Jersey shore hurt by greenhouse gases. Here's a sobering thought as you begin your Memorial Day weekend: Much of Atlantic City, Long Beach Island and most of the Cape May peninsula could be under water or prone to chronic flooding by Memorial Day 2100 at our current rate of sea-level rise. [News Source]

A call to reduce global warming. New Jersey in 2100: Cape May under water. Atlantic City's boardwalk and casinos flooded. [News Source]

A wake-up call on global warming. According to a Chinese meteorologist, it is time for people to start acknoelwdging climate change as the planet is now under the influence of global warming which could create unexpected weather conditions. [News Source]

California task force to seek ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions. A task force whose mission is to explore ways of lowering California university's climate-harming emissions begins work today. [News Source]

Tropical zones expanding, scientists find. Using more than two decades of satellite data, scientists have found the Earth's tropical zones appear to have expanded toward both poles. [News Source]

Sweet victory: a wake-up call from Alaska. Alaska is officially taking on the Revere role in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

Subtropic warming could mean bigger deserts - study. Earth's atmosphere is warming faster over the subtropics than anywhere else, which could mean bigger deserts and more drought from Africa to Australia to the Middle East, researchers said on Thursday. [News Source]

Jet stream shift is expanding the Earth’s tropics and deserts. Deserts in the American Southwest and around the globe are creeping toward heavily populated areas as the jet streams shift. [News Source]

Shifts in jet streams widen hot zone. The migration of jet streams has widened the planet's tropical belt and could expand dry regions around the world in coming decades, a new study reports. [News Source]

Tropics expanding since 1979. The tropical regions of the world have been expanding since 1979, according to a study by US climatologists who are unsure whether the phenomenon is caused by global warming or natural climate change. [News Source]

Jet stream shift could alter path of deserts. The jet streams, the high-altitude winds that steer the world's weather systems, appear to be shifting toward the poles, a move scientists say might trigger the movement of deserts into more populated regions. [News Source]