Climate Change in the News, Week of May 24, 2008

News items related to climate change from the past week.

• Seattle researchers report rising ocean acidity – Seattle Post-Intelligencer (May 23, 2008)
• Rising Seas Called Threat To Shore and Bay by 2100 – Washington Post (May 23, 2008)
• Costs of ignoring global warming steep, study says – Detroit Free Press (May 23, 2008)
• Scientists starve aspen trees in global warming experiment – Chicago Tribune (May 22, 2008)
• ExxonMobil pushed on climate change – Calgary Herald (Canada) (May 22, 2008)
• Bay Area air board approves global-warming fees for businesses – San Jose Mercury News (May 21, 2008)
• Global warming fans the sea cull debate – Financial Times (Germany) (May 21, 2008)
• Climate change raising extinction risk among birds: study – AFP (May 20, 2008)
• Gov’t unveils Google Earth climate-change tool – ZDNet (UK) (May 20, 2008)
• Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming – Wired (May 19, 2008)