China and US Get Low Marks on Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz) With President Barack Obama on his way to meet his Chinese counterpart in Beijing for talks on global climate change and a range of other issues, a poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org shows that publics in more than half of 20 nations disapprove of the way China and the United States are dealing with global warming. [News Source]

Climate Change Treaty: US Must Pull Its Weight (Scoop.co.nz) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to take a leading role in forging a new international pact to combat global warming, warning that the consequences of failure outweigh the cost of tackling climate change. [News Source]

Global warming, economy and the new President (The Herald Democrat) I heard someone say, one day last week when it was very, very cold, “where’s your global warming now?” As if to say, I (the media?) are putting people on about global warming or climate change or whatever it’s called. It could just be denial on some people’s part. That’s fine, I guess. [News Source]

Global warming, economy and the new President (The Herald Democrat) I heard someone say, one day last week when it was very, very cold, “where’s your global warming now?” As if to say, I (the media?) are putting people on about global warming or climate change or whatever it’s called. It could just be denial on some people’s part. That’s fine, I guess. [News Source]

The climate change battle starts at home (Brisbane Times) The battle on global warming may be won or lost in our world's cities, but more often than not cities fail to make a cut in the climate change debate. This is despite more than half the world's population – some 3.2 billion of us – living in cities, and cities producing about 75 per cent of the world's greenhouse gasses. [News Source]

The climate change battle starts at home (The Age) The battle on global warming may be won or lost in our world's cities, but more often than not cities fail to make a cut in the climate change debate. This is despite more than half the world's population – some 3.2 billion of us – living in cities, and cities producing about 75 per cent of the world's greenhouse gasses. [News Source]

Baucus votes no on climate change bill despite support (Great Falls Tribune) WASHINGTON — When Sen. Max Baucus cast the lone vote against a climate-change bill proposed by fellow Democrats last week, it seemed like bad news to those who want something done about global warming. [News Source]

Al Gore crusades against global warming (San Francisco Chronicle) Al Gore and his crusade against global warming landed in the Bay Area this week with a call to arms and a message for those who still think the former vice president is tilting at windmills. The solution to climate change includes windmills, along with solar... [News Source]

Busting emissions in the ‘Boulder bubble.’ Amid increasing gloom that the Copenhagen talks will produce a global climate accord, state and local leaders pushing their own reductions efforts in the United States see only one choice: Proceed. [News Source]

W.Va. pols vow to speak in single, pro-coal voice. An array of West Virginia's top political leaders stood shoulder-to-shoulder Tuesday with executives from the state's top coal producers, vowing to form a united front in the face of what they call mixed signals and heavy-handedness from federal mining regulators. [News Source]

Energy industry well acquainted with Senate finance panel’s lawmakers. Oil and gas companies and electric utilities over the past two decades have poured $8 million into the campaign coffers of lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee who could now look to shape climate legislation. [News Source]