Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. [News Source]

How to tackle global warming - talk apocalypse or talk technology? (Crikey) The weather is in the news. So is drought. So are bushfires. And it’s all being linked to climate change. What’s the PM had to say? Well, we all recall his offerings on Four Corners just a few weeks ago : [News Source]

Report says bill on climate change planned (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) The government plans to include a bill aimed at tackling climate change in its legislative programme for the coming year, the BBC reported on Friday. [News Source]

Carbondale aims to be renewable energy Mecca. While the western portion of Garfield County, CO is booming with oil and gas development, and the associated environmental impacts, the upper end of the county is looking in a different direction for energy production. [News Source]

Like ‘taking the lead out of gasoline’. By Sunday, most diesel fuel in the U.S. will have been converted to a new formula that dramatically reduces pollution from diesel-fueled vehicles. [News Source]

Global Warming Concern Unites Groups (San Diego Business Journal) Four San Diego institutions have announced a partnership to increase awareness of global warming and the impacts it could have on the local climate. [News Source]

Climate change inaction will cost ‘trillions’ (News Interactive) FAILING to fight global warming now will cost trillions of dollars by the end of the century even without counting biodiversity loss or unpredictable events like the Gulf Stream shutting down, a study said today. [News Source]

Global Warming is Changing Our State (RedNova) By Ron Seely, The Wisconsin State Journal Oct. 12--Climate change is happening now, scientists are telling us. Presented here are five instances where studies have documented the changes being wrought in Wisconsin by the warming planet. [News Source]

Wisconsin students work for cleaner campus. Students at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse are getting fired up about renewable energy. [News Source]

Dust ‘affects hurricane activity.’ US researchers have discovered a link between Atlantic hurricane activity and thick clouds of dust that periodically rise up from the Sahara Desert. [News Source]

Climate change triggers war, warns expert. Dr Colin Butler of Deakin University painted a grim picture of the catastrophic consequence of global warming as communities worldwide competed for scarce resources. [News Source]