Terminator takes on global warming (TVNZ) California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has recruited an Australian ally in his plan to terminate global warming. The former Hollywood action star met with Victorian Premier Steve Bracks in Los Angeles to discuss plans to tackle climate change. [News Source]

Science triumphs over politics at UN climate change meeting (AFP via Yahoo! News) Science had a rare victory over politics at this week's UN climate change conference, after a united call for action emerged despite fierce debate over how to best tackle global warming. [News Source]

Scientists put price on global-warming efforts (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) BANGKOK, THAILAND - The United Nations Panel on Climate Change, which up to now has laid out doomsday global-warming scenarios, had some good news Friday: Climate change can be limited, and at a reasonable price. Just as important, existing technology will do most of the job, as long as policy makers make sure it is quickly adopted. And average citizens can make valuable contributions by making ... [News Source]

Climate change can be halted, UN concludes (Independent) Global warming is solvable, United Nations climate change experts said yesterday, in a landmark judgement running counter to increasing pessimism about the most serious threat facing the world. [News Source]

U.N. report highlights climate-change strategies (Market Watch) WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The world has the tools needed to keep a lid on global warming, but significant action is needed to cut emission of greenhouse gases in the near term, according to an eagerly awaited report on climate change released Friday by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

U.S. rejects “high cost” global warming scenarios (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The White House rejected on Friday what it called "high cost" scenarios to tackle global warming that were spelled out in the latest report by a United Nations panel on climate change. [News Source]

Beating global warming won’t cost the earth - UN (Stuff) BANGKOK: Humans need to make sweeping cuts in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 50 years to keep global warming in check, but it need cost only a tiny fraction of world output, a major UN climate change report said on Friday. [News Source]

Fighting global warming won’t ruin economy, climate panel says (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News) A UN-led climate change report released Friday says keeping greenhouse gas emissions near current levels would cost only a tiny fraction of world economic output, but that more drastic reductions are needed by 2050 in order to keep global warming in check. [News Source]

UN Climate Change panel recommends action now to end global warming (MCOT) BANGKOK, May 4 (TNA) - With technologies and other measures currently available, catastrophic global warming is still avoidable if the world -- including individual decision-makers -- starts to act now by changing their lifestyles, from home to office, according to the latest report by United Nations-related Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). [News Source]

Global Warming: and Now for the Solutions (Kansas City InfoZine) The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on will release a summary of the scientific, technological and economic solutions for global warming. The summary will provide a general overview of the policy options available worldwide to stabilize and reduce global warming emissions and calculate the economic cost of those actions. The summary does not outline specific options for the ... [News Source]

Delegates reach deal on climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Delegates at an international conference on climate change brokered a blueprint Friday for combatting global warming, resisting pressure from China to tone down language on cutting emissions of heat-trapping gases. [News Source]