Global Warming Also Triggers Military Conflict (East Bay Express) UC Berkeley study shows link between heat and war in sub-Saharan Africa. by Madeleine Bair We've heard that climate change will kill the polar bears, eradicate the salmon, and sink specks of land in the Pacific Ocean. Pinning down the effect of global warming on humans has been more difficult. But a team of researchers led by two UC Berkeley economists has done just that. A study by Cal doctoral ... [News Source]

Global warming measures will cost ‘twice as much as predicted’ (Times Online) Preventing runaway global warming may be twice as expensive as previously thought and Britain will have to incur billions of pounds of additional debt to cover its share of the cost, according to the world’s most influential climate change economist. [News Source]

Congressman Fattah Credits the President For ‘Changing the Game on Climate Change’ (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and its subcommittees that oversee funding for federal science, commerce, energy and water development agencies, issues this statement on President Obama's global warming diplomacy and upcoming appearance on Dec. 9 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in ... [News Source]

Expert Alert: Mercy Corps Experts on Climate Change (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Climate change negatively affects hundreds of millions of people in the developing world through flooding, drought, diminished crop yields, displacement and conflict. People living in extreme poverty are least responsible for global warming, and least prepared to cope with its devastating impacts. [News Source]

Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill (San Francisco Chronicle) Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week. The Senate, where Prime... Australia - Greenhouse gas - Environment - Politics - Opposition [News Source]

Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill (FOX 12 Idaho) Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next... [News Source]

Climate Change discussion in Parliament on Thursday (Press Trust of India) New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) Lok Sabha will discuss at length on Thursday the issue of climate change, weeks ahead of a crucial meeting in Copenhagen to decide ways and means to tackle the phenomenon of global warming. [News Source]

Climate change sceptic Tony Abbott is new Australian opposition leader (Times Online) Australia’s plan to place itself at the forefront of tackling global warming in Copenhagen have been dealt a significant blow after the main opposition party dumped its leader and replaced him with a climate change sceptic. [News Source]

Major sea level rise likely as Antarctic ice melts. Sea levels are likely to rise by about 1.4m (4ft 6in) globally by 2100 as polar ice melts, according to a major review of climate change in Antarctica. [News Source]

World carbon emissions overshoot budget, study finds. The world has emitted extra greenhouse gases this century equivalent to the annual totals of China and the United States above a maximum for avoiding the worst impacts of climate change, a study by global accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers estimated on Tuesday. [News Source]

Copenhagen summit: It’s money that matters in the backroom talks. Copenhagen may lead over the next 20 years to the largest transfer of money in history from the global north to the south, dwarfing the amount that developing countries now receive in aid. [News Source]