Emissions pact stresses developing nations’ role. European and Asian leaders indicated that curbing global warming may depend more on clean-energy investments from the West than on extending emissions ceilings to developing nations. [News Source]

Kew spreads climate change word. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew has issued a "position paper" saying that man-made global warming is changing the outlook for plants and trees worldwide. [News Source]

Valid science or a perfect storm for controversy? The theory that global warming spawns more hurricanes gains support, but it still has its skeptics. [News Source]

The gathering storms: How man is making the wind blow. It's hard at first to get your head around the idea, indeed it seems outlandish: that by switching on the light, or stamping on the car accelerator, you're helping to pulverise a great city such as New Orleans. [News Source]

Increasing ocean temperatures fuelling more powerful hurricanes, say scientists. Hurricane breeding grounds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are being warmed by greenhouse gases, raising fears that more intense and devastating storms will be unleashed on nearby coastlines, scientists warned yesterday. [News Source]

Study: Man responsible for rougher hurricanes. The results are in -- mankind is largely responsible for the rise in hurricane intensity in recent years. [News Source]

Link between human activity, storm intensity is supported in study. New research suggests greenhouse-gas emissions have led to a rise in sea-surface temperatures in areas of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans where hurricanes form. [News Source]

Human activities are boosting ocean temperatures in areas where hurricanes form. Rising ocean temperatures in key hurricane breeding grounds of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are due primarily to human-caused increases in greenhouse gas concentrations. [News Source]

Report blames humans for storms’ ferocity. Human beings are warming the oceans where hurricanes are born, scientists said Monday, and the storms are getting fiercer as a result. [News Source]

Bigger storms blamed on man. A new study showing that greenhouse gas emissions are warming the oceans has some climate experts saying they have made the final connection between human activity and stronger hurricanes. [News Source]

People strengthen hurricanes, group says. People are largely to blame for the recent trend toward more powerful hurricanes, a group of 19 American and European scientists declared yesterday. [News Source]