More heatwaves likely as climate change worsens (Queensland Country Life) Australians can expect to experience longer periods of extreme heat as global warming forces temperatures higher, a weather expert warned today. [News Source]

Energy secretary: Global warming could wipe out California farms, vineyards (People’s Daily) U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has warned that California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming. In a worst case, up to 90 percent of the Sierra snowpack in California could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture, Chu said in an interview with the Los Angeles ... [News Source]

Flip-flop Flannery is a climate change opportunist (Crikey) Flannery’s ability to write engagingly about climate science has led some to believe he must have something sensible to say about the solutions to global warming. Not so, writes Clive Hamilton . [News Source]

Climate change could end California farming: Chu  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Secretary of Energy Steven Chu warned climate change could wipe out California's farms by the end of the century by destroying snowpack that supplies vital water to the nation's top agriculture state, the Los Angeles Times reported on Wednesday.  [News Source]

Deep sea Web camera eyes climate change

A crane on a ship deck hoisted a 502-pound video camera and plopped it into the ocean for a 3,000-foot descent to the world of neon-glowing jellyfish, bug-eyed red rock cod and other still unknown slithery critters.

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California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns. California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, the new Secretary of Energy said. [News Source]

Its clout waning, auto industry losing ability to steer policy. The ousting of Rep. John D. Dingell late last year from his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was a public step in what politicians and lobbyists say has been a gradual erosion of the auto industry's clout in Washington and in state legislatures. [News Source]

Defiant Argentine glacier thrives despite warming. Climate change appears to be helping Argentina's mighty Perito Moreno glacier, which is thriving in defiance of the global warming that is shrinking its peers. [News Source]

Females turn into males when times get tough… on the sea floor, that is. Japanese sea corals engage in "sex switching" under periods of stress, especially when threatened by global warming, a Tel Aviv University professor has found. [News Source]

Melting glaciers on China’s Qinghai-Tibet plateau water source “worrisome”. Chinese scientists say glaciers that serve as water sources on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau are melting at a "worrisome speed". The decline is equal to about one-fourth of the area of New York City. [News Source]

Dead fish, algae to hit Murray-Darling. The drought is so dire that fish are expected to die and toxic algal blooms to fester in the ailing Murray-Darling Basin. [News Source]