Lessons for NZ in reports of climate change (Scoop.co.nz) There are urgent and important lessons for New Zealand in a report released in Washington yesterday discrediting the Mann “hockey stick” graph which has under-pinned most of the claims of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming (AGW), according to Rear Admiral Jack Welch, chairman of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. [News Source]

Cricket: Climate change to blame at Lord’s (Guardian Unlimited) As England's bowlers toiled against a resilient Pakistan batting order, Mike Brearley blames global warming. [News Source]

That very hot subject. An overwhelming percentage of hunters and fishermen say they are concerned about global warming based on personal experience, according to the results of a nationwide survey taken in March and April. [News Source]

Keep recyclables out of the garbage According to a recent study, most of what ends up in landfills are reusable resources, unnecessarily polluting our earth and contributing to global warming. [News Source]

Smart wind power, or not-so-smart? The greater planetary good requires us to put turbines in some of Maine's highest mountain terrain as quickly as possible. [News Source]

Bush, Putin share nuclear power plans. If presidential willpower can end eras, the generation-old fear of nuclear energy born in the catastrophes of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl is marked for extinction. [News Source]

Our wasteful ways will finish us off. We must all risk becoming 'environmental bores'. To see the crisis coming and not act would be worse than denying climate change. [News Source]

Our attitudes, behaviors key to a healthy planet. The effects of global warming need the attention of government and corporate America, but the potential to heal the harm done is in our own hands. [News Source]

Climate change to blame at Lord’s (The Observer) Global warming conspires against England's cricketers. We play Sri Lanka in May and early June, and even then the pitches are flat, the sun shines, and the ball spins. [News Source]

Brokaw presents Discovery documentary about global warming (Albuquerque Tribune) NEW YORK - Tom Brokaw is giving Al Gore some company in the effort to raise awareness of global warming. The former NBC anchorman is host of "Global Warming: What You Need to Know," which doubles as an explainer and call to action for average Americans. [News Source]

Pumped up on carbon dioxide, vines strengthen their grip. From backyard gardens to the Amazon rain forest, vines are growing faster, stronger and, in the case of poison ivy, more poisonous on the heavy doses of carbon dioxide. [News Source]