City pays $20,000 for global warming survey (Austin American-Statesman) Research tied to effort to reduce Austin's greenhouse gas emissions. Preparing to press forward with an aggressive plan to cut Austin's greenhouse gas emissions, the City of Austin paid $20,000 for a global warming survey given to 400 Austinites. [News Source]

Attorney General Rallies Bay Area to Fight Global Warming (KRON 4 Bay Area) BAY AREA (KRON) - California Attorney General Jerry Brown is telling local governments that they are the key to fighting global warming. At a workshop Thursday in Oakland, Brown spoke to more than 200 lawyers, planners, elected officials and scientists from across the Bay Area about climate change. [News Source]

Survey: Most Austin residents believe climate change will affect them (KVUE-TV Austin) Eighty-nine percent of residents asked believe Austin will be affected by climate change, according to a first-ever global warming survey commissioned by the City of Austin. [News Source]

News: Rainforest Climate Change Sensor Station Goes Wi-Fi (Scientific American) For more than half a century, the La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica has provided researchers with the data needed to study everything from local amphibian and reptile populations to global warming. To meet a growing demand for La Selva's treasure trove of biological and environmental data, the main facilities are getting a $785,000 high-tech makeover that includes wireless access to ... [News Source]

U.N.: Manmade global warming certain (BPNews.net) Creation & Climate Change: - 3/19/2008 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--TIME magazine warned that scientists had observed "bizarre and unpredictable weather patterns" which led them to believe the world was headed for "a global climatic upheaval." [News Source]

Global warming bill delayed in Senate (The Capital) A bill to slash Maryland's carbon emissions as a way to address global warming was delayed yesterday by senators who feared the bill could hike energy prices and put factories out of business. [News Source]

Energy Cos Launch US-Wide Campaign Vs Climate Change Bill (Nasdaq) BILLINGS, Mont. (AP)--Energy companies and other business interests have launched a nationwide campaign against climate change legislation in Congress. [News Source]

Global warming is being blamed for pollen bursting, critters stirring and buds swelling. (Reading Eagle) Global warming is being blamed for pollen bursting, critters stirring and buds swelling. [News Source]

Scientists enlist ordinary people, even kids, to track early plant blooms from global warming (Midland Daily News) Monitoring global warming usually requires a Ph.D. and enough math to glaze your eyes. But Francisco Lopez and Ruby Nostrant track what climate change is doing to five different plants in Tucson, Ariz., and they are just in second grade. [News Source]

Student scientists track climate change (Arizona Daily Star) Monitoring global warming usually requires a doctorate and enough math to glaze your eyes. [News Source]