Global Warming Hurts Spain’s Vineyards, Forces Vintners to Move (Bloomberg.com) May 22 (Bloomberg) -- Global warming is killing vineyards in southern Spain, threatening a 2 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) wine industry and forcing grape growers to move to cooler climes of the Pyrenees. [News Source]

‘An Inconvenient Truth’: Al Gore’s Fight Against Global Warming (New York Times) Opinions on the prospects of a new documentary about former Vice President Al Gore's quest to spur action against global warming range from hopeful to scornful. [News Source]

It’s not a wonderful world anymore. The human cost of climate change is already 150,000 lives a year, and that is set to soar as weather changes become commonplace and global warming brings forth new diseases that would affect vulnerable regions. [News Source]

Al Gore’s unlikely helpers. Liberals famously love John McCain, but that's not the weirdest political coupling. The oil industry and its Republican allies are rooting for Al Gore, albeit unintentionally. [News Source]

City Light’s green goals will be put to the test in court. Tomorrow, the state Supreme Court hears a class-action lawsuit against "offset" programs used by Seattle City Light to meet its goal of zero net emissions of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Saudi Arabia: It’s Not Easy Being Green. Environmental issues have never topped my agenda, nor have they particularly informed the decisions I make--but this has started to change, all over Saudi Arabia. [News Source]

Where there is smoke… In a bid to protect non-smokers from the harmful effects of cigarette smoke, the Kenya government will ban smoking in public places with effect from next week. [News Source]

Nuclear power splits EU despite common-policy bid. While the European Union attempts to form a common energy policy, one subject continues to divide: nuclear power. [News Source]

King coal again raises his sooty scepter. With high gas prices and the coming of Peak Oil, coal is making a big comeback these days. The industry says that it's not a question of whether we'll use coal - we'll need the energy - but how we'll use coal. [News Source]

In the Northwest, nuclear power takes a hit. The softening of political opposition to the nuclear industry that seems to be occurring elsewhere in the US is not yet changing hearts and minds in OR or WA. [News Source]

EU nations say scarcity essential for CO2 market. European Union countries are not concerned about recent developments in the carbon dioxide (CO2) trading market and believe that scarcity is essential for the scheme to work properly, EU ministers said. [News Source]