Global warming hurting Tasmania: Greens (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) Climate change is impacting on Tasmania's economy and environment, according to a report released by the Australian Greens. [News Source]

Heat goes on over climate change (Otago Daily Times) IT is time for the hard sell. After two false starts, the Government this week signalled yet another rethink of its global warming policies. So, prepare for a publicity campaign on the perils of global warming and the merits of the Kyoto Protocol. [News Source]

Rising fire threat tied to global warming (Casper Star-Tribune) American forests in the West have burned bigger and more frequently since 1987, and climate change is a big reason. [News Source]

Global Warming Has Far-Reaching Economic Implications (Newhouse News Service) Think climate change is a worry best left to science? Think again. It's already costing you money. Take energy, for starters. Global warming is blamed primarily on the burning of coal and oil. But just as many governments are trying to limit use of fossil fuels, worldwide demand has soared. [News Source]

Global Warming May Have Link to Wildfires (TechNewsWorld.com) The increase in the number of large western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming, researchers say. An analysis of data going back to 1970 indicates the fires increased "suddenly and dramatically" in the 1980s and the wildfire season grew longer, according to scientists in Arizona and California. [News Source]

Climate-change entrepreneurs playing for global conquest (Canada.com) Peter and Frank Zuuring with "Antarctica" a board game the invented based on survival after global waraming melts the ice caps. OTTAWA -- A new board game that mixes strategy with apocalyptic climate change has been launched by a Kingston, Ont., father-and-son team who hope to take the game global. [News Source]

Climate-change entrepreneurs playing for global conquest (Vancouver Province) Peter and Frank Zuuring with "Antarctica" a board game the invented based on survival after global waraming melts the ice caps. OTTAWA --Â A new board game that mixes strategy with apocalyptic climate change has been launched by a Kingston, Ont., father-and-son team who hope to take the game global. [News Source]

Study: Climate change fuels wildfires (The Olympian) In a devastating symptom of global warming, the changing weather of the West has stoked a rise in large wildfires over the past 34 years as spring comes earlier, mountain snows melt sooner and forests dry to tinder in a fever of rising temperatures, scientists reported Thursday. [News Source]

Study: Increasing wildfires may be result of global warming (Provo Daily Herald) WASHINGTON -- The increase in the number of large western wildfires in recent years may be a result of global warming, researchers say. An analysis of data going back to 1970 indicates the fires increased "suddenly and dramatically" in the 1980s and the wildfire season grew longer, according to scientists in Arizona and California.. [News Source]

Study links increase in wildfires to global warming (Boston Globe) Global warming may be largely to blame for the increasingly destructive wildfires in the Western United States in the last two decades, new research suggests. [News Source]

Global warming ‘the culprit’ (News 24 South Africa) The increase in the number of large wildfires in the western United States may be a result of global warming, researchers say. [News Source]