Cheney wanted cuts in climate change testimony (Post-Bulletin) WASHINGTON -- Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health [News Source]

‘G8 doing little on climate change’ 9 Jul 2008, 0709 hrs IST, Nitin Sethi,TNN (The Times of India) NEW DELHI: IPCC chairman and member of the PM's council on climate change R K Pachauri on Tuesday criticized the G8 for not doing enough to solve the problem of global warming. [News Source]

Cheney wanted cuts in climate change testimony (AP via Yahoo! News) Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney's office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday. [News Source]

G-8 leaders resolve to cut emissions in half by 2050. In a delicately phrased communiqué, the world’s richest countries pledged on Tuesday to press for a halving of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. [News Source]

EU moves to cut back target on biofuel use. Signaling a major retrenchment, European Union legislators on Monday proposed ratcheting back an ambitious target to raise Europe's use of biofuels. And, a new report for the British government cast fresh doubt on using fuels from crops to fight climate change. [News Source]

A climate threat from flat TVs, microchips. They're made with nitrogen trifluoride, a synthetic chemical that has 17,000 times the global warming effect of carbon dioxide, scientists say. [News Source]

Climate change may muddy better-than bottled New York tap water. New York City's tap water, so pure residents swear it tastes better than bottled, may become a casualty of climate change as warmer temperatures threaten to spoil the mountain reservoirs supplying 9 million people. [News Source]

NOAA report: US coral reefs suffering from rising ocean temperatures, pollution, overfishing. Almost half the coral reef ecosystems in United States territory are in poor or fair condition, mostly because of rising ocean temperatures, according to a government report released Monday. [News Source]

Nature 2.0: Redefining conservation. Conservation is, by definition, about maintaining the status quo, yet this may no longer be possible, given that pollution, climate change, exotic species invasions, extinctions and land fragmentation are altering almost every ecosystem on the planet. [News Source]

Climate trends with some ‘noise’ removed. What happens to global temperature trends when you factor in the potentially confounding influence of ocean warming and cooling cycles? Some confusion goes away, it turns out, but other questions are worth exploring. [News Source]

Swapping forests, or how we’ll lose the beech and learn to love the Southern pine. Not only will Ohio forests change in terms of species, but rising temperatures probably would reduce their ability to lock and hold carbon. [News Source]