Biofuel Crops That Require Destroying Native Ecosystems Worsens Global Warming (Science Daily) Turning native ecosystems into "farms" for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a new study. The carbon lost by converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands outweighs the carbon savings from biofuels. Such conversions for corn or sugarcane (ethanol), or palms or soybeans (biodiesel) release 17 ... [News Source]

Obama Says Stronger Than McCain on Climate Change (Planet Ark) SEATTLE - US presidential hopeful Barack Obama promised on Friday to start working on an international pact to reduce global warming if he becomes the Democratic nominee, touting his plan to reduce US emissions as stronger than that of Republican front-runner John McCain. [News Source]

Chicago: Ban Hails Youth Focus On Climate Change (Scoop.co.nz) 9 February 2008 - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has praised high school students in Chicago for debating the problem of global warming at a Model UN, emphasizing their potential to effect change in the future. [News Source]

Climate Change threatens future power supply from Bhutan to India (Deepika) New Delhi, Feb 10 (UNI) Climate Change, caused by Global Warming, is going to affect power supply to India from the neighbouring Himalayan state of Bhutan in a big way in the very near future. [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]

Destroying Native Ecosystems For Biofuel Crops Worsens Global Warming (Medical News Today) Turning native ecosystems into "farms" for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota and the Nature Conservancy.The work will be published in Science later this month and was posted online Thursday, Feb. 7. [News Source]

Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Blamed On More Than Climate Change (Science Daily) When the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica collapsed in 2002, the event appeared to be a sudden response to climate change, and this long, fringing ice shelf in the north west part of the Weddell Sea was assumed to be the latest in a long line of victims of Antarctic summer heat waves linked to Global Warming. However scientists now say that the shelf was already teetering on collapse before the ... [News Source]

G-7 Goals: Global Markets and Global Warming (Time Magazine) The G-7 meeting Saturday in Tokyo produced little immediate action, but finance chiefs pledged to foster world economic growth and support a joint effort to stop climate change [News Source]

Boxer ready for round 2 in global warming fight (The Desert Sun) Barely 5 feet tall, Barbara Boxer used a wooden box to reach the microphone at a global warming rally here. But her voice was big. [News Source]

Climate Change threatens future power supply from Bhutan to India (Deepika) New Delhi, Feb 10 (UNI) Climate Change, caused by Global Warming, is going to affect power supply to India from the neighbouring Himalayan state of Bhutan in a big way in the very near future. [News Source]

Congress warms to climate-change bills (Pioneer Press) WASHINGTON - Scores of climate-change bills are stacking up in the legislative queue. Numerous hearings, the most recent on the polar bear, are highlighting the issue. And some regulation-averse corporate executives even have called on Congress to step in. [News Source]