BusinessNorth Exclusives Salt Lake mayor calls for individual action on global warming (BusinessNorth) Rocky Anderson won¹t wait for anybody to do something about global warming. "I never say elected leaders anymore. On the national level, there aren't any." [News Source]

Northeast floods stir global warming debate (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Images of swamped homes in the U.S. Northeast deepened suspicions over global warming, giving ammunition to scientists and others who say greenhouse gas-spewing cars and factories are fueling extreme weather. [News Source]

Climate Change-Crops (WHOI) URBANA (AP) -- Scientists at the University of Illinois said calculations used for years to project the effect of climate change on crops may be inaccurate. [News Source]

Big players join race to put farm waste into your gas tank. Big energy firms are racing to find ways to turn cellulosic ethanol, which can be made from crop residues, wood chips and even garbage, into a full-blown power source. [News Source]

Water, water everywhere. Scientists are predicting the San Francisco Bay's waters could rise by 3 to 4 feet in 100 years, flooding up to 4 miles of low-lying Baylands. [News Source]

Japan to swap gas cars for ethanol ones . Japan plans to fight global warming and surging oil prices by requiring that all vehicles on the road be able to run on an environment-friendly mix of ethanol and regular gasoline by 2030, an official said Thursday. [News Source]

EC warns mayhem possible from climate changes. A rise in infectious diseases, flooding coastlines, as well as crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, are all among the dangers Canada faces because of climate change, newly-released federal documents warn. [News Source]

Half of global car exhaust produced by US vehicles. Americans represent 5% of the world's population but drive almost a third of its cars, which in turn account for nearly half the carbon dioxide pumped out of exhaust pipes into the atmosphere each year, according to a report. [News Source]

Warming was top factor in 2005 hurricanes. A new study argues that global warming is probably the larger of the two factors leading to last year's superstrong hurricane season. [News Source]

Warm weather pumps up single-cell ocean swell. An algae bloom so big it can be seen from space has scientists worried that global warming might have contributed to creating the swirling mass of phytoplankton running the length of the west coast of Vancouver Island. [News Source]

Big three cars emit 230 million tons of greenhouse gas. Cars built by the Big Three automakers gave off 230 million metric tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the United States in a year, more than the biggest US electric utility, environmental researchers said on Wednesday. [News Source]