Global warming’s effect on hurricane strength disputed in new report (Sun-Sentinel) MIAMI -- Scientists linking the increased strength of hurricanes over recent years to global warming have not accounted for outdated technology that may have underestimated storms' power decades ago, researchers said in a report published Friday. [News Source]

Scientists: Killer Heat Waves, Global Warming Tied (CBS 5 Bay Area) For the long-term future, the world will see more and worse killer heat waves because of global warming, scientists say. Heat waves and global warming "are very strongly" connected, said Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis branch chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. [News Source]

New report disputes global warming’s affect on hurricane strength (The Jamaica Observer) MIAMI, Florida (AP) - Scientists linking the increased strength of hurricanes over recent years to global warming have not accounted for outdated technology that may have underestimated storms' power decades ago, researchers said in a report published yesterday. [News Source]

Sweating your way to enlightenment. Monday evening, after more than a week of temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, I broke down and went to Home Depot to buy an air conditioner. [News Source]

Cooling down with technology, can-do attitude. It's time to shake off negative attitudes, roll up our sleeves and get to work on reducing emissions and combatting global warming. [News Source]

Taking action to ease global climate change. The northeastern region has just witnessed flooding whose magnitude may exceed that of a 1-in-500-year event. Crises such as severe flooding often prompt the question "why." [News Source]

Global warming’s effect on hurricane strength disputed in new report (Sun-Sentinel) MIAMI -- Scientists linking the increased strength of hurricanes over recent years to global warming have not accounted for outdated technology that may have underestimated storms' power decades ago, researchers said in a report published Friday. [News Source]

US mayors making good on Kyoto. Hundreds of US mayors have signed on to combat global warming in their cities. [News Source]

UK’s Jurassic Coast feels heat of climate change. The exposed steel piling behind the promenade and the newly reinforced beach, designed to stop the English seaside town of Lyme Regis from crumbling into the sea, show that this, too, is a corner of the planet threatened by climate change. [News Source]

Plans to clean air revealed by TXU.

TXU on Thursday unveiled some details about how it plans to follow through on earlier vows to dramatically cut pollution companywide even as it seeks permission to build 11 coal-fired plants that critics say would harm Dallas-Fort Worth air quality.

Shoot Up And Cool Down: Fighting Global Warming By Injecting Sulfur Into The Atmosphere (Science Daily) Injecting sulfur into the atmosphere to slow down global warming is worthy of serious consideration, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. His thought-provoking paper is published in the August issue of the Springer journal, Climatic Change, devoted this [News Source]