Global warming may hurt some poor populations, benefit others (Science Daily) The impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years. But even as some poor populations are hurt, others would be helped out of poverty, according to a new Stanford University study. [News Source]

Stanford study: Global warming’s affect on crops could hurt some poor populations, lift others from poverty (Stanford Report) The impact of global warming on food prices and hunger could be large over the next 20 years. But even as some people are hurt, others would be helped out of poverty, according to a new Stanford University study. [News Source]

A measure for climate change (Washington Post) The impact of global warming on U.S. forests is being measured via expanding tree trunks. [News Source]

Pallavi Aiyar: The missing P-word in global warming (Business Standard India) The recently concluded United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen presented a rare opportunity for China to cast its stringent three-decade-old, one-child policy in a positive light. [News Source]

Barack Obama’s climate change policy in crisis (Daily Telegraph) President Barack Obama's climate change policy is in crisis amid a barrage of US lawsuits challenging goverment directives and the defection of major corporate backers for his ambitious green programmes. [News Source]

Iceberg ahead. Climate science is losing ground with the public, at least in the U.S. In April 2008, 47 percent of Americans believed that human activity is the cause of climate change and 34 percent thought the warming was due to natural geological causes. According to the polling firm Rasmussen Reports, the numbers in recent months have flipped. [News Source]

Barbour lobbies fellow governors to oppose EPA regulations. A former utility lobbyist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is asking members of the National Governors Association's natural resource committee to urge Congress to block the rules. [News Source]

De Boer will be a hard act to follow. A climate agreement looks remote following the chaos of the Copenhagen summit, and now United Nations climate chief Yvo de Boer has thrown in the towel. The Dutchman is leaving because the climate change summit in Copenhagen did not live up to his expectations, even if he won't say so directly. [News Source]

DNR: More Wisconsin power plants violate Clean Air Act. At least five more state-run power plants are not in compliance with federal clean air regulations and need to install tighter pollution controls, Gov. Jim Doyle's administration acknowledged Friday. [News Source]

Ghost filibuster haunts climate action. Read-your-grandma's-chicken-recipe filibusters no longer hold the Senate floor, but their threat routinely holds up plans to legislate ambitious action on problems like climate change. [News Source]

Oregon’s solar future could hinge on copying Germany. In Germany, favorable policies and government subsidies fuel a burgeoning solar industry. It's a dream scenario for Oregon leaders, in a high-stakes bid to grow their own "solar forest." And they intend to follow Germany's path - practically step by step. [News Source]