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]

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]

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]

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]

As oil ebbs, the nation still needs a sane energy policy. The policy challenge can be summed up this way: How do you keep oil prices low so as to deflate petro-bullies but simultaneously high so as to stimulate alternative fuels? The answer is taxation. [News Source]

Trying to clear the air about air. Illinois' next governor faces a difficult balancing act between the potential conflicts of trying to reduce carbon emissions and preserve open space while spurring job creation and the economy. [News Source]

Report warns of ‘mass exodus’. Rising sea levels caused by global warming could force the mass exodus of millions of Pacific Islanders as "environmental refugees". [News Source]

Everest, the world’s garbage dump. It has been described as the highest junkyard in the world and is covered in discarded mountaineering detritus and suffers under thousands of tourists' boots every year. [News Source]