Washington wakes up to global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro. [News Source]

Climate change: UN scientists set to serve up bad news (The Nation) PARIS - Hundreds of the world's top climate scientists gather in Paris on Monday to frame a report expected to issue the bleakest assessment yet about global warming and its effects on the weather system. [News Source]

Washington wakes up to global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." [News Source]

Davos 2007: the Mideast, climate change and trade talks (AFP via Yahoo! News) Business and political leaders took to their helicopters and limousines in Davos on Sunday to head home after four days of talks on the global economy, the Middle East and climate change. [News Source]

William Keegan: Climate change reaches high water mark, but not everyone’s listening (Guardian Unlimited) William Keegan: There is one sphere of public policy which may yet provide a plea of mitigation for our Prime Minister's reluctance to resign honourably some time ago. This relates to Blair's contribution to the debate over global warming. [News Source]

How the US is waking up to global warming (Daily Telegraph) Storm clouds have been gathering over The Weather Channel after one of its experts dared to suggest that global warming was caused by man-made factors and that colleagues who disagreed should be stripped of their professional credentials. [News Source]

US answer to global warming: Smoke and giant mirrors (Mail and Guardian) The United States government wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned. [News Source]

Washington wakes up to global warming (Boston Globe) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." [News Source]

Blair urges efforts to combat climate change (RTÉ News) British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said it would be madness not to at least try to stop climate change. He made the comments during the closing address at the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland. [News Source]

Fruit Flies And Global Warming: Some Like It Hot (Science Daily) Researchers working in Australia have discovered ways in which fruit flies might react to the extreme temperatures and fluctuations in global warming. Short-term exposure to high heat stress ("heat hardening") has been known to have negative effects on Drosophila. But Loeschcke and Hoffmann discovered that it can have advantages, too. Flies exposed to heat hardening were much more able to find ... [News Source]