Tonight is Halloween and the world press has reacted sharply to the Stern Doomsday predictions. That is encouraging and perhaps a wake up call. Also encouraging that there is no mention in the press of the Bjorn Lomborg rolling out anew his views that it is not “cost effective” to work on mitigating climate change. Let us say his oil industry - see nothing, don’t worry - attitude had no takers. Boston Globe reports: “Global Warming Could Devastate Economy”. The media takes a clear position.

We do now the unusual for us and copy here the full CLIMATE WIRE of the day as received from Earthwire.org We also include the relevant articles from Reuters’ PlanetArk.com, and the Top Stories of the day The Independent of London.
The articles show reactions from the UK, US, Australia, and many other places. China is looking into a post-Kyoto program, Japan is trying to shore up Kyoto. The UN has planned for new programs involving the former Soviet bloc countries in Europe. There is action, though perhaps not enough - in Europe and Japan. It is only the US and Australia whose governments have not decided yet on action. So who set up Bjorn Lomborg’s new “put a stick into the wheel” effort? What purpose does it serve to remind us that there are indeed also other miseries in our world? Nothing wrong in principle, except for the fact that the intent seems to be to say that fighting climate change has no real economic benefits. And that is a lie.

Budgets falling in race to fight global warming
International Herald Tribune
Though experts agree the world faces a daunting challenge in finding nonpolluting energy sources, research into new technology has declined.

Govt shifts focus to climate change
ABC (Australia) Online
KERRY OBRIEN: The Government hasn’t missed the political implications of the growing crisis on climate change.

‘Almost too late’ to stop a global catastrophe
Belfast Telegraph
The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is “already almost out of reach”, Sir Nicholas Stern’s long-awaited report on climate change will warn today.

Climate change expert backs economic impact warnings
ABC (Australia) Online
The Professor of Global Change at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Peter Grace, says predictions of the economic cost of climate change are becoming more reliable.

Climate report demands action, says Blair
The Independent
Tony Blair today appealed to world leaders to unite to tackle the threat of climate change as the Government set out its blueprint for a new global framework to cut damaging greenhouse gas emissions.

‘Almost too late’ to stop a global catastrophe
The Independent
The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is “already almost out of reach”, Sir Nicholas Stern’s long-awaited report on climate change will warn today. One terrifying prospect is that changes in weather patterns could drive down the output of the world’s economies by an amount equivalent to up to £6 trillion a year by 2050, almost the entire output of the EU.

U.N. Says Global Warming Gases on Rise Again
Environmental News Network
The industrialized world’s emissions of greenhouse gases are growing again, despite efforts under the Kyoto Protocol to cap them and stave off global warming, the United Nations reported Monday.

New U.N. Carbon Credit System Launched to Curb Climate Gases In Industrialized Countries
GreenBiz.com
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 30, 2006 - Intensifying its efforts to curb the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, the United Nations has launched a new mechanism to generate significant reductions in such emissions in central and eastern European transition economies through a system of “carbon credits” acquired by developed countries.

ANALYSIS - Japan Needs Policy Overhaul to Avoid Kyoto Failure
Planet Ark
TOKYO - Japan faces a stark choice in the next five years — impose mandatory emissions curbs on industry and hike government spending on emissions cuts overseas — or risk sinking the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

China Hopes for Post-2012 Kyoto Deal Within 2 Years
Planet Ark
BEIJING - China would like the world to agree a new framework for trading and investment in reductions of greenhouse gas emissions by 2008, and to see a longer-lasting commitment period, top policy officials said on Friday.

Britain Calls for Post-Kyoto Climate Cuts by 2008-09
Planet Ark
BEIJING - Britain called on Friday for world powers to agree to a framework by 2009 to cut greenhouse gas emissions before the first phase of the UN’s Kyoto Protocol ends, and urged China to sign up to any new deal.

