Tony Blair Urges `Revolutionary’ Carbon Cuts for Climate Change (Bloomberg.com) March 15 (Bloomberg) -- Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged the U.S., Japan and European nations to make ``revolutionary'' cuts to greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. [News Source]

Study: Warming weeds out Rockies’ flowers Fewer flowers may grace the slopes of the Rocky Mountains as global warming's earlier springtimes make blooms more vulnerable, a new study suggests. [News Source]

Europe might sanction U.S. over climate European Union leaders threatened the United States and China with trade sanctions Friday if the world's two biggest polluters don't commit to ambitious cuts in greenhouse gases by next year. [News Source]

EU leaders commit to agreeing climate change package by year end (AFP via Yahoo! News) EU leaders on Friday agreed to finalise, by the end of the year, ambitious plans to cut energy use and fight climate change, while promising to limit the costs to worried industries. [News Source]

UND Assistant Prof Says Officials Not Jumping into Climate Change (KQCD-TV Dickinson) Despite worry about global warming in the scientific community, some decision-makers are reluctant to jump on the climate change bandwagon. That`s one of the findings of a survey by University of North Dakota Assistant Professor Rebecca Romsdahl. [News Source]

UND Assistant Prof Says Officials Not Jumping into Climate Change (KFYR-TV Bismarck) Despite worry about global warming in the scientific community, some decision-makers are reluctant to jump on the climate change bandwagon. That`s one of the findings of a survey by University of North Dakota Assistant Professor Rebecca Romsdahl. [News Source]

EU leaders outline security threats from climate change (International Herald Tribune) EU leaders pledged Friday to put climate change's impact on global security high on the international agenda and warned of dire consequences unless global warming is curbed. [News Source]

Activists Call for Climate Change Funds (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The world's wealthy countries need to pump more money into financing poorer nations' efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions and cope with climate change, environmentalists said Friday ahead of a global warming conference. [News Source]

EU to set deadline for climate change package (AFP via Yahoo! News) EU leaders on Friday backed ambitious targets to cut energy use and fight climate change but stressed that the package must not involve "excessive costs" amid an economic downturn. [News Source]

UVa Faculty Senate seeks global warming prevention (The Daily Progress) The University of Virginia’s Faculty Senate is calling for greater efforts by the university to address global warming. The Senate passed a resolution Tuesday in a 27-5 vote that urges UVa to take five steps to curtail its effect on the environment. The resolution asks UVa’s Board of Visitors to “issue a strong public statement that recognizes the gravity” of climate change, as well ... [News Source]

EU to set deadline for climate change package (AFP via Yahoo! News) EU leaders on Friday backed ambitious targets to cut energy use and fight climate change but stressed that the package must not involve "excessive costs" amid an economic downturn. [News Source]