We must ‘get off our butts’ to stop global warming, Clinton says (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Former United States president Bill Clinton says global warming is a greater threat to the future than terrorism and that the US and other countries must "get off our butts" and do something about it. [News Source]

Canada wants Kyoto climate-change deal scrapped: report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Canada reportedly wants the Kyoto climate-change accord scrapped in favor of a separate, voluntary deal and will not support efforts to set stricter emissions targets from 2012. [News Source]

Al Gore issues global warming wake-up call at Cannes (AFP via Yahoo! News) After years of failing to persuade the world's most powerful politicians to take the issue seriously, former US vice president Al Gore took his personal crusade against global warming to Cannes. [News Source]

Al Gore promotes global warming movie in Cannes (Pravda) The United States is emerging from a "bubble of unreality" about the problem of global warming, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore told reporters Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival. [News Source]

Today’s housing model is unsustainable for the long haul. There is a critical reason to rethink the suburban lifestyle: the energy it consumes. More than 40 percent of the planet-warming greenhouse gases that we collectively produce every day are directly or indirectly tied to our buildings. Half these buildings are houses. [News Source]

Taking it electric. A new club in Lake County, the Konocti Electric Auto Association, wants to help county residents free themselves from the gas pump by educating them about the benefits of driving an electric car. [News Source]

Vestige of region’s nuclear designs to be imploded Sunday morning. The Trojan Nuclear Plant's cooling tower took a year to build and cost more than $10 million. On Sunday it will come down in about 10 seconds. [News Source]

Oil giant pressed on global warming. Calling Exxon Mobil Corp. an industry laggard, pension fund leaders in California and six other states on Thursday urged the oil giant to strengthen its plans to address the financial impact of global warming. [News Source]

Al Gore issues global warming wake-up call (AFP via Yahoo! News) Former US vice president Al Gore issued a sharp wake-up call over global warming at the Cannes Film Festival, warning the earth was facing "a planetary emergency." [News Source]

Turned off by global warming. By now, only someone who has been hiding under a rock would need to see the new Al Gore movie to learn that global warming is real. [News Source]

Greenpeace activists arrested in Brazil after protest at Cargill. Police detained 16 activists from the environmental group Greenpeace on Friday after they invaded an Amazon River port owned by the U.S. grain giant Cargill Inc. [News Source]