Global warming #- or not? (The Auburn Citizen) The unseasonably warm weather of the past couple of weeks would seem to point to the specter of global warming. On the other hand this area experienced its earliest snowfall in many years. [News Source]

Climate change sceptics issued with challenge (The Observer) Britain's leading climate scientist has challenged those who question the impact of the human population on global warming to defend their claims that car and factory emissions of carbon dioxide are not heating up the planet. [News Source]

Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island (Independent) Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true. [News Source]

Climate Change Said to Confuse Europe’s Birds (NPR) Some of the birds of Europe don't seem to be flying south for the winter as they once did. Climate change appears to be at the heart of the problem. [News Source]

Divided council supports city taking stand on global warming (Glenwood Springs Post Independent) GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — The city of Glenwood Springs is joining the chorus of U.S. communities trying to make a difference over global warming, but not without some voices of discord mixed in. [News Source]

Please speak out about global warming (Gainesville Sun) The Supreme Court heard the first global climate change case on Nov. 29. Twelve states, three major cities, and American Samoa filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because the agency refused to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from new motor vehicles, which... [News Source]