NUMBERS SHOW GLOBAL WARMING IMPACT ON TAIWAN: EPA OFFICIAL (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Statistics An Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official said Monday in an international conference that the impact of global warming on Taiwan is obvious and can be seen in many ways. [News Source]

Numbers Show Global Warming Impact On Taiwan: EPA Official (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) An Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) official said Monday in an international conference that the impact of global warming on Taiwan is obvious and can be seen in many ways. [News Source]

David Roberts: Inhofe’s speech and right-wing global warming myths (HuffingtonPost) grist.org Today, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) took to the Senate floor to give what was billed as a "major speech" on climate change. (Full transcript here .) Inhofe is, of course, famous for being one of the Last True Skeptics, resolutely resistant to the idea that global warming is real, much less dangerous. It is, he says, the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." [News Source]

Mega-fires of the future.

With a dry winter, high sea temperatures on the west and east coasts, less moisture in the soil and in the air, Australia’s fire season just came early, and if you are in the interface zone, it is time to get to work.

Australia launches water office to tackle drought. With the country in the grip of its third worst drought in history, the Australian government announced Tuesday the creation of an office of water management to take charge of the situation. [News Source]

Energy bills cut in ‘green’ homes. A new generation of environmentally-conscious converts in York, UK have kitted their homes out with the latest green technology to combat the soaring costs of energy bills. [News Source]

PUD’s Ketcham questions energy initiative. In a give-and-take Monday, a Cowlitz PUD commissioner complained that a statewide renewable energy initiative would wrest control from local decision-makers and warned that wind power has shortcomings. [News Source]

New energy blowin’ in the wind. With the state pushing the use of corn for gasoline, environmentalists and a group of farmers are fighting an uphill battle to have Indiana take a closer look at using windmills as power plants. [News Source]

Ted Turner tells WTO of benefits in biofuel use. Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has a secret ingredient for rescuing the suspended global trade talks - the renewable energy sources known as biofuels. [News Source]

Critics blast Texas plans for new ‘dirty’ coal plants. Texas utility companies proposing to build 17 new coal-burning power plants and one petroleum-coke power plant over the next four years have the support of the governor, but mayors in some of the state's largest cities are putting up a fight. [News Source]

Region’s mayors look ahead to gas bust. Every mayor from Aspen to DeBeque converged Friday in Aspen to, among other things, draft a resolution on the regional boom in natural gas drilling. [News Source]