Academics at a British climate research center at the center of a controversy about the science of global warming defended their work during cross-examination at Parliament Monday, rejecting allegations that they manipulated climate data.

The warming climate is driving several thousand people north, to Copenhagen — for two weeks, anyway. Representatives from nearly 200 countries are gathering there to try to work out a new international treaty to curb global warming, one that would supplant the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

The University of East Anglia rejected requests for information relating to claims by academic staff that global warming was being caused by man-made emissions.

Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage.

Record Cold, snow and low temperatures everywhere in Europe: following the previous article (Experts: Cold snap doesn’t disprove global warming), here are other stories about the current global warming.. or not!

A plane slid off an icy runway and powerful winds and heavy snow forced hundreds of flight cancellations across Europe on Saturday as blasts of freezing cold buffeted Europe.

Beijing had its coldest morning in almost 40 years and its biggest snowfall since 1951. Britain is suffering through its longest cold snap since 1981. And freezing weather is gripping the Deep South, including Florida’s orange groves and beaches.
Whatever happened to global warming?
Such weather doesn’t seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth [...]

(TELEGRAPH) There was growing speculation on Sunday that hackers working for the Russian secret service were responsible for the theft of controversial emails in the ‘Climategate’ scandal.
Thousands of emails, from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) were first published on a small server in the city of Tomsk in [...]