Inslee named to global warming panel (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., who has lobbied for a federal response to climate change equivalent to the Apollo space program, was named Friday to a special House panel charged with offering solutions to global warming. [News Source]

Gore’s Oscar, global warming debated among evangelicals (BPNews.net) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--When Former Vice President Al Gore won an Academy Award for his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” Feb. 25, a key assertion in his film on global warming -- that human-induced climate change will cause a rise in sea levels of some 20 feet in the near future -- had already been refuted by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

EU leaders agree on ambitious plan to battle global warming (USA Today) Seizing the initiative on global warming, European Union leaders agreed Friday to fight climate change with more windmills, solar panels and efficient light bulbs, pledging that a fifth of the bloc's energy will come from green power by 2020. [News Source]

Climate change pushes diseases north: expert (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said. [News Source]

Climate change pushes “African” diseases north: expert (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said. [News Source]

Climate change pushes “African” diseases north: expert (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming is pushing northwards diseases more commonly found in developing countries, posing a risk to the financial and physical health of rich nations, the head of a livestock herders' charity said. [News Source]

50,000 scientists to study impact of climate change on poles under IPY (EARTHtimes.org) Nearly 50,000 scientists from 60 countries across the world have enrolled themselves in a two-year intense study of the poles under the International Polar Year program, which was launched on Thursday. The scientists will focus on climate change and investigate how global warming is impacting the poles and what consequences this holds for humanity. [News Source]

Individuals urged to actagainst climate change (The Republican) SPRINGFIELD - "Think globally, act locally" has long been the mantra of environmentalists, but in the absence of significant action by the Bush administration to prevent the worst effects of global warming, individual action by Americans is that much more important, the former chief U.S. negotiator on climate change said yesterday. [News Source]

Action urged on global warming (The Republican) SPRINGFIELD - "Think globally, act locally" has long been the mantra of environmentalists, but in the absence of significant action by the Bush administration to prevent the worst effects of global warming, individual action by Americans is that much more important, the former chief U.S. negotiator on climate change said yesterday. [News Source]