Climate change on the agenda (Port Macquarie News) CANDIDATES for the federal seat of Lyne will be put to the climate change test at a forum in Port Macq uarie tonight. Residents joined a national day of action on Sunday and walked against warming to express their concern about global warming. [News Source]

Climate change panel esteemed but flawed (The San Luis Obispo Tribune) They are seen as the gurus of global warming, and their reports are accepted almost as the gospel of climate science. Esteem for the panel of scientists was immortalized when it shared this year's Nobel Peace prize. But experts and the scientists themselves acknowledge the reports are conservative and have a poor track record of predictions. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meets ... [News Source]

Climate change on the agenda (Port Macquarie News) CANDIDATES for the federal seat of Lyne will be put to the climate change test at a forum in Port Macq uarie tonight. Residents joined a national day of action on Sunday and walked against warming to express their concern about global warming. [News Source]

North America CO2 imbalance is huge Only about a third of the climate-damaging carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in North America is offset by carbon removing activities, a government report said Tuesday. [News Source]

Europe moves to force airlines to cut CO2 The European Parliament backed plans Tuesday to include all airlines flying within or into the European Union in the 27-nation bloc's plan to cut greenhouse gases. [News Source]

HSBC launches climate-change structured products (Environmental News Network) Banking group HSBC said on Tuesday it has launched a range of structured products offering exposure to two indexes and a fund that contain firms making their profits from fighting global warming. HSBC, which recently launched a Global Climate Change Benchmark index and GIF Climate Change fund, has launched tracker notes offering direct exposure to these products, as well as leveraged notes, ... [News Source]

India, China should organise high-level summit on climate change: Expert (ANI via Yahoo! India News) London, Nov 13 (ANI): Leading environmental expert Professor C S Kiang has called for a high-level summit on climate change between China and India in order to provide developing countries a platform to set up their own powerful block to negotiate with developed countries on the issue of global warming. Professor Kiang, the founding dean of the College of Environmental Science at the University ... [News Source]

Scientists aim to predict climate change hotspots (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Moving on from the risk of global warming, scientists are now looking for ways to pinpoint the areas set to be affected by climate change, to help countries plan everything from new crops to hydropower dams. [News Source]

Debate focuses on effects of global warming (The Daily Toreador) Though Texas Tech's nationally publicized climate-change researcher lectured on the highly-debated issue of global warming, she received few questions from an audience of faculty, staff members and students Monday in the Human Sciences building. The lecture, "Global Warming Facts, Fallacies and the Future," was presented by Katharine Hayhoe, an associate professor of geosciences at Tech. [News Source]