Todd Stern to press China on climate change in run-up to Copenhagen (Times Online) America’s leading climate change negotiator will urge China to make a commitment to cutting greenhouse gas emissions during meetings in Beijing this week, as the US seeks to avoid the collapse of the next global warming treaty. [News Source]

Climate change sceptics ‘impressive’: Fielding (Queensland Country Life) THE fact-finding mission to the US of Family First senator Steve Fielding has culminated in his giving senior White House staff graphs provided by climate change sceptics and asking why he should not believe them. [News Source]

Health, climate change vie for boost in US Congress (Deepika) WASHINGTON, Jun 7 (Reuters) Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no US president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year -- reforming health care and fighting global warming. [News Source]

Health, climate change vie for boost in Congress (Gulf Times) Reuters/Washington Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no US president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year - reforming health care and fighting global warming. [News Source]

West not playing its part to tackle climate change: India (New Kerala) By Joydeep Gupta, New Delhi, June 7 : Industrialised countries are nowhere near meeting their legal obligations to combat climate change and are trying to muddy the waters by saying the global problem cannot be tackled unless developing countries do more, says Shyam Saran, India's chief negotiator at the climate treaty talks. [News Source]

Global warming to push London temperatures up to 105F (Daily Telegraph) London could regularly see temperatures of 105F 41C and southwest England could be hot enough to grow grapes and sunflowers according to a map of how climate change will affect Britain in 2080. [News Source]

Health and climate change vie for boost in Congress (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Barack Obama may be pressuring Congress as no U.S. president has for decades as he aims to get two big domestic goals passed this year -- reforming health care and fighting global warming. [News Source]

Water supply shifts as global climate changes. Many of the world’s great rivers are becoming less so. Yet in the Midwest, the wet is getting wetter. So says a study that finds global climate change shifting weather and water patterns around the planet. [News Source]

Paper industry: Don’t kill fuel credit. They call it "black liquor," but the dark, chemical brew is not a beverage. It's the sludge left over from the cooking process used to turn wood pulp into paper. Paper companies burn it to generate steam and make electricity. [News Source]

The eco evangelist. While recovering from a brain haemorrhage, Craig Sorley had an epiphany – to spread the environmental word using the Bible. He took his green gospel to Kenya – now crop yields are up, the monkeys are back and even the Church is won over [News Source]

Here is the weather … for July 2080. Farmers in Devon and Cornwall, England could be challenging vintners in France by 2080 as climate change transforms the southwest into a balmy wine-growing region. [News Source]