Global warming threatens polar bears, congressman says (The Columbian) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Calling the polar bear a victim of global warming, a Democratic congressman Monday called on the U.S. government to protect "the beloved American icon" from the effects of the melting Arctic. [News Source]

Group: Global warming already claiming Micronesia islets (USA Today) Rising seas due to global warming are engulfing small islands in the Pacific island nation of Micronesia, a local environmentalist says. [News Source]

Global Warming Reaches Mount Everest (RedNova) A French-led study has determined global warming has affected the ice cap on Mount Everest in the heart of the Himalayas. [News Source]

Global Climate Change: Taking the Battle to the Campus (YaleGlobal Online) NEW HAVEN: We are at last awakening to the reality of global climate change. [News Source]

Jim Wallis: Dobson Gets Personal on Global Warming (HuffingtonPost) Once again, the hard-core Religious Right has gone on the attack, orchestrating a new campaign to advance their Far Right political views. In a letter to the chairman of the National Evangelical Association Board , James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Gary Bauer, and their cohorts claim that "The existence of global warming and its implications for mankind is a subject of heated controversy throughout ... [News Source]

Global warming reaches Mount Everest (UPI) A French-led study has determined global warming has affected the ice cap on Mount Everest in the heart of the Himalayas. The French Intergovernmental ... [News Source]

Global Warming Is Human Rights Issue, Nobel Nominee Says (Environmental News Network) It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines: How hot is it? So hot that Inuit people around the Arctic Circle are using air conditioners for the first time. And running out of the hard-packed snow they need to build igloos. And falling through melting ice when they hunt. [News Source]

Discord over climate change targets to dominate EU summit (EARTHtimes.org) Brussels - European Union disagreements over tougher measures to combat global warming look set to dominate the bloc's summit on March 8-9, EU diplomats said Monday. The downbeat assessment came after EU foreign ministers failed to agree a legally bin... [News Source]

Are we to believe latest global warming report? (AG Weekly) The UN Climate Change panel is asserting — again — that humans are overheating the planet. Again, they have no evidence to support their claim — but they want the U.S. to cut its energy use by perhaps 80 percent just in case. [News Source]

Global Climate Change Tip Sheet (Newswise) Climate change is becoming obvious to the casual observer, says environmental science professor J.C. Randolph, former regional director with the National Institute for Global Environmental Change. Also: Conflicts over dwindling water supplies in North America, and Floods in Midwest and Northeast expected result of global warming. [News Source]

New Clues to Global-Warming Dangers (Technology Review) Scientists are using gene chips to monitor the effects of global warming on marine life. It's time to get worried. [News Source]