The dirty secrets of carbon trading. A pollution-belching plant in Toranagallu, 200 miles from Bangalore and a world from Copenhagen, raises questions about the wisdom of relying on the carbon market to combat climate change. One major flaw: It tends to prop up the dirtiest industries in developing countries such as India. [News Source]

Climate science, from Bali to Copenhagen. One of the main reasons why governments decided two years ago to draw up a new global agreement on climate change was a major report published just before that year's UN climate summit in Bali. What have scientists discovered since that might influence decisions? [News Source]

As emissions increase, carbon ’sinks’ get clogged. Relying on nature to compensate for humans' excesses sounds like a win-win situation -- except that these resources are under stress from the very emissions we are asking them to absorb, making them less able partners in the pact. [News Source]

Governor: Backup plan on global warming needed. California has set an ambitious agenda to combat climate change, but on Wednesday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said the state needs to prepare for the worst if human action cannot stop global warming and the rise of sea levels. [News Source]

The Denmark Project: Facing the changes climate change will bring. For months, we’ve been considering the impact of climate change on one small town: Denmark, Oregon. Producer Christy George found new voices wrestling with the enormity of the changes facing the place they call home. [News Source]

Green energy in U.S. proves to be an elusive goal. The Great Green Hope for lifting America’s economy is not looking so robust. Growth in clean energy industries and in green jobs has been considerably slower and bumpier than anticipated, industry experts say. [News Source]

Rich nations to offset emissions with birth control. Consumers in the developed world are to be offered a radical method of offsetting their carbon emissions in an ambitious attempt to tackle climate change - by paying for contraception measures in poorer countries to curb the rapidly growing global population. [News Source]

Climate fears over India’s middle class-driven car boom. Across Asia, millions of people each year are progressing from pushbikes to motorbikes and onto cars, as the region develops economically. But there are fears that the transition will have an environmental cost. [News Source]

Exelon closing two Pa. fossil-fuel plants. In the latest sign of a fundamental market shift toward cleaner fuels, Exelon Corp. announced Wednesday that it would shut down two aging fossil-fuel power plants in Phoenixville and Eddystone in 2011, [News Source]

Rising partisanship sharply erodes U.S. public’s belief in global warming. On the eve of major international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, belief in global warming in the United States has slipped to the lowest point in 12 years of measuring, according to a poll from New York-based Harris Interactive Inc. [News Source]

India reveals carbon emission targets. India became the last of the "big four" polluters to reveal its opening hand in the negotiations today, ahead of the crucial climate change talks in Copenhagen next week. [News Source]