Climate Change’s Public Perception (The Globalist)

Despite the public skepticism in the United States about global warming, scientists have long reached a consensus on its existence.

Solar power to shine in coming decades. The tiny solar power industry is booming and could generate 2.5 percent of world electricity by 2025 in a shift from fossil fuels, a report by a business group and environmental lobby Greenpeace said on Wednesday. [News Source]

US colleges to buy green power in MTV competition. An environmental group is teaming with MTV to encourage US university students to demand their schools get more energy from renewable energy sources. [News Source]

Enzymes may hold answer to harnessing hydrogen power. Enzymes rather than scarce and expensive platinum may hold the answer to the hydrogen fuel cells of the future to halt global warming and as the oil runs out, a scientist said on Wednesday. [News Source]

New web site tracks air quality. A new web site is about to make tracking local air quality and its impact on your health much easier. [News Source]

Tories to finally wheel out made-in-Canada environmental plan. They have to craft and sell a better idea than the $10 billion Liberal plan they scrubbed immediately upon seizing office or risk a nasty climate-changing bout of electoral ice-aging in the next election. [News Source]

Steele presents environmental agenda, record. Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele unveiled an environmental platform in his campaign for Senate yesterday that centers on cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay and promoting clean air and open space. [News Source]

Find solutions to car emissions. The federal government has dropped the ball on automobile pollution -- and it is being left to states like Vermont to pick it up. [News Source]

What else may change with climate. There's more to global warming than temperature changes and rising seas. Scientists are also finding many subtle side effects. A new study on forest fires points out one of them. [News Source]

Sacramento’s Kyoto. Whether California meets its emission reductions is not so important as how lawmakers intend to do so. [News Source]

Planet is choking on human pollution. We need to pay attention to the abundant witness of both scientists and people who live with the land about the destructive consequences of our current way of life. [News Source]