Those Bad News Bears (Investor’s Business Daily via Yahoo! News) Climate Change: The Bush administration buys into global warming hype by proposing that polar bears be listed as an endangered species. The only thing endangered about polar bears is the truth. [News Source]

Scientists work on map of climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Scientists in Antarctica spent Christmas Day finishing work that may show the effects of global warming — drilling for clues about how massive ice sheets responded to past temperature changes. The project will be vital to creating a map of how the Earth may react to higher temperatures, scientists say. [News Source]

Climate change threatens Herschel Island (CBC North) The Yukon's Herschel Island is slowly being washed away by rising Arctic sea levels caused by global warming, the territory's historic sites manager says. [News Source]

Climate change threatens Herschel Island (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) The Yukon's Herschel Island is being slowly washed away by rising sea levels caused by global warming, says the territory's historic sites manager. [News Source]

China Fears Disasters, Grain Cut from Global Warming (Environmental News Network) Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country's food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption. [News Source]

Bush backtracks on global warming (Mail and Guardian) The Bush administration on Wednesday made one of its most significant concessions to date on the dangers of global warming, proposing protection for the polar bear, whose habitat is threatened by the melting Arctic sea ice. [News Source]

Bush embraces the endangered polar bear - and accepts the dangers of global warming (Independent) In a landmark decision, the Bush administration has concluded that global warming is endangering the existence of the polar bear - an admission that could force the US government to act to curb the emission of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Combating global warming and climate change: A matter of urgency (IPP Media) The United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP12) that was held in Nairobi in November this year was attended by approximately 100 ministers from across the world and more that six thousand participants. [News Source]