The Independent: Study delves back into 200,000 years of history to demonstrate the devastating impact of global warming

The Houston Chronicle: "It's just not the time to be passing legislation that kills jobs in the United States," said Larry Nichols, CEO of Devon Energy and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute.

Telegraph.co.uk: Climate change could cause an economic crisis worse than the Great Depression and two World Wars combined, Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister, has warned.

BBC: Roger Harrabin examines the difficulties faced by China as it puts together a negotiating position for the Copenhagen climate conference.

Yahoo News (AFP): The United States and Britain insisted they had not given up on securing a deal to tackle climate change at a crunch summit in December after a meeting of major polluting countries in London.

Science Daily: The combined global land and ocean surface temperature was the second warmest September on record, according to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Based on records going back to 1880, the monthly National Climatic Data Center analysis is part of the suite of climate services NOAA provides.

First Science: The arctic could potentially alter the Earth's climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. The arctic now traps or absorbs up to 25 percent of this gas but climate change could alter that amount, according to a study published in the November issue of Ecological Monographs.

CICERO: Norway and the World Bank are in discussions over setting up a new trust fund to help developing countries create and deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.