Brown in pledge over climate change (Liverpool Echo) Gordon Brown has pledged to set a personal example on climate change and stressed that he did not do "very much" overseas leisure travel. The Chancellor acknowledged that he had to demonstrate his commitment to tackling global warming through his actions. [News Source]

Backstory: Global warming and the Blob (The Christian Science Monitor) Forget climate change. The return of the 1958 movie character is global warming's most pressing consequence. [News Source]

Global warming leadership lacking, says head of U.N. climate change organization (Siskiyou Daily News) 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]

NRG Energy, Inc. Supports Global Initiative to Combat Climate Change (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) PRINCETON, N.J.----As part of a program to reduce carbon emissions and address global warming, NRG Energy, Inc. has joined 14 other global business leaders to support a new initiative titled "Combating Climate Change," or "3C." [News Source]

Scientist says warning signs of global warming are already apparent (USA Today) The effects of global warming are being felt around the world and unless international efforts are launched within the next 10 years species will disappear and the earth will be a vastly less habitable planet by the end of the century, according to NASA scientist James E. Hansen. [News Source]

UK business to tackle climate change (Financial Times) Business leaders from 17 of Britain’s largest companies have formed a taskforce to develop radical ideas on tackling climate change and global warming. [News Source]

GLOBAL WARNING: Climate-change experts deliver hard lessons to packed Statehouse (The Burlington Free Press) MONTPELIER -- Two leading voices on climate change kicked off a rare, three-week Statehouse tutorial on global warming Wednesday, urging Vermont action to help avert the dire consequences of rising greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]