Fiji joins WHO initiative on global warming (Fijilive.com) Fiji will be participating in a World Health Organisation (WHO) programme aimed at better understanding the impacts of global warming on health. [News Source]

We need action now on global warming. Do we have a national policy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Are we improving our public transit system to make it reliable, on time and reasonably priced? Do we give priority to alternative forms of transportation including walking, biking, bus or train? [News Source]

The lures (and limits) of natural gas. From Boston to St. Petersburg, natural gas is changing the way the world thinks of energy. But as gas goes global, will Russia become the new Saudi Arabia? [News Source]

Windmill proposal is not too bright. Conflict and emotion within the Long Island environmental movement were on display Tuesday night at Massapequa High School where the federal Minerals Management Service hosted a public hearing on a quixotic plan to erect 40 power-generating windmills, each reaching 442 feet into the air. [News Source]

We need less tosh and more facts for a decision on trident . For some people, nuclear weapons are a simple moral issue. For the rest of us, it's about weighing up the practical options. [News Source]

Competitive Enterprise Institute’s category five Gore bashing. Conservatives are having a field day with the release of Al Gore's new film on global warming. [News Source]

Is alt-energy a distraction from real solutions? Wind power is perhaps the most interesting test case of whether America's immediate energy future lies in alternative sources such as wind, conservation and power-down, or some combination of the two. [News Source]

We worry about wine, but about water, too. Global warming could raise average temperatures in California's prime wine-grape-growing regions and have a significant impact on our grapes. [News Source]

Rich nations snub Blair vision for nuclear-powered future (Independent) World leaders at the G8 Summit in St Petersburg failed to agree common ground on nuclear energy and global warming yesterday. Tony Blair's struggle to persuade the world's eight most powerful nations to unite to end climate change produced a disappointing one-line acknowledgement that the issue matters to some countries, but not others. [News Source]

FORUM: Euro-bureaucrats run amok.

The European Parliament earlier this month approved plans for “immediate introduction” of a tax on jet fuel for flights within the 25 member states of the European Union.

Biofuels feasible option for America. As America searches for ways to become less dependent on oil and gas imported from unstable and often hostile nations, we find the answer requires many solutions. Chief among them is the production of biofuels, a source of energy produced from converting crops, crop residue and woody materials into fuel. [News Source]