Celebs turn the spotlight on global warming (USA Today) The acclaim for former vice president Al Gore's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth will likely help spur celebrities to speak out about climate change. Stars such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio and Keanu Reeves have joined the cause to spread the word about the urgency of global warming. [News Source]

A Global Warming Believer in Bush Cabinet (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) WASHINGTON (AP) - Henry Paulson may find the tightrope he'll be walking as President Bush's Treasury secretary will span a wider gulf than in his current twin jobs as chairman of Goldman Sachs and The Nature Conservancy. Both the Wall Street powerhouse and the world's richest environmental group look at global warming as a dire threat requiring government-mandated reductions in carbon dioxide and [News Source]

Report: Practical Solutions to Global Warming May Be Major Economic Opportunity for U.S. (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News) Global warming may represent a major opportunity for investment and job growth in the United States, but any such potential is endangered if the public and policy makers remain mired in either panic or a sense of resignation about climate change, according to a new report published by Dr. Lloyd Jeff Dumas, professor of economics and public policy at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). [News Source]

ExxonMobile: The Wrench in Action on Climate Change (Common Dreams News Center) ExxonMobile: The Wrench in Action on Climate Change [News Source]

Scientists to Gov Bush: Global warming boosting strong hurricanes. Florida's governor cautiously entered the debate Wednesday over whether rising global temperatures are to blame for an increase in the number of strong hurricanes. [News Source]

Earth’s ozone shield is poised for recovery. Two new studies credit a 1987 international agreement, which phased out harmful gases, for the improvement. [News Source]

Polar core is hot stuff. A core of sediment pulled from the bottom of the Arctic Ocean has confirmed that, millions of years ago, the North Pole was as warm as a balmy summer day. [News Source]

Scientists say arctic once was tropical. First-of-its-kind core samples dug up from deep beneath the Arctic Ocean floor show that 55 million years ago an area near the North Pole was practically a subtropical paradise, three new studies show. [News Source]

Arctic’s tropical past uncovered. Fifty-five million years ago the North Pole was an ice-free zone with tropical temperatures, according to research. [News Source]

Saying it in Cinema. President Bush doubts he'll see it, but millions of other people undoubtedly will: Former Vice President Al Gore's docu-horror film about the frightening future promised by global warming. [News Source]

Conservation lagging as emissions climb. Late last week, representatives from 165 industrialised and developing countries -- excluding the United States -- agreed to extend a global plan to reduce the emissions that contribute to global warming past its expiration date of 2012. [News Source]