YOUR VIEWS: Work to stop global warming (La Crosse Tribune) The Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, meeting in General Chapter, their highest governing body, from Nov. 17-22, in Milwaukee, addressed the urgent issue of global warming/climate change. [News Source]

Carbon emissions to fuel future global warming just as they did 55 mln years ago (ANI via Yahoo! India News) Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): According to a study by a researcher at Yale University, carbon dioxide emissions will play a vital role in present-day global warming, just as they had around 55 million years ago. Mark Pagani, associate professor of geology and geophysics at Yale, who conducted the study said this finding contradicted the position held by many climate-change skeptics that [News Source]

Key plants at risk in global warming (Los Angeles Times) Global warming will stifle life-giving microscopic plants in the surface layer of the oceans, accelerating climate change, according to a study in Thursday's journal Nature. Besides being the foundation of the marine food chain, phytoplankton remove more than 100 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere daily. As oceans' surface layer heats, it separates from the cooler depths where [News Source]