Climate change set to hit the UK hard and the poorest hardest | Damian Carrington A gargantuan report reveals expected global warming impacts and - inadvertantly - a hidden but fundamental injustice If you thought global warming would bring little more to the British Isles than the inviting prospect of passing long, hot summers sipping chilled English wine, then the gargantuan catalogue of climate change impacts revealed on Thursday flattens that myth. It also reveals ... [News Source]

16 scientists declare: ‘no compelling scientific argument’ for ‘drastic actions on global warming’ Sixteen scientists took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal Friday to argue that there is “no compelling scientific argument” for “drastic actions on global warming.” [News Source]

Feds list First Nations, green groups as ‘adversaries’ in oil sands PR strategy. The federal government is distancing itself from its own lobbying and public relations campaign to polish the image of Alberta's oil sands, following revelations that an internal strategy document labelled First Nations and environmentalists as "adversaries" while describing the National Energy Board as an "ally." [News Source]

Tornado myths tough for forecasters to bust. "Folk science" — a community's shared beliefs about how the weather works in their town — is a big challenge to forecasters and meteorologists. With climate change expected to bring more extreme weather in the future, creating more-effective warnings is a goal for many researchers. [News Source]

Feds list First Nations, green groups as ‘adversaries’ in oil sands PR strategy. The federal government is distancing itself from its own lobbying and public relations campaign to polish the image of Alberta's oil sands, following revelations that an internal strategy document labelled First Nations and environmentalists as "adversaries" while describing the National Energy Board as an "ally." [News Source]

Tornado myths tough for forecasters to bust. "Folk science" — a community's shared beliefs about how the weather works in their town — is a big challenge to forecasters and meteorologists. With climate change expected to bring more extreme weather in the future, creating more-effective warnings is a goal for many researchers. [News Source]

Eider duck population declining in Arctic as polar bears devour eggs. Over the past three decades, climate change has caused sea ice to disappear, making it more difficult for polar bears to hunt for seals, their primary prey. To compensate, the bears have been raiding eider nests for food. [News Source]

Advocacy campaign takes aim at on-air climate skeptics. A new campaign aimed at exposing television weathercasters who present discredited climate science information to viewers has sparked a growing storm within the meteorological community. [News Source]

Climate change: The new battlefield in science education. Reminiscent of the evolution-vs.-creationism clash, the overwhelming scientific evidence that says humans are causing the warming of the planet has emerged as the new battlefield in middle and high schools in the U.S. [News Source]

Bid to out the money behind the voice against climate change. A British journalist's court bid to unmask the financial backers of a group of climate change sceptics is being used to raise questions about how think-tanks are funded in Australia and whether they deserve tax exemptions. [News Source]

Already on the decline, will global warming hasten demise of big trees? Already on the decline worldwide, big trees face a dire future due to habitat fragmentation, selective harvesting by loggers, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warns an article published this week in New Scientist magazine. [News Source]