Another storm for climate expert. As one of the first scientists to warn decades ago of man-made global climate change, James Hansen feels like a marked man in a high-stakes, anything-goes political campaign. [News Source]

Plant foreign trees ‘to save our forests.’ Lebanon cedars, Italian elders and Macedonian pines, rather than native species, must form a vital part of a dramatic expansion of tree cover as global warming changes the Scottish environment, says Professor Sir David Read. [News Source]

Public sector emissions grew by 6.25% in 2008. Critics say government lacks credibility as emissions rose 6.25% in 2008, while overall, the UK's emissions fell by 2%. [News Source]

German minister urges party to drop nuclear power. German Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen has urged his conservative party allies to consider dropping plans to extend the use of nuclear power because of a public lack of acceptance. [News Source]

Palm Beach to seek $250K grant from Florida Energy and Climate Commission. Deputy Town Manager Tom Bradford and a consultant are working to land a $250,000 energy efficiency and conservation block grant from the Florida Energy and Climate Commission. [News Source]

How Met Office blocked questions on its own man’s role in ‘hockey stick’ climate row. The Meteorological Office is blocking public scrutiny of the central role played by its top climate scientist in a highly controversial report by the beleaguered United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. [News Source]

Climate scepticism grows among Tories. Most Conservative MPs, including at least six members of the shadow cabinet, are sceptical about their party's continued focus on climate change policies, it has been claimed. [News Source]

Head of UN climate change panel clocks up half a million miles of air travel. On his international missions, Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called for radical action to stave off environmental disaster. [News Source]

The extreme floods in Cumbria. For all their drama, the floods should not have come as much of a surprise. Twenty years ago, Britain’s first climate change predictions told us we should prepare for drier summers and wetter winters, with more intense rainfall and flooding the likely consequences. [News Source]

New errors in IPCC climate change report. The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders. [News Source]

Think-tanks take oil money and use it to fund climate deniers. An orchestrated campaign is being waged against climate change science to undermine public acceptance of man-made global warming, environment experts claimed last night. [News Source]