Global Warming And Your Health (PhysOrg) Global warming could do more to hurt your health than simply threaten summertime heat stroke, says a public health physician. Although heat related illnesses and deaths will increase with the temperatures, climate change is expected to also attack human health with dirtier air and water, more flood-related accidents and injuries, threats to food supplies, hundreds of millions of environmental [News Source]

Global warming? More information needed (Guest View) (Globe Online) “No matter who you are or where you live, global warming is real.” Statements like this have become more common lately. You may have heard it on a television weather channel, in a movie theater or read it in a newspaper. [News Source]

Climate change to hit Australian wine industry. Global warming will force changes to Australia's A$4.8 billion wine export industry, threatening the very existence of some varieties as temperatures rise. [News Source]

Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. [News Source]

Climate change could lead to more failed states: British FM. Global warming is exacerbating disputes over access to water and food resources, and could lead to more failed states, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned on Tuesday. [News Source]

Carbon market might help rainforests. Cutting down tropical forests often makes people poorer, hurts endangered species and emits greenhouse gases, so perhaps rich countries could pay to help keep trees standing, the World Bank said on Monday. [News Source]

Carbon trade ‘to save’ rainforest. Carbon trading can be used to protect endangered rainforests by compensating nations that avoid deforestation, the World Bank has said. [News Source]

Global warming on the backburner this political season. In a hot political season, global warming has all but vanished as an issue. [News Source]

Climate refugees here by 2016. Australia has been warned it may face a flood of environmental refugees within a decade as the Pacific's smallest island states face submersion under rising seas. [News Source]

Global gas law stirs heated debate. The leader of the state Senate on Monday accused Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of overstepping his authority in implementing California's pioneering plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Brussels wants deeper CO2 cuts from EU countries. The European Commission attacked European Union states over their emissions plans on Monday, demanding cuts in the number of pollution permits proposed for the 2008-2012 period of the bloc's trading scheme. [News Source]