Yes, global warming is a (New Matilda) Yes, global warming is a complex matter, which must be taken seriously. It is extremely important that we get the facts and the science right before we start taking drastic and expensive actions. Robyn Williams has put up a straw man argument, by choosing "the four famous furphies of the climate nay-sayers" (that in itself shows bias) and then purportedly demolishing them. The "climate ... [News Source]

Yes, global warming is a (New Matilda) Yes, global warming is a complex matter, which must be taken seriously. It is extremely important that we get the facts and the science right before we start taking drastic and expensive actions. Robyn Williams has put up a straw man argument, by choosing "the four famous furphies of the climate nay-sayers" (that in itself shows bias) and then purportedly demolishing them. The "climate ... [News Source]

Look out, Oregon, for a global warming land rush. What if the American Southwest dries up, the polar ice melts, oceans rise and millions living along coastal areas -- or ravaged by Katrina-like storms -- have to move? By 2060 the seven-county Portland area could more than double in size to 3.85 million people. [News Source]

Shanghai highrises could worsen rising seas threat. Shanghai, China's most populous city and an aspiring global financial centre, is also among the world's most vulnerable urban areas to a rise in sea levels as global warming melts polar ice. [News Source]

Natural gas for winter heating should be plentiful . Despite supply interruptions caused by Hurricane Gustav, there should be plenty of natural gas available for heating this winter and prices are likely to stay about the same as last winter, natural gas producers said Thursday. [News Source]

Australians ‘bored’ by climate change. Australians are becoming bored with the issue of climate change and many still doubt whether the phenomenon is actually happening, according to a new survey. [News Source]

Australia fights climate change threat to rivers. Climate change across Australia's main food-growing region will reshape farming across an area bigger than France and Germany, says the top water official. "I think we've been caught unawares." [News Source]

Vanishing African wildlife threatens livelihoods: scientists. From fish in Burkina Faso, to Ethiopian wild coffee, Kenyan forests and traditional medicine plants in the Congo, the continent's natural resources are being threatened by human activity and climate change, experts say. [News Source]

The other scarce resource. Cheap and plentiful, water was for centuries a manufacturing tool that industry took for granted. But population growth, globalization, and climate change are shepherding in a new water-constrained era. [News Source]

Global warming set to shake our eating habits. Climate change is likely to deprive us of the pleasures of eating beef and lamb, instead forcing us to contemplate platefuls of kangaroo meat and threatening another Australian table staple -- seafood. [News Source]

Conservation congress kicks off with dire warning on biodiversity. The world must act quickly if it is to brake an unprecedented die off of the Earth's animal and plant life that could have dire consequences for humans as well, top conservationists warned on Sunday. [News Source]