Is Global Warming for Real? (Bay Weekly) With all the cold and snow, I’ve heard the same refrain all winter: How can it be so cold if there’s global warming? For the average person, it all gets confusing. Who’s right? Does the frigid winter along the Mid-Atlantic signal the end of the global warming threat? [News Source]

UN requests independent review of it’s climate panel. The United Nations has asked a leading international scientific organization to review the work of the U.N. climate change panel after critics accused the body of misrepresenting data to make the case that global warming is more serious than it is. [News Source]

Climate panel details its review plan. The United Nations detailed its plans for an outside review of its beleaguered panel on climate change, amid political reverberations as critics and advocates each jockeyed to use the announcement to their advantage. [News Source]

UN launches review of criticized climate panel. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. [News Source]

United Nations review of how world assesses risk of climate change. The head of the United Nations has announced a review of how the world examines the risk of global warming following a series of scandals around the science of climate change. [News Source]

Independent body to review UN’s climate panel. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will undergo an independent review by 15 international scientific academies in a bid to restore trust after errors surfaced in a key panel report. [News Source]

Criticism of climate change science heats up. The United Nations has ordered an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change amid a growing backlash over mistakes found in its Nobel Prize-winning report on the science behind global warming. [News Source]

UN brings in top scientists to review IPCC report. The UN called in the world's top scientists today to review a report by its climate body, four months after public confidence in the science of global warming was shaken by the discovery of a mistake about the melting rates of Himalayan glaciers. [News Source]

“Integrity abuses” charged in initiative to suspend California climate law. A bitter split broke into the open Wednesday among backers of the controversial November ballot initiative to suspend California's 2006 first-in-the-nation global warming law. [News Source]

Questions about research slow efforts to tackle climate change. Michael Mann's life's work - the effort to stop global warming - has been under siege since last fall. That's when Mann, a Penn State professor, suddenly found himself in the middle of the so-called "climategate" scandal. [News Source]

Sun won’t stop global warming if dims as in 1600s. A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. [News Source]