Climate change to cause more extreme weather
mongabay.com

"Climate change will cause extreme weather to be a more common occurrence according to new computer modeling by researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Texas Tech University, and Australia's Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre..."

http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1019-ncar.html

Blair urges climate change action
BBC News

"The world is close to a 'catastrophic tipping point' on climate change, Tony Blair has warned in advance of a summit of EU leaders. Climate change and energy security are linked and urgent action is needed, the prime minister warns in a joint letter with his Dutch counterpart..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6068226.stm

EPA Revamps Climate Change Web Site
SOPnewswire

"To provide the public with the most up-to-date information on climate change, EPA is unveiling its new climate change Web site. The site provides the latest scientific information and highlights a wide range of U.S. government programs that are actively addressing climate change at the local, state, national and international levels. The updated Web site still contains all information that was on EPA's global warming Web site but organizes it for easier access and adds new information..."

http://www.thesop.org/index.php?id=2531

Harper climate change plan nothing more than hot air
National Union of Public and General Employees

"The National Union of Public and General Employees says the Harper Conservative government's Clean Air Act, which was tabled in the House of Commons today, is nothing more than hot air..."

http://www.nupge.ca/news_2006/n19oc06g.htm

Not spent: $362m to fight global warming
Stephanie Peatling, The Sydney Morning Herald

"More than one-third of the budget set aside for Federal Government projects aimed at tackling global warming has not been spent. The amount, $362 million, is almost equal to the sum announced by the Government for drought relief this week, and sparked Opposition calls for farmers to push for more action on global warming..."

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/not-spent-362m-to-fight-global-warming/2006/10/19/1160851070507.html

Great news about global warming
The American Thinker

"A few days ago environmentalist fear-mongers sounded another dire prediction. This time they tell us that the clean up costs resulting from global warming will come to several trillion dollars a year by 2100. But everything considered this is actually great news. Only a couple of months ago, no lesser authority than Al Gore was telling us that we have only ten years to stem the progress of global warming. Mr. Gore prophesied that if we do not shape up during this window of opportunity, we will pretty much go up in flames soon afterwards. And yet now we learn that not only we'll still be around by 2100, but that we'll be even able to clean things up. What a great relief that is! The death sentence pronounced by Al Gore has been stayed at least for a century or so..."

http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6385

A climate for change in industry 
Anders Nordstrom, Business Day

"Industry in SA has a strong appetite for energy. Yet to keep the economy fit against global competition and at the same time protect the environment, industry needs to use less energy but still run faster. SA, which is hosting the Southern African Energy Efficiency Convention today and tomorrow, is among the most energy-intensive economies in the world. Its gross domestic product (GDP) ranks 26th yet it is the 16th largest energy consumer. It scores 13th in carbon dioxide emissions..."

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A292650

Global warming or the search for three additional planets
Alfredo Toro Hardy, VHeadline.com

"Mark Hertsgaard has explained how, after WWII, General Motors, Standard Oil and Firestone secretly acquired the bus and trolley bus systems that operated around the US (The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World, London, Bloomsbury, 2003). Why? So they could take them out of business and eliminate any competition for motorcars..."

http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=70189

Greens call for climate change inquiry
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

"The Greens are calling on the Federal Government to establish a Senate inquiry into the implications of climate change for the future of Australian agriculture. The party says climate change could profoundly affect rural communities and is vital to get a clear picture of what steps can be taken now to minimise the impact. The chair of the Senate's rural and regional affairs committee, Senator Bill Hefferenan, has indicated he will take the Greens proposal to his Liberal partyroom..."

http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/2006/s1768844.htm

Refugees, disease big risk from global warming
Ben Blanchard, Reuters

"The world is not doing enough to combat global warming which, left unchecked, could trigger a mass movement of people and have serious consequences for security, the United Nation's environment chief said on Thursday..."

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-19T091145Z_01_BAN933087_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-ENVIRONMENT-CHINA-20061019.XML

Chico to help fight global warming
Jenn Klein, ChicoER.com

"The city of Chico is now committed to pursing measures to prevent global warming, but some city councilors say the agreement was made without enough information. A split vote by the council Tuesday night authorized Mayor Scott Gruendl to sign on to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and put together a task force to carry out the agreement..."

http://www.chicoer.com/newshome/ci_4514994

Munching microbes help battle global warming
AFP, Turkish Daily News

"Scientists have uncovered microscopic helpers which help attenuate a key greenhouse gas that drives climate change. The unsung assistants are methane-gobbling microbes that live in the deep ocean at the vents of so-called mud volcanoes, they report in Thursday's issue of Nature, the weekly British science journal..."

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=57099

A global trek against climate change
Robyn Stubbs, Canoe Network

"They cycled, rowed, trekked and skied 43,000 kilometres across the globe in the name of climate change, and this week the record-setting Canadian team rolls into Vancouver to present their documentary film on the two-year odyssey..."

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Entertainment/2006/10/19/2068137-sun.html

Climate change – How to strengthen corporate disclosure
Ethical Corporation

"Rory Sullivan considers the role of investors in pushing companies to account for carbon emissions. In recent years, institutional investors have encouraged companies to disclose information on the risks and opportunities presented by climate change..."

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=4600

US companies see climate change law by 2010
Maya Jackson Randall, Dow Jones Newswires, Market Watch

"Many companies that have developed a strategy for addressing climate change anticipate that a U.S. federal law regulating greenhouse gas emissions could take effect as early as 2010, according to a new report that the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released Wednesday. Thirty-one large corporations that the Pew Center sees as having a history of addressing global warming concerns - including Alcoa Inc. (AA), DuPont (DD), Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) and Whirlpool (WHR) - were surveyed for the report..."

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder&siteid=mktw&guid=%7B3C6FA89A-A94F-4EA2-8E51-C95768F01625%7D

Australia's south badly affected by climate change
Lynn Bell, Australian Broadcasting Corporation

"The Director of the CSIRO's climate program, Dr Bryson Bates, predicts major changes as temperatures rise. He says the drought will affect more of eastern and southern Australia, and water quality will suffer from more fires, algal blooms, and sediment. In the shorter term Dr Bates says the outlook is equally grim..."

http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1768503.htm

As Climate Changes, Large Firms Look at Global-Warming Practice Areas
Petra Pasternak, The Recorder, Law.com

"While scientists ponder how quickly the polar ice cap will become a tropical resort -- and California turns the heat up on the auto industry -- law firms are starting to wave their green flags..."

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1161162314867

Seabed microbe may help curb global warming
Independent Online

"Bacteria that live in volcanically heated mud deep under the sea off the coast of Norway feed on methane, a gas that is partly to blame for climate change, a Franco-German team of scientists have discovered. The newly-discovered creatures were found in the Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, a place in the Barents Sea where hot methane gas from deep under the earth seeps into the slime. The bacteria have evolved to live in conditions that would be lethal to other life forms..."

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=14&click_id=143&art_id=qw1161173701133B251