Group warns of climate change in China (CNN.com) HONG KONG, China (Reuters) -- China's Pearl River Delta, a giant manufacturing hub which helped earn the country the nickname "the workshop of the world," will be hard hit by climate change in the coming years, and leaders need to do more to plan for it, a Hong Kong think tank said on Thursday. [News Source]

Climate Change to Hit South China Economic Engine (Planet Ark) HONG KONG - China's Pearl River Delta, a giant manufacturing hub which helped earn the country the nickname "the workshop of the world", will be hard hit by climate change in the coming years, and leaders need to do more to plan for it, a Hong Kong think tank said on Thursday. [News Source]

Ask the experts: Averting climate change (Financial Times) Fly less, pay more: what are individuals really prepared to do to prevent climate change, and how effective are these measures? A panel of experts answer your questions below. [News Source]

Peña: Fighting global warming with pollution (Sun Star) GLOBAL warming is one of the major environmental issues that we face today. Climate experts say that the Earth has warmed by around one degree Fahrenheit in the last 100 years. [News Source]

Hong Kong, China industry face devastation from global warming (Khaleej Times) HONG KONG - Hong Kong and southern China’s economic hinterland could be devastated by floods and storms by 2030 unless governments tackle global warming now, a liberal think-tank warned on Thursday. [News Source]

Global Warming Scientist in Canada to Speak on “From Here to Eternity” (Newswise) David Archer, scientist and author on the hot topic of global warming, will be in Ontario on December 6, 2006 to take part in Perimeter Institute's popular monthly public lecture series. He will describe the issue in complete context and use the geologic record of past climate change to predict the trajectory of global warming into the deep future. [News Source]

Namibia: Weighing the cost of climate change (The Namibian) "The effect of climate change will drastically increase the vulnerability of people within southern Africa and Namibia, which is already compounded by the threats of desertification," Konjore told the 12th conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in the Kenyan capital Nairobi earlier this month. [News Source]

Global Warming Insurance is a Bad Buy (Cato Institute)

Jerry Taylor and Dr. Peter Van Doren are senior fellows. Dr. Van Doren is also editor of Regulation magazine. Does global warming threaten to permanently cripple the global economy?