Artic ice break raises global warming fears (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Researchers have confirmed that an enormous ice shelf broke away from Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic last year and they warn it could be another symptom of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change seen as giant ice shelf snaps free (Coos Bay World Link) TORONTO - A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a “major” reason for the event. [News Source]

Two more global warming false alarms (High Plains Journal) The global warming debate has developed a pattern: In part A, a scientist makes a scary claim and gets headlines for himself, and his funding source, across the known world. In part B, a few months later new evidence blows the scary claim away--but with no press coverage of its demise. [News Source]

Climate Change Cited in Loss of Arctic Ice Shelf (LinuxInsider.com) A giant ice shelf has snapped free from an island south of the North Pole, scientists said Thursday, citing climate change as a "major" reason for the event. The Ayles Ice Shelf -- all 41 square miles of it -- broke clear 16 months ago from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic. [News Source]

Hackett Environmentalist Joins Gore In Global Warming Fight (The Morning News) FORT SMITH -- Robert McAfee of Hackett joined forces with Al Gore in the former vice president's initiative to raise awareness about -- and action to slow -- global warming. [News Source]

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]