UN Official Says Leadership On Global Warming Lacking (Nasdaq) PARIS (AP)--The chief of the United Nations' effort against climate change said Monday there is widespread recognition of the seriousness of global warming but a lack of leadership has created a sense of helplessness. [News Source]

UN climate chief seeks summit to boost global warming action (INQ7.net) PARIS -- The top United Nations official on climate change said Monday he would ask new UN boss Ban Ki-moon to show true leadership and host a summit to breathe life into sagging efforts to fight global warming. [News Source]

Toby Barlow: April 14th: A Call to Arms Against Climate Change (HuffingtonPost) From Bill McKibben's piece in Grist The most important question about global warming right now is: what do I do once I've changed the damned lightbulbs? And one small answer is Stepitup07.org. This is the first of twelve dispatches I'll write for Grist, one a week through early April, that will chronicle the first nationwide do-it-yourself mass protest, and by far the biggest ... [News Source]

Annual Plants May Cope With Global Warming Better Than Long-living Species (Science Daily) Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC-Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate change. [News Source]

Climate change may spur ‘evolution explosion’ (MSNBC) Fast-growing weeds have evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change, which could signal the start of an “evolution explosion” in response to global warming, scientists reported Monday. [News Source]

Climate Change May Spur ‘Evolution Explosion’ (NBC 5 Chicago) Fast-growing weeds have evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change, which could signal the start of an “evolution explosion†in response to global warming, scientists reported Monday. [News Source]

UN Official Wants World Summit on Global Warming (Planet Ark) PARIS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon should call a meeting of heads of government to decide the next steps against global warming, the UN official responsible for tackling climate change said on Monday. [News Source]

Ancient global warming was jarring, not subtle, study finds (Los Angeles Times) Foreshadowing potential climate chaos to come, early global warming caused unexpectedly severe and erratic temperature swings as rising levels of greenhouse gases helped transform Earth, a team led by researchers at UC Davis said Thursday. [News Source]

Climate chief seeks UN summit to invigorate global warming action (AFP via Yahoo! News) The top United Nations official on climate change said he would ask new UN boss Ban Ki-moon to show true leadership and host a summit to breathe life into sagging efforts to fight global warming. [News Source]

Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species (EurekAlert!) Irvine, Calif. -- Countering Charles Darwin's view that evolution occurs gradually, UC Irvine scientists have discovered that plants with short life cycles can evolutionally adapt in just a few years to climate change. [News Source]

Climate chief seeks UN summit to invigorate global warming action (AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The United Nations' top official on climate change said he would ask new UN boss Ban Ki-moon to host a summit to breathe life into sagging efforts to fight global warming. [News Source]