Verification Problems May Delay ‘07 Kyoto Projects
Planet Ark
BEIJING - Projects that cut greenhouse gas emissions and channel funds to poor nations from rich ones under the Kyoto pact may be backlogged in 2007 due to mistaken applications and an overworked evaluation team, an official said.

U.K. Report: Warming Will Destroy Economy
CBS News
A British report says, unless drastic action is taken, climate change will inflict disaster on the global economy on the scale of the two world wars or the Great Depression. The U.K. government also said Al Gore would be an adviser on global warming.

U.K. Report: Warming Will Destroy Economy
CBS News
Unless drastic action is taken, climate change will inflict disaster on the global economy on the scale of a world war, a British report said. The U.K. has hired environmental spokesman and former Vice President Al Gore to advise the government.

Global warming will devastate world economy
Ottawa Citizen
Prime Minister Tony Blair gestures during a presentation of Sir Nicholas Stern’s report on climate change at The Royal Society on October 30, 2006 in London.

Global Warming Could Devastate Economy
ABC News
British Government Report Says Unchecked Global Warming Will Devastate World Economy

Climate costs: The global picture
BBC
BBC correspondents give view on climate change from around the world, in the wake of UK government report warning of dire costs.

New climate change laws planned
BBC
Environment Secretary David Miliband unveils plans for a Climate Change Bill in next month’s Queen’s Speech.

Boisclair rejects PQ’s plan to nationalize wind energy
CBC News
Parti Québécois Leader André Boisclair has rejected his party’s proposal to nationalize wind power production, insisting the private sector has a role to play in the industry.

Greenhouse gas emissions rising
BBC
UN data shows industrialised countries’ greenhouse gas emissions rising overall, despite cuts by some nations.

Belize Barrier Reef Suffers, Global Warming Blamed
Environmental News Network
A rainbow-hued parrot fish nibbles on a veined purple sea fan in the tranquil waters of Belize’s barrier reef, the largest in the western hemisphere.

Farmers Urged to Enroll in Carbon Emissions Trading Program
Environmental News Network
The 10,000 black walnut trees planted on Sen. Richard Lugar’s family farm might someday bring in extra cash, not by being sent to a sawmill, but by simply staying rooted in the soil.

Climate Negotiators Eye 2008 Elections
Environmental News Network
Delegates flying to Kenya next week for a global conference on climate are watching the turn of U.S. election seasons as much as the rise in temperatures in their effort to cool planetary warming.

Report Warns About Global Warming Impact
Environmental News Network
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a major British report said Monday.

Brown announces Climate Change Bill
Epolitix.com
The government is setting out details of a Climate Change Bill to be tabled in next month’s Queen’s Speech.

Climate report ‘is wake-up call’
 Epolitix.com
The Stern report on climate change is “a wake-up call to every country in the world”, Tony Blair has said.

Britain calls for urgent action on climate change
 News.com.au
BRITAIN has issued a call for urgent action on climate change after a hard-hitting report painted an apocalyptic picture of the economic and environmental fallout from further global warming.

Climate-change report issues wake-up call to world
Mail and Guardian
World leaders must act urgently to avert a looming environmental catastrophe, the author of a major British report, which sounds a wake-up call on climate change, said on Monday.

Energy minister defends support for biomass plants (30.10.06)
 LetsRecycle.com
England’s energy minister has dismissed the suggestion that government support for renewable energy is affecting competition for recycled wood.

PM defiant over global warming
 News.com.au
A FORMER World Bank economist has warned global warming will cost $9 trillion and plunge the world into a catastrophe worse than the Great Depression if we don’t act - but John Howard isn’t biting.

Stern warning on global warming
Sydney Morning Herald
Pollution may trigger a change to rival the last ice age, report says.

Global warming will devastate global economy, British government report warns
Seattle Times
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said today.

