Earth’s growing nitrogen threat. It helps feed a hungry world, but it's worse than CO2. It washes into lakes, rivers, and the sea, causing rampant algae growth. It billows from power-plant smokestacks until it settles as acid rain. Still other nitrogen gases remain in the atmosphere consuming the ozone layer. [News Source]

Insurance group says stolen e-mails show risk in accepting climate science. A major trade group for the insurance industry is warning that it is "exceedingly risky" for companies to blindly accept scientific conclusions around climate change, given the "serious questions" around the extent to which humans cause atmospheric warming. [News Source]

Feinstein and the Mojave vs. solar power. Some solar and wind energy developers are accusing Sen. Dianne Feinstein of pulling the NIMBY card — wanting renewable energy at any cost, but hollering "not in my backyard" - after Feinstein introduced a bill to protect more than half a million acres of prime Southern California desert land. [News Source]

Experts say prepare for sea-level rise on New Jersey coast . Ever since Dave Pflueger bought his Money Island house more than five years ago, the Delaware Bay has been swallowing up his land. Pflueger estimates he has lost about two to three feet of land to the Delaware Bay’s rising waters. [News Source]

Snubbed in Copenhagen, EU weighs climate options. Stunned by being sidelined in the endgame of the Copenhagen world climate summit, the European Union is debating how to regain influence over the fight against global warming. [News Source]

UN should be sidelined in future climate talks, says Obama official. America sees a diminished role for the United Nations in trying to stop global warming after the "chaotic" Copenhagen climate change summit, an Obama administration official said today. [News Source]

Indonesia signs climate funding agreements. Indonesia has signed a number of bilateral agreements with richer nations to receive climate change mitigation funding — mostly in forest-related areas. State Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta argued that the bilateral deals are a faster way to get climate funding. [News Source]

Grasslands to combat climate change. Untapped potential to limit climate change and help one billion people who depend on livestock. [News Source]

COP-15 as reported by Dr. Seuss. Anyone who has spent any time working with large international organisations will appreciate the tragedy. [News Source]

West Virginians urged to ’stand up for our coal miners.’ Gov. Joe Manchin on Wednesday night urged West Virginians to "stand up for our coal miners and their families" as federal officials seek to reduce mountaintop removal impacts and limit power plant emissions that cause global warming. [News Source]

2009 hottest year on record in southern hemisphere. The United States may be experiencing one of the coldest winters in decades, but things continue to heat up in the Southern Hemisphere. Science has obtained exclusive data from NASA that indicates that 2009 was the hottest year on record south of the Equator. [News Source]