Part One: Global Warming: Fact or Fabrication? (WJHG Panama City) Eleven straight days of freezing temperatures, light snow around I-10, and that was all here in Florida. The US has had one of the coldest winters in recent memory, and that has a lot of people wondering if there is such a thing as global warming. We delve into both sides of the climate change debate in our special series, “Global Warming: Fact or Fabrication?” [News Source]

Study: Can Hurricanes Cause Climate Change? (Time Magazine) Scientists have long suspected that global warming could make hurricanes more intense, but a new study suggests the effect works both ways: cyclones could help drive up temperature [News Source]

Resolution to ‘balance’ global warming debate narrowly passes Senate (Rapid City Journal) A House resolution urging South Dakota public schools that present information on the warnings of global warming to also provide the skeptical view of climate change cleared another hurdle Wednesday when it narrowly passed the Senate with a 38-37 vote. [News Source]

Harper’s sincerity on global warming questioned after ex-minister assails climate ‘alarmism’ (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) OTTAWA - Stephen Harper's sincerity in tackling climate change was challenged Wednesday after his former foreign affairs minister assailed what he described as alarmism over global warming. [News Source]

Distractions muddle climate change debate (Juneau Empire) The trouble with the climate change debate is that we get distracted. Weather is one example. Some argue this winter in Juneau is evidence of global warming while others would counter with the cold and wet summer of 2008. Climate is the tendency of weather to follow certain patterns; weather is the variation around the pattern. We can all describe our climate, but predicting weather is trickier ... [News Source]

Bernier challenges climate change ‘alarmism’ (Toronto Sun) Canada’s ex-foreign affairs minister has come out swinging on behalf of climate-change skeptics and assailed what he describes as alarmism over global warming. [News Source]

Bernier comes out swinging on behalf of climate-change skeptics (Times & Transcript) foreign affairs minister has come out swinging on behalf of climate-change skeptics and assailed what he describes as alarmism over global warming. [News Source]

Americans Cool With Global Warming? (Fast Company Magazine) Almost half of Americans in the Yale Project on Climate Change 's new study on global warming said strong action needs to be taken. But the amount who think it's all a hoax has doubled. Nearly everyone, however, supports regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant. More results: 39% Alarmed or Concerned At the top of the scale are people who consider themselves 'Alarmed' by climate change ... [News Source]

Bernier comes out swinging on behalf of climate-change skeptics (Brandon Sun) MONTREAL - Add Maxime Bernier to the list of climate-change skeptics. Canada's former foreign-affairs minister says it's far from clear that global warming is happening. [News Source]

New poll suggests that the British are going cold on global warming (Brisbane Times) LONDON: British public conviction about the threat of climate change has declined sharply after months of questions over the science and growing disillusionment with government action, a leading poll has found. [News Source]

Alternative Views on Climate Change (Foreign Relations) Many lawmakers, policymakers, and heads of major corporations worldwide have expressed a willingness to address climate change. They believe the scientific evidence is clear enough to warrant action. [News Source]