Liberal Democrats : Campbell and Cameron to meet on climate change agenda (Liberal Democrat Party) David Cameron and Sir Menzies Campbell are to meet in response to the Liberal Democrats' challenge to the Tory leader for a "minimum test of commitment" on ways of tackling global warming. [News Source]

Defra announces young climate change champions (Defra) Defra's 'focus' pages aim to introduce and summarise a topical issue and provide links to more in-depth material elsewhere on this site. Nine young people from across England have won a Defra-organised competition to become regional climate change champions. [News Source]

‘Get a grip on climate change’, Executive told (The Scotsman) THE Scottish Executive was challenged to "get a grip" on how it will tackle climate change at an Edinburgh conference. [News Source]

 NINE YOUNG CLIMATE CHANGE CHAMPIONS FOR ENGLAND UNVEILED (Government News Network) The champions are at the start of a year in which they will aim to communicate about climate change in the regions and the role that young people can have in tackling it. [News Source]

Climate report released prematurely (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette) Normally when the Bush administration makes news on global warming research, it’s for trying to suppress yet another report showing the folly of its wait-and-see stance. So naturally it was a surprise when the U.S. Climate Change Science Program posted an alarming new report online. [News Source]

Climate Change Is Cited As Key To Extinctions (Free Internet Press) New evidence from Canada and Alaska suggests that climate change, rather than human hunting, may have played the key role in a great die-off of mammoths, horses and other large North American mammals that began more than 10,000 years ago. "It was a special time of greater warmth and moisture," said paleoecologist R. Dale Guthrie of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. "The arid steppe receded, [News Source]

Australia, S Africa sign climate change deal (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Australia and South Africa have signed a joint agreement on climate change. Environment Minister Senator Ian Campbell announced the deal with his South African counterpart at a conference in New York in the United States. [News Source]

Australia, S Africa sign climate change deal (ABC via Yahoo! Australia & NZ News) Australia and South Africa have signed a joint agreement on climate change. [News Source]