Labour asks if Spiteri Gingell is still chairing a Climate Change Committee Labour Environment & Climate Change Shadow Minister Leo Brincat has asked government if Mr David Spiteri Gingell is still chairing a climate change committee, meant to draw up a report on Climate Adaptation by July. [News Source]

Climate change picked to hit health Two GPs are warning that doctors need to be prepared for a wave of new ailments this century caused by climate change, including more accidents, gastroenteritis, skin cancer, depression and dengue fever. [News Source]

New climate change mitigation schemes could benefit elites rather than the rural poor ( Burness Communications ) With governments across Latin America preparing to implement a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests, experts gathering here today warned against a "one-size-fits-all" approach, calling instead for flexible, balanced solutions to the thorny dilemmas surrounding this new mechanism ... [News Source]

Japan, Caribbean nations discuss climate change, assistance for Haiti Japan and 13 Caribbean nations agreed in Tokyo on Thursday to cooperate in curbing global warming and offering support to quake-hit Haiti among other issues at their first meeting in a decade, a Japanese official said. Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and his Jamaican counterpart, Kenneth Baugh, cochaired the one-day gathering, the second of its kind since a Tokyo meeting in November 2000, with ... [News Source]

Climate change and monsoon come under focus Pune: Monsoon uncertainties found yet another platform in Pune recently. [News Source]

Nations meet on climate cash, U.N. sees long haul About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming. [News Source]

Climate change: Is El Niño heating up? The weather pattern known as El Niño, which can bring heavy rains to Southern California, has doubled in intensity and warmth and shifted westward over several decades, according to scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Oceanic and... [News Source]

Global warming: Can the San Bernardino flying squirrel be saved? Environmentalists have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the San Bernardino flying squirrel, a nocturnal glider native to Southern California mountains, as an endangered species, threatened by climate change. The petition, filed Tuesday by the Tucson-based Center... [News Source]

Nations meet on climate cash, U.N. sees long haul About 45 nations met on Thursday to seek ways to raise billions of dollars in aid to help the poor combat climate change as the United Nations warned them of a long haul to slow global warming. [News Source]

Climate change revisited THE long six-month period of hot, dry weather this year (2010) and the beginning of the rainy season this month (July) gives us a preview of the kind of extreme weather conditions to be expected until 2020 and up to 2050. What occurred this year and the previous year can only be expected to be repeated or to become worse in the future. [News Source]

Pact could lead to tougher emissions scheme, says Brown. Any emissions trading scheme or carbon tax emerging from Labor and the Greens' new climate change committee could be tougher on Australia's polluting industries than the government's previous scheme, according to Bob Brown. [News Source]