Playing fair on warming debate. Is climate science so sophisticated that it can predict the localized effects of any future global warming? The majority of scientists working with the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change think not. [News Source]

Plan of action or more hot air? The announcement this past week that British Prime Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have agreed to work together to explore ways of fighting global warming canbe viewed in several different lights. [News Source]

Expert View: Global warming: 100 years of living dangerously (Independent) As we fly off for our holidays, with the memory of a record hot July still fresh in our minds, our thoughts turn to global warming. Is it happening? Will it be disastrous? What can be done to stop it or adjust to it? [News Source]

CLIMATE CHANGE Al Gore’s warning (The Nation) As unprecedented floods hit Chiang Mai and several other areas in the north last week, a new film premiered in Bangkok on Wednesday that serves as a warning of future weather catastrophes if human beings don't address the problem of climate change. [News Source]

Where did that video spoofing Gore’s film come from? An investigation reveals that the computer used by the 'originator' of the penguin spoof is registered to a DC lobbying firm whose clients include Exxon Mobil. [News Source]

Clinton has kind words for Gore. Former President Clinton, whose relationship with Al Gore has had a few rough patches, welcomed the success of Gore's film on global warming and praised the post-White House work of his vice president. [News Source]

Japan relaxes wind power rules. Japan's Environment Ministry has decided to ease restrictions on wind power generation within national parks and promote clean energy supplies in an effort to combat global warming, government officials said Friday. [News Source]

Tories axe website in Kyoto assault: Liberals. Canada's conservative government is trying to push global climate change off the federal map, shutting down the main federal website on the topic and removing mention of it from speeches and postings, opposition MPs and environmentalists say. [News Source]

Bay bottom is oxygen starved; fish won’t survive. From north of Jamestown to Providence in Rhode Island, bottom-dwelling fish and crabs in Narragansett Bay can't survive under current conditions. [News Source]

Activists call attention to global warming, carbon dioxide emissions. Armed with a 20-foot blow-up replica of a flaming Earth, environmental activists tried to bring the issue of global warming front and center Friday in hot and steamy San Antonio. [News Source]

Taller mountains a result of global warming. The mountains in Europe are growing taller and global warming is partly responsible, scientists say. [News Source]