Heavy snows heat up debate on global warming (News & Messenger) Some people seem to think this winter’s snows prove that global warming is a bunch of hot air. [News Source]

Global Warming Gets A Guaridan Prophet: No Cartoons, Please (Anorak) Peter Preston is in The Guardian, being upset that not enough it being down to scare the natives on "climate change"... [News Source]

EU’s ‘carbon fat cats’ get rich off trading scheme: study. Europe's system for industrial carbon quotas has enriched the continent's biggest polluters, with ten firms together reaping permits for 2008 alone worth 500 million euros, a new report revealed. [News Source]

EU climate funding threatened. The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this year. [News Source]

Verifying emission cuts. Under the Copenhagen Accord, countries have pledged to control their greenhouse gas emissions. But the Accord leaves to future negotiations the job of specifying how countries’ declarations will be truth-checked. Some allude to verification via third parties. But there is another way: direct observation. [News Source]

Group vows to fight greenhouse gas burial. Randolph County is home to a landfill, an ethanol plant, a sudden increase in hog farms and two potential wind farms. But if the state tries to deploy carbon dioxide sequestration in Randolph County to combat global warming, it will be met with strong resistance. [News Source]

Group urges localities to plan together for rising sea levels. As a regional planner, John Carlock knows getting each Hampton Roads community to agree is rarely, if ever, simple. His next task could be even harder: Convince 16 cities and counties to work together to combat rising sea levels. [News Source]

Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve, say experts. For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, thanks to habitat destruction and climate change, one of the world's experts on biodiversity warns. [News Source]

Creating environmental capital. One thing is certain in the race for a cleaner energy system: Nothing is going to be certain for quite a long time. [News Source]

Closing coal plant a numbers game. Members of several conservation groups opposed to coal mining have contributed to a report saying the owners of Navajo Generating Station in Page would be best off financially if they closed the coal plant. [News Source]

Sen. Kerry lobbies for climate compromise; actual bill to come. The three senators writing compromise climate legislation are lobbying business groups in hopes of winning their support for the effort. One obstacle: the absence of an actual bill. [News Source]