Global warming’s many effects on wildlife Dear EarthTalk: I know that polar bears are losing ice cover due to climate change, but what are other ways that global warming affects wildlife around the globe? [News Source]

The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why? Climate change has already provoked debate in a U.S. presidential campaign barely begun. An Associated Press journalist draws on decades of climate reporting to offer a retrospective and analysis on global warming and the undying urge to deny. [News Source]

Global Warming May Be Leveled By Oceans The rate of global warming may be kept flat for about a decade, even in the middle of long-term warming, because Earth's oceans can absorb enough heat to temporarily keep it from skyrocketing, U.S. researchers say. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research say ocean layers below 1,000 feet can hold enough of the "missing heat" to hold global air temperatures steady during these ... [News Source]

Climate skeptics don’t ‘deny science’ Someday the workings of climate change may be as well understood as plate tectonics or photosynthesis. Until then, different theories will compete, assumptions will be fought over, and scientific findings will be overstated by people with political and social agendas. [News Source]

Global warming stance leaves laureate cold A Nobel laureate has resigned from one of the world's leading organisations for scientists in protest at its assertions that the evidence of damaging global warming is ''incontrovertible''. [News Source]

Global warming stance leaves laureate cold NEW YORK: A Nobel laureate has resigned from one of the world's leading organisations for scientists in protest at its assertions that the evidence of damaging global warming is ''incontrovertible''. [News Source]

The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why? Over the past 4 decades, powerful evidence has poured in showing the "greenhouse effect" is real and is happening. And yet resistance to the idea among many in the U.S. appears to have hardened. What's going on? [News Source]

Robots extract coolant from old refrigerators. Recycling refrigerators — especially those made more than 15 years ago — is a tricky job. The coolant in old appliances (now banned from newer versions) can cause serious trouble, warming the atmosphere and depleting the ozone layer. Now companies are using robots, which quickly squeeze most of the refrigerant out. [News Source]

Groundwater greed driving sea level rises. Slowly and almost imperceptibly the seas are rising, swollen by melting ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms. But there's another source of water adding to the rise: humanity's habit of pumping water from underground aquifers to the surface. Most of this water ends up in the sea. [News Source]

The Solyndra ‘panic.’ Republicans have now pounced on Solyndra's bankruptcy as proof that the loan program is a bust, that the president’s signature green jobs program is a fraud, and that this country’s solar energy business is in terminal decline. None of that is true. [News Source]

Melting ice is Earth’s warning signal – and we cannot ignore it. Ice is the white flag being waved by our planet, under fire from the atmospheric attack being mounted by humanity. [News Source]