Senate taking up key climate-change bill (San Francisco Chronicle) The Senate will decide this week whether to follow in California's footsteps and pass legislation requiring cuts in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to combat climate change. Lawmakers are set to vote Monday to begin debate on a bill that could reshape the U.S.... [News Source]

Climate change talks to hammer out ’son of Kyoto’ (The Scotsman) CRUCIAL climate-change talks get underway today to discuss the next steps the international community needs to take to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Climate change talks to hammer out ’son of Kyoto’ (The Scotsman) CRUCIAL climate-change talks get underway today to discuss the next steps the international community needs to take to tackle global warming. [News Source]

Cat modelers eyeing climate change debate (Business Insurance) As the 2008 hurricane season begins amid growing attention to climate change questions, catastrophe modelers are working to determine what effect temperature trends will ultimately have on their models. [News Source]

Playing Climate Change Catch-Up (Time Magazine) Global warming is not a problem for the future. We're already feeling the catastrophic effects today. Question is, is it too late to do anything about it? [News Source]

Congress Debate on Climate Change Centers on Costs (Wired News) From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. [News Source]

Climate talks open with big agenda, small hopes (USA Today) If the devil is in the details, climate change negotiators are about to enter purgatory. On Monday, some 2,000 delegates from 162 countries and dozens of specialist agencies open a two-week conference, the first to get into the nuts and bolts of a new global warming agreement meant to take effect after 2012. [News Source]

Economic cost drives Senate climate debate (AP via Yahoo! News) From higher electric bills to more expensive gasoline, the possible economic cost of tackling global warming is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. [News Source]

USDA report says climate change affecting crops, livestock (AG Weekly) DENVER - Climate change is increasing the risk of U.S. crop failures, depleting the nation’s water resources and contributing to outbreaks of invasive species and insects, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a report released Tuesday. [News Source]

Cost drives Senate climate debate (AP via Yahoo! News) The possible economic cost of confronting global warming — from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline — is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. [News Source]

Cost drives Senate climate debate (AP via Yahoo! News) The possible economic cost of confronting global warming — from higher electricity bills to more expensive gasoline — is driving the debate as climate change takes center stage in Congress. [News Source]