Calls for climate change minister (BBC News) A ministerial 'champion' is needed to co-ordinate governmental efforts on climate change, MPs say. [News Source]

Global Meltdown: Scientists Isolate Areas Most At Risk Of Global Warming (Free Internet Press) Scientists have long agreed that climate change could have a profound impact on the planet; from melting ice sheets and withering rainforests, to flash floods and droughts. Now a team of climate experts has ranked the most fragile and vulnerable regions on the planet, and warned they are in danger of sudden and catastrophic collapse before the end of the century. In a comprehensive study ... [News Source]

Scientists identify ‘tipping points’ of climate change (Independent) Nine ways in which the Earth could be tipped into a potentially dangerous state that could last for many centuries have been identified by scientists investigating how quickly global warming could run out of control. [News Source]

Smart Growth Measures Part of Strategy Endorsed in Maryland’s Global Warming Solutions Act (Smart Growth Online) With 3,100 miles of shoreline making Maryland ''the fourth-most-vulnerable state to the effects of global warming,'' the lead sponsors of its Global Warming Solutions Act, Senate Environment Subcommittee Democratic Chairman Paul. G. Pinsky and House of Delegates Democratic Majority Leader Kumar Barve, urge the General Assembly ''to take real action on global warming'' this session and pass the ... [News Source]

Amazon forest still a climate mystery

As rain forests are torn up at a rapid rate — 60 acres a minute, the U.N. says — scientists in the Amazon are looking at the link between deforestation and warming. This is part two of a three-part series.

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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]

Professor says there are more questions than answers on global warming (The Mercury) COLLEGEVILLE -- Global warming may have already generated the Nobel Peace Prize former Vice President Al Gore shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but a member of that panel told an Ursinus College audience Thursday night that global warming is just getting warmed up. [News Source]

Professor says there are more questions than answers on global warming (The Mercury) COLLEGEVILLE -- Global warming may have already generated the Nobel Peace Prize former Vice President Al Gore shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but a member of that panel told an Ursinus College audience Thursday night that global warming is just getting warmed up. [News Source]

Professor says there are more questions than answers on global warming (The Mercury) COLLEGEVILLE -- Global warming may have already generated the Nobel Peace Prize former Vice President Al Gore shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but a member of that panel told an Ursinus College audience Thursday night that global warming is just getting warmed up. [News Source]

More questions than answers on global warming (The Mercury) COLLEGEVILLE -- Global warming may have already generated the Nobel Peace Prize former Vice President Al Gore shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but a member of that panel told an Ursinus College audience Thursday night that global warming is just getting warmed up. [News Source]

More questions than answers on global warming (The Mercury) COLLEGEVILLE -- Global warming may have already generated the Nobel Peace Prize former Vice President Al Gore shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, but a member of that panel told an Ursinus College audience Thursday night that global warming is just getting warmed up. [News Source]