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LA Times: When Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to a crowd of beaming environmentalists and renewable energy advocates at the launch of a solar farm last year, he turned heads by praising another form of fuel: oil. It was a surprising pivot from the man credited with helping to usher in the modern environmental movement as California's governor nearly four decades ago. Back then, Brown enacted the nation's first energy-efficiency standards, signed strict anti-smog laws and blocked offshore drilling. But in his...

Geo-Engineering For Global Warming Needs International Laws With Teeth
Science 2.0
More geo-engineering, manual manipulation of the environment, to slow global warming's impact is going to happen unless a global governance structure with some teeth is put into place, says University of Iowa law professor Jon Carlson. "Geo-engineering ...

Daily Mail
What global warming? Alaska is headed for an ice age as scientists report ...
Daily Mail
New research from the Alaska Climate Research Center shows that since the beginning of the 21st century, temperatures in the snow covered land of Alaska are actually getting colder - bucking the overall global warming trend. In the Last Frontier, where ...
Frozen Alaska Bucking Global Warming TrendLiveScience.com

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Schwarzenegger's Climate-Change Legacy
National Journal
Strange as it sounds, the Austrian-born bodybuilder, former California governor, and movie star has flexed more legislative muscle on climate change than President Obama--who ran for office on the promise of curbing sea level rise and creating millions ...

Fabius Maximus (blog)
Cost of combating climate change surges as world delays: study
Chicago Tribune
Quick measures to cut emissions would give a far better chance of keeping global warming within an agreed U.N. limit of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6F) above pre-industrial times to avert more floods, heatwaves, droughts and rising sea levels. "If you delay ...
How can we save the world from climate change?Fabius Maximus (blog)
Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 8 (January 2013)Monthly Review

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( University of Iowa ) A University of Iowa law professor believes the legal ramifications of geo-engineering need to be thought through now and a global governance structure put in place soon to oversee these efforts to fight climate change.

Mother Nature Network
Climate change: All in the timing
Nature.com
The study's key message reinforces previous findings that urgent and more ambitious global action is required to maintain any chance of limiting global warming to 2 °C. The clear finding that the world would be better off acting from 2015 rather than ...
Politics Is Key to Avoiding Global Warming CatastropheLiveScience.com
Waiting 20 years is too late for climate change consequencesExaminer.com

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Delaying global action on climate change by 20 more years will put the goal of keeping the world relatively cool out of reach forever, no matter how much money humanity later spends to try to solve the problem, a new study finds.

* Some 200 countries agreed to act on emissions from 2020 * Costs of action will be higher by then, study finds * Global downturn further reduced political will on climate OSLO, Jan 2 (Reuters) - An agreement by almost 200 nationsto curb rising greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 will be farmore costly than taking action now to tackle climate change,according to research published on Wednesday ...

Warmer and wetter conditions favor more species.

Forbes
News Alert To Climate Alarmists: Most Arctic Species Will Benefit From Global ...
Forbes
Consequently, species at high latitudes should be especially susceptible to climate change, likely experiencing significant range contractions,” the scientists explained at the beginning of their study. Moreover, global warming activists have raised ...

Climate change to put paid to the 'perfect' lawn
The Times (subscription)
The “bowling green” lawn will soon be a thing of the past thanks to climate change, horticultural experts are warning. It won't be global warming that puts paid to the well-manicured lawn so much as unpredictable weather patterns that alternate ...

New Scientist: THE ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming much faster than we thought, suggesting swathes of it could melt and send global sea levels soaring. Climatologists have struggled to work out whether Antarctica is warming, and how quickly, because it has few weather stations and the records from some are incomplete. David Bromwich of Ohio State University in Columbus and his colleagues filled in the gaps for one key station using statistics and data from a climate model. They conclude that temperatures...

InsideClimate News: This was the year climate change vanished from the political agenda--and then suddenly reappeared, after Hurricane Sandy shook the country. It was just a few years ago that President Obama flew to Copenhagen to rescue faltering climate-treaty talks amid bipartisan calls for global warming action. But in 2012, there wasn't a single congressional proposal or hearing on climate legislation. Neither was there mention of climate change on the presidential campaign trail, or in the debates for the first...

Independent: Yorkshire residents are bracing themselves for yet more flooding today, after 13 separate warnings were issued across the region. The majority of the flood warnings are in York and its surrounding villages, where much of the community is still trying to get back on its feet after serious localised flooding in November. The Environment Agency said 76 flood warnings - meaning flooding is expected and immediate action should be taken - are in force nationwide today. There are also 109 flood...

Independent: A seal believed to have swum more than 50 miles (80km) along a flooded river to a nature reserve is expected to become a visitor attraction. The mammal, thought to be a common seal, has become a YouTube star after being filmed hopping into a lake at the Fen Drayton Lakes Reserve in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. It is believed to have made its way up the River Ouse from King's Lynn in Norfolk aided by floodwater. Graham Elliott, of the RSPB, said the sighting was "surprising". The seal has...

The Guardian (blog)
How Olympic spirit can turn around the prospects of global warming
The Guardian (blog)
The World Meteorological Organisation stated: "Climate change is taking place before our eyes." Both northern and southern hemispheres had their catastrophic extreme weather events in hurricane Sandy and super typhoon Bopha. Bad as things are, it is ...

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STUDY: CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAVING SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON ...
U-T San Diego
Plants and animals are shifting their ranges and life cycles in response to climate change, creating clashes between unfamiliar creatures or mismatches between animals and their food sources, according to a new national biodiversity report. The ...

U-T San Diego: Plants and animals are shifting their ranges and life cycles in response to climate change, creating clashes between unfamiliar creatures or mismatches between animals and their food sources, according to a new national biodiversity report. The analysis could expand the scope of conservation efforts, which for 40 years has focused predominantly on habitat changes, local wildlife experts said. “Climate change has this incredibly large footprint of effects,” said Megan Owen, conservation program...

Telegraph: Authorities warned of a continued threat of flooding to homes across the Midlands, northeast, West Country, south west and Wales. Today, almost 80 flood warnings remained in force across swathes of the south while more than 110 flooding alerts were in place. Flood defences remain in place along parts of the River Severn, in Shropshire and Worcestershire. The Environment Agency said the river should peak on Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning. Officials said they expected river levels...