Lessons on climate change (Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news) A team of Thai students has been told that water shortages in their home provinces and a sharp drop in the level of snowfall at the world heritage village of Shirakawa-Go in Japan might stem from the same cause _ global warming. [News Source]

McCain to pitch climate-change plan in Ore. (USA Today) John McCain heads to the Pacific Northwest today to propose a climate-change plan, addressing an issue integral to his presidential bid in a region that could be crucial. [News Source]

Global cooling theories put scientists on guard (Planet Ark) LONDON - A new study suggesting a possible lull in manmade global warming has raised fears of a reduced urgency to battle climate change. [News Source]

Climate scientist out to change the world (San Diego Union-Tribune) Veerabhadran Ramanathan tours the globe to conduct experiments and advise world leaders about climate change. He helped craft the United Nations' landmark report in 2007 on global warming, and his research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla has been featured in major journals such as Nature. [News Source]

Climate scientist out to change the world (San Diego Union-Tribune) Veerabhadran Ramanathan tours the globe to conduct experiments and advise world leaders about climate change. He helped craft the United Nations' landmark report in 2007 on global warming, and his research at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla has been featured in major journals such as Nature. [News Source]

Climate change will boost farm output (The Australian) AUSTRALIAN agricultural output will double over the next 40 years, with climate change predicted to increase, rather than hinder, the level of production. [News Source]

Global warming brings tropical birds to Hong Kong (IANS via Yahoo! India News) Hong Kong, May 11 (DPA) The sighting of two rarely seen tropical birds in Hong Kong could be due to climate change, bird experts here have said. [News Source]