Global warming study predicts mixed results for Tas business (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Scientists in Hobart have evaluated the effect of climate change on Tasmania and say it will have mixed results for industry. CSIRO oceanographer Peter McIntosh says new research conducted with the University of Tasmania shows global warming is expected to have a moderate effect on the state. [News Source]

Global warming study predicts mixed results for Tas business (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) Scientists in Hobart have evaluated the effect of climate change on Tasmania and say it will have mixed results for industry. [News Source]

You Control Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz) Auckland, Thursday 6 July 2006 – Whilst the New Zealand Government is developing a work programme for its climate change and energy policies, Greenpeace is hitting the streets with its Clean Energy Guide which ranks electricity companies according to their impact on the climate now and in the future. [News Source]

Failure, catastrophe, and a business model for avoiding the complete and total ruination of Earth. Even though the poll numbers indicating awareness of global warming are much higher now, the urgency is still quite low. [News Source]

Summer vacation of mammoth proportions. Last fall, scientists reported that the ice shelf at the North Pole had become smaller than ever previously recorded, and predicted that, if current trends continue, the pole could be ice-free as early as 2050. [News Source]

Smoking: To ban or not to ban? I don't believe that smoking is a civil liberty. I don't believe that any freedom individuals enjoy in today's society automatically belongs to some exhaustive list of liberties that may, supposedly, be reviewed periodically. But, lifestyle choices or attitudes need not be "civil liberties" to arouse concerns about freedom. [News Source]

Give nuclear power the fresh look it merits. Amazingly, new emission-free nuclear power plants are not part of western governors' regional plan o reduce global warming emissions plan, and that is a mistake. [News Source]

A plea to Generation Y. If greenhouse gas emissions are not reduced and the earth's average temperature keeps increasing, we are going to see huge changes, not eventually, but tomorrow. [News Source]

Local activist spreads message. Barbara Frank grew up in La Crosse, surrounded by the bluffs and Mississippi River. Her mother gardened. Her father fished. As a child, she learned never to kill snakes or pull the legs off spiders. She camped in the bluffs with her family, thinking the whole thing belonged to them. [News Source]

Getting too hot for comfort. About the only people who still believe human activity doesn't warm the planet are the kind of people who still believe smoking doesn't harm the lungs. [News Source]

In our view: Global warming. We clearly need to be more cognizant of our fragile environment. But it makes little sense to pin the sole blame for global warming, if, indeed, it is happening, upon mankind. [News Source]