Bacterial ‘Switch Gene’ Regulates Oceans’ Sulfur Emissions Into The Air
 ScienceDaily.com
A team of researchers, led by marine microbial ecologist Mary Ann Moran at the University of Georgia, has discovered a bacterial “switch gene” in two groups of plankton. This gene helps determine whether certain marine bacterioplankton convert a sulfur compound to one that rises into the atmosphere and affects the earth’s temperature or remains climatically inactive in the seas.

Time to act on global warming
Sydney Morning Herald
AT BEST, it is no longer possible to prevent some damage to the world’s climate and weather patterns; at worst, greenhouse gas pollution could induce a change in global temperatures so dramatic it would rival the last ice age, a British report on climate change says.

Solar-powered air conditioners ‘needed’
The Age
Solar-powered air-conditioners should be rolled out across Australia to dramatically cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, say a national group of architects.

Australia feeling heat on carbon trading
The Age
Britain will pressure Australia and other countries to join an expanded EU carbon trading market on the back of a new report warning of the dire economic consequences of global warming.

UK climate report ‘condemns Howard govt’
The Age
A report warning of the huge economic consequences of climate change is a sharp repudiation of the Howard government’s policies, Labor says. -

Australia’s Kyoto reluctance highlighted
The Age
Australia’s unwillingness to ratify the Kyoto protocol on curbing greenhouse gas emissions has been highlighted in a report urging global carbon trading. -

Brown makes global warming pledge
Yahoo! News
Chancellor Gordon Brown has pledged to put Britain at the head of international efforts to tackle climate change as the Government published its long awaited assessment of the economic impact of global warming.

Australia pressured to join climate change plan
The Age
The man tipped to be Britain’s next prime minister, Chancellor Gordon Brown, wants Australia to join an international carbon trading scheme to help tackle global warming, amid predictions that climate change could plunge the world into economic turmoil.

Global Warming Will Devastate World Economy, Report Says
Washington Post
LONDON — Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a major British report said Monday.

New climate change laws planned
BBC
Environment Secretary David Miliband unveils plans for a Climate Change Bill in next month’s Queen’s Speech.

Pint-sized Car Engine Promises High Efficiency, Low Cost
 ScienceDaily.com
MIT researchers are developing a half-sized gasoline engine that performs like its full-sized cousin but offers fuel efficiency approaching that of today’s hybrid engine system — at a far lower cost. The key? Carefully controlled injection of ethanol, an increasingly common biofuel, directly into the engine’s cylinders when there’s a hill to be climbed or a car to be passed.

Climate costs: The next generation
BBC
The Stern report urges climate action now as the cheapest option; what are the chances it will be heeded?

Climate warning for insurers
Telegraph
Abrupt shifts in climate and damage caused by harsh weather conditions will affect global financial markets and could have a significant impact on the insurance industry, the Stern report warns.

Global warming could devastate economy
Boston Globe
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a British government report said Monday, as the country launched a bid to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic growth can coincide.

Blair calls for ‘bold’ action after stark climate change warning
CBC News
Calling for “bold and decisive action,” British Prime Minister Tony Blair has endorsed a new report that warns failure to act on climate change could trigger a worldwide economic slowdown along the same level as the Great Depression.

Govt confronted by rates speculation, climate change report
ABC (Australia) Online
KERRY OBRIEN: Welcome to the program. And the Howard Government was today confronted again in the Parliament with two issues that could dog it to the next election rising interest rates and climate change.

U.K. fears disaster in climate change
International Herald Tribune
Britain warned Monday that failure to act swiftly on global warming will have a cataclysmic effect on the global economy, and said it was stepping up efforts to get other nations involved. A long-awaited report predicted apocalyptic effects from climate change.

Farmers aim to get paid for harvesting carbon
MSNBC
INDIANAPOLIS - The 10,000 black walnut trees planted on Sen. Richard Lugar’s family farm might someday bring in extra cash, not by being sent to a sawmill, but by simply staying rooted in the soil.

Mohawk Sustainability Initiatives Help Neutralize Carbon Footprint
 GreenBiz.com
Cohoes NY, Oct.30, 2006 - Mohawk Fine Papers Inc. says it has partnered with NativeEnergy to offset CO2 emissions from its 2006 Sales Fleet and Local Product Transport.

