HO CHI MINH FOCUSES ON WATER MANAGEMENT, CLIMATE CHANGE HO CHI MINH, April 1 (Bernama) -- Ho Chi Minh City, the largest city inVietnam, is currently focusing on climate change response as well as its watermanagement resoruces, with a target of producing 2.3 million cubic meter ofclean water per day by the end of 2015, reported the Vietnam news agency.According to the Vice Chairman of the Municipal People''s Committee NguyenTrung Tin said that Ho Chi ... [News Source]

Brendan Smith: Should We Remain Silent About Climate Change? Not talking about climate change has failed to reap even modest wins for the climate movement. The climate movement needs to start telling the inconvenient truth again. [News Source]

UN Warns Of Catastrophic Impact of Climate Change New York, Mar 31 2011 12:10PM The effects of slow-onset climate change are expected to have “potentially catastrophic” impact on food production in developing countries in future, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned today, calling for action to mitigate the adverse consequences. [News Source]

Airplane contrails worse than CO2 emissions for global warming: study (PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, Dr. Ulrike Burkhardt and Dr. Bernd Karcher from the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the German Aerospace Centre show that the contrails created by airplanes are contributing more to global warming that all the CO2 that has been caused by the entire 108 years of airplane flight. [News Source]

Thursday Must Read: Koch Brothers Fund UC Berkeley Climate-Change Skeptic; Radioactive Rain Falls on US Stories you shouldn’t miss: 1. The Koch brothers, the billionaire oil executives who have financed the Tea Party movement, are now funding a climate change study at UC Berkeley that is led by a global warming skeptic, the LA Times reports.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ] [News Source]

Senate vote may end Obama’s climate change ambitions Four proposals seek to ban or limit US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions The US Senate is due to vote as early as Wednesday on measures that would strip the Obama administration of its powers to act on climate change. Up to four separate proposals in circulation this week would seek an outright ban – or at the very least severe limits and delays – on the authority of ... [News Source]

Global warming: Berkeley scientists’ climate data review puts them at center of national debate. The head of the study, a longtime critic of the global warming consensus, will testify before a House panel. Leading climate scientists worry that the project, funded in part by an oil billionaire's foundation, has an agenda. [News Source]

An energy plan derailed by events is being retooled. In just over two years in the White House, President Obama has seen the major elements of his energy and climate-change strategy demolished by a succession of economic, political, technical and natural disasters. [News Source]

Congress aims to curb EPA’s power over gases, bugs. The Obama administration's bid to regulate greenhouse gases, after losing last year's congressional debate over global warming, is making the Environmental Protection Agency the focus of Republican attacks on federal oversight. [News Source]

EPA accepts N.J.’s petition to cut pollution at coal plant on Delaware River. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has accepted a petition by the state Department of Environmental Protection that calls for an 81 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions over three years at the Portland Generating Station in Northampton County, PA. [News Source]

Berkeley scientists’ climate data review puts them at center of national debate. The head of the study, a longtime critic of the global warming consensus, will testify before a House panel. Leading climate scientists worry that the project, funded in part by an oil billionaire's foundation, has an agenda. [News Source]