Nepal holds world’s highest Cabinet meeting at Mt. Everest to spotlight climate change (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) SYANGBOCHE, Nepal - Nepal's top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks Friday and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest's frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week's international climate change talks. [News Source]

Paradise sinking. Bernard Tunim has no time for debates over whether climate change is man-made or not. Either way, the effect for him and his people is the same - they will lose their homeland. [News Source]

How do we convince our inner caveman to be greener? By the time we wake up to the threat posed by climate change, it could well be too late. And if we’re not going to make rational decisions about the future, others may have to help us to do so. [News Source]

Can Saharan solar power save Europe? Some say it's a foolish fantasy, others believe it has the potential to save the world from the effects of climate change. The German-led Desertec initiative to build a massive solar thermal power plant in the Sahara Desert has both advocates and critics. [News Source]

Canada’s about-face on climate. Shaped by oil-rich Alberta, Prime Minster Stephen Harper’s position represents a stunning about-face in Canada’s policy on climate change. It is a shift environmentalists and other critics attribute to the legions of lobbyists who represent the big industrial greenhouse gas emitters. [News Source]

Adapting to global warming may require higher dams and seawalls, buildings on stilts. Adapting to rising seas and higher temperatures is expected to be a big topic at the U.N. climate-change talks in Copenhagen, along with the projected cost - hundreds of billions of dollars, much of it going to countries that cannot afford it. [News Source]

Pentagon’s 25M acres could ease renewables siting debate. The U.S. military is quietly becoming one of the nation's most aggressive energy innovators, retrofitting military installations with renewables technologies that will help meet the bases' future power demand while aiding host states in achieving renewable energy targets. [News Source]

The last chance until the next chance. The Copenhagen summit is part of a never-ending circus that is about so much more than just climate change. [News Source]

Byrd chides coal industry for ‘fear mongering’. Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., says the coal industry needs to stop using "fear mongering, grandstanding and outrage as a strategy" and instead help stave off global climate change and curb mountaintop removal mining. [News Source]

More climate change: Southern bellwether. For the past few decades the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has been shifting the way in which winds move round the continent. This has increased the continent’s isolation from warming in the climate elsewhere. But this odd balancing of one human intervention by another cannot last. [News Source]

A Chinese wind-power IPO: Puffed up. China's biggest producer of wind power, China Longyuan Power, is in essence a staid regulated utility. So why is its initial public offering next week on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange generating such excitement? [News Source]