Ban wants U.S. to debate climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed hope Thursday that the "active debate" in the U.S. administration and Congress on global warming will spur the United States to take a leadership role in combatting climate change. [News Source]

U.N. Secretary General Calls Global Warming a Priority (Washington Post) UNITED NATIONS, March 1 -- U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon argued Thursday that global warming poses as great a threat to the world as modern warfare, and he vowed to make reduction of greenhouse gases one of his tenure's top priorities. [News Source]

UN Chief Calls on US to Lead Global Response to Climate Change (Voice of America) U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the United States to take the lead in the search for a global response to climate change. VOA's correspondent at the United Nations, Peter Heinlein, reports the secretary-general described global warming as a threat at least as great as war. [News Source]

Climate change as dangerous as war: U.N. chief Ban (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he urged the United States to take the lead in the fight against global warming. [News Source]

UN chief to discuss climate change at G8 summit in June (AFP via Yahoo! News) UN chief Ban Ki-moon said here Thursday that he planned to raise the burning issue of global warming during summit talks with Group of Eight leaders in Germany in June. [News Source]

Corzine: Combat Global Warming to For N.J.’s Sake (1010 WINS New York) If global warming isn't stemmed, New Jersey's environment and economy will suffer severely, Gov. Jon S. Corzine told U.S. senators Thursday looking into how global warming would affect the states. "New Jersey is especially vulnerable to the environmental and economic effects of climate change, including the effect of sea level rise on the states densely developed coastline from increased ... [News Source]

Climate change as dangerous as war: U.N. chief Ban (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Climate change poses as much danger to the world as war, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday as he pledged to make global warming the focus of talks with world leaders in June. [News Source]

Climate change isn’t man-made (Gainesville Sun) In his "Speaking Out" column of Feb. 18, Stephen Mulkey sites the IPCC (U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report which stated that with a greater than 90 percent certainty global warming is caused by man's burning of fossil fuels. [News Source]

My Turn: We can reverse global warming (The Burlington Free Press) Published: Thursday, March 1, 2007 Bernie Sanders For the last few doubters who may be holding out for more science on global warming, the answer came recently when a U.N.-funded international panel of experts on climate change released a report concluding with near certainty that human activities -- primarily the burning of fossil fuels -- are the cause of global warming. [News Source]

Global warming catches fire (Seattle Times) A perfectly reasonable skeptic can speculate about the role of global warming in the purchase of a giant Texas utility by private investors... [News Source]