Australian city aims for world first climate change blackout (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Australia’s largest city will be plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday in an attempt at a world first blackout to raise awareness of global warming, organisers say.

Global warming heats up Texas Legislature (Houston Chronicle) Global warming is heating up the Texas Legislature. Lawmakers this session have filed more bills to assess the effects global warming will have on the state and to curb the pollution causing it than at any other time in legislative history, according to a Houston Chronicle analysis. [News Source]

Anti-global warming law not exactly new in Texas (Houston Chronicle) Climate change may be getting more attention at the Texas Capitol than ever before, but for more than 15 years state law has recognized the emissions that cause global warming. [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]