George Will: Fluorescent bulb goof shows folly of climate-change circus (The Oxford Press) "Fervently" is how America will henceforth engage in talks on global warming. So said the president's climate-change negotiator Sunday in Germany, at a U.N. conference on reducing carbon emissions. [News Source]

Fairness must drive negotiations for climate change to change (Bellona Foundation) SARPSBORG, Norway – Some of the world’s leading environmental policy and business experts have gathered at the conference CC9 to talk about what needs to be done to make the world a bit more fair — at least when it comes to climate change matters. [News Source]

Obama ‘optimistic’ US can lead on climate change (AFP via Yahoo! News) President Barack Obama said Friday he was increasingly hopeful that the United States can lead the way on climate change, six months before crunch global talks in Copenhagen. [News Source]

Nurturing forests, peatlands will attack global warming: UNEP (AFP via Yahoo! News) Fixing deforestation, preserving peatlands and ending reckless agricultural methods could be a major weapon in tackling climate change, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Friday. [News Source]

Gambia: Climate Change - a Threat to Human Progress - NEA Executive Director Sarr (AllAfrica.com) Momodou B Sarr, executive director, National Environment Agency, has said that it is globally acknowledged that Climate Change is a great threat to human development. [News Source]

ICRISAT develops climate change ready varieties of pearl millet, sorghum, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut (SeedQuest) When the world gets warmer with climate change, the dryland tracts will become even drier making it more difficult for the farmers to grow crops in this region. [News Source]

Inuit village blames climate change for strange events. The fish changed colour. New bird species were spotted. Two bridges were wiped out by a once-in-a-lifetime flood that forced villagers to dump sewage into their pristine waters. The locals have a message for city-dwellers: This is what climate change looks like. [News Source]

Greening the herds - trying to limit cows’ ‘emissions’. Cows at farms across Vermont are having their grain feed adjusted to help them belch less methane, a potent heat-trapping gas that has been linked to climate change. [News Source]

New images show 50 years of climate change in the Himalayas. A series of before and after panoramas of Imja glacier taken five decades apart highlights dramatic reduction of Himalayan ice.The photos have now been united for the first time in an exhibition. [News Source]

NCC unveils ambitious strategy to make capital, events greener. From cutting the amount of garbage tossed in bins along the Rideau Canal during skating season to making events like Canada Day celebrations carbon-neutral, the National Capital Commission says it has a plan to make the capital greener. [News Source]

Inuit village blames climate change for strange events. The fish changed colour. New bird species were spotted. Two bridges were wiped out by a once-in-a-lifetime flood that forced villagers to dump sewage into their pristine waters. The locals have a message for city-dwellers: This is what climate change looks like. [News Source]