Humans to blame for climate change - scientists (The New Zealand Herald) Climate scientists have delivered a powerful riposte to their sceptical critics with a study that strengthens the case for saying global warming is largely the result of man-made emissions of greenhouse gases.The researchers found... [News Source]

Leading article: Climate change is not a matter of faith (Independent) If opinion polls are right, fewer people "believe" in climate change now than a few months ago, prior to the leak of emails from the University of East Anglia and the emergence of embarrassing errors in one of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The science of global warming, it seems, has taken a severe hit in terms of the public's credulity. [News Source]

95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming, say scientists (Times Online) The evidence that human activity is causing global warming is much stronger than previously stated and is found in all parts of the world, according to a study that attempts to refute claims from sceptics. [News Source]

Susan J. Marks: ‘Climate Change” or Not, Something is Up on Earth (The Huffington Post) The Earth's climate is undergoing tangible changes. That's reality, whether you're with Al Gore or whether you're among the growing numbers of Americans who don't buy into the idea of "global warming." [News Source]

Jurists want active role in climate change talks (The Hindu) SINGAPORE:The international meet on global warming organised by the International Council of Jurists (ICJ), on board a cruise, has called upon the United Nations to include eminent jurists in all climate change talks to be held in future. [News Source]

S.D.: CO2 not a pollutant, global warming “a theory” (The Des Moines Register) USA Today reports here that the South Dakota Legislature passed a resolution indicating that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and that climate change is a theory. The resolution is part of a huge debate over how global warming issues should be taught in schools. [News Source]

Whacky winter weather doesn’t bolster either side of the climate change argument (The Milton Standard-Journal) LEWISBURG — “You can’t pin any given year, or certainly an event, like Hurricane Katrina, and say, ‘that’s global warming.’” [News Source]

Darwin foes add warming to target list. Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools. [News Source]

EPA raises initial threshold for greenhouse-gas regulation. The EPA will set an emissions threshold of at least 75,000 tons a year - and possibly more than 100,000 tons a year - for power plants and other industrial projects for the initial stage of stationary-source greenhouse-gas regulations between 2011 to 2012. [News Source]

Graham’s cap-and-trade pronouncement reframes Hill debate. Sen. Lindsey Graham's recent remarks -- or snippets of them -- have ricocheted around Capitol Hill and beyond in recent weeks, lending momentum to the notion that the congressional effort he is helping lead no longer plans to implement a system that requires companies to buy and sell emission credits. [News Source]

Hopes for $2 trillion global carbon market fade. Investors are becoming less convinced that a global carbon market, estimated to be worth about $2 trillion by the end of the decade, can be established as uncertainty over global climate policy persists. [News Source]