3 Senate global warming proposals have identical success (Pravda Ru) Senate proposals on greenhouse gases would have roughly identical success in curbing global warming, but only if other nations also significantly cut heat-trapping emissions. [News Source]

Climate change as much a concern as terrorism: survey (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Another major survey has found that an overwhelming majority of Australians believe global warming is at least as serious a threat to the nation as terrorism. [News Source]

UN: Tourists risk extinction from global warming (EARTHtimes.org) Davos, Switzerland - Tourists could become a dying breed as global warming takes its toll on holiday destinations, delegates at an international conference in Davos in eastern Switzerland were warned Tuesday. Tourists could turn their back on traditi... [News Source]

Climate change program tonight (The Olympian) Tonight is the night the Olympia City Council brings in two environmental authors to talk about global warming and call people to action to fight it. [News Source]

Climate change will alter world travel patterns (Environmental News Network) DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Global warming will produce stay-at-home tourists over the next few decades, radically altering travel patterns and threatening jobs and businesses in tourism-dependent countries, according to a stark assessment by U.N experts. The U.N. Environment Program, the World Meteorological Organization and the World Tourism Organization said concerns about weather ... [News Source]

Idyllic holiday destinations raise climate change alarm (AFP via Yahoo! News) Idyllic island and beach holiday destinations on Tuesday launched their cry of alarm about the impact of climate change, warning that it was threatening their scenery and their livelihoods. [News Source]

Poll: global warming is urgent threat (UPI) A nationwide survey suggests an increasing number of U.S. citizens considers global warming an important threat that calls for drastic action. [News Source]

Coastal buyout talk roils lives in Mississippi. A proposed mass federal buyout of 17,000 homes near Mississippi's Katrina-ravaged shore has some believing it's is the beginning of a serious national debate on whether Americans should retreat from the coasts. [News Source]

Arctic melt unnerves the experts. The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia. [News Source]

Too late to avoid warming. It is too late for Sydney to avoid a warming of about 1 degree by 2030 as well as a 3 per cent reduction in annual rainfall because of polluting gases already in the atmosphere, according to a new report. [News Source]

Japan trades in suits, cuts CO2 emissions. Two years ago, the Japanese government instituted a new policy that has so far trimmed more than two million tons of greenhouse gases from the country's growing emissions. [News Source]