Govs target climate change (Casper Star-Tribune) DEADWOOD, S.D. -- The Western Governors' Association will focus on global warming, ways to produce cleaner energy and reducing the impact of climate change, the group's new chairman, Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, said Tuesday. [News Source]

Renzi, 4 other Western Republicans targeted over global warming (The Arizona Republic) The lawmakers from California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico have their ''heads in the sand'' about the dangers of climate change, the Defenders of Wildlife action fund charges in a radio and Internet ad campaign that began Thursday. [News Source]

Nuke power ‘won’t curb global warming’ (Adelaide Now) NUCLEAR power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report released in the US said today. [News Source]

Nuke power ‘won’t curb global warming’ (News Interactive) NUCLEAR power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report released in the US said today. [News Source]

Careers: Prospects Heating Up for Climate-Change Managers (Fast Company Magazine) Today, the money fueling climate-change management is found in scientific research and government sponsored grants. But corporations may consider hiring climate-change managers to help them anticipate and mitigate the business impact of climate change. When President Bush stepped-up America's commitment... [News Source]

Global warming’s Keystone Kops (The Christian Science Monitor) Congress may not yet reflect the political will to tackle climate change. It's hung up on old-style politics. [News Source]

Are we to believe latest global warming report? (AG Weekly) The UN Climate Change panel is asserting — again — that humans are overheating the planet. Again, they have no evidence to support their claim — but they want the U.S. to cut its energy use by perhaps 80 percent just in case. [News Source]

Baptists question human role in global warming (USA Today) Southern Baptists approved a resolution on global warming Wednesday that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor. [News Source]

Baptists Approve Global Warming Measure (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Southern Baptists approved a resolution on global warming Wednesday that questions the prevailing scientific belief that humans are largely to blame for the phenomenon and also warns that increased regulation of greenhouse gases will hurt the poor. [News Source]

Idaho’s Governer Skips Western Global Warming Conference (KIVI Boise) Governors and top policy advisers from 14 Western states met in South Dakota this week to talk about climate change. Absent from the list was Idaho's chief executive C-L "Butch" Otter who stayed at home to introduce his wife to the annual Girls State convention in Nampa ... among other duties. [News Source]

Global warming will make Earth spin faster (New Scientist) Of all the possible ways in which climate change could affect out planet, this is the most bizarre - the days will get shorter [News Source]