Pro-Con | Is global warming real and threatening the planet? (The Kansas City Star) I’ve learned to have low expectations of editorials in the San Francisco Examiner. In “Cap-and-trade scheme will wreck economy,” the paper refers to how some people believe burning fossil fuels is “allegedly” causing global warming and writes, “The problem for such advocates … is that Earth average temperatures have been declining for the last decade, and a fast-growing number of climate and ... [News Source]

Discussions On Pact To Combat Global Warming (Scoop.co.nz) New York, Jun 1 2009 11:10AM Delegates from 182 nations are gathering in Bonn, Germany, today to initiate discussions on negotiating texts which could form the basis of an ambitious United Nations-backed climate change deal, to slash greenhouse gas emissions, expected to be clinched in December. [News Source]

Opposition sceptical of climate change (BigPond News) Greg Combet has accused the federal opposition of being climate change sceptics. [News Source]

Study: Global warming will worsen hurricane impact in Texas (KFDM Beaumont) GALVESTON, Texas (AP) - Flooding and damage along the Texas Gulf Coast from major hurricanes is expected to be more severe in the coming years due to global warming, according to a study released Monday. [News Source]

Bate and Switch: How a free-market magician manipulated two decades of environmental science. Call major environmental groups and ask them for comment on Roger Bate. The reply is always: Who? Like most policy wonks at conservative think tanks, few have ever heard of him. That is why he wins. [News Source]

Bill aims to keep emission-reduction efforts local. Assembly members hope to use California's global warming law to force industries to improve air quality in areas worst affected by pollution, which tend to be low-income and minority neighborhoods. [News Source]

Climate change turning seas acid: Scientists. Climate change is turning the oceans more acid in a trend that could endanger everything from clams to coral and be irreversible for thousands of years, national science academies said on Monday. [News Source]

Amazon rainforests pay the price as demand for beef soars. A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to intensified deforestation of the Amazon. Cattle ranching poses the biggest threat to the original Amazon forest. [News Source]

Bill aims to keep emission-reduction efforts local. Assembly members hope to use California's global warming law to force industries to improve air quality in areas worst affected by pollution, which tend to be low-income and minority neighborhoods. [News Source]

CO2 levels may cause underwater catastrophe. The science academies of 70 countries called on world leaders to explicitly recognise the dangers posed to the oceans of rising CO2 levels, which they warn are irreversible and could cause severe damage by 2050, or even earlier, if emissions carry on as they are. [News Source]

Amazon rainforests pay the price as demand for beef soars. A three-year survey by Greenpeace shows that western demand for beef and leather and an increase in cattle ranching is leading to intensified deforestation of the Amazon. Cattle ranching poses the biggest threat to the original Amazon forest. [News Source]