Beckett defends UN debate on climate change and conflict (Independent) The UN Security Council held a groundbreaking debate yesterday on the impact of climate change on conflicts, in spite of objections from developing countries that global warming was not an issue of international peace and security. [News Source]

UPDATE:UN Council Debates Climate Change As Threat To Peace (Nasdaq) UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The U.N. Security Council held a groundbreaking debate Tuesday on the impact of climate change on conflicts, brushing aside objections from developing countries that global warming is not an issue of international peace and security. [News Source]

Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes (AlertNet) Source: Reuters By Jim Loney MIAMI, April 17 (Reuters) - Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, ... [News Source]

Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday. [News Source]

UN holds landmark climate change debate (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) The UN Security Council faced obstacles in its first ever debate on climate change Tuesday as developing countries argued global warming was not an international security issue. [News Source]

Security Council Tackles Climate Change (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday debated the impact of climate change on conflicts around the world, brushing aside objections from developing countries that global warming is not an issue of international peace and security. [News Source]

UK puts climate change in U.N. Council (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Britain and China faced off on Tuesday in the first-ever U.N. Security Council debate on climate change, with Beijing saying the 15-member body had no competence in dealing with global warming. [News Source]

UN attacks climate change as threat to peace (International Herald Tribune) The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday debated the impact of climate change on conflicts around the world, brushing aside objections from developing countries that global warming is not an issue of international peace and security. [News Source]

UN Security Council begins debate on global warming (EARTHtimes.org) New York- For the first time in its 60-year history, the UN Security Council Tuesday began discussing how climate change could trigger increasing conflicts and famine. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that anticipated global warming could presen... [News Source]

Former Generals warn Bush to take action against global warming (EARTHtimes.org) WASHINGTON - Pressure increased on President George Bush to act on global warming after 11 former US military leaders warned that climate change could trigger security threats to the US military. [News Source]

U.N. to assess climate change as threat to security (CNN.com) UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -- Britain will try to convince reluctant U.N. Security Council members that global warming poses a threat to international peace and security when the body holds its first debate on climate change on Tuesday. [News Source]