Why Does The Global-Warming Debate Provoke So Much Anger? The debate about global warming is marked by a failure to separate questions of fact and value. This is confusing and dangerous. [News Source]

Canada’s Arctic ice shelves breaking up fast

Canada in just six years has lost nearly 50 percent of the ice shelf area that holds back glacial ice from melting into the ocean, scientists report.

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Africa: UNEP Assists African Journalists to Cover the Climate Change Story Bringing the latest climate change research on forests, agriculture, food security and carbon trading to African journalists was the focus of a media workshop at the Highway Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). [News Source]

Climate change: Will chocolate become a costly luxury? If temperatures continue to rise, a new report suggests, West Africa, source of half the world's chocolate, will be unfit to grow the coveted beans [News Source]

Monitoring global warming at world’s ‘Third Pole.’ How are high-altitude glaciers in central Asia reacting to global warming? A team of German-based scientists is measuring the little-known frozen world of the Tian Shan mountain range. Though conditions there are much colder than in other ranges, they've already found evidence of gradual ice sheet shrinkage. [News Source]

Do-it-yourself climate modeling. If you're curious about what 16 reputable climate models say about the future of your corner of the planet, check out the Climate Wizard, a site that lets you use model simulations to show how future temperatures and precipitation may change around the world as greenhouse gas concentrations continue to increase. [News Source]

Dengue fever infects over 12,000 in Pakistan. Already cursed by floods and suicide bombings, Pakistan now faces a new menace from an unprecedented outbreak of the deadly tropical disease, dengue fever. [News Source]

Reaping oil from discarded plastic. Could oil companies soon be picking up your trash? Agilyx, an Oregon-based start-up, says it has created a system that converts discarded plastic into crude oil. A prototype has been in development for 18 months, and the company says it hopes to start selling commercial versions in about nine months. [News Source]

Aerosol particles dry out South Asian monsoons: Study. Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate scientists said on Thursday. [News Source]

Green fund full of empty promises. Climate change will be expensive to manage, and one of the most contentious issues in the negotiations is where that money will come from and who will dispense it. Enter the Green Climate Fund. [News Source]

Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at risk in Solyndra. Energy Secretary Steven Chu acknowledged Thursday making the final decision to allow a struggling solar company to continue receiving taxpayer money after it had technically defaulted on a $535 million federal loan guaranteed by his agency. [News Source]