Congress Presented with New Climate Change Report (Alaska Public Radio Network) Key U-S-based scientists involved in writing the latest U-N Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report discussed its findings with members of Congress today. While the experts focused on the science, lawmakers focused on the politics and economics of global warming. [News Source]

Global warming tussles boil in Washington (Stuff) WASHINGTON: Global warming tussles erupted on Capitol Hill and at the White House, where the top spokesman was grilled about US President George W Bush's early stance on the causes of climate change. [News Source]

Congress eyes legislation to fight climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) The Democrat-led US Congress signalled it would take a cue from the landmark UN report on global warming and draft legislation aimed at fighting climate change. [News Source]

Global warming tussles boil at White House, Capitol (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming tussles erupted on Thursday on Capitol Hill and at the White House, where the top spokesman was grilled about U.S. President George W. Bush's early stance on the causes of climate change. [News Source]

Study: New focus on global warming needed (Moldova.org) A U.S.-led international group of scientists says what is needed most to combat global warming might be a greater focus on adapting to our changing planet.The science policy experts -- led by Daniel Sarewitz, director of Arizona State University's Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes -- say adaptation to global climate change needs to be recognized as equally important as reducing the amount ... [News Source]

BHP mining giant to address global warming (Moldova.org) Australian mining giant BHP Billiton says it intends to address global warming and hopes to have a plan in place by June.BHP chief executive officer Chip Goodyear said in a statement, We feel extremely good about what we see in the economic environment and the company has been working on the question of global warming.We are in the process of revising our climate change policy and, hopefully, we ... [News Source]

Beat the Heat: Professors urge solutions to climate change (Oregon Daily Emerald) In the wake of one of the most grim international assessments of global climate change to date, the issue of global warming has become a very widely discussed topic across the nation. The University community is no exception. [News Source]

Climate change: Air your views on what’s happening to our planet (South Manchester Reporter) CLIMATE change is the greatest challenge facing us, according to the world’s leading scientists who blame mankind for global warming. [News Source]

Key players react to the IPCC global warming report (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) On February 2, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finalized what it calls a "comprehensive and rigorous picture" of current knowledge of global warming. The report concluded that the fact of global warming is "unequivocal," that it is "very likely" caused by human activity, and that the Earth's average surface temperature will probably rise by 3.2 degrees F to 7.2 degrees F in this ... [News Source]

Small steps help slow global warming (Independent Florida Alligator) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports that global warming is real, and that we blue-blooded human beings are 90 percent to 99 percent likely the cause of it. [News Source]

Students help prevent global warming (Massachusetts Daily Collegian) Global warming is not cooling off or slowing down. That was the verdict the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expressed in the first 600 pages of its report released last Friday in Paris. [News Source]