News from Planet Earth:

Not ace: Just who are the world’s leading climate change deniers? George Monbiot has a round-up in The Guardian, in playing card form. A handy guide.
Audience participation 1: With negotiations on the new international climate change treaty due to open in three weeks’ time, The Independent is using readers’ input to [...]

News from across the planet today:
The difference between campaigning and governing. Russell Gold notes, somewhat gleefully, in his WSJ blog that the Obama administration climate change message is now all about “lowering of expectations”.  He writes: “High-ranking officials are saying — expect change, just don’t expect the sun and the moon.” Gold cites [...]

Green news from today’s papers.
Street directory goes green. Map publisher UBD has begun selling what it calls Australia’s first green street directory – with strong sales apparently, according to The Sydney Morning Herald:
In the 2009 Sydney directory, the standard road maps are printed on recycled paper using soy-based ink, which has a reduced carbon footprint. [...]

Climate-saving crops. In a climate (ha) where everyone’s looking for a solution to the warming of the earth, The Guardian reports on one possible helper: reflective food crops.
Some scientists say that “by growing plants that can reflect more of the sun’s radiation back into space, parts of Europe and North America could be cooled by [...]

Today, we’ve been reading an interesting article about biofuels and whether they’re really the environmental panacea airlines (and jetsetters) hope.
Biofuels for airlines? Don’t get too excited just yet. Everyone wants to believe aviation could one day be guilt-free, but it’s still a way off according to one man, says Wired. Jeff Gazzard of the Aviation [...]