EPA chief pressed on Calif. waiver Newly released documents show that EPA staffers believed there was no " legal or technical justification for denying" California's request to regulate greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Emanuel’s climate change manual (USA Today) If we hold Shakespeare to his words that, "Brevity is the soul of wit," then Kerry Emanuel's What We Know About Climate Change has got to be the wittiest work on global warming to date. This slim volume's 85 pages... [News Source]

Mexicans Worried About Climate Change (Angus Reid) (Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Global warming is a major concern for most people in Mexico, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky. 54 per cent of respondents are very worried about climate change, while 33.6 per cent are somewhat worried about it. [News Source]

Distinguished World Figures to Speak at 2008 International Conference on Climate Change in New York (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Among the nearly 100 featured speakers at the upcoming 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, sponsored by The Heartland Institute and to be held in New York City, March 2-4, will be two distinguished world figures who will present their views on the world debate concerning the likely consequences of global warming. They are: [News Source]

Innovative EARTH-SHIP Program Aims to Unite the World to Address Climate Change (Centre Daily Times) Earth Ship Limited today announced the launch of its unique new "people-to-people" EARTH-SHIP(TM) program, an educational endeavor designed to focus the world's attention on the climate change resulting from global warming. [News Source]

Innovative EARTH-SHIP Program Aims to Unite the World to Address Climate Change (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.----Earth Ship Limited today announced the launch of its unique new "people-to-people" EARTH-SHIPTM program, an educational endeavor designed to focus the world's attention on the climate change resulting from global warming. [News Source]

Speaker calls global warming “crisis of biblical proportions” (Lincoln Journal Star) Six years ago, Richard Cizik had a conversion. He already believed in God and Jesus, but he had a major shift in his thinking about climate change while attending a conference in England. [News Source]

Bordeaux Big Guns Bullish About Climate Change (South African Wine News) At the recent 2008 Climate Change and Wine conference in Barcelona, Prats and Rolland, along with consultant Pascal Chatonnet and veteran oenologist Jacques Lurton, argued that global warming offered possibilities that were not available in the past. [News Source]

Bordeaux Big Guns Bullish About Climate Change (South African Wine News) At the recent 2008 Climate Change and Wine conference in Barcelona, Prats and Rolland, along with consultant Pascal Chatonnet and veteran oenologist Jacques Lurton, argued that global warming offered possibilities that were not available in the past. [News Source]

New study warns of Mideast climate change (AME Info) A new study on climate change has revealed that the coastlines, sea levels and temperatures in the GCC countries could already be changing due to global warming. [News Source]

Global warming mists (Trinidad Express) Re: UN climate conference taking the world in entirely the wrong direction. It is not possible to stop climate change, a natural phenomenon that has affected humanity through the ages. [News Source]