Lawmaker: Climate change just ruse to control population (The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population. The House Natural Resources Committee then approved a resolution that expresses the Utah Legislature's belief that "climate alarmists' carbon [News Source]

Global warming good for trees, bad for ducks (Philippine Daily Inquirer) WASHINGTON—Global warming is good news for trees, which are thriving in higher temperatures and longer growing seasons, but bad news for ducks and other waterfowl, whose wetland habitat may dry up and disappear, according to two studies. [News Source]

Climate Change Resolution Passes Through Committee (KUTV Salt Lake City) If the first legislative test for a climate change measure, heavy on global warming skepticism, had been a sports contest, the outcome could have been described a blow out.  A legislative committee Thursday moved House Joint Resolution 12 to the full Utah House on a vote of 10-to-1.The resolution calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to "immediately halt its carbon dioxide reduction ... [News Source]

Do climate scandals discredit global warming case? (3news) UN climate chief Yvo de Boer says that recent scandals over climate data had not discredited the scientific evidence that global warming existed and must be countered. [News Source]

India forms new climate change body (Daily Telegraph) The Indian government says it "cannot rely" on the United Nation's Climate Change group... [News Source]

Utah Legislature may tell EPA global warming not proven (ABC 4 Salt Lake City) Salt Lake (ABC 4 News) - Resolution questioning global warming passes House Committee. [News Source]

Utah Legislature may tell EPA global warming not proven (ABC 4 Salt Lake City) Salt Lake (ABC 4 News) - It appears the state legislature is getting ready to proclaim that Utah does not believe in global warming. A House resolution passed committee easily Thursday, one that tells the feds that global warming has not yet been proven. The resolution's sponsor hoped the debate would shed some light on the issue of global warming. Rep. Kerry Gibson told the House Natural ... [News Source]

Enlisting a drug discovery technique in the battle against global warming (Science Daily) Scientists in Texas are reporting that a technique used in the search for new drugs could also be used in the quest to discover new, environmentally friendly materials for fighting global warming. Such materials could be used to capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from industrial smokestacks and other fixed sources before it enters the biosphere. [News Source]

Declined: Pika won’t be protected species

Federal officials decide not to provide endangered species protections to the American pika, a tiny, mountain-dwelling animal thought to be struggling because of climate change.

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Wolverine No Match for Climate Change (Scientific American) Forget polar bears or penguins. The charismatic megafauna suffering most from climate change may well be the wolverine--a vicious predator known for its uncanny strength and tenacity. Making it the perfect inspiration for the X-Men superhero.   The actual wolverine's super powers extend mostly to a tolerance for Arctic chill and supersized feet to permit quicker movement on snow. Those big feet ... [News Source]

House committee seeks to keep global warming laws out of Utah (KSL Salt Lake City) Utah lawmakers want to send a strong message to the federal government to keep global warming laws away from the state. [News Source]