Gore gets signatures for climate change (AP via Yahoo! News) Former Vice President Al Gore has collected nearly 300,000 electronic signatures asking Congress to take action on global warming, Gore said in an entry on his Web site Friday. Gore said the signatures demonstrate "that hundreds of thousands of people share my sense of urgency" on climate change. Gore is scheduled to testify before Congress about the issue Wednesday. [News Source]

The grass-roots fight against global warming (The Record) Almost two dozen North Jersey towns have not gotten very far yet with their pledges to fight global warming. But the fact that they are among hundreds of American communities determined to address climate change is encouraging. [News Source]