Leaked E-mails Muddy Waters Ahead of Climate Change Conference (Fox News) President Obama faces no easy task in uniting dozens of bickering nations toward the goal of tackling climate change at an international conference in Copenhagen next week. But as if that weren't hard enough, a slew of leaked e-mails in the run-up to the conference has only fueled global warming skeptics who say the cause is bunk.  [News Source]

Intrigue and plot twists in global climate talks. In the otherwise ponderous and unhurried context of global climate negotiations, the past two weeks have seen a variety of gripping twists. [News Source]

Countdown to Copenhagen: The ‘people’s summit.’ Seven days to go: It's not just world leaders who will be gathering in Denmark next week. Environmental activists will be there, too. [News Source]

Oil still fuels the green state of Denmark. Denmark oozes green. But this small, wealthy Nordic country may not be as green as advertised. While Denmark has made considerable progress in moving toward clean energy, it is still tethered to the grubby old carbon world. [News Source]

How can humanity avoid or reverse the dangers posed by a warming climate? The list of potentially devastating impacts from climate change is a long one. But with greenhouse gas emissions continuing to climb and concentrations in the atmosphere rising by roughly two parts per million a year, climate catastrophes are looking more and more imminent. [News Source]

Sunshine, sewage to power cities of the future. From San Francisco to Malmo, Sweden, cities around the globe are preparing for a new imperative: to accommodate the mass of world population growth and thrive, without further accelerating the release of carbon dioxide that threatens their existence. [News Source]

Climate ‘time bombs’ stoke scientists’ fears. Whatever the outcome of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Nature may have some extremely nasty surprises up its sleeve, say scientists. [News Source]

What is the right number to combat climate change? Despite decades of effort, scientists do not know precisely what temperatures or greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere constitute a danger. [News Source]

Once taboo, population enters climate debate. The potential impact on climate change of a planet teaming with up to ten billion souls has again forced the issue into the open ahead of the December 7-18 UN climate conference in Copenhagen. [News Source]

Carbon ‘flux towers’ putting value on forests, fields. They've been telling us in increasing detail over the last two decades how forests, fields and wetlands absorb and store carbon. Policy makers crave that information because it will better refine what price the world puts on a ton of carbon. [News Source]

Tree harvester offers to save Indonesian forest. The peat swamp forest on the Kampar Peninsula is one of the world's biggest vaults of carbon dioxide, a source of potentially lucrative currency as world governments struggle to hammer out a global climate treaty. The vault, though, is leaking. [News Source]