I use Google Alerts to keep up on news stories about climate change and global warming. While I have no intention of posting these reports regularly (its a cheesy way to build blog content, IMHO. Hear me, Fast Company?), today’s list struck me as interesting. See if you notice a pattern (sorry, I can’t figure out how to get them to wrap but the links do work):

Global warming could wreak havoc in China
China Daily - China
Global warming could have a major effect on the health of the Chinese … the country’s agriculture, according to a National Assessment Report on Climate Change. …

Court must conclude that global warming gases are a real danger
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
… welfare to include harmful effects on the Earth’s climate. … that it "disagrees" with their use to combat global warming. … Act, it can ask Congress to change it. …
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Lock ‘em up — ignitions, that is
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
… global warming went from controversial to conventional for much of the corporate world. … A growing list of blue chips are formally including climate change …

Interview: Christian Scientist on Global Warming
Christian Post - USA
… CP: What are some suggestions you have for reducing global warming? … now coming to recognize that this is probably the biggest factor governing climate change. …

‘Wales could be plunged into another ice age,’ claims glacier …
ic Wales - United Kingdom
… wander around, mankind is accelerating the process of climate change and it … a major upheaval and we do something about our carbon emissions and global warming. …

Climate change at crisis level
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
… all of us — government, business, individuals — to aggressively attack global warming. … trading scheme, the structure is in place for positive change. …

Greening of the Earth (Observations - Asia
CO2 Science Magazine - Tempe,AZ,USA
… headline-grabbing predictions of catastrophic CO2-induced global warming and the … estimates of the economic impact of predicted climate change on agriculture in …

Time to act on climate change
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
… At present, both global warming and the emission of greenhouse gases are … Europe, the United States and many other countries, climate change has become one of …

Yes, the pattern I see is the international range of very real local problems outlined. As Paul Hawken notes in his Worldchanging post, we’re in a period of intense acceleration with the next decade bringing rapid and cascading change worldwide. I like his idea of somehow building an action network although my experience with not for profits makes me think it would be like hearding a bunch of very deliberate and contentious cats…