How should our state face climate change? (The News & Observer) Lots of folks debate who's to blame for global warming and how severe it is, but scientists are already seeing the effects of climate change in North Carolina. [News Source]

Climate change seen as greatest threat to Pacific islands (AFP via Yahoo! News) Climate change is the biggest threat facing low-lying islands in the Pacific Ocean, a conference of regional agriculture ministers in the Marshall Islands was told. [News Source]

Jayne Lyn Stahl: Climate Change (HuffingtonPost) While global warming is clearly uppermost on everyone's agenda, the kind of toxicity most folks in Washington are concerned about these days isn't the kind that comes with greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Merkel to press Bush on global warming (International Herald Tribune) Merkel will meet with Bush before the summit meeting next week in an effort to prevent failure of talks on global warming. [News Source]

Asia and Europe fail to agree on climate change targets (AFP via Yahoo! News) China said on Tuesday it will not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming. [News Source]

Damage from climate change could cost Alaska $10 billion (USA Today) Collapsing bridges, bursting sewer pipes and crumbling roads caused by global warming could cost Alaska up to $10 billion over the next few decades, researchers said [News Source]

Asia and Europe fail to agree on climate change targets (AFP via Yahoo! News) China said on Tuesday it will not be tied to targets on cutting carbon emissions as Europe and Asia failed to agree at a 40-nation meeting on how to fight global warming. [News Source]

Damage from climate change may cost Alaska $10 bln (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Collapsing bridges, bursting sewer pipes and crumbling roads caused by global warming could cost Alaska up to $10 billion over the next few decades, researchers said. [News Source]

Initiatives on global climate change (Sun Star) THE evidence for human-caused global warming is now "unequivocal." This statement by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms with "very high" confidence that human activities are causing the world to warm. [News Source]

Merkel and US House Speaker Pelosi Debate Climate Change (Deutsche Welle) Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday after meeting with US House of Representives Speaker Nancy Pelosi that she would continue to press for binding targets to combat global warming ahead of the G8 summit in Germany. [News Source]

Schwalbach leads global warming presentations (Saipan Tribune) Former CNMI government official Robert Schwalbach is back on the island for a series of presentations on global warming. [News Source]