17 november 2008
Pre-Poznan: China makes the first move
Though experts have pegged China as the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitter for well over a year, it was only two weeks ago that the government first openly admitted China's emissions have caught up with the US (just barely, they insist).

17 november 2008
Carbon Dioxide Is Double Threat to Reefs
While scouring the halls of the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, my colleague Kenneth Chang had time to summarize a new paper in the journal Science on the double-barreled risk carbon dioxide may pose to coral reefs. I first wrote about this in 2004. The issue kind of crept up by surprise, perhaps because it has mainly been climatologists, not oceanographers and chemists, who have focused on impacts of greenhouse gases. Here’s his dispatch:

17 november 2008
Water Laws May Be Used to Fight Warming
Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

17 november 2008
At Exxon, Making the Case for Oil
SIX years of relentlessly rising prices have showered the oil industry with record profits even as whipsawing energy costs have left many Americans alternately furious and baffled.

14 november 2008
JOINT IMPLEMENTATION SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE
Thirteenth meeting