Rural Australia’s health to be hit by global warming: study (AFP via Yahoo! News) Global warming could hit human health in remote Australia hard by causing irregular disease distribution and extreme weather, according to a new study. [News Source]

Japan allocates $11b to fight climate change: report (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Japan plans to set aside about $11 billion over the next five years to help countries such as China and Indonesia fight global warming, a newspaper reports. [News Source]

Global warming could hit rural health (Daily Telegraph) GLOBAL warming could hit human health in remote Australia hard by causing irregular disease distribution and extreme weather, according to a new study. [News Source]

‘An Inconvenient Truth’: climate change is indeed a moral issue (Accuracy In Media) Al Gore's movie on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth , has surely been the subject of more reviews and media comment than any other film in recent history. Not least because of the unflagging razzmatazz with which Mr Gore has undertaken a world "author's tour" to invoke publicity. [News Source]

Climate Change May Spur Viral Diseases in Australia’s Outback (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Australians living in the outback may catch more viruses such as Ross River and Barmah Forest because global warming is aiding the spread of mosquitoes that carry the diseases, researchers said. [News Source]

Garth George: Great global warming debate a bunch of hot air (The New Zealand Herald) For a couple of weeks in December, 10,000-odd politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, activists and journalists from over 100 countries invaded Bali for a conference on climate change that probably created enough carbon debits to keep a country like ours in hock for years. [News Source]

Who could get sued for global warming (CNN Money) A host of well-known companies are leaving themselves open to shareholder lawsuits because they're not telling investors enough about how much they contribute to global warming or what it might cost them to clean up, according to a recent report. [News Source]

Japan feels the heat: global warming pushing temps higher (Environmental News Network) The average temperature in Japan could rise by up to 4.7 degrees Celsius (8.5 Fahrenheit) this century unless steps are taken to combat global warming, the Environment Ministry said on Wednesday. Japan, the world's second-biggest economy, could face a rise in the average temperature of 1.3-4.7 C (2.3-8.5 F) in the 2070-2099 period from levels registered in 1961-1990, the ministry said in a report. [News Source]

Experts Issue Climate Change Health Alert for Rural Australia (Kansas City InfoZine) Mounting evidence of global warming has led experts to warn of likely adverse health effects to many rural Australians. [News Source]

Will nations build on climate-change momentum of 2007? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) If 2007 was the year when an international scientific – and popular – momentum built around tackling global warming, this year is likely to be one of boosting that commitment. [News Source]