Greens blasts govt over climate change (AAP via Yahoo!7 News) An international report on global warming has exposed Prime Minister John Howard's handling of climate change as economically inept, the Australian Greens say. [News Source]

New Culprit in Climate Change? Try Airlines (New York Times) Eco-campaigners say air travel is one of the fastest-growing producers of emissions linked to global warming. [News Source]

‘Almost too late’ to stop a global catastrophe.

The possibility of avoiding a global catastrophe is “already almost out of reach”, Sir Nicholas Stern’s long-awaited report on climate change will warn today.

Tackling Global Warming Cheaper Than Ignoring It (Slashdot) Coryoth writes, "In a report commissioned by the UK government, respected economist Sir Nicholas Stern concludes that mitigating global warming could cost around 1% of global GDP if spent immediately, but ignoring the problem could cost between 5% and 20% of global GDP. The 700-page study represents the first major report on climate change from an economist rather than a scientist. The report [News Source]

£3.68 trillion: The price of failing to act on climate change (Guardian Unlimited)

Britons face the prospect of a welter of new green taxes to tackle climate change, as the most authoritative report on global warming warns it will cost the world up to £3.68 trillion unless it is tackled within a decade.

We must pay now to avoid climate disaster, says Blair. Tony Blair today said that the world was facing "nothing more serious, more urgent, or more demanding of leadership" than climate change and that Britons must be prepared to pay now to avoid future disaster. [News Source]

New culprit in climate change? Try airlines. Eco-campaigners say air travel is one of the fastest-growing producers of emissions linked to global warming. [News Source]

Climate report demands action, says Blair. The consequences for the world if global warming continues unchecked will be "disastrous", Tony Blair warned today, as the Government launched the report of Sir Nicholas Stern's review of the likely impact of climate change. [News Source]

Stern fallout hits PM. The alarming conclusions of the Stern report on global warming have been seized on by Australia's federal Opposition and other parties to attack the Government's environmental record. [News Source]

Belize barrier reef suffers, global warming blamed. Much of the 200 miles (320 km) of Belize's coral reef has been "bleached" in the last decade and some scientists warn it is likely to die, a victim of global warming. [News Source]

Urgent climate action will cut economic fallout. A report on the economic costs of climate changes shows the longer the world waits to tackle global warming, the greater the bill will be. [News Source]