Feeling heat of man-made problem. The weather that has slammed the United States could serve as a hint that we shouldn’t get too comfortable in that backyard recliner. [News Source]

Heat converts Bush ally Robertson on global warming (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Conservative Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson said on Thursday the wave of scorching temperatures across the United States had converted him into a believer in global warming. [News Source]

Calif. researchers to study global warming’s impact on health (USA Today) California researchers have received a $4.5 million federal grant to track heat-related deaths and emergency-room visits and study how global warming could affect public health, state officials said. [News Source]

Summer nights heating up, scientists say. America in recent years has been sweltering through three times more than its normal share of extra-hot summer nights, government weather records show. And that is a particularly dangerous trend. [News Source]

World religious leaders are starting to see green. Eco-friendly attitudes have increasingly moved into the mainstream of many faiths - from Muslim clerics urging water conservation in the fast-growing Gulf states to evangelical preachers in the U.S. calling attention to global warming. [News Source]

California heat wave deaths prompt health study. As suspected deaths from last week's heat wave topped 160, state and federal officials announced a far-reaching study on the impact of extreme heat and global warming on the health of Californians. [News Source]

Performing high-altitude research on global warming. Working more than 10,000 feet above the sunbaked floor of the Owens Valley, scientists are transforming one of California's highest mountaintops into a living laboratory of climate change. [News Source]

Tuvalu at risk of rising sea levels. A new documentary shows how rising sea levels are an imposing risk to residents of the small, and flat, country of Tuvalu. [News Source]

State to study global warming’s link to heat-related ailments. Expecting more heat-related deaths and health problems as global warming increases, California public health officials Wednesday announced a new plan to track heat-related fatalities and hospital visits over the next five years. [News Source]

Bring back the acid rain. A scientist who worked out the ozone problem says pollution could save us from global warming. [News Source]

Media attacked for ‘climate porn’. Apocalyptic visions of climate change used by newspapers, environmental groups and the UK government amount to "climate porn", a think-tank says. [News Source]