Climate change revisited THE long six-month period of hot, dry weather this year (2010) and the beginning of the rainy season this month (July) gives us a preview of the kind of extreme weather conditions to be expected until 2020 and up to 2050. What occurred this year and the previous year can only be expected to be repeated or to become worse in the future. [News Source]

Area universities urged to study climate change. Adapting to climate change and mitigating its impacts are about to become bigger priorities in Northwest Indiana. [News Source]

Sceptical green urges smart billions to fight warming. Bjoern Lomborg, the bad boy of the climate debate who has rejected for years "alarmist" prophecies from environmentalists, stresses in a new book the need to invest billions to fight global warming. [News Source]

Disasters show need for action: UN climate chief. UN climate chief Christiana Figueres has warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year. [News Source]

Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project. Leading climate scientists will gather in the UK this week to finalise plans for a revolutionary project aimed at transforming their ability to predict meteorological disasters. [News Source]

A climate warning from the deep. The dispersal of tiny sea creatures in Antarctica has alerted scientists to the vulnerability of Earth's ice sheets. [News Source]

Solar power’s time to shine in Florida? With greater focus on environmental issues, and given rising energy prices and advancements in new technologies, this is solar technology's time to shine. [News Source]

Indian Ocean rising faster than others. Newly detected rising sea levels in parts of the Indian Ocean have led Indian scientists to conclude that the Indian Ocean is rising faster than other oceans. [News Source]

Kansas joins case to head off federal carbon regulation. Attorney General Steve Six has joined Kansas with 10 other states in an effort to head off federal regulation of greenhouse gases. [News Source]

Scientist watches glacier melt beneath his feet. Earlier this summer, a group of scientists spent two weeks in Indonesia atop a glacier called Puncak Jaya, one of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the world. They were taking samples of ice cores to study the impacts of climate change on the glacier. [News Source]

On the frontline of climate change. A team from the CNN programme “Earth’s Frontiers” arrives in Cyprus today to start work on a climate change documentary. [News Source]