Professor links studies, climate change evidence (Corvallis Gazette Times) For some, the year 2005 may be seen as the “tipping point” for the debate over global warming — the time when a series of global events and studies came together to make a conclusive scientific case and motivate people from debate to action. [News Source]

Harper hints at possible Canada-US climate change pact (AFP via Yahoo! News) Prime Minister Stephen Harper, under pressure to tackle climate change while hostile to the Kyoto Protocol, hinted that Canada may opt for a Canada-US plan to reduce greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Seeing red over ‘green scare’. In 2004, Gore denounced President Bush for "playing on our fears." Today, he is at the forefront of a "green scare" about global warming intended to terrify Americans into submitting to his environmental policies. [News Source]

When science was science. About 30 years ago, science pointed its solvent-stained finger at something that humans were doing wrong, something that would kill us if we kept it up. And the politicians listened. [News Source]

Learning from Chernobyl. Economists from California to Calcutta are saying that nuclear power needs to play a role in the future energy supply. Will it? The answer is a qualified yes — provided that governments absorb the true lesson of Chernobyl. [News Source]

Group collecting signatures to oppose coal-fired plant. A Great Falls grassroots organization is collecting signatures to oppose the coal-fired power plant proposed east of town. [News Source]

Senator Carper advocates cleaning up Indian River power plant. Delaware Senator Tom Carper will soon introduce a bill that would require power plants to cut down on most of their mercury, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide emissions and offer financial incentives to do so. [News Source]

Pipeline faces delays, complaints in Turkey. Turkish villagers complain that the pipeline has caused damage to their land. [News Source]

Research consortium studies air quality over Indian Ocean. An international research consortium funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) sent a fleet of aerial drones through pollution-filled skies over the Indian Ocean and achieved an important milestone in tracking pollutants responsible for dimming Earth's atmosphere. [News Source]

Declared dead after Chernobyl, nuclear lives again. When reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radioactive dust over much of Europe, many people believed the disaster sounded the death knell for nuclear power. [News Source]

Three Mile island shows US nuclear risks, rewards. Four giant cooling towers loom over the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania, reminders of the fears and hopes surrounding an industry that may help cut U.S. dependence on foreign oil. [News Source]