Global warming: Top scientists meet in Paris (AFP via Yahoo! News: Mon, 29 Jan) The world's top climate experts were geared for a four-day meeting in Paris where they are set to launch a long-awaited update about the scientific evidence for global warming.
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Insects on the Increase: Global warming fuels migration, population growth (Winston-Salem Journal: Mon, 29 Jan) People can debate the causes of global warming until the sky falls, but few experts argue that it's happening. Global warming is opening a door to highly adaptable insect populations, experts say, encouraging mass migrations to places that once were inhospitable.
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Doyle proposes global warming task force (La Crosse Tribune: Mon, 29 Jan) MADISON - Gov. Jim Doyle plans to appoint a global warming task force and create an energy independence office to coordinate an effort to dramatically expand the state's use of renewable energy by 2025.
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Global Warming Is Center Stage At Winter Carnival (WCCO Minneapolis/St. Paul: Sun, 28 Jan) During Day Two of the St. Paul Winter Carnival, a home-grown Minnesotan and world-renown Arctic explorer used the "coolest celebration on earth" to raise awareness of global warming. Video: Mary Tan Reports Video: Winter Arrives Just In Time For Carnival
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Washington wakes up to global warming (AP via Yahoo! News: Sun, 28 Jan) Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An Inconvenient Truth." Whatever the reason, years of resistance to the reality of climate change are suddenly melting away like the soon-to-be-history snows of Kilimanjaro.
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