clipped from blogs.crikey.com.au

Humans: will they ever get it? Voting Americans are concerned about climate change, yes, but they’re WAY more worried about energy prices. A broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign “reaffirm that economic issues — particularly the high cost of energy — far outweigh the environment when it comes to influencing how Americans evaluate the candidates”, writes Kate Sheppard in Grist.

Confirmed: global warming has spread to Antarctica. That means, no continent is untouched by the effects of climate change. A new study, published today in Nature Geoscience, is the “first to find the fingerprints of manmade global warming on the Antarctic, where a shortage of data makes it hard to be sure”, says The Guardian.