Heat may spark world food crisis. Half the world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100, a new report by US scientists warns. [News Source]

Bad news from new studies, Several international groups have recently reported global warming and climate change studies. An International Panel on Climate Change examination of climate data is interpreted as reinforcing fears global warming is indeed largely due to human activities. [News Source]

Why is Washington so wet? It’s just the weather. Forecasters in Western Washington are fond of saying: our weather is hard to predict. Then how do they explain two dramatic floods, 13 months apart on the same stretch of Interstate 5 between Seattle and Portland? A climate coincidence. [News Source]

Hot weather could be as dangerous as freezing winters, warn forecasters. A specially-commissioned Met Office report has found that the weather could become so hot in the coming years that the poor and elderly could need help paying bills to keep their homes air-conditioned. [News Source]

Floods will become commonplace by 2080. A new research study has predicted that floods will become commonplace by the year 2080, especially across the UK. The research predicts that severe storms the likes of which currently occur every five to 25 years across the UK will become more common [News Source]

Expert shines the (sun)spotlight on global warming. So you thought that global warming is the result of pollution being pumped into the earth’s atmosphere? Think again, says Dr Mark Rose of Qatar Petroleum. Pollution has got nothing at all to do with global warming, it’s all because of sunspots. [News Source]

Harvard’s ‘hippo’ jet heads to pole to test CO2 level. Harvard University is flying a specially equipped jet between the North Pole and South Pole to test the atmosphere for variations in global-warming gases, aiming to improve computer models for predicting climate change. [News Source]

Sierra Club sues over proposed Drexel University site. The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging Placer County’s approval of a plan for a regional university west of Roseville, contending the project would trigger sprawl and air pollution, making it harder for California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. [News Source]

Exxon CEO doubts Obama’s alternative energy goal. Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect Barack Obama's goal to significantly boost U.S. alternative energy production. [News Source]

Exxon CEO advocates emissions tax. The chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp. for the first time called on Congress to enact a tax on greenhouse-gas emissions in order to fight global warming. [News Source]

Waxman cleaning house in Energy Committee. It was no mystery that Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Cal.) was intent on making environment-friendly changes when he swept the chairmanship of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee from beneath auto-friendly Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) in November. [News Source]