Debate continues on Earth climate change and global warming (The Enid News & Eagle) Climate change. Carbon footprint. Go green. [News Source]

Climate Change Effects In California (Science Daily) A new report suggests that climate changes are poised to affect virtually every sector of the state of California's economy and most of its ecosystems. Loss of agricultural land and increased risk of wildfires are among the potential outcomes of global warming for California. [News Source]

Nuclear power to stay for now, as a lesser evil than global warming (The Republican) "No nukes is good nukes" used to be the slogan that united environmentalists against nuclear power. But in recent years, with the heightened worries about climate change, nuclear has become a dilemma for the green movement. [News Source]

Future grows more hazy for mountaintop mining. In one of the deepest, steepest corners of Appalachia, where the most important industry is shearing mountains down to flat-top stumps, everybody wants the same answer: What did Washington just do? [News Source]

Alaska’s changing climate. Compared to the relatively gradual pace of warming in the Antarctic, the Arctic is warming rapidly--faster than any other place on earth. [News Source]

Environmentalists balk at Surry’s hen-poop power. The novelty of power plants that burn chicken droppings, mandated by North Carolina's new renewable-energy law, has given way to irony: They might be dirtier than the coal plants that environmentalists loathe. Modeling predicts they will emit arsenic. [News Source]

Expert: Don’t ‘rinky-dink around the margins’ of climate change. Auden Schendler is blowing a metaphorical raspberry at the kind of hybrid-driving, plastic bag-banning environmentalists for which Seattle is known. [News Source]

Fla. lawmakers ‘waking up’ to insurance failures. State lawmakers are abandoning long-held promises to lower rates for hurricane policies -- even amid the prospect of stronger storms -- in favor of rapid hikes to rescue public insurance programs that could sink. [News Source]

Forecasting a warmer world. Predicting the changes that could accompany rising global temperatures isn't all guesswork. Author Stephan Faris has found plenty of examples all over the world--from the quality of wine to ethnic cleansing in Darfur. [News Source]

On thin ice. Representatives of more than 60 nations and international organizations met in Baltimore to discuss the state of Earth's melting polar regions. Discussions focused on how climate change is shaping the future of our planet in ways that we are still striving to understand. [News Source]

Report: climate change could doom many state crops. Rising temperatures could make pears, peaches, pistachios and other crops needing a winter chill to grow unsuitable for California farms, while others would suffer lower yields, a new report says. [News Source]