Increased flood risk linked to warming. Rainfall reaching almost monsoon levels has become increasingly common in Britain over the past 40 years, according to climate scientists who have sifted data since the 1960s. [News Source]

Global warming: Stormy Scotland up to 72% wetter. Rainstorms have dramatically increased in intensity over Scotland because of climate change over the past 40 years, according to researchers. [News Source]

Adapt to climate change, world leaders warned. World leaders need to think about adapting to climate change rather than focusing only on trying to fight it, a leading economist said today. [News Source]

Global warming ‘cannot be stopped’. While measures to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming are essential, they have been emphasised over and above the equally vital need to develop ways of coping with climate change. [News Source]

Once among worst, Monaco near best on gas emissions. Citizens of the tiny Mediterranean principality of Monaco can apparently feel less worried that their speedboats, helicopters and cars are stoking global warming. [News Source]

Wetlands to slow or grow global warming? In northern Minnesota, a researcher says wetlands like bogs could be key to how fast the climate changes worldwide. [News Source]

A growing glacier. Whitney Glacier on Mount Shasta is growing, and scientists think global warming in Northern California is the reason. This is not the way global warming works in most parts of the world. [News Source]

Scientists map ‘new frontier’ deep below Atlantic Ocean’s surface. A 4-year study has produced maps that will allow scientists to study whether methane gas trapped in frozen sediment below the sea floor is escaping and exacerbating global warming. [News Source]

GOP tackles climate change. Eskew is one of three former advisors to Republican Gov. Carroll Campbell hired by Environmental Defense to map strategy for stemming global warming. [News Source]

Coaxing oil from huge U.S. shale deposits. Shell and other companies say they have developed techniques to extract oil from the Colorado Rocky Mountains with reduced environmental impacts. [News Source]

Solving the energy riddle. The new Florida Energy Commission was created as part of a major energy law passed by state lawmakers this year that is designed to lessen the state's dependence on expensive natural gas and foreign oil. [News Source]