Climate change and behavioural change: what will it take? Climate change is on and off the political agenda in Australia [News Source]

On PolitiCal: Fiorina announces support for rollback of state’s global warming law One of the more memorable exchanges in Wednesday night's debate between Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina was Fiorina's refusal to take a position on Proposition 23, which would suspend California's landmark global warming law until unemployment... [News Source]

Fiorina backs delaying Calif. global warming law Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina on Friday endorsed an oil-company funded ballot initiative that seeks to indefinitely delay California's landmark global warming law. [News Source]

Global warming’s silver lining: Northern countries will thrive, grow ( University of California - Los Angeles ) As world-wide population increases by 40 percent over the next 40 years, sparsely populated Canada, Scandinavia, Russia, and the northern US will become formidable economic powers and migration magnets, writes UCLA geographer Laurence C. Smith in a new book. [News Source]

Time To Get Tough, Environmentalists Say With no climate change legislation coming out of the Senate, Sierra Club head Michael Brune says it's time to try a new strategy to fight global warming. Author Bill McKibben says it's time to get angry. Brune and McKibben discuss their ideas for curbing climate change. [News Source]

Tibetan nomads struggle as grasslands disappear from the roof of the world. The Tibetan plateau has been destroyed by rising temperatures, excess livestock and plagues of insects and rodents. Scientists say desertification of the mountain grasslands of the Tibetan plateau is accelerating climate change. [News Source]

Green revolution comes to urban neighborhoods. Some 200 local residents are taking part in an innovative program designed to help bridge a green divide in L.A. Many residents of low-income neighborhoods say they've been left out of the environmental movement and that clean-tech businesses are avoiding urban neighborhoods. [News Source]

Earl’s path along northeast is not well-worn. Pushed by an ill-timed trough of low pressure, Hurricane Earl is heading uncomfortably close to an area relatively few hurricanes tend to go: the Northeast coastline. And Earl may be foreshadowing more northerly big storms to come with global warming, two hurricane experts said Thursday. [News Source]

The greening of China. The core of China's environmental paradox is that the vast country must do two things at once: Continue to industrialize while simultaneously sharply limiting carbon emissions. There are signs Beijing is starting to take the environmental challenges seriously. [News Source]

Chair of IPCC review panel backs assessment process despite flaws. In a Q&A session, Princeton's Harold Shapiro, who headed the U.N. investigation into the IPCC, discusses press coverage, management structure and the future of the world's foremost climate science panel. [News Source]

Norway keen to exploit carbon capture lead. Since 1996, Statoil, the Norwegian state-owned energy company, has disposed of almost 13m tonnes of CO2 by burying it under the ocean floor. Thus far, it has shown no signs of leakage. That has made Norway something of a holy site for believers in carbon capture and storage. [News Source]