Glacial lakes disappearing in Chile. Four years ago, the Baker River in Aysén Patagonia suddenly tripled in size, causing a virtual tsunami. Roads, bridges and farms were severely damaged and dozens of livestock drowned. The source of the flood turned out to be a lake in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field that had vanished in a matter of hours. [News Source]

Romney energy plan shows changing views, draws questions about job claims. The energy chapter of Mitt Romney’s “Believe in America” economic plan is chock-full of statistics and job claims — numbers that will get a closer look after the recent dismal employment figures. [News Source]

Base climate change on facts and not emotion. The climate issue is just one example where perception and popular opinion can quickly supercede careful examination. [News Source]

Tilting with windmills. Here's the irony about Canada's two-decade, shambolic, inept, half-hearted and contradictory response to the incontrovertible fact that the planet's surface climate has, over the past 150 years, warmed: It mirrors uncertainty about the predictive ability of climate science. [News Source]

Glacial lakes disappearing in Chile. Four years ago, the Baker River in Aysén Patagonia suddenly tripled in size, causing a virtual tsunami. Roads, bridges and farms were severely damaged and dozens of livestock drowned. The source of the flood turned out to be a lake in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field that had vanished in a matter of hours. [News Source]

Romney energy plan shows changing views, draws questions about job claims. The energy chapter of Mitt Romney’s “Believe in America” economic plan is chock-full of statistics and job claims — numbers that will get a closer look after the recent dismal employment figures. [News Source]

Arctic discovery: Massive algae bloom raises crucial questions. NASA has revealed its discovery of a massive algae bloom under the slowly diminishing Arctic ice – a finding that made scientists' eyes pop. But does this never-before-seen phenomenon change the fate of this microscopic algae? What could the discovery mean for global warming? [News Source]

Emissions set to raise in India and China. Emissions in India and China set to rise as Asia-Pacific region faces mounting challenges in tackling climate change, water scarcity, species extinction and hazardous waste as its economy forges ahead, a UN report has warned. [News Source]

Can an environmental lawsuit salvage cap and trade in New Jersey? Environmental groups took what might be their last recourse to reinstate New Jersey into a multistate cap-and-trade initiative: suing the governor. [News Source]

Missed connection in the Rockies. In Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Glacier lilies and Broad-tailed hummingbirds have a long-standing spring tryst. A new study shows that the changing climate is causing a missed connection. [News Source]

Experts gather at University of Missouri to talk climate change. Adapting to climate change will take more than just declaring it does not exist, scientists attending a three-day conference at the University of Missouri said during a discussion of how to make the public aware of the issue. [News Source]