Climate change: The real New Hampshire story: The press hasn’t reported on it but the real story from last night’s election may be how important global warming was for the voters of New Hampshire and in particular, for John McCain’s turnaround win. He’s a pro-Iraq war Republican whose campaign was all but written off six months ago, but alone among the Republicans he has a passion for the climate issue and a plan to address it. This gave him huge appeal to the Independents that he needed to pull-off a win in this state. Telegraph

EU, World Bank eye loan for climate change fight: The European Union and the World Bank are discussing raising a major long-term loan to help poorest countries fund essential measures to combat climate change, the EU’s development chief said on Wednesday. Industrialised countries would borrow the money on the international capital markets and advance it to developing states to help reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and protect them from environmental damage, Development Commissioner Louis Michel told reporters. The size of the fund had not yet been discussed but it could involve the “colossal sums” needed to help poor countries fight against global warming, he said. Reuters

Report predicts wave of green tech: Entrepreneurs and investors are ‘inventing’ a new sustainable global economy, according to an environmental research group. The Worldwatch Institute says there is a new wave of innovation based around environmental technologies. The report also says large firms are changing their ways and are investing in greener production methods. But it says a worldwide agreement on climate change is still needed to secure investment in the future. BBC  As Arctic ice melts, South Pole ice grows: For decades, the vast expanse of sea ice that surrounds Antarctica each winter, and all but vanishes each austral summer, has languished as the Rodney Dangerfield of Earth’s cryosphere. Antarctic sea ice has gotten little respect, especially compared with its top-of-the-world cousin, or with the enormous ice sheets on Greenland and the Antarctic continent. The sea ice is hard to reach. It has little direct effect on people. And the Southern Ocean was not a cold-war playground for US and Soviet submarines, which amassed a wealth of information on changes in Arctic sea ice before the era of long-term satellite observations. But as a research target, southern sea ice’s stock appears to be rising. Christian Science Monitor