10 key planet-wide indicators of a warming climate identified:

Global warming "undeniable"

Senate Panel Backs More Electric Cars, Solar:

Millions of electric-powered vehicles that would slash America's dependence on foreign oil and cut its carbon emissions would be put on the road under legislation approved by a Senate committee on Wednesday.

The legislation, passed 19-4 in favor, was one of several bills cleared by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that might be folded into a broader energy and climate bill Democrats are struggling to bring to the Senate floor. Story continues:

In truth, the significant nature of value lies in the fact that we live in a [bio-diversified] world in which it is significantly undervalued:

While some of nature's services could be similarly traded as commodities, such as proposed "rainforest bonds" which would pay for forests' wildlife, fresh water and carbon storage, most biodiversity cannot be valued or traded directly.

"We should probably be thinking about biodiversity less like the carbon market and more like a real estate market, these are very distinctive, unique assets, they can be graded and valued but they're not interchangeable," said Joshua Bishop, chief economist at the IUCN. Story continues:

"It's like magic. Porosity is a way to do a lot with very little,"

Scientists Create Improved CO2-Absorbing Crystals: "If we take a gram of MOF-200 and unravel it, it will cover many football fields, and that is the space you have for gases to assemble," says Omar Yaghi, team leader at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, improves upon an earlier crystal named MOF-177 to produce two new versions -- MOF-200 and MOF-210 -- that stores twice the volume of gases. Read more:

The long-term and the short-term of Earth's Thermometer:

Putting a limit on heat-trapping emissions and encouraging the use of healthier, cleaner energy technologies, such as solar and wind power, would help us to avoid the worst potential consequences of global warming: Story continues

New York Power Authority wants to build nation's first offshore wind power projects in the Atlantic Ocean:

In addition to the state-owned NYPA and LIPA, the wind group includes New York City's power company Consolidated Edison Inc, the City of New York, and other state and city government agencies.

NYPA said it will apply with the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOE), formerly known as the Minerals Management Service (MMS), for a 25-year lease on 64,500 acres of land beneath the Atlantic Ocean about 13 to 15 miles off the Long Island coast.
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