Pension funds argue in Washington for climate change regulations (Boston Globe) Large pension funds, including the Connecticut state pension fund, and companies called Monday for Congress to place limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, the latest among several business-oriented groups to call for a national climate policy. [News Source]

U.S. Trilateral Commission debates ways to curb energy use and fight climate change (International Herald Tribune) The United States was urged to join the fight against climate change or risk losing global leadership, while EU commissioner Laszlo Kovacs proposes using taxation to promote conservation. [News Source]

California leaders join call for global climate change (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) Ceres, a coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges, said Monday that dozens of institutional investors managing $4 trillion in assets called on U.S. lawmakers to enact strong federal legislation to curb the pollution causing global climate change. [News Source]

Pension Funds Push Climate Change Laws (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Large pension funds and companies called Monday for Congress to place limits on emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, the latest among several business-oriented groups to call for a national climate policy. [News Source]

A Stormy Outlook As Climate Change Bites ; GREEN WEEK CLIMATE CHANGE David Higgerson Speaks to an Expert Who Warns That … (RedNova) By David Higgerson GLOBAL warming will wreak havoc across Merseyside and Cheshire within 50 years, a leading expert warned last night. [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 Warming Reduces World’s Major Crop Yields (TechNewsWorld.com) Global warming over the past quarter century has led to a fall in the yield of some of the most important food crops in the world, according to one of the first scientific studies of how climate change has affected cereal crops. Rising temperatures between 1981 and 2002 caused a loss in production of wheat, corn and barley that amounted in effect to some 40 million tons a year. [News Source]

Global warming already hitting crop output, study finds (Agriculture Online) Global warming over the past quarter century has led to a fall in the yield of some of the most important food crops in the world, according to one of the first scientific studies of how climate change has affected cereal crops, The Independent newspaper reports Monday. [News Source]

Global warming can affect evolution: Study (EARTHtimes.org) A new research conducted by scientists at the Imperial College London has linked global warming and climate change with animal evolution and ecology. [News Source]

U.S. Objects to Key Points at Climate Change Meeting, German Official Says (Environmental News Network) The United States objected to key parts of a discussion on climate change at a meeting between G-8 environmental officials and representatives from five influential developing nations, Germany's environment minister said. [News Source]

Locals to combat global warming (Oakland Tribune) REDWOOD CITY — Al Gore would have been proud. Over 250 Peninsula residents demonstrated their commitment to combating climate change Sunday by giving up a sunny afternoon to attend the [News Source]