Nepal’s politicians push climate change (Sky News Australia) Nepal's top politicians donned scarves and oxygen masks at a cabinet meeting to raise awareness about global warming, ahead of next week's climate change talks in Copenhagen. [News Source]

Study: Cooler ‘08 in N. America was anomaly Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, according to a new study announced Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [News Source]

Obama shifts date of climate summit visit President Obama alters the timing of his  appearance at an international climate summit, hoping to capitalize on steps by India and China and build a more meaningful political accord. [News Source]

Global warming alarmism ‘fails the tests,’ scholars say (BPNews.net) WASHINGTON (BP)--A group of evangelical Christian scholars has issued a challenge to "global warming alarmism," releasing a call to "truth, prudence and protection of the poor" as governments consider policies to combat so-called "climate change." [News Source]

INTERVIEW-Climate change a security issue - Nobel laureate (AlertNet) Source: Reuters LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Wealthy nations must fight climate change on security grounds, as they will have to deal with any mass movement of people displaced by the effects of global warming, Nobel ... [News Source]

Warming slowed over North American last year, but climate change continues, researchers say (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) WASHINGTON - Cooler temperatures in North America last year do not mean global warming is easing, government and academic scientists said Friday. Their report comes just days before President Barack Obama heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, to speak at a United Nations conference on climate change. [News Source]

Climate change a security issue - Nobel laureate (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Wealthy nations must fight climate change on security grounds, as they will have to deal with any mass movement of people displaced by the effects of global warming, Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said on Friday. [News Source]

UN to probe climate change email case (Guardian Unlimited) Independent review will analyse hacked email exchange between UEA scientists at centre of climate controversy Claims that scientists at the University of East Anglia manipulated global warming data to support a theory of man-made climate change will be investigated by a United Nations panel, the university chairman said today. The UEA announced yesterday that an independent review will ... [News Source]

Top 10 Craziest Solutions to Global Warming (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News) World politicians will toss around the best ideas they have to get us out of the climate change mess we're in when they meet at the U.N. Copenhagen summit next week. Many people have suggested novel ways to combat the water pollution, smog, mounds of trash and global warming facing Earth. Here are some of the wackier (or at least, wackier-sounding) solutions ever proposed to solve Earth's ... [News Source]

Ten scientists on climate change ‘emailgate’ (Channel 4) As climate change sceptics seize upon "hacked" emails which they claim show global warming data has been manipulated, Channel 4 News online asks 10 scientists what they think of the furore. [News Source]

United Nations to probe climate e-mail leak

The United Nations will conduct its own investigation into e-mails leaked from a leading British climate science center in addition to the probe by the University of East Anglia, a senior U.N. climate official said Friday.

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