Is It Hot in Here? Must Be Global Warming. In any debate over climate change, conventional wisdom holds that there is no reflex more absurd than invoking the local weather. But both sides still do it. [News Source]

International donors support RP’s fight vs climate change Foreign financial institutions have expressed their full support to the Climate Change Commission’s (CCC) objective to address impacts of global warming and climate change in the country through mitigation and adaptation strategies. [News Source]

Russia calls in army as fires escalate. Russia called in the army on Friday to combat fires sweeping across the drought-stricken European part of the country and forcing thousands of people to flee. [News Source]

Global warming signs unmistakable, report says. A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 "unmistakable" indicators that the world is getting warmer. [News Source]

Nice for a dip, but worrisome. Superior and the four other Great Lakes have been at or near record high temperatures for the 30 years such measurements have been taken -- and there's still a month left before the lakes typically hit their warmest levels of the year. [News Source]

Russia calls in army as fires escalate. Russia called in the army on Friday to combat fires sweeping across the drought-stricken European part of the country and forcing thousands of people to flee. [News Source]

Wildfires sweeping Russia kill at least 25. Wildfires sweeping across European Russia killed at least 25 people on Friday and forced the evacuation of thousands in the hottest weather since records began 130 years ago. [News Source]

Forest fires sparked by heatwave claim lives of 25 Russians. Forest fires raged across Russia yesterday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters. [News Source]

Rotting kelp likely cause of county’s polluted beaches. Kelp is to blame for the coast's low marks for water quality, say county health officials. [News Source]

Global warming signs unmistakable, report says. A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 "unmistakable" indicators that the world is getting warmer. [News Source]

Without Congress. The Senate isn't taking up a climate change bill this summer, despite years of efforts to legislate a solution. But other plans to cap greenhouse gas emissions are beginning to grind into gear. [News Source]