Climate change could carry huge, hidden costs: UN report (AFP via Yahoo! News) Climate change will inflict steadily rising costs that could become astronomical if greenhouse gas emissions rise unabated and countries delay preparations for the likely impacts, UN experts will say next week. [News Source]

Climate change report maps ‘highway to extinction’ (The Record) WASHINGTON -- A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming with every degree of temperature rise, most of them bad. [News Source]

Panel identifies species impacted by climate change (USA Today) From the micro to the macro, from plankton in the oceans to polar bears in the far north and seals in the far south, global warming has begun changing life on Earth, international scientists will report next Friday. [News Source]

Wars of the World: How Global Warming Puts 60 Nations at Risk ; As Scientists Deliver a Detailed Report on the Impact … (RedNova) By Geoffrey Lean Scores of countries face war for scarce land, food and water as global warming increases. This is the conclusion of the most devastating report yet on the effects of climate change that scientists and governments prepare to issue this week. [News Source]

Environmental Exhibit Shows Local Effects of Global Warming (WLUC TV 6) Evidence of global warming took center stage at Gogebic Community College in Ironwood. The exhibit "Paradise Lost- Climate Change in the Northwoods" opened this weekend. [News Source]

Federal judge allows global-warming lawsuit to advance (Daily Bulletin) SAN FRANCISCO - Citing Al Gore's movie on global warming, a federal judge has advanced a lawsuit against the government for its financing of overseas projects that may contribute to climate change. [News Source]

Global-warming report maps ‘highway to extinction’ (Arizona Daily Star) WASHINGTON — A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming, most of them bad, with every degree of temperature rise. [News Source]

Environmental Exhibit Shows Local Effects of Global Warming (WLUC TV 6) Evidence of global warming took center stage at Gogebic Community College in Ironwood. The exhibit "Paradise Lost- Climate Change in the Northwoods" opened this weekend. [News Source]