League of Women Voters to host talk on global warming (Brick Township Bulletin) Climate change, also known as global warming, continues to be a contentious issue, particularly when the issue is the cost of cleanup and prevention of further damage to the world's environment. According to a report by Sir Nicholas Stern, a senior British economist, investing in the development of cleaner energy technologies and other remedies could save $2.5 trillion a year globally. [News Source]

India Ahead of Many in Adapting to Global Warming (Planet Ark) NEW DELHI - India, likely to be one of the countries worst-hit by global warming, is already ahead of most developing nations in putting in place measures to help it adapt to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday. [News Source]

Ancient Climate Change May Portend Toasty Future (Science Daily) Scientists, including Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, have found that the Earth's global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate's high sensitivity to a long-term release of carbon. This finding contradicts the position held by many climate-change skeptics that the Earth system is resilient to such emissions. [News Source]

Ancient climate change may portend toasty future (PhysOrg) Scientists, including Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution`s Department of Global Ecology, have found that the Earth`s global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate`s high sensitivity to a long-term release of carbon. This finding contradicts the position held by many climate-change skeptics that the Earth system is resilient to such emissions. The work, led by Mark [News Source]

Ancient climate change may portend toasty future (EurekAlert!) Stanford, CA -- Scientists, including Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology, have found that the Earth’s global warming, 55 million years ago, may have resulted from the climate’s high sensitivity to a long-term release of carbon. [News Source]

Africa: Climate Change Hits Africa Hardest (AllAfrica.com) A MAJOR United Nations report warns that Africa faces the greatest immediate dangers of climate change -- a large loss of wildlife habitat and falling crop yields in less than a generation. Tens of millions of poor rural Africans are experiencing the grim realities of global warming first hand. [News Source]

India ‘disappointed’ by foreign help with climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) Rich countries have not transferred technology to combat global warming to India as promised under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a top environment official has said. [News Source]

India Ahead of Many in Adapting to Global Warming (Environmental News Network) India, likely to be one of the countries worst-hit by global warming, is already ahead of most developing nations in putting in place measures to help it adapt to climate change, the World Bank said on Thursday. [News Source]

Senator gives global warming alarm a final cold shoulder / GOP’s Inhofe, chairing his last committee hearing, says (San Francisco Chronicle) Sen. James Inhofe, in his last hearing as chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, blamed Hollywood and the news media Wednesday for "hyping" the view that humans are causing global warming. "It's unfortunate that so many are... [News Source]

India ‘disappointed’ by foreign help with climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) Rich countries have not transferred technology to combat global warming to India as promised under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, a top environment official has said. [News Source]

A global warming skeptic’s parting shot (Los Angeles Times) Sen. Inhofe, soon to be replaced as panel chair, airs his view once more. WASHINGTON — Sen. James M. Inhofe has been one of Capitol Hill's leading skeptics on global warming, famously dismissing as a "hoax" the notion that human activity is the cause. [News Source]