Temperature shift shrinking Siachen glacier. Scientists say the extent of global warming increases with altitude and that Himalayan glaciers are melting faster than others. [News Source]

County of Marin reaffirms support for Marin Clean Energy. The county of Marin Tuesday became the seventh member of the Marin Energy Authority to reaffirm its commitment to the Marin Clean Energy initiative. [News Source]

Sydney’s new seat of solar power. Town Hall has been brought into the era of carbon emissions and climate change, with the City of Sydney converting the 121-year-old building into the largest photovoltaic installation in the central business district. [News Source]

Oilsands not only climate change villain, new report states. Alberta's oilsands should not be singled out as the villain responsible for Canada's poor record on climate change, says a new study released Tuesday by an independent research group. [News Source]

Last-minute agreement at Copenhagen marks turning point for the world. Dramatic finish to summit has radically changed approach to tackling global warming and indicates accord will succeed. [News Source]

After climate talks, lingering disputes between Danish police and Greenpeace. Four Greenpeace activists who crashed a dinner party hosted by the queen of Denmark last month during historic climate meetings in Copehnagen were released late last week after 20 days in detention. [News Source]

Gore urges Senate to defend EPA’s power to limit greenhouse gas. Former Vice President Al Gore joined a dozen Senate Democrats in opposing a Republican effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency from placing limits on greenhouse-gas emissions. [News Source]

Murkowski and her lobbyist allies. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is likely to postpone offering an amendment next week that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, according to sources familiar with the matter. [News Source]

Climate-change regs debated. On the first day of the Fort Wayne Farm Show at Memorial Coliseum, three authorities with differing views on how best to respond to global warming met to discuss the impact of climate-change regulation on farming. [News Source]

China-led group to meet ahead of climate deadline. Four of the world's largest and fastest-growing carbon emitters will meet in New Delhi this month ahead of a Jan 31 deadline for countries to submit their actions to fight climate change. [News Source]

Tony Abbott to outline green credentials at Sydney Institute speech. The Liberal leader remains confident he can match the Rudd government's unconditional pledge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 5 per cent by 2020 through direct action methods rather than establishing a complex emissions trading scheme. [News Source]