Effects of global warming seen in low-lying areas of Bangladesh (ZDNet) Some observers refer to the displaced in south Asia as among the world's first climate refugees. Low elevation, increased river flow, encroaching ocean water, displaced rural populations. It has been predicted that global warming will make this the new pattern across thousands of miles of coastline in south Asia and other heavily populated areas. Bangladesh is getting to pioneer this new pattern ... [News Source]

The politics of climate change, the impossibility of conservatism, and the role of the imaginary (Larvatus Prodeo) One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ’skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is that climate change activism is somehow a screen or cover for an unstated political agenda. Futile [...] [News Source]

UK’s Brown says climate change agreement possible (The Star) LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting. [News Source]

Waylon Lewis: John Mackey, Whole Foods CEO: I don’t Believe in Climate Change. (The Huffington Post) John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods: "No scientific consensus exists" re Climate Change. I've been a big fan of Whole Foods's CEO John Mackey... [News Source]

Brown says climate change agreement possible (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday he believed a global agreement to combat climate change might still be possible despite the limited results of last month's Copenhagen meeting. [News Source]

Pachauri hopes binding agreement on climate change in Mexico (Calcutta News) New Delhi, Jan 3 : Nobel laureate Rajendra Kumar Pachauri on Sunday expressed hopes that countries would reach a time bound agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases at climate change summit in Mexico City. [News Source]

Climate change to drive away 1B from homes (Malaya) GENEVA—Climate change stands to drive as many as one billion people from their homes over the next four decades, the International Organization for Migration said in a study Tuesday. [News Source]

Peru’s mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter. Communities in Peru's Huancavelica region face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers. [News Source]

Britain must produce more food, government to warn. A soaring global population, climate change, diminishing energy sources and depleted fish stocks mean that society can no longer be complacent about its ability to feed itself, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will say. [News Source]

The last penguin. Loss of sea ice in Antarctica has led to steep declines in Adelie Penguins, which are dependent upon sea ice as a feeding platform. Adelie numbers on one island have dropped from 9,000 to 1,600. [News Source]

Peru’s mountain people face fight for survival in a bitter winter. Communities in Peru's Huancavelica region face extinction because of increasingly cold conditions in their own microclimate, which may have been altered by the rapid melting of the glaciers. [News Source]