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Polar Bear Houses Melting (Chicagoist) No one seems to be able to agree on whether it's the ominous specter of global warming or the earth's own ebb and flow of planetary hormones, but either way, some damn thing is up with the polar ice caps. You know, like how they aren't really icy anymore. Bush: 'The American lifestyle is non-negotiable' (Macalester College The Mac Weekly) These words, first uttered by the former President Bush at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero (1992), have found willing supporters in our current national leadership. You probably know that – America has affirmed the right to consumption and resource exploitation over global justice and societal sustainability for years. Australians Uncertain on Climate Change, says Ipsos (Daily Research News Online) Australians are willing to contribute to the fight against global warming but many are uncertain of what to do, according to findings from Ipsos Australia's national omnibus survey, released to key government and environmental agencies at a recent Melbourne screening of Al Gore's film ‘An Inconvenient Truth'. Massive coral bleaching in Madagascar (Mongabay.com) A new survey of reefs along Madagascar's southwestern coast found massive damage from coral bleaching, including some reefs that lost up to 99 percent of their coral cover. California rushes in where Washington fears to tread (MSNBC) From laws that led to catalytic converters being fitted to new cars in the US, to the recent passing of far-reaching climate change legislation, California has never been afraid to make ambitious policy decisions. Global warming threatens western US (Mongabay.com) Global warming will cause drastic changes - including reduction in snowpack, worsening droughts, increases in wildfire and invasive species, and loss of regional biodiversity - in the American West if greenhouse gas emissions are not curtailed according to a new report from the National Wildlife Federation. Thousands nationwide protest Bush's policies (San Diego Union Tribune) Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape along a three-block stretch in front of the White House on Thursday as part of a nationwide day of protest against the president.

All can play part in beating global warming: expert (Reuters) Everyone has a part to play in combating global warming - whether simply turning off lights in an empty room or making their own electricity from the wind and sun, experts said on Friday. Global Warming Could Cause Epidemics (French Minister) Global warming could turn diseases like malaria into epidemics in developing countries, a French minister has said. Nelly Olin, the environment minister, warned that this could happen within a matter of years. Global Warming: Meet the Jet-Setting Hypocrites (Manufacturers' Blog) Thanks to Peter Glover of TCS Daily for a piece tipping us off to this great article in the Sunday Times (UK) by Jonathan Leake about a bunch of enviros racking up the carbon. They chronicle the scads of air miles accumulated by these folks, greenhouse gases be damned. Global warming responsible for drastic change in Inuit way of life (The Olympian) They never used to need air conditioners up in the Arctic. But earlier this year, officials in the Canadian Inuit territory of Nunavik authorized the installation of air conditioners in official buildings for the first time. Global warming: the chilling effect on free speech (Spiked) One Australian columnist has proposed outlawing ‘climate change denial’. ‘David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial’, she wrote. ‘Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence. It is a crime against humanity, after all.’ Stanford Program Seeks Energy Crisis Solution (Stanford Review) During the third week of September, the Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) held its second research symposium, marking over three years of work in a decade-long program to find a solution to the world’s energy woes. Bush Emissions Plan May Not Be Enough (CBS News) When it comes to global warming, the Bush administration puts its faith in volunteerism and new energy technologies to scale back America's Everest of heat-trapping gases. But government studies say the results are at best uncertain. Click here for yesterday's news Click for this page's permanent location

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