks increasingly unlikely as the summit looms. Despite the fact that negotiators have had two years to prepare, they now enter the final phase of talks with a real prospect of failure ahead of them. [News Source]

Framing the anything but climate debate. The Senate recently rolled out the Clean Energy, Jobs and American Power Act and two words are noticeably absent: climate change. George Lakoff thinks the decision frames the climate change bill as anything but the climate change bill. [News Source]

A bid to cut emissions looks away from coal. As Congress debates legislation to slow global warming by limiting emissions, engineers are tinkering with ways to capture and store carbon dioxide, the leading heat-trapping gas. Some think the focus should be on oil refineries, chemical plants, cement factories and ethanol plants, not coal-fired power plants. [News Source]

As tropical storms ebb, climate debate kicks in. Sure, this year's Atlantic hurricane season has been slow with eight named storms, just two hurricanes and about $100,000 in damages to U.S. property. What's more surprising is that, globally, the picture's much the same. [News Source]

Japan aims to bury greenhouse gas emissions. Swathes of dirty clouds brood over a coal plant in rural Japan, but scientists are now hoping to send the pollutants the other way, deep into the bowels of Mother Earth. [News Source]

Senate climate markup set for Tuesday, but will any Republicans show? The Senate global warming debate appears headed for a partisan standoff early next week, with Republicans threatening to boycott a key committee vote and Democrats weighing their options on an alternative route to advance the bill to the floor. [News Source]