Don’t believe white lies, says Al Gore , record-breaking snow is due to global warming (New York Daily News) If the never-ending string of snowstorms has you believing global warming is a hoax, Al Gore says think again. [News Source]

How do you convince people of global warming in a snowstorm? (The Christian Science Monitor) Criticisms of climate change science are piling up as public concern wanes. But evidence of global warming continues to accumulate. [News Source]

How do you convince people of global warming in a snowstorm? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News) The dead of winter – especially this winter with its massive snow storms in the eastern United States – is not the easiest time to make the case for global warming. Short-term weather events and long-range climate change are not the same thing, of course, but it’s hard to separate them in the public’s mind. [News Source]

From Evolution to Global Warming? (Newswise) Science deniers, creationists, and their fellow travelers aren't just targeting evolution. Now they're turning their sights on global warming. [News Source]

Vail’s Greener Pastures: Do you believe in climate change? (Vail Daily) VAIL, Colorado - NPR recently did a piece on how heavy snowstorms in the Northeast are working against those scientists, politicians and environmentalists trying to warn us of global warming. To introduce the story, NPR aired various media banter about the weather, and most of it poked fun at the theory of global warming, along with its biggest ambassador - Al Gore. "Feels more like global ... [News Source]

Warming panel, under attack, seeks outside review. Scientists say the problems are minor and have nothing to do with the major conclusions about man-made global warming and how it will harm people and ecosystems. But researchers acknowledge that they have been too slow to respond to a drip-drip-drip of criticisms in the past three months. [News Source]

British firms face onslaught from tar sands campaigners. British companies spearheading the drive to exploit Canadian tar sands will come under renewed assault from a group of shareholders and environmentalists who plan to turn forthcoming annual meetings into a referendum on the controversial operations. [News Source]

Environmentalists question coal’s place in Obama policy. President Barack Obama, a longtime believer in "clean coal," is launching an ambitious and expensive plan to help the energy industry lock climate-changing gases from coal-fired power plants deep underground. [News Source]

Warm winters distress reindeer herders. Warm winters in recent years have forced herders here in the far northern Kola Peninsula to delay for months the rounding up of their reindeer from the vast tundra -- at great economic cost. [News Source]

Warming climate threatens Prairie Pothole Region. A new report shows predictions for a warming climate could be devastating to duck production in the Prairie Pothole Region. [News Source]

Unpredictable weather patterns hurting farming. A study indicates that on-going extreme changes and variability in Zambia’s climate could bring losses of more than US$4 billion in agricultural income in the next 10 years, driving hundreds of thousands into poverty and food insecurity. [News Source]