Global meet on climate change begins Thursday (IANS via Yahoo! India News) New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) Amid growing fears about global warming, a two-day international conference on climate change and its adverse consequences on the development of countries like India will be held here beginning Thursday. [News Source]

Area’s economy is especially vulnerable to global warming (Chicago Sun-Times) The World Bank's former chief economist, Nicholas Stern, recently conducted a sweeping analysis of the economic risks of global climate change. [News Source]

Search for crops that can survive global warming (Guardian Unlimited) December 4: An unprecedented effort to protect the world's food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. [News Source]

‘IoS’ Christmas Appeal: Victims of climate change (Independent) Pancha Bala, from the island of Kutubdia, off Bangladesh, is a victim of a new catastrophe afflicting the world's poorest people - climate change. [News Source]

Letters: Hypocrisy tainted global warming talk (Corvallis Gazette Times) So, “about 200 people” attended Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury’s talk on climate change. I wonder how many of them drove fossil fuel-burning vehicles to get to the library for this event. [News Source]

How Global Warming Threatens U.S. Businesses (The New York Sun) One of the greatest threats to suburban America, and potentially to thousands of American companies, is global warming — or at least the potential governmental reaction to it. The European Union and other countries have begun programs to limit greenhouse gases, using carbon permits and regulations that will ultimately lead to even higher energy prices in Europe. If America were to follow suit, [News Source]