Carbon Emissions Show Sharp Rise  [archive]
by Richard Black, BBC, 11/27/2006
The rise in humanity's emissions of carbon dioxide has accelerated sharply, according to a new analysis.

MIT Survey: Climate Change Tops Americans' Environmental Concerns  [archive]
by Nancy Stauffer, Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
According to a recent MIT survey, Americans now rank climate change as the country's most pressing environmental problem--a dramatic shift from three years ago, when they ranked climate change sixth out of 10 environmental concerns.

Carbon Emission Rises Shock Experts  [archive]
by Rachel Kleinman, The Age (Aus.), 11/28/2006
Carbon emissions are escaping into the earth's atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, an international group of scientists has warned.

Science

Scientists See Global Warming Clues in North Pole's Clouds [archive]
by Beth Duff-Brown, Houston Chronicle, 11/27/2006
Scientists are peering into the clouds near the top of the world, trying to solve a mystery and learn something new about global warming. The mystery is the droplets of water in the clouds. With the North Pole just 685 miles away, they should be frozen, yet more of them are liquid than anyone expected.

Geoengineering in the Anthropocene Era [archive]
by Jon Lebkowsky, WorldChanging, 11/27/2006
A growing number of scientists are thinking more aggressively, developing incredibly ambitious technical fixes to cool the planet. These efforts to remedy the accidental experiment of climate change with intentional, megascale experimentation are called geoengineering.

Carbon Market

Carbon Trading Catch-Up [archive]
by Paul Maidment, Forbes, 11/30/2006
The European Union's newly announced carbon emissions limits have immediately run into the criticism that it is the U.S. and the fast-growing economies of China, India and other emerging countries that are the big nuts to crack--not Europe.

Emissions-Credit Market Looms [archive]
by Michael Gardner, Copley News Service, 12/3/2006
California is steering toward a controversial, yet common, market- based course to curb global warming.

Politics/Legislation

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Western States Team Up to Fight Global Warming  [archive]
by David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 12/2/2006
California and three other Western states will collaborate on ways to fight global warming and use energy more efficiently under an agreement regulators signed in San Francisco.

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EU Embarks on Tough Carbon Cuts  [archive]
from BBC, 11/30/2006
The EU has set tough carbon limits under the European Trading Scheme's second phase, to the consternation of some of the 10 states involved.

Tories Plan Business Carbon Tax  [archive]
from Forbes.com, 11/23/2006
The European Commission said it is set to announce preliminary allocations under the second phase of its carbon emissions trading scheme on November 29.