The scary security implications of global warming (Crikey) Geoffrey Baker speculates today in the Fin Review (not online) that the PM's request for an ONA report on the security implications of global warming coincides pretty neatly with Rupert Murdoch’s green light on global warming. [News Source]

Climate change report backs Labor strategy, says Albanese (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) The Federal Opposition says a CSIRO report on climate change backs its call for a Pacific climate change strategy. [News Source]

Minister defends climate change aid program (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Minister for Environment, Senator Ian Campbell, says the Government is taking measures to help its neighbours. Do you agree that some of Australia's neighbours face a very bleak outlook as a result of global warming? [News Source]

Pacific action on climate change needed for Aust’s self interest: report (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) TONY EASTLEY: Some of Australia's regional neighbours face increasing disease, homelessness and economic destruction as a result of climate change. [News Source]

Acting locally to stem global warming. The vastness of the global warming problem makes a lot of people just turn off to it and continue on with their lives. [News Source]

Recent spinach scare should make ‘locavores’ of us all. Many of us are already trying to burn less fossil fuel, to conserve energy to help avert global warming and its potentially calamitous consequences. Becoming "locavores" (people whose instinctive first choice is local foods) is a logical complement. [News Source]

All Can Play Part in Beating Global Warming - Expert (Planet Ark) LONDON - Everyone has a part to play in combating global warming -- whether simply turning off lights in an empty room or making their own electricity from the wind and sun, experts said on Friday. [News Source]

All can play part in beating global warming - expert. Everyone has a part to play in combating global warming -- whether simply turning off lights in an empty room or making their own electricity from the wind and sun, experts said on Friday. [News Source]

Venezuelans snap up big SUVs, seeing cheap gasoline as birthright. Many say they're looking for a powerful engine, but no one asks about fuel economy. It's of little concern in Venezuela because gasoline costs as little as 12 U.S. cents a gallon (3 U.S. cents/€0.03 a liter) due to government subsidies — and SUVs are selling briskly. [News Source]

Nuclear-power broker: Cameco Corp.. Cameco Corp., the world's largest uranium producer by output, aims to increase its overall output by about 50% by 2010, part of a world-wide scramble to find and dig up more uranium, as producers seek to cash in growing demand for nuclear power. [News Source]

Cleaning up coal-fired power plants. Acid rain, mercury pollution, and huge amounts of the heat-trapping gas carbon-dioxide are the down sides of burning coal in electric power plants. And yet, some energy experts are saying America should be using more coal. [News Source]