Coal booms despite climate change worries: Forget concerns about global warming. Forget the effect of renewables, or nuclear power or energy-saving technologies. The coal market is facing 20 years of solid growth and Australia will be a leading beneficiary, according to the Federal Government’s economics adviser. — Sydney Morning Herald

Longest summer on record in UK: This summer was the longest continuous period of hot weather experienced in this country since records began. A study for the Met Office found that the five months from May to September were warmer than any equivalent summer since 1659…The 2006 period also included the warmest month ever, July, and provided the country with a record temperature for a September. The figures strongly back the argument that man-made global warming is having a considerable impact on the British Isles.  — The Observer(UK)

God speaks out on global warming: Over the past year, religious activism on global warming has won much attention. Last February, 86 evangelical Christian leaders backed an initiative to combat global warming, a move that broke the evangelical movement’s broad silence on the issue but exposed stark divisions. — The New York Times

Governator steps up carbon trading campaign: California’s global warming law imposes the country’s first mandatory statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions, a move that has been criticized by manufacturers and cement makers — two of the largest emitters of the greenhouse gases scientists blame for rising temperatures in many parts of the world. — SanFrancisco Chronicle