New federal climate change agency forming (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting... [News Source]

NOAA reorganization would provide more info on global warming (Washington Post) The Obama administration proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service on Monday, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. [News Source]

NOAA reorganization would provide more info on global warming (Washington Post) The Obama administration proposed a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Service on Monday, reorganizing the agency so it can provide Americans with predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea levels. [News Source]

New federal climate change agency forming (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting. [News Source]

End tax breaks for polluters to cut budget deficit, thinktank urges. Ministers could save £12bn of public spending over four years by clamping down on tax breaks and support for polluting oil exploration, cement, aluminium and transport, according to a report from green campaigners this week. [News Source]

U.K. lawmakers call for stricter CO2 caps, market intervention. Europe needs stricter limits on greenhouse gases and the power to intervene in markets as its cap-and-trade program fails to encourage low-carbon investments, U.K. lawmakers said today in a report. [News Source]

Academics urge Rudd govt to dump ETS. A coalition of academics who doubt the science on the causes of climate change has called on the Rudd government to dump plans for an emissions trading scheme and consider alternatives. [News Source]

Turnbull blasts coalition’s climate plan. Former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull has savaged the coalition's direct action plan to combat climate change as a "recipe for fiscal recklessness". [News Source]

ETS will harm small business: Abbott. Tony Abbott wants to ram home the message that the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme will take small business to the cleaners. [News Source]

Australia’s Greens question China coal deal. A massive Australian coal export deal with China, seen as boosting the economy and creating jobs, would ultimately result in enormous greenhouse gas emissions, The Greens political party said yesterday. [News Source]

Emissions could rise under ETS. The federal government cannot guarantee that its controversial climate plan will cut Australia's greenhouse gas emissions at all. [News Source]