Gore Says He’s Focusing on Global Warming, Not ‘08 Presidential Run (Washington Post) Al Gore, the Democrats' nominee for the White House in 2000, says he has all but ruled out running for president in 2008, saying the best use of his time is to educate people about global warming. [News Source]

Children “Brainwashed” on Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz) The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) is misleading New Zealand children about human-caused climate change and its effects, according to New Zealand Climate Change Coalition. [News Source]

Deserts face climate change threat (Aljazeera) The world's deserts are under threat as never before, with climate change making lack of water an even bigger problem for the planet's last great wildernesses, a UN report says. [News Source]

U.N. report warns of increasing threat to world’s deserts due to global warming (The Star Online) LONDON (AP) - The world's deserts are under threat as never before, with climate change making lack of water an even bigger problem for the planet's last great wildernesses, a U.N. report released Monday said. [News Source]

Widening tropics ‘will drive deserts into Europe.’ The world's tropical zones are growing, threatening to drive the world's great deserts into southern Europe and other heavily populated areas, alarming new research suggests. [News Source]

Globe confronts warming as emissions grow. Britain and Sweden are on target for reducing global-warming gases, but other countries will have to toughen policies and rely on "carbon trading" to achieve their Kyoto Protocol goals by 2012. [News Source]

Climate change: The view from the patio. While much of the discussion of climate change focuses on the big picture of rising sea levels and increasing global air and ocean temperatures, it turns out climate change may be a real nuisance in the backyard. [News Source]

Mayors warn they’ll push prime minister to meet Kyoto targets. Canada's mayors will not let Prime Minister Stephen Harper walk away from this country's international commitments on climate change without a fight. [News Source]

‘God’s railway’ under threat. Climate change could mean that Brunel's engineering miracle - the dramatic Dawlish line to Devon and Cornwall - will disappear. [News Source]

Global warming ‘the greatest atrocity.’ Australian actor Jack Thompson has said destruction of the environment is a worse atrocity than the September 11 terror attacks and the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined. [News Source]

Doctors urged to explain climate change. Doctors should take the lead in Australia's fight against global warming by informing the nation about the health consequences of climate change, a new report urges. [News Source]