Arctic reveals surprise greenhouse-gas source

Methane, a potent global warming gas, is bubbling out of the frozen Arctic faster than had been expected.

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95 per cent chance that Man is to blame for global warming (New Kerala) London, March 5 : A new study has found that there is a 95 per cent chance that human activity is to blame for global warming, and only 5 percent chance that the climate change is due to natural factors. [News Source]

White House lays out plans for Gulf Coast renewal. The Obama administration on Thursday laid out a plan to deal with the catastrophic dangers of rising sea levels, hurricanes and erosion on the Gulf Coast, and backed efforts to invest in restoring barriers islands and wetlands in Mississippi and Louisiana. [News Source]

Study says undersea release of methane is under way. Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases in global warming. Now researchers say this change is under way. [News Source]

Lawmakers move to restrain EPA on climate change. As climate change legislation stalled in the Senate, the Obama administration noted that it had a workable Plan B. If Congress wouldn't cap U.S. emissions, officials said, the EPA would do it instead. Now, even Plan B may be in trouble. [News Source]

Climate change human link evidence ’stronger.’ A review from the UK Met Office says it is becoming clearer that human activities are causing climate change. It says the evidence is stronger now than when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change carried out its last assessment in 2007. [News Source]

The wrong kind of green. As we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world's worst polluters -- and burying science-based environmentalism in return. [News Source]

EU drafts reveal biofuel’s environmental damage. Biodiesel and other "green" fuels that Europeans put in their cars can have unintended consequences for tropical forests and wetlands, European Union reports show -- the first evidence of EU misgivings. [News Source]

The newest hybrid model. One of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in whether conventional power generation can be married with renewable power in a way that lowers costs and spares the environment. [News Source]

Review backs man-made global warming. The case for man-made global warming is even stronger than the IPCC maintained in its official assessments, according to the first scientific review published since December’s Copenhagen conference and subsequent attacks on the IPCC’s credibility. [News Source]

Climate scientists plot to fight back at skeptics. Top climate researchers are plotting to respond to scandals over the science underpinning climate change with what one scientist involved said needs to be "an outlandishly aggressively partisan approach" to gut the credibility of skeptics, according to private e-mails obtained by the Washington Times. [News Source]