UN chief prods Senate to tackle climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the Senate Tuesday to take action on climate change, but key senators made it clear that a bill is unlikely to pass this year. [News Source]

UN chief prods Senate to tackle climate change (AP via Yahoo! Philippines News) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the Senate Tuesday to take action on climate change, but key senators made it clear that a bill is unlikely to pass this year. The U.N. chief met with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee late Tuesday afternoon to discuss the status of negotiations on a new international pact to slow global warming before 192 nations meet in Copenhagen next ... [News Source]

Carbon storage? Not under my house!

The residents of a Dutch town are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just don't want it to be the ground below their homes.

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APS council overwhelmingly rejects petition to replace society’s current climate change statement (EurekAlert!) ( American Physical Society ) The Council of the American Physical Society has overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to replace the society's 2007 Statement on Climate Change with a version that raised doubts about global warming. [News Source]

Antarctica’s ice loss helps offset global warming: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem. [News Source]

Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change (Summit Daily News) Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change Baxter Pharr Silverthorne In response to Dr. Hertzberg's editorial: "The greatest scientific hoax of this century," Dr. Hertzberg claims Al Gore, the IPCC, and Jim Hansen are trying to perpetrate a hoax on the rest of us by convincing us that global warming is a reality. Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... [News Source]

Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change (Summit Daily News) Baxter Pharr: Facts support human-caused climate change Baxter Pharr Silverthorne In response to Dr. Hertzberg's editorial: "The greatest scientific hoax of this century," Dr. Hertzberg claims Al Gore, the IPCC, and Jim Hansen are trying to perpetrate a hoax on the rest of us by convincing us that global warming is a reality. Al Gore and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ... [News Source]

Carbon-absorbing mineral gets little interest. Folded into the mountains of northern Oman is a rare burst of peridotite rock. Peridotite is a mineral that slowly absorbs carbon from the atmosphere. It potentially represents one of the greatest — if most bafflingly ignored — solutions to climate change in the world. [News Source]

Glorious vision in Kenya’s sky melts away. Mt. Kenya's ice cap was so stunning that some began revering it as God's home. But most of the shining glacier has now disappeared, robbing communities of water and leading to a crisis of faith. [News Source]

An ‘all-in’ bet for the planet. This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions – none of which deliver the necessary cuts – and an altered climate. [News Source]

Carbon-absorbing mineral gets little interest. Folded into the mountains of northern Oman is a rare burst of peridotite rock. Peridotite is a mineral that slowly absorbs carbon from the atmosphere. It potentially represents one of the greatest — if most bafflingly ignored — solutions to climate change in the world. [News Source]