Bolivia expects 5,000 foreigners at climate forum (AP) AP - Bolivia's government says it expects thousands of activists, environmentalists and scientists to travel to the Andean nation for conference on climate change. ACLU accuses Calif. instructor of religion lessons (AP) AP - An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday. Climate change impact of soil underestimated: study (AFP)
US government plans new climate service (AFP)
New federal climate change agency forming (AP) AP - The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate. Drought in SW Australia linked to snowfall in Antarctica (AFP)
Water at core of climate change impacts - U.N. experts (Reuters)
UN climate chief raises temperature with racy novel (AFP)
Olympics organisers desperate for climate change (AFP)
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AFP - Global warming is starting to worry the International Olympic Committee, with concern mounting over how it might affect future Games.
AFP - Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought.
AFP - US President Barack Obama's administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy.
AFP - A drought that has gripped the southwestern corner of Australia since the 1970s is linked with higher snowfall in East Antarctica, a phenomenon that may be rooted in global warming, scientists reported on Sunday.
Reuters - The main impact of climate change will be on water supplies and the world needs to learn from past cooperation such as over the Indus or Mekong Rivers to help avert future conflicts, experts said on Sunday.
AFP - The UN's top climate official, who is at the heart of a controversy over incorrect global warming data, has penned a racy novel which dishes up sex, reincarnation and a real-life Hollywood actress.
AFP - Winter Olympics chiefs will not sanction a desperate last-minute venue switch despite unseasonably warm temperatures continuing to curse Cypress Mountain, the host of the freestyle events at the Games which begin on Friday.
