Expert: State Will Feel Effect Of Climate Change (News On 6 Tulsa) According to Oklahoma experts, global warming could have a devastating effect on our weather and water supply. [News Source]

Global Warming Could Cost Michigan Billions Of Dollars Annually (Michigan Technology News) NEW ORLEANS - A study looking at the potential impact of global warming on the states has projected that Michigan could see an impact in terms of billions of dollars in lost trade as a result of lower Great Lakes levels alone. [News Source]

Watchdog’s verdict on Channel 4 climate film angers scientists. Channel 4 broke rules on impartiality and misrepresented the views of scientists but did not mislead viewers in a controversial documentary claiming man-made global warming was a fraud, the media watchdog has ruled. [News Source]

A new (and unlikely) tell-all. Jason K. Burnett, DC’s environmental whistle-blower du jour, is an example of a once rare, now almost common, phenomenon: a political appointee willing to tell much of what he knows of the inner workings of the formerly opaque Bush administration. [News Source]

Where research and tourism collide. Coping with growth, science can find itself at odds with society and must decide whether to study the changes or fight them. [News Source]

The race to own the top of the world. As icecaps melt, and energy prices soar, countries are scrambling for control of the top of the world and the oil and gas beneath the Arctic seabed. [News Source]

Who needs coal when you can mine Earth’s deep heat? After decades of development, heat mining is now at a pivotal point. And much depends on the tiny town of Innamincka, Australia, which sits on the biggest, shallowest, and hottest, non-volcanic rock formation in the world. [News Source]

2.5 degrees warmer – and Kruger is threatened. A 2.5° C rise in average world temperature from 1990 levels could cause up to two- thirds of all animal species in the Kruger National Park to become extinct, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk warned yesterday. [News Source]

Smoke from wildfires may block warming of arctic, study says. Smoke spreading across the sky from intense wildfires in North America could act temporarily to blunt the effect of global warming in the Arctic, climate researchers said. [News Source]

Russians hope to show potential of ‘arctic bridge’ Later this summer, a black-hulled Russian freighter will again ply ice-free Arctic waters, delivering fertilizer to Churchill, Man. and Canadian wheat to Europe. [News Source]

Warning: climate change is hazardous to your health… Global warming is bad for your health, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). [News Source]