Britain issues call for green growth
International Herald Tribune
Global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the World Wars and the Great Depression, a report said Monday, as Britain opened a campaign to convince doubters that environmentalism and economic growth go hand in hand.

Harper willing to talk climate change with Layton
CTV
With the government’s Clean Air Act possibly dead on arrival, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he’s prepared to meet with NDP Leader Jack Layton to talk climate change legislation.

SaskPower working on technology to pump CO2 underground
CBC News
SaskPower says it’s working with two private companies on “clean coal” technology that could allow it to pump a proposed power plant’s greenhouse gases underground.

Britain to push for extended carbon trading market
ABC (Australia) Online
Britain will pressure Australia and other countries to join an expanded carbon trading market, after the release of a new report warning of the dire economic consequences of global warming.

Warming ‘may cause economic chaos’
CNN
Climate change could devastate the global economy on a scale of the two world wars and the depression of the 1930s if left unchecked, a top economist has warned.

Government slammed over environment
 News.com.au
A REPORT warning of the huge economic consequences of climate change is a sharp repudiation of the Howard Government’s policies, Labor says.

Pollution by industrialised countries still rising
Mail and Guardian
Greenhouse-gas emissions by the industrialised world are still rising, with the United States firmly entrenched as the biggest polluter, a United Nations report said on Monday.

UK issues warming warning, hires Gore
MSNBC
Unchecked global warming will devastate the world economy on the scale of the world wars and the Great Depression, a major British report said Monday.

UK climate report to put heat on Australia
 News.com.au
BRITAIN will pressure Australia to join a carbon trading market after a new report warned global warming will cost more than either world wars or the Great Depression.

Coming to a Theater Near You: Carbon-Neutral Movie
Planet Ark
WASHINGTON - The critics raved: “Tender and touching!” “Beautiful and poignant!” “A sweet gem!” But the makers of the independent film “Sweet Land” seem just as pleased with another accolade: carbon-neutral.

No need to sign Kyoto Protocol - Government
The Australian
FEDERAL Resources Minister Ian Macfarlane says there is no need for Australia to sign the Kyoto Protocol despite a major new report warning of economic and climatic disaster if urgent action is not taken to tackle global warming.

Island wind farm plans rejected
BBC
Councillors vote against a £14m project to put up a controversial wind farm on the Isle of Wight.

Developing countries must do more to reduce emissions: Costello
ABC (Australia) Online
Federal Treasurer Peter Costello says there is no point in Australia reducing its greenhouse gas emissions when China and India are such major global polluters.

Government defiant on Kyoto
 News.com.au
THE Federal Government still refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol despite a new report warning of economic and climatic disaster if urgent action isn’t taken.

Howard risks economy over climate change
 News.com.au
THE Government has been urged to act on climate change as a ground-breaking report finds stalling will devastate the environment and damage the economy.

Howard is ‘frozen in time’ on global warming
 News.com.au
The Howard Government is again under pressure to sign the Kyoto Protocol with a ground-breaking report saying failure to act will have “catastrophic” consequences.

Govt urged to rethink Kyoto Protocol
The Australian
THE Government has been urged again to act on climate change on the eve of the release of a ground-breaking report that says a failure to act will devastate the enironment and damage the world economy.

Clean vs. dirty is only part of renewable energy debate
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The slogans are simple: Clean wind energy or coal-powered plants polluting the planet. Higher electrical bills or utilities free to save ratepayers money. But that’s only the tip of the wind turbine for Initiative 937.

Global warming will cost world $9 trillion: report
ABC (Australia) Online
The world’s biggest economic evaluation of climate change says if countries do not act now the world will face a depression worse than that of the 1930s.

And the Reuters PLANETARK.com has the following articles:

US:
Americans Favor Environment; Votes Don’t Show It
                
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