Nelson visits TECO plant.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson came to Polk County, Florida, to tour a TECO electric generating plant that greatly reduces green house gases, making his point on the same day the UN released a report warning of the global warming threat.

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Climate problem ‘enormous’ but no quick fix: Harper. Climate change is an “enormous” problem but it won't be fixed overnight, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday. [News Source]

Getting warmer … Stephen Harper's environmental conversion continues as he recognizes the `enormous' threat of global warming. But emission cuts? Not so fast. [News Source]

Harper changes tune on climate change, says ’science is clear’. Prime Minister Stephen Harper retreated Friday from his skepticism about climate change as his government called the "unequivocal" warning, delivered in a major international study released in Paris, a turning point in the battle against global warming. [News Source]

Alarmed scientists urge fast response to warming study. Scientists worldwide called for action yesterday following the release of an exhaustive United Nations report on global warming that paints climate change as a slow-motion catastrophe. [News Source]

Global-warming report gets U.S. emphasis. U.S. government scientists Friday said the long-term outlook for global warming may be more dire than suggested by this week's United Nations' report. [News Source]

Environment minister taking climate-change report. The Canadian Conservative government says the scientific community’s "unequivocal" warning about climate change in a new report released in Paris on Friday is a turning point in history that it is taking "very seriously." [News Source]

Earth’s protection is melting away. Thick sheets of frozen seawater wrap the polar regions of Earth, forming an integral part of a global air conditioner. But that ice sheet is decaying, says Stephen Ackley, a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and one of the world's foremost authorities on sea ice. [News Source]

From global warming report, U.S. feels heat. Now the question is whether the bleak climate report will change the politics of global warming in the U.S. and lead to a more united effort to deal with the problem, and for the moment, that appears uncertain. [News Source]

State lawmakers lukewarm to global warming. It would seem the ideal moment for Washington environmentalists to mount their most aggressive assault yet on global warming. [News Source]

Air pollution harms more than just lungs, study finds (Contra Costa Times) Air pollution has long been known to be bad for the lungs. But new University of Washington research, involving thousands of older women in dozens of cities nationwide, shows that it also raises the risk of women dying from heart disease or stroke. [News Source]