Secrecy breach by US officials steals thunder of climate change report (Guardian Unlimited) · Draft findings posted on internet months early · Action on global warming undermined, experts fear [News Source]

China’s glaciers in rapid retreat due to climate change (SciDev.net) Glaciers on China's Qinghai-Tibet plateau are shrinking by seven per cent a year because of global warming, the state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday (2 May). [News Source]

Global Warming May Deprive Chicks of Food, Study Says (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) May 3 (Bloomberg) -- A tiny black-and-white songbird that flies from West Africa to the Netherlands to lay its eggs in mid- April is arriving too late for dinner, in what may be one of the subtler consequences of global warming, a study showed. [News Source]

Global Warming Weakens Trade Winds (SPACE.com / LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) The trade winds in the Pacific Ocean are weakening as a result of global warming, according to a new study that indicates changes to the region's biology are possible. [News Source]

Report settles global warming discrepancies (CNN.com) WASHINGTON (AP) -- A nagging difference in temperature readings that had raised questions about global warming has been resolved, a panel of scientists reported Tuesday. [News Source]

Study undermines argument of climate-change skeptics (San Francisco Chronicle) A government study released Tuesday undermines one of the key arguments of climate-change skeptics, concluding there is no statistically significant conflict between measures of global warming on the Earth's surface and in the atmosphere. For years,... [News Source]

NOAA Climate Change Study Affirms Humans Are Factor In Global Warming (Free Internet Press) A government study released yesterday undermines one of the key arguments of climate change skeptics, concluding there is no statistically significant conflict between measures of global warming on the earth's surface and in the atmosphere. For years some global warming critics had pointed to the fact that satellite measurements had recorded very little warming in the lower atmosphere, while [News Source]