Experts warn against global warming (NDTV) Is global warming responsible for the varying weather? Depending on whom you speak to, you will get a different answer. Many members of the intergovernmental panel on climate change believe global warming is a reality and linked to the so-called freaky weather patterns that are emerging. [News Source]

Blair, Merkel say fight global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) British Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday the moment was right to come up with new measures to combat global warming and vowed that the world's industrialized countries would push strongly this year for new emissions goals. [News Source]

10 global warming dinosaurs (CNN Money) A group of environmentally minded investors with more than $200 billion in assets turned up the heat Tuesday on some of the country's biggest corporations - by publicly accusing them of not doing enough to address global warming. [News Source]

Global warming: why rich won’t turn off the heat (Socialist Worker) From being a fringe issue climate change has apparently become completely mainstream. News bulletins are incomplete without a report on some new sign of global warming. [News Source]

Time To “Adapt” To Climate Change? (CBS News) The World Bank is looking for a few good specialists to focus on adapting to global warming. Other large organizations are thinking along the same lines in the face of climate change. [News Source]

Global warming ‘hardly unhelpful’ (BBC News) Climate change which brings Californian sunshine to Wales will 'hardly be unhelpful' says the First Minister. [News Source]

Science: Global Warming and the Government (Washington Post) Kevin Trenberth, coordinating lead author of a chapter on observations at the surface and in the atmosphere, was online Tuesday, Jan. 13, to discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and testimony before Congress. [News Source]

BU professor says U.S. government must keep pace with states’ climate change efforts (The Daily Free Press) The United States federal government must quickly create a stronger climate change policy to catch up to states' efforts in combating global warming, according to a Boston University professor. International relations professor Henrik Selin, co-author of "Political Science and Prediction: What's Next for U. [News Source]

Scientists to focus on climate change, energy at US session (AFP via Yahoo! News) Climate change, renewable energy and space exploration will be high on the agenda when scientists from around the world gather for the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this week. [News Source]

Call for votes on climate change (San Francisco Chronicle) Climate-change activists have found an effective way to get corporate America's attention. They are sponsoring shareholder resolutions asking companies to address global warming in ways such as issuing reports on how it affects their businesses, acting... [News Source]

Time to begin ‘adapting’ to climate change? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) At the World Bank in Washington, officials have posted some new "help wanted" signs. The bank is looking for a few good specialists (two, to be precise) to focus on adapting to global warming. [News Source]