Climate Change/ The Fight Ahead :Acting now (Asahi.com) Editor's note: This starts our four-part series on Japanese leading efforts to fight global warming. Activist Mika Obayashi is determined to be a thorn in the side of Group of Eight leaders when they gather at Lake Toyako, Hokkaido, in July if they shy away from the issue of global warming. [News Source]

Be role model in curbing climate change, nation told (The Star) JOHOR BARU: Malaysia should be a role model to other Asean nations in addressing the issue of climate change and global warming. Bandar Baru Tampoi MCA branch chief Michael Tay said Malaysia’s reputation in maintaining a clean and safe environment should be recognised and followed-up upon. [News Source]

Poll questions Montanans about climate change (Great Falls Tribune) HELENA — Many Montanans are willing to make personal sacrifices to stem harm they anticipate from global warming, a poll finds. Sixty-two percent of the 625 registered voters recently surveyed for Lee Newspapers of Montana said global warming will bring adverse effects. [News Source]

Md. Lawmakers Likely To Tackle Global Warming In 2008 (NBC4 Washington, D.C.) Saying Maryland can't wait to try to address global warming, state lawmakers predict a menu of environmental proposals could dominate this year's session. [News Source]

Letter: Man-caused global warming a hoax (AG Weekly) As a plant scientist, I am concerned that Idaho and most states are planning to limit and reduce Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. This is being done to supposedly reduce global warming. [News Source]

Climate Change is Unequivocal (Central Chronicle) I experience a kind of despondency to find an acute ignorance about the results brought about by climate change, although every one is subjected to and is familiar with increase in temperature, rise in sea level, droughts and floods, fall in food production etc. year after year. [News Source]

2007 a year of climate surprises

When the calendar turned to 2007, the heat went on and the weather just got weirder. And as 2007 drew to a close, it was also shaping up to be the hottest year on record in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Global warming — from cars to hurricanes (Minnesota Public Radio) 2007 was the year that climate change became an urgent social and political issue. Midmorning revisits two conversations about how society and our environment are responding to global warming. [News Source]

Poll: Most residents expect adverse effects from global warming (Helena Independent Record) A majority of Montana voters believe global warming will produce adverse effects, and they are willing to make personal sacrifices to slow the warming, a Lee Newspapers poll shows. [News Source]

Yearender: Climate change tops DENR priority in 2007 (Philstar.com) As world leaders attempted but failed to formulate a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement to deal with global warming, the Philippines has been ranked as the top victim of extreme weather events in the world in 2006. [News Source]

‘Action, action, action’ needed to fight climate change (The Garden Island) What’s needed is “action, action, action,” California’s Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, told the assembled presidents and premiers at the U.N. Climate Summit in September. This article, the third in this climate change series, will examine the scope of global action required to slow climate change to manageable levels. [News Source]