Global Warming - Nepali Cabinet to Meet on Everest - NYTimes.com

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
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Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and other Cabinet members will fly by plane to the 17,400-foot (5,300-meter) camp, the starting point for mountaineers attempting to climb the world's highest mountain.

BBC - Earth News - Climate change will burn Yosemite

...there is some evidence to suggest that increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to more lightning strikes.

Farmers fight climate bill, but warming [allegedly] spells trouble for them

WASHINGTON -- Farm state senators and others soon will get a taste of what their colleagues from Missouri already have piled high on their desks: thousands of letters from farmers urging them to vote against the climate and energy bill.
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"Most farmers are just sort of skeptical," said Oswald, the farmer and Missouri Farmers Union board chairman. "You're out every day working to overcome adversity from the government, adversity from Mother Nature, adversity from the market. You learn not to put all your eggs in one basket. That's where we are now with climate change. Farmers aren't willing to sign off on all of it."