Is global warming our best friend? And could Fallen Angels, the dystopian novel about the consequences of a new Ice Age by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn be more science than fiction?

THE struggle to slow global warming will be won or lost in cities, which emit 80 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases. So “greening” the city is all the rage now.

Because of a shifting political climate and questions as to cost recovery a major utility scraps plan for carbon capture and storage that were 10 years in the making. From the Article: We are placing the project on hold until economic and policy conditions create a viable path fo …

Finally, we get the straight poop on global warming....

Biomass, green growing things trap carbon dioxide, it is plants substitute for our oxygen. Mangrove forests are possibly the most efficient removal and storage sync for CO2 greenhouse gasses.

While we are diverted with other " matters " in the news, the worldwide carbon tax scam goes forward. Australie's Parliament is in the thick of discussions re global warming and the C tax.

But back to Professor Muller.

The republican house of representatives deny a human produced greenhouse gases have any connection to global climate change.

..."carbon offset" projects, which receive greenhouse gas reduction credits through some official process like the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

File this under "stories that shouldn't be news, but are": Three new reports by the highly respected National Research Council, a subsidiary of the National Academy of Sciences, argue that climate change is real and driven by human influences.

The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains, was first filed just weeks after the August 2005 storm hit.

"These results do not in any way reduce or remove the need for solid action now to move toward a zero-carbon dioxide-emission economy.

A study at the University of California Irvine says that greenhouse gas emissions 'would be lower if lawns did not exist.'

Key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change legislation this year, the strongest indication yet that a comprehensive bill to cut greenhouse-gas emissions won't be voted on until at least next year.

It's interesting that the article points out that the single greatest challenge to the use of wind power comes from finding better storage for harnessing peak energy production.

For months the United States and China, by far the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases, have been warily circling each other in hopes of breaking a long impasse on global warming policy.

It sounds like alchemy, an act of bureaucratic magic. Under the climate-change bill just approved by a House committee, the U.S. government would literally make a commodity -- as tradable as a Pontiac or a pork belly -- out of thin air.

The so-called cap and trade bill allegedly designed to drastically reduce carbon emissions is "badly flawed," would cost the U.S.

A landmark proposal to curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions cleared a key congressional panel, bolstering prospects that the government will put a price on carbon for the first time and portending a major shift in how the U.S. uses energy.

The Chinese must think we're chumps.

President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress say they are committed to enacting mandates to curb greenhouse gases.

The Obama administration plans to order auto makers to increase the fuel economy of automobiles sold in the U.S. to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years faster than current federal law requires, people familiar with the matter said.

House Democrats are approaching consensus on a major legislative effort to regulate greenhouse gas emissions – with significant concessions to nearly every major polluter except the oil industry.

Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed on a plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020, Chairman Henry Waxman said today.