Court divided on global warming (Daily Vidette) (U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH - With its first case addressing global warming, Massachusetts vs. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court might set new precedent on the federal government's authority to regulate environmental and health damage. Massachusetts is one of 12 states, along with three cities, that are challenging the Bush administration's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide in [News Source]

Search for crops that can survive global warming (Guardian Unlimited) An unprecedented effort to protect the world's food supplies from the ravages of climate change will be launched today by an international consortium of scientists. [News Source]

China Sees Tackling Climate Change as Urgent - Stern (Planet Ark) BEIJING - China's leaders recognise that tackling climate change is urgent and that reducing greenhouse gases does not mean slamming the brakes on growth, the author of an acclaimed report on global warming said on Friday. [News Source]

High Court Hears Arguments About Global Warming (RedNova) By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court stepped gingerly into the national debate over global warming on Wednesday, asking how much harm would occur if the Environmental Protection Agency continues its refusal to regulate greenhouse gases from new vehicles. [News Source]

Framing climate change (USA Today) On Tuesday, I attended an AMS seminar entitled The Divide Between Values and Behavior: Exploring American Perceptions of Global Warming and the Environment. (click here for .pdf file) According to Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of Columbia University (presentation summary in .pdf... [News Source]

On the move before climate change (Pioneer Press) SEATTLE — As the Bush administration debates much of the world about global warming, butterflies and ski-lift operators, polar bears and hydroelectric planners are on the move. [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]

AG’s office before high court in bid to curb global warming (Boston Herald) Attorney General Tom Reilly says global warming is harming the state’s environment on a daily basis - an argument his office presented to the Supreme Court yesterday as part of a landmark lawsuit to force the government to regulate new vehicle emissions. [News Source]