Letters: Hypocrisy tainted global warming talk (Corvallis Gazette Times) So, “about 200 people” attended Oregon Secretary of State Bill Bradbury’s talk on climate change. I wonder how many of them drove fossil fuel-burning vehicles to get to the library for this event. [News Source]

Western states team up to fight global warming / California, 3 neighbors share strategies, urge federal action (San Francisco Chronicle) California and three other Western states will collaborate on ways to fight global warming and use energy more efficiently under an agreement regulators signed Friday in San Francisco. The agreement commits California, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington... [News Source]

Bradbury discusses impacts of climate change (Albany Democrat-Herald) On Sept. 25, Al Gore told a group of 50 recruits that he had been waiting for the cavalry to show up. They were gathered at his Carthage, Tenn., farm to spend a day learning to give Gore’s slide presentation on global warming, made famous by the movie “An Inconvenient Truth.” [News Source]