Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal Winner Backs Link Between Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change (Science Daily) Professor Nigel Weiss, 2007 winner of the Royal Astronomical Society Gold medal, will rebut claims that a fall in solar activity could cancel out the effects of man-made global warming. He described how solar activity was an important factor in past climate change but that current global warming is very much driven by human activity, specifically the emission of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

PM’s doubts over global warming link remain (Daily Telegraph) CLIMATE change is being treated as a reality by the Government despite its doubt that global warming has caused the unprecedented "dangerous situation" in the Murray-Darling Basin. [News Source]

Global warming may not increase hurricanes in Atlantic (ANI via Yahoo! India News) London, Apr 19 (ANI): Hurricane activity in the Atlantic may not increase as a result of global warming, a new study focusing on changes in tropical wind patterns has revealed. The new study suggests that increases in vertical wind sheer - differences in wind direction and speed between the upper and lower levels of the atmosphere - caused by climate change could counter-balance the affects of ... [News Source]