Skeptic Calls for Huge Global Warming Investment Bjorn Lomborg makes a surprising claim in his upcoming book -- that confronting climate change should be a global priority. [News Source]

Top climate change sceptic does U-turn SCEPTIC finally admits global warming is the biggest threat to the world and calls for a $US100 billion fund to fight it. [News Source]

Judge rejects Ken Cuccinelli’s probe of U-Va. global warming records. A Virginia judge on Monday dismissed a civil subpoena issued by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II to the University of Virginia that had sought documents related to the work of a global warming scientist and former university professor. [News Source]

Banks make a shift toward greener lending. After years of legal entanglements arising from environmental messes and increased scrutiny of banks that finance the dirtiest industries, several large commercial lenders are taking a stand on industry practices that they regard as risky to their reputations and bottom lines. [News Source]

Bjørn Lomborg: $100bn a year needed to fight climate change. The world's most high-profile climate change sceptic is to declare that global warming is "undoubtedly one of the chief concerns facing the world today" and "a challenge humanity must confront," in an apparent U-turn that will give a huge boost to the embattled environmental lobby. [News Source]

U.S. wants report card for cars. The government proposed labeling each new passenger vehicle with a letter grade from A to D based on its fuel efficiency and emissions, part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to promote electric cars and other advanced-technology vehicles. [News Source]

North Woods landscape is under attack. Minnesota's celebrated North Woods won't be nearly so woodsy -- and may not even stay in Minnesota -- according to a new study by University of Minnesota researchers. [News Source]

Pachauri an unlikely general in war on global warming. In 2002, when Rajendra Pachauri was elected head of the world's top climate-science body, Al Gore and other environmentalists condemned him as a favorite of the fossil-fuel industry. [News Source]

Coal crackdown will not reduce emissions. Labor's promised emissions standards for new coal electricity generators would not cut greenhouse gas emissions from any of the 12 coal power plants proposed in Australia, an analysis of the carbon profiles of each project shows. [News Source]

Rajendra Pachauri, head of UN climate change body, under pressure to resign. Rajendra Pachauri, who leads the UN's science panel on climate change, is coming under pressure to step aside as chair of the organisation after an independent review of the panel's work called for tighter term limits for its senior executives. [News Source]

Baker, Cahill would review greenhouse gas pact. Gov. Deval Patrick’s chief rivals for the Corner Office declined Monday to embrace a multistate compact aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions, raising the possibility that they’d pull Massachusetts out of the effort after four years of participation. [News Source]