US farmers challenge climate change data (Queensland Country Life) MUCH of current global warming theory is based on distortions of scientific evidence, blind devotion to simple notion and outright greed, according to a speaker at the American Farm Bureau's 91st annual meeting. [News Source]

Expected global warming sign ‘not there’ (Adelaide Now) SEA water under an East Antarctic ice shelf showed no sign of higher temperatures despite fears of a thaw linked to global warming that could bring higher world ocean levels, first tests showed yesterday. [News Source]

Kyoto to Copenhagen: Why UN’s glacial global warming talks need overhaul (The Christian Science Monitor) Some specialists are calling for an overhaul of the UN global warming process, which yielded only modest progress in Copenhagen. [News Source]

Fresh concern over global warming (Press Assoc. via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) Time is running out for governments hoping to prevent global warming soaring in the next century, scientists claim. [News Source]

Jeff Schweitzer: Confusing Weather and Climate: The False Debate About Global Warming (The Huffington Post) As soon as the temperature hits freezing, skeptics cry out that global warming must be a farce. Stop already with the nonsense that climate change can't be real because it is cold outside. [News Source]

Kyoto to Copenhagen: Why UN’s glacial global warming talks need overhaul (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) Take 45,000 participants, complex global-warming issues, and negotiators from more than 190 countries. Add a last-minute dash of presidents, premiers, and prime ministers, and what do you get? [News Source]

AP Poll: Most see climate change as serious (Park Hills Daily Journal) WASHINGTON (AP) — Three of every four Americans view climate change as a serious problem that will harm future generations if not addressed, according to an Associated Press-Stanford University poll. [News Source]

A. Siegel: “Boy, its cold outside” and the nature of climate change / Global Warming (The Huffington Post) It is cold in my backyard, therefore global warming isn't real. It is that sort of quite natural human (ego-centric) perspective that contributes to the... [News Source]

States want delay on emission rules. A growing number of states are urging the Obama administration to slow the rollout of federal rules curbing greenhouse gas emissions, saying it could overwhelm them with paperwork, delay projects and undercut their own efforts to fight climate change. [News Source]

World warming to greener train travel. Faced with global climate change, many around the globe have warmed to train travel. Traveling by rail is on average three to 10 times less CO2-intensive compared to road or air transport, according to the UIC, a Paris-based international organization of the railway sector. [News Source]

‘It’s like a death watch’. Scientists who have been studying polar bears of western Hudson Bay believe that occurrences of cannibalism recorded this fall are more signs that climate change is taking its toll on the bears of the region. [News Source]