Climate change tops agenda at global forest meet (AFP via Yahoo! News) Some 500 politicians, scientists, business leaders and aid workers from 60 countries gathered in a small Swedish forest town this past week to discuss innovative ways of tackling climate change. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger says cities will lead climate change battle (The Morning News) LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told U.S. mayors Saturday they must take the lead in battling global warming and creating an economy based on "clean" technology. [News Source]

N.J. takes lead on global warming war (The Record) New Jersey's lawmakers launched one of the nation's most aggressive attacks on global warming Thursday, approving a crackdown on greenhouse gases that could force changes in everything from how we get power to the cars we drive. [News Source]

House Affirms ‘Reality’ of Global Warming, Passes Green Funding Bill (The Christian Post) The contentious debate over whether global warming exists and its primary cause came to a close Thursday – at least in the U.S. House – when a passed legislation recognized the “reality” of climate change and called for billions to remedy the ... [News Source]

PSC joins pact to fight climate change (Adirondack Daily Enterprise) PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College has joined the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment, a far-reaching pact to combat climate change by ultimately eliminating global-warming emissions at schools nationwide. [News Source]

EU issues climate change warning (Channel 4) The floods in Britain are a grim warning of Europe's need to "adapt or die" in the face of global warming, the European Commission has warned. [News Source]

Armies must ready for global warming role: Britain (Canada.com) British soldiers watch as a Chinook helicopter lands in Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern Afghan province of Helmand, June 15, 2007. Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of Britain's armed forces said on Monday. [News Source]

Global warming gets hotter (Hindustan Times) Climate experts predict that 2007 could surpass 1998 as the warmest year on record due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases emitted. When the Group of Eight summit began in Heilingdamm, Germany, everyone agreed that the big issue there would be climate change. [News Source]

Schwarzenegger says cities will lead climate change battle (The Morning News) LOS ANGELES -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told U.S. mayors Saturday they must take the lead in battling global warming and creating an economy based on "clean" technology. [News Source]

Extreme weather wakes US up to climate change (Independent) US public opinion is rapidly waking up to the threat posed by global warming, despite the best efforts of the Bush Administration and much of industry to deny the problem. [News Source]

US Senate Panel Seen Voting On Climate Change Bill This Fall (Nasdaq) WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- Developments this week have made it more likely that the U.S. Senate's environmental policy committee, later this year, will take a crucial vote on an economy-wide, market-based proposal to curb global warming. [News Source]