Ancient British Bog Provides Clue To Global Warming (Science Daily) Analysis of sediments from a British bog suggest that methane emissions increased due to intense global warming around 55 million years ago. Scientists show that carbon isotope values of hopanoids -- compounds made by bacteria -- suddenly decrease in a manner that can only be explained by switching to a diet of methane. This suggests that methane emissions must have increased at that time. [News Source]

Ancient British bog provides clue to global warming (PhysOrg) Analysis of sediments from a British bog suggest that methane emissions increased due to intense global warming around 55 million years ago. [News Source]

Ban Urges Countries on Global Warming (News 8 San Diego) The science is clear and the time short, but the political will is lacking to confront global warming, the U.N. secretary-general said Tuesday. [News Source]

Laurie David: The Children’s Book That Has Global Warming Deniers Up in Arms (HuffingtonPost) The climate change "skeptics" have grown so desperate in their attempts to hide the truth from the American people, they've taken to spending hours scrutinizing a children's book, trying to marginalize the urgent information it contains. [News Source]

Agriculture to be hit hard by climate change (The Age) Climate change, if left unchecked, stands to reduce Australia's agricultural productivity by up to 27 per cent over the next 75 years, a study estimates. [News Source]

Vegetarian Society launches climate change campaign (Guardian Unlimited) The Vegetarian Society is to raise awareness of 'emissions' from cattle as a leading cause of global warming. [News Source]

Greenland’s Jakobshavn glacier sounds climate change alarm (TODAYonline) French Minister for Ecology, Sustainable development and Planning Jean-Louis Borloo (C) is pictured, on 10 Sep, in Quervain bay (Greenland west coast) with amateur speleologist Serge Aviotte (L) and climatologist Jean Jouzel (R), during a visit in Greenland to survey the impact of global warming in the Arctic. [News Source]

Climate change has some benefits for NZ (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News) Climate change is damaging the world but New Zealand may score some wins from it, especially in agriculture. [News Source]

Evidence of global warming surrounds a skeptic (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Message to a global warming skeptic: Don't lecture us, but instead look around! [News Source]