White House accused of misleading public on climate-change (Chicago Tribune) As a United Nations panel readied an update on global warming this week, charges erupted in Congress Tuesday over alleged White House political manipulation of scientific climate-change research. [News Source]

Bush accused of distorting evidence on climate change (Independent) The Bush administration has been accused of routinely misleading the public over the threat of global warming and of orchestrating efforts to try to suppress scientific findings that highlight the reality of climate change. [News Source]

Boxer, Feinstein support nationwide approach on global warming (The Fresno Bee) A strong federal law to combat global warming would be better than states passing their own measures as California did, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein agreed Tuesday as Boxer chaired her first hearing on climate change. [News Source]

US Senators Seek To Advance Consenus Climate Change Bill (Nasdaq) WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Key U.S. senators on Tuesday expressed strong interest in moving forward on a consensus climate change bill, even though experts say advancing anti-global warming legislation this year will be difficult. [News Source]

House Dems claim evidence that administration tried to mislead on global warming (Seattle Times) The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said today there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming." [News Source]

White House accused of twisting global warming data (KLTV 7 Tyler) The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming." Rep. Henry Waxman said: "We are simply seeking answers to whether the White House's political staff is inappropriately censoring ... [News Source]

In deepest Antarctica, a testbed for global warming (AFP via Yahoo! News) As top scientists meet in the comfort of Paris to hammer out a major report on climate change, a handful of their confreres hunkered down on a frozen plateau in the middle of Antarctica painstakingly gather warning signs of global warming. [News Source]

Chairman: Bush officials misled public on global warming (CNN.com) WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic chairman of a House panel examining the government's response to climate change said Tuesday there is evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought repeatedly "to mislead the public by injecting doubt into the science of global warming." [News Source]

UN Report to Give Evidence of Global Warming (TechNewsWorld.com) A four-day meeting of the world's climate experts has opened in Paris to finalize an updated report on evidence for global warming. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was set up nearly 20 years ago. Later this week, it will release its first report since 2001 after climatologists, meteorologists and scientists thrash out the details at the Paris meeting. [News Source]

Waxman to investigate climate change research interference (FCW.com) The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today into allegations that the White House Council on Environmental Quality interfered with the work of government climate change scientists in an attempt to minimize the significance of global warming. In preparation for the hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, and Rep. Tom ... [News Source]

U.N. pushes for special global warming summit (Reuters via Yahoo! News) A climate change summit of world leaders would help drive momentum spurred by damning new reports and changing attitudes in Washington to global warming, a U.N. environment spokesman said on Tuesday. [News Source]