Governor appoints an advisory group on climate change (Corvallis Gazette Times) SALEM — The dean of Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences will co-chair the “Climate Change Integration Group,” a panel appointed by the governor to continue state efforts to address global warming. [News Source]

Climate change thawing permafrost (MSNBC) Carbon that has been locked away for thousands of years could escape into the atmosphere if global warming thaws large patches of frozen ground in Alaska and Siberia as expected, a new study warns. [News Source]

Governor appoints an advisory group on climate change (Corvallis Gazette Times) SALEM — The dean of Oregon State University’s College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences will co-chair the “Climate Change Integration Group,” a panel appointed by the governor to continue state efforts to address global warming. [News Source]

Paul Loeb: Global Warming, Local Hope (HuffingtonPost) As the evidence of global warming becomes inescapable, I fear Americans will switch instead to a fatalistic pessimism. Maybe it's real and maybe it's our fault, this sentiment goes, but at this point there's nothing we can do, so we're off the hook. It's hard to deal with melting arctic glaciers, Katrina refugees who might never return to New Orleans, and floods that recently covered half of [News Source]

Alarm bells sound for European water supply as hot weather looms. Summer has still to make its official start in Europe, yet many countries are sweating - and it has less to do with the immediate temperature than out of worry for their water supplies. [News Source]

Late snowmelt swells California water supply. California's reservoirs are brimming with a bountiful late snowmelt that has left the state's water storage system in its best shape in nearly a decade. [News Source]

Reducing night flights may ease winter global warming. Contrails from winter night flights may be most responsible for the global warming caused by air traffic, even though they constitute a fraction of commercial flights. [News Source]

Night flights much worse for global warming. Restrictions on night-time aircraft flights could help in the fight against global warming as well as making life easier for people living near airports. [News Source]

Airplane contrails boost global warming, study suggests. Scheduling more daytime flights may lessen the impact of contrails—the visible streaks of condensation that many planes leave in their wake. [News Source]

Night flights give bigger boost to global warming. The romance of night flight has inspired all kinds of artists, from writers to rock musicians. Rather less romantic is the impact of night-time flights on global warming revealed by an analysis of aircraft movements over England. [News Source]

Nighttime flights ‘boost warming’. Night flights by aircraft are much more damaging to the environment than air travel during the day. [News Source]