Top scientists urge climate change action plan (Toronto Star) Ontario needs to construct flood-proof roads, improve building guidelines, and enact local emergency response plans to cope with extreme weather threats, warns a blue-ribbon report on combating climate change. [News Source]

CU-Boulder scientist: Media exaggerate climate-change debate (Boulder Daily Camera) The way the mass media have reported on climate change has exaggerated the debate about whether global warming is happening and if it is human-caused, according to a scientist at the University of Colorado. [News Source]

Loggerhead turtle breeding affected by global warming (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A turtle researcher says global warming is behind an influx of loggerhead turtles breeding in South-East Queensland. [News Source]

Snow job on global warming (Ventura County Star) Some 49 of these 50 United States simultaneously laughed at so-called “global warming.” Every state but Hawaii had measurable snow on Feb. 13. An average eight inches covered 68.1 percent of the continental U.S., above January’s more typical 51.2 percent.Warmists correctly retort that a cold snap is no pattern. Instead, listen to East Anglia University climatologist Dr. Phil Jones. This world ... [News Source]

SPEAK UP: Will global warming make hurricanes more powerful? (Beaumont Enterprise) Since before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, scientific papers have clashed about whether global warming is worsening hurricanes and will do so in the future. [News Source]

Coal-State Dems Oppose Global-Warming Rules (ABC News) Sending message to Obama, Democrats join effort to block regulation of heat-trapping gases Global warming - Democratic Party - Environment - Climate change - Opposing Views [News Source]

Climate-Change Fervor Cools Amid Disputed Science (Update1) (BusinessWeek) U.S. Representative Bob Inglis went from climate-change skeptic to believer four years ago as opinion leaders from Al Gore to General Electric Co. chief Jeffrey Immelt called for laws to curb global warming. [News Source]

Climate-Change Fervor Cools Amid Disputed Science (Update1) (Bloomberg) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Bob Inglis went from climate-change skeptic to believer four years ago as opinion leaders from Al Gore to General Electric Co. [News Source]

Climate-Change Fervor Cools Amid Disputed Science, Defections (Bloomberg) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Bob Inglis went from climate-change skeptic to believer four years ago as opinion leaders from Al Gore to General Electric Co. [News Source]

U.S. Aims for Legally Binding Climate Change Agreement in 2010 (Bloomberg) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said it wants to reach a legally binding climate-change agreement at a summit in Mexico in December, a sign President Barack Obama hasn’t given up the fight for a global accord to limit greenhouse gases. [News Source]

U.S. Aims for Legally Binding Climate Change Agreement in 2010 (Bloomberg) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. said it wants to reach a legally binding climate-change agreement at a summit in Mexico in December, a sign President Barack Obama hasn’t given up the fight for a global accord to limit greenhouse gases. [News Source]