U.S. energy secretary pledges to fight global warming (Scientific American) By Tom Doggett and Ayesha Rascoe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu on Thursday pledged to work with Congress to pass legislation that would impose a cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming. [More] [News Source]

EPA hears Calif. request on car emissions California's air pollution agency urged federal regulators on Thursday to reverse a Bush-era decision that blocks the state from setting its own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars. [News Source]

EPA hears Calif. request on car emissions California's air pollution agency urged federal regulators on Thursday to reverse a Bush-era decision that blocks the state from setting its own limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars. [News Source]

U.S. energy secretary pledges to fight global warming  (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) U.S. energy secretary Steven Chu on Thursday pledged to work with Congress to pass legislation that would impose a cap-and-trade system to curb greenhouse gas emissions and fight global warming.  [News Source]

A Drying Amazon Could Speed Climate Change (NPR) A drought in 2005 turned one of the world's largest carbon absorbers into a carbon emitter. Global warming trends predict the Amazon rainforest will continue to dry, potentially ending its ability to suck more CO2 from the atmosphere than it absorbs. [News Source]

Industry denying climate change, says science minister (Guardian Unlimited) Lord Drayson says there is an urgent need to restate the scientific evidence for global warming and calls for companies to focus on their environmental obligations Senior figures in the manufacturing industry do not accept that human activities are driving global warming or that action needs to be taken to prepare for its effects, the UK government's science minister saidtoday . Lord ... [News Source]

Industry denying climate change, says science minister (Guardian Unlimited) Lord Drayson says there is an urgent need to restate the scientific evidence for global warming and calls for companies to focus on their environmental obligations Senior figures in the manufacturing industry do not accept that human activities are driving global warming or that action needs to be taken to prepare for its effects, the UK government's science minister saidtoday . Lord ... [News Source]

Climate change creationists (Guardian Unlimited) Climate change creationists is a more accurate way to describe those who deny evidence that human-induced global warming is occurring In a previous post I explained why I'm uncomfortable with the phrase "climate change denier" . That's not because I don't think the likes of George Will , Sarah Palin and Christopher Booker deny some very well established scientific facts – they do so ... [News Source]

Climate change creationists (Guardian Unlimited) Climate change creationists is a more accurate way to describe those who deny evidence that human-induced global warming is occurring In a previous post I explained why I'm uncomfortable with the phrase "climate change denier" . That's not because I don't think the likes of George Will , Sarah Palin and Christopher Booker deny some very well established scientific facts – they do so ... [News Source]

U.S. urged to pass carbon curbs this year For the U.S. to be a leader in crafting a global warming treaty, negotiators say Congress and the Obama administration must enact limits this year to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

March 20 lecture focuses on global warming, Alaska’s Inupiaq people (EurekAlert!) ( University of Delaware ) On Friday, March 20, at 3:30 p.m. on the University of Delaware's Newark campus, Columbia University researcher Chie Sakakibara will present the lecture "Kiavallakkikput Agviq -- Cultural Responses to Climate Change among the Inupiaq People of Arctic Alaska." The lecture will be Webcast live with a simulcast into the University of Delaware's virtual world in Second ... [News Source]