Lack of climate justice puts world at risk. Deep diplomatic despondency seems to characterize our time, and we need books that are brutally honest about what is at risk. Such a book is Praful Bidwai’s The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis. The book asks how India will combine the task of fighting poverty with promoting global justice. [News Source]

Nostalgic trip down Sacramento River drifts too far from the facts. Most scientists who have studied conditions in the Delta inform us that a multitude of changes have occurred in the past 50 to 100 years that have contributed to the decline in the Delta, and they must all be addressed. [News Source]

Maxwell T. Boykoff: When did ‘climate change’ become ‘clean energy’? What happened to “climate change” and “global warming”? [News Source]

Island nations want climate change in world court UNITED NATIONS: Small island nations, whose very existence is threatened by the rising sea levels brought about by global warming, are seeking to take the issue of climate change before the International Court of Justice. [News Source]

Ghana's inability to prevent increase in her environmental degradation Scientists and government officials around the world are now reporting, that the Earth's environment is changing in many dramatic and unexpected ways. [News Source]

Global warming: James Delingpole claims green zealots are destroying the planet In his new book JAMES DELINGPOLE argues the green movement is a multi-billion-pound folly that does more harm than good. [News Source]

Activists fight green projects, seeing U.N. plot. Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities. [News Source]

Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe? A loss of sea ice could be a cause of the bitter winds that have swept across the UK in the past week, weather experts say. [News Source]

Texas drought forces a town to sip from a truck. This drought-stricken place in the scenic hills outside Austin-- Spicewood Beech-- has been forced to bring in water by truck from more than 10 miles away because its sole well came close to running out of water. [News Source]

How Steven Chu lost his battle with Washington. Last September, a California-based solar panel manufacturer named Solyndra filed for bankruptcy, and things suddenly went very sour. Energy Secretary Chu’s department had signed off on a $535 million loan to the company two years earlier; it was the highest-profile showpiece for Obama’s campaign promise to kick-start the new green energy economy. Congressional Republicans pounced. [News Source]

Activists fight green projects, seeing U.N. plot. Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things like expanding public transportation routes and preserving open space as part of a United Nations-led conspiracy to deny property rights and herd citizens toward cities. [News Source]