Criticism of Climate Change Science Heats Up (The Online NewsHour) The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. Jeffrey Brown reports. [News Source]

FIRST-PERSON: The meltdown of Global Warming alarmism E. Calvin Beisner (BPNews.net) BURKE, Va. (BP)--Forget all you've heard about unprecedented global warming; global warming so rapid it can't be natural but must be anthropogenic; global warming threatening to devastate economies, ecosystems, and perhaps even human civilization itself; global warming on which "the science is settled" and "the debate is over." [News Source]

‘Father of global warming’ to speak in Adelaide (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) The so-called "father of global warming", James Hansen, is using his Australian visit to push for a global carbon payment system. [News Source]

Climate change is a fact, says China (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A deputy director of China's most powerful economic ministry has come out swinging against climate change denial. [News Source]

United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change (Daily Telegraph) The head of the United Nations (UN) has announced a review of how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around the science of climate change. [News Source]

Top scientific panel to review U.N. global warming report (San Jose Mercury News) UNITED NATIONS — At a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel Prize-winning global warming panel. [News Source]

Global-warming skeptic speaks at Liberty University (The News & Advance) British climate change-skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton took on the United Nations , Al Gore and the mainstream media during a talk this morning at Liberty University’s student convocation, in which he called for an end to what he called the unfounded “global warming panic.“ [News Source]

U.N. climate panel faces major review

The world's biggest scientific guns are being called in to mop up after a trickle of unsettling errors in the authoritative reports written by a global warming panel.

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How fundraising helped shape Obama’s green agenda. Once again, there are questions about whether a new President's approach to energy is a product of Washington's unchanged, pay-to-play culture in which political supporters are offered special access to the policymaking process. [News Source]

‘Famine marriages’ just one byproduct of climate change. The negative fallout from climate change is having a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household and care burdens. [News Source]

Was Waxman-Markey a waste of energy? The effort to tackle global warming via a cap-and-trade scheme is officially "dead," says Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). So, where does that leave the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade legislation that squeaked through the House last summer by a single vote after months of convoluted dealmaking? [News Source]