WATCH: Is This Global Warming? (ABC News) Climate scientists say winter storms bolster the case for global warming. Global warming - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - Activism [News Source]

Note: Dean on Global Warming: Republicans ‘Don’t Believe in Science’ (ABC News) In an ABC News interview, fmr. DNC chair blasts back at Republicans on issue of global warming. Global Warming - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views - School Time [News Source]

Dylan Ratigan Responds To Glenn Beck’s Global Warming Attack With His Own Chalkboard (VIDEO) (The Huffington Post) Glenn Beck is one of the many climate change deniers who has jumped to the false conclusion that the current monster snowstorms are proof that climate change, or global warming, is not happening. [News Source]

Blizzard Being Used To Prove And Deny Climate Change (Defamer) Both sides of the climate change ‘debate’ have decided that the snowstorm proves their case. ‘Morons’ argue that because it is cold, global warming is a myth. ‘Scientists’ counter that climate change means more extreme weather, not just warming. [ NYT ] [News Source]

What Does Winter Weather Reveal about Global Warming? (Scientific American) Snowpocalypse. Snowmageddon. Whatever your preferred appellation, this week's winter storms brought misery to denizens of the U.S. East Coast and prompted some at least to question the scientific theory of climate change .   After all, shouldn't global warming deliver us from ice, snow and cold? The site of the Winter Olympics seems to think so, Vancouver experienced the warmest January on ... [News Source]

Melting glaciers are clear evidence of global warming, climate change researcher says at USF conference (St. Petersburg Times) TAMPA To see global warming in action, look at the world's glaciers, says Lonnie Thompson, a leading climate change researcher who has spent decades studying glacial ice caps. [News Source]

Is it time to overhaul the IPCC? The UN-sponsored IPCC has become ossified and biased, unable to deal fairly with scientific uncertainty, according to several climate scientists who set out their prescriptions for the embattled organization in the journal Nature. [News Source]

Swedish environmental lessons. Last July 1, four households in the Washington metropolitan area were designated "Climate Pilots" and embarked on a seven-month Swedish-sponsored environmental initiative that teaches people how to cut down on their use of nonrenewable resources in food, energy, and transportation. [News Source]

Errors in climate report prompt a push for reform. A steady drip of unsettling errors is exposing what scientists are calling "the weaker link" in the Nobel Peace Prize-winning series of international reports on global warming. [News Source]

Boycott of oil sands fuel called ‘greenwashing.’ Upscale U.S. grocer Whole Foods Markets WFMI-Q assures its eco-aware shoppers that its meat has no antibiotics, that its coffee and roses are fair-traded and, now, that its organic produce is delivered using oil-sands-free fuel – for the most part. [News Source]

14 recovering pelicans released along California coast. California brown pelicans have recently been dying in large numbers for reasons wildlife officials don't yet fully understand. [News Source]