Pension funds seek meeting with Exxon over global warming (Scranton Times-Tribune) Pension fund trustees from seven states and New York City on Thursday demanded to meet with Exxon Mobil Corp.'s independent directors to discuss what they called the oil company's failure to consider how concern over global warming could affect energy companies. [News Source]

It’s an ill wind. Enemies in high places and activists with nuclear links have taken the puff out of clean energy. Leaked cabinet minutes reveal the role of the Prime Minister and some of Australia's biggest greenhouse gas emitters. [News Source]

Arctic town booms on oil and gas hopes. High oil prices, new technology to offset freezing conditions and prospects that global warming may melt polar ice are making once inaccessible reserves in the polar region suddenly attractive to oil and gas firms. [News Source]

China faces rising temperatures, shrinking crops. China's average temperature may rise by 2.8 degrees Celsius by 2030 and its crop production could tumble by 10 percent as global warming throws the climate into disarray, a senior Chinese climate official said on Thursday. [News Source]

Poor states seen escaping Kyoto climate caps. Poor nations are seeking aid and technology to combat global warming with no expectation at UN climate talks that they will be forced to join rich nations and cut emissions of heat-trapping gases. [News Source]

Effects of global warming cited. Many Minnesota hunters and anglers say they already see the effects of a warming atmosphere, and most believe climate change will hurt the state's fish and wildlife populations. [News Source]

US states, investors attack Exxon on global warming. A group of pension funds and institutional investors on Thursday accused Exxon Mobil Corp. of failing to act on global warming concerns and demanded a meeting with the company's board over the issue. [News Source]

US senator enrolls farm in Chicago climate mart. A US senator has become the first politician to enroll personal property in a Chicago-based market in which members voluntarily trade emissions of heat-trapping gases. [News Source]

Extreme events challenge China’s weather forecasters. The increasingly extreme weather events are challenging meteorologists in China, although they successfully predicted the movement of typhoon Chanchu. [News Source]

Kyoto target impossible for region, says GVRD. Punishing measures on a Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) list of what the region would have to do if it’s determined to meet the Kyoto Accord are a recipe for commuter revolt, says staff. [News Source]

Gore in movie campaign to protect Earth. Al Gore brushes aside talk of another run for the U.S. presidency and wages a new campaign to protect the Earth that he says must be won. [News Source]