In praise of… Yvo de Boer. UN bureaucrats are meant to be part of the scenery rather than slap-bang in the foreground. Not so Yvo de Boer, the diplomat in charge of the climate change talks which will reach their climax at Copenhagen next month. [News Source]

Carbon storage? Not under my house! The people of the small Dutch town of Barendrecht are not against pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the ground to fight global warming. They just wish it wasn't right beneath their houses. [News Source]

Global warming won’t affect all deltas. Whether river deltas become swamped by rising sea levels will depend on a multitude of factors, including the type of soil and the tectonic action of any nearby plates, say researchers. [News Source]

Expert puts positive spin on warming. Climate change is real but could have a positive impact on the global economy in the short term, according to an international expert on environmental economics. [News Source]

Climate legislation’s effect on jobs scrutinized. Economists told a Senate panel on Tuesday that legislation to combat global warming could kill jobs in refining, manufacturing and other industries, even as union and energy company leaders hailed the promise of a new “green” workforce trained in renewable power. [News Source]

Tea partiers’ next target: The climate bill. One of the key recruiting tools in conservative activists' push against the climate bill is a recent documentary called Not Evil, Just Wrong. The film styles itself as the latest conservative answer to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. [News Source]

The trouble with carbon. The local food movement isn't nearly as green as you might wish. A 747 air freighter packed with produce will spew roughly one metric ton of carbon dioxide into the air for every 2,000 miles travelled, but the can of beans you get from Africa is likely to have a smaller carbon footprint than the drive you make to the supermarket to buy it. [News Source]

Antarctica’s ice loss helps offset global warming: study. 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]

Gloomy energy report sets the stage for climate talks. As the world heads for tough negotiations over a global climate deal next month, an influential agency has said that current energy policies were not sustainable, and a vast transformation of energy use was required to fend off global warming. [News Source]

Copenhagen climate talks: Time to change, no time to waste. Next month, 192 countries will meet to set targets on carbon emissions. The summit will pit the developed world against the developing world in a last-ditch bid to limit warming to 2C. [News Source]

Senate intensifies climate bill efforts. U.S. Senator John Kerry said on Tuesday he will try to "outline" a compromise climate control bill before December's international global warming conference, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave an upbeat assessment of Washington's intentions. [News Source]