Report disputes sun’s global warming (Moldova.org) A British report says increased cosmic rays are not to blame for global climate change over the past two decades.The study, published in the Royal Society's journal Proceedings A, says the sun's cosmic ray output has declined over the past 20 years, the BBC said Wednesday.Mike Lockwood of Britain's Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory told BBC News he initiated the study after the documentary The Great ... [News Source]

Report disputes sun’s global warming (UPI) A British report says increased cosmic rays are not to blame for global climate change over the past two decades. [News Source]

Climate change would drive alpine skiing, fall foliage, from N.H. (Boston Globe) Global warming will drive alpine skiing into western Maine, and New Hampshire's forest habitat -- a tourist draw for its brilliant fall colors -- into Canada if government, industry and the public don't act now to combat greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said Wednesday. [News Source]

Report details impact of climate change (Boston Globe) A study released Wednesday said that without significant action to deal with global warming, Maine faces damaging changes to its character and economy, with snowmobiling, timber harvesting and lobster fishing among the potential losers. [News Source]

Scientists detail cost of global warming (AP via Yahoo! News) Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air — those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. They urged governments and citizens to take steps now to avoid the most devastating consequences of global warming. [News Source]

Florida Holds Climate Change Summit (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Gov. Charlie Crist will cap his two-day climate change summit Friday by signing orders requiring the state be more energy efficient and power companies to reduce emissions, while joining California in seeking to regulate auto emissions. [News Source]

Kucinich Out-Polls Democratic Front-Runners on Climate Change, Global Warming Issues (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Congressman and Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich out-polled front-runners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and all but one of the other Democratic candidates in an online poll that asked the question: "Which candidate's position on dealing with the climate crisis do you prefer?" [News Source]

Sun did not cause recent climate change: U.K. study (CBC) Solar radiation is not the cause of recent global warming, two European scientists say. [News Source]

NRDC Launches Blog Site to Spur Conversation About Energy Solutions, Global Warming (NRDC Worldview) NEW YORK (July 9, 2007) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has intensified its efforts to distribute information about solutions to global warming and innovative energy technologies by launching Switchboard , a suite of blogs written by its air, energy and climate change experts. [News Source]

Congress All Talk on Global Warming (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) From former Vice President Al Gore's recent turn as movie producer and rock concert promoter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's specially created climate change committee, politicians often go to great lengths to propagate the belief that energy use must be reduced to combat catastrophic global warming. Few, however, ever take steps to turn that rhetoric into public policy, according to H. Sterling ... [News Source]

Solar Radiation Didn’t Cause Recent Global Warming, Study Shows (Bloomberg.com) July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Recent global warming isn't a result of solar radiation, scientists said, disputing a theory advanced by some researchers as an alternative to the United Nations' view that temperatures are rising as a result of human activities. [News Source]