Kyoto climate pact backers waver as emissions rise. Five years after berating Washington for pulling out, many backers of the UN's Kyoto Protocol are wavering in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

Salt Lake mayor calls for individual action on global warming. The mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah is showing what a local, municipal government can do to deal with global warming, "the most important issue of our time." [News Source]

Global warming perk disputed. A new study is study shows that global warming may not lead to greater crop yields. [News Source]

Scientists have just tarnished the silver lining of the cloud of greenhouse gases. A new study shows that some important crops will increase yield far less than predicted, and some plants, such as corn and sorghum, may show no increase at all. [News Source]

Report: carbon pollution triples. Pollution from carbon - a gas linked to global warming - has tripled in Colorado since 1960, according to a report by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. [News Source]

Carbon trading will not cut airline emissions, says BA. Greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft, increasingly implicated in climate change, will continue to grow even if the airlines join Europe's emissions trading scheme (ETS) which is designed to cut them, British Airways' chief economist admitted yesterday. [News Source]

Research suggests global warming models are inaccurate. Scientists at the University of Illinois say calculations used for years to project the effect of climate change on crops may be inaccurate. [News Source]

Cuts in carbon emissions will fail to meet election-pledge targets. Labour has admitted that it will break a key election promise to cut drastically the UK contribution to global warming. [News Source]

UK to deepen CO2 cut in EU scheme, miss own target. Britain will cut by nearly 3 percent its carbon emissions quota in the next round of Europe's carbon trading scheme but will miss its self-imposed targets to reduce pollution, it said on Thursday. [News Source]

FEMA to New Orleans: Build lower than Katrina flood. As New Orleans rebuilds tens of thousands of homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. federal disaster agency has recommended rebuilding at levels below last year's floods, reigniting a debate about how the levee-ringed city can be rebuilt safely. [News Source]

Ford plans shift in focus away from hybrids. Instead of hybrids, Ford plans to focus its attention on flexible-fuel vehicles, which can run on gasoline and another type of fuel such as ethanol. [News Source]