Inconvenient truth that can’t be ignored. Climate change requires determined government action and a change in the way we live that goes well beyond the next electoral cycle. [News Source]

Worst power option is nuclear energy. Investing in nuclear energy is a terrible idea. Nuclear energy is not environmentally friendly, no matter how "clean" it is advertised to be. [News Source]

Biofuels can capture sun’s energy, reduce need for oil. Energy from the sun gives us good reason to hope that we can survive the problems of fossil fuel depletion and pollution. [News Source]

Insurers told to do more to tackle climate change (Reuters.co.uk)

LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers, whose finances could be stretched to breaking point by climate change, stand accused of doing too little to research global warming or devise products to mitigate its potentially catastrophic effects.

Shade trees fight global warming in Calif. Sacramento, Calif., has decided that when it comes to battling global warming Mother Nature knows best and nothing is better than planting a tree. [News Source]

Legislature passes minimium wage, emission caps. The California Legislature wrapped up a prolific legislative session, passing a bill that orders businesses to curb emissions that contribute to global warming. [News Source]

Underwater grasses recovering; sanctuary off Va. to expand.

Beds of underwater grasses in the Chesapeake Bay that died en masse last summer are recovering, but global warming could threaten the environmentally important grasses in the future, a leading biologist warns.

Deep ice tells long climate story. Carbon dioxide levels are substantially higher now than at anytime in the last 800,000 years, the latest study of ice drilled out of Antarctica confirms. [News Source]

Energy review ignores climate change ‘tipping point’ . The world only has 10 years to develop and implement new technologies to generate clean electricity before climate change reaches a point of no return. [News Source]

Dion touts $10-billion bid to meet Kyoto goals. Liberal leadership candidate Stephane Dion is making the fight against global warming a central plank in his campaign, unveiling a plan today that could spend up to $10-billion to goad Canada into swiftly curbing emissions. [News Source]

Wind plan whips up opposition. A Boston-based energy company wants to add something else to the view--a thicket of 130 wind turbines that would occupy 24 square miles of salt water between Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and the cape. [News Source]