Mother of all ice ages may be looming. But that’s no excuse to keep pumping out carbon dioxide: scientists. The planet could face a freeze worse than an Ice Age starting in as little as 10,000 years, giving future societies a headache the opposite of coping with global warming, scientists said this week. [News Source]

Get ready for rising seas. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered several state agencies to prepare a strategy to help California cope with the effects of climate change on the state’s water supplies and coastline. [News Source]

Homes with no electric shocks from the bills. Electricity bills are hitting record highs, but some developers are offering homeowners the chance to escape price hikes by making their own electricity - for free. [News Source]

Climate action starts here. Frustrated by years of inaction by the federal government to combat global warming, citizen groups, families, local governments and the Western states all have mounted their own, diffuse campaigns to tackle what most agree is the most urgent challenge facing mankind. [News Source]

Big CO2 cuts possible with China, India, U.S. help. If 50 dollars was spent per ton on reducing CO2 emissions, a large quantity of global emissions could be curbed by 2020, with 53 percent of the potential reduction achievable by China, India and the United States, a study has found. [News Source]

Organization aims to reduce emissions. A deteriorating Washington state budget shouldn't stop the 2009 state Legislature from tackling some pressing projects to combat climate change, top state officials said this week. [News Source]

‘Jelly balls’ may slow global warming. Vast numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming. [News Source]

China’s coal fires belch fumes, worsening global warming. China has the worst underground coal fires of any country on Earth. The fires destroy as much as 20 million tons of coal annually, nearly the equivalent of Germany's entire annual production. [News Source]

Have a break, have a Kit Kat – and wreck rainforests. Demand for palm oil for Nature chocolate and other goods is posing a threat to vital habitats. [News Source]

Russia the next climate recalcitrant. The melting of the Arctic ice cap has created an awkward new threat to international climate change talks by convincing senior officials in Moscow that Russia stands to reap an economic bonanza from ice-free northern oceans. [News Source]

Going green could put California deeper in the red. The ARB's "scoping plan," awaiting adoption, lays out sharp increases in electricity and natural gas service rates, much costlier gasoline and other financial burdens. And it's generating increasing resistance from business. [News Source]