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]

Report: Global Warming Will Cost Trillions (Free Internet Press)

Failure to take action to combat climate change will cause environmental catastrophe and cost the global economy $20 trillion (£10.8 trillion) a year by the end of the century, the pressure group Friends of the Earth said Friday. In a report based on research from more than 100 scientific and economic papers, the group says allowing global warming to continue unchecked will mean a temperature

Archdiocese confronts global warming (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is launching a parish-based effort to find practical, socially equitable and close-to-home solutions to global warming. The drive will organize parishioners to study global warming and develop ways to confront it in the community and through changes in public policy, said Matt Rezac, public policy manager for the archdiocese's Office for Social Justice. [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.

Environment commissioner takes feds to task. Neither federal government has come up with a plan to change the fact Canada’s environmental record is now among the worst in the industrialized world. [News Source]

Zealous global warming dissent a pernicious red herring. If the science concerning global warming is wrong, we lose nothing by acting immediately to curtail CO2 - except pollution's degradation of our health, economy and environment. [News Source]

Nova Scotia awash in environmental projects. Canadians are getting a closer look at the federal government’s environmental agenda this week, with the unveiling of a new Clean Air Act. [News Source]

Candidates’ solutions for global warming can help. Congressional candidates in the Hudson Valley who understand the urgency of combating climate change understand that we must quickly reduce carbon dioxide emissions to avoid mass extinctions and trillions of dollars of expense. [News Source]

The day we start eating planet Earth. Overshoot Day marks the date at which human beings have consumed the entire production of the Earth for the whole year. No doubt it's just a coincidence that this year it happened to fall on Thanksgiving Day. [News Source]

Pennsport frustrated by backed-up sewage. Pennsport residents fed up with raw-sewage backups in their basements want the government to figure out why the sewage had become more common in recent years, and whether Delaware Avenue development had anything to do with it. [News Source]

Counties’ officials pledging clean environment. The top elected officials of Lehigh and Northampton counties in Pennsylvania say they will pledge an environmentally conscious approach to everything from fueling vehicles to designing buildings. [News Source]