Alaska fights to reverse polar bear listing

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he has the best interest of polar bears at heart, but he doesn't intend to let the U.S. government's expanded protection for bears get in the way of the state's petroleum development.

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Solution to global warming is to use and work with nature, study finds (Irish Examiner) ECONOMISTS are joining up with scientists to help save the planet threatened by global warming while species disappear at an alarming rate. [News Source]

Global climate change treaty unlikely (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) U.S. President Barack Obama and nearly two dozen fellow leaders from Canada, Asia and Europe meeting in Singapore agreed Sunday that next month's climate change meetings will be a way station not the end point in the search for a new worldwide treaty to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Q&A climate change: No legally binding agreement but there is still hope for progress (Financial Times) Barack Obama, the US president, on Sunday said that next month’s summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, would not produce a legally binding agreement to tackle global warming, so what have his comments done to any hope of a deal on climate change? [News Source]

World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty (Time Magazine) As climate change experts had long expected, world leaders said this weekend they will not reach an agreement on climate change in Copenhagen in December [News Source]

Al Gore gives Fla. global warming speech (Florida Today) BOCA RATON — Former Vice President Al Gore’s presentation on global warming drew about 1,000 attendees in Boca Raton, along with more than 100 protesters. [News Source]

Climate change catastrophe took just months. Six months is all it took to flip Europe’s climate from warm and sunny into the last ice age, researchers have found. The northern hemisphere was plunged into a big freeze 12,800 years ago by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream that allowed ice to spread hundreds of miles southwards from the Arctic. [News Source]

World leaders agree to delay a deal on climate change. President Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month. [News Source]

Uranium renaissance. The U.S. and several other countries are gearing up to build a potentially massive fleet of new nuclear reactors, in part to fight climate change. The boom will affect Wyoming's economy and environment. [News Source]

Battle lines forming between EPA, state environmental agency. By the end of the month, the federal Environmental Protection Agency will probably declare that Texas' air permitting program lacks adequate public participation and transparency. [News Source]

What British business wants from Copenhagen. Three weeks from now the world’s eyes will be on Copenhagen. Ministers from 192 countries—and 20,000 hangers-on—will converge on the Danish capital for what is billed as the most important event yet in the drive to fight climate change. [News Source]