Indians more worried than Chinese, Americans on climate change (MalaysiaNews.net) Washington, Dec 3 (IANS) Just before world leaders assemble in Copenhagen to discuss climate change, a new global survey shows sharp differences among people in different countries about global warming. [News Source]

Global-warming e-mails prompt Republican letter to EPA (Los Angeles Times) GOP members of Congress ask the administration to put climate-change measures on hold because messages from scientists in Britain appear to cast doubt on the idea of man-made warming. Citing e-mails that critics say cast doubt on global warming, congressional Republicans called on the Obama administration Wednesday to suspend efforts to combat climate change until the controversy is resolved. [News Source]

Climate e-mails debated at House hearing House Republicans and Obama administration scientists on Wednesday faced off on the implications of recent e-mails among climate experts. [News Source]

Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist (Guardian Unlimited) The scientist who convinced the world to take notice of the looming danger of global warming says it would be better for the planet and for future generations if next week's Copenhagen climate change summit ended in collapse. [News Source]

Study: More CO2 in seas helps some shells Some ocean shell builders, such as crabs, shrimp and lobsters, unexpectedly build more shell when exposed to ocean acidification, a new study found. [News Source]

Study: Earth could plunge into sudden ice age

In the film "The Day After Tomorrow," the world gets gripped in ice within just a few weeks. Now research now suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past.

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Hacker Leaks Thousands Of Climate Change Emails (NPR) Some say the correspondence casts doubt on what we know about the severity of climate change. As polls show Americans are increasingly skeptical about global warming, NPR science correspondent Richard Harris tells us how the controversy might change the debate. [News Source]

Scientist in climate flap to step down for now The chief of a British research center caught in a controversy over claims that he and others suppressed data about climate change has stepped down pending an investigation, his university says. [News Source]

Economist ups cost of climate change fight (UPI) LONDON, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Britain shouldn't let the current strain on public finances delay efforts to fight global warming, a top climate change economist said. [News Source]

Time to confront the invisible enemy. How are we to relate the evidence of our own senses to what we are told is happening, when the one in no way supports the other? The central difficulty that our society faces in dealing with the threat of a warming climate is that it takes place in the future. [News Source]

Most world leaders to attend U.N. climate summit. Most world leaders plan to attend a climate summit in Copenhagen this month, boosting chances that a new U.N. deal to fight climate change will be reached, host Denmark said on Tuesday. [News